Reeds as \u2019n kind het die ernstige Shilton van Wyk (24) vir sy rugbyafrigter-pa ges\u00ea hy gaan eendag op die \u201ctiewie\u201d rugby speel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Di\u00e9 kranige senterin die nommer-twaalf-trui uit die Saldanha-rugbyklub se stal het sy buiging vir die Blitsbokke by die Doebai-toernooi in 2022 gemaak. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy en sy Blitsbok-spanlede het die afgelope naweek brons- medaljes in die manstoernooi vir 7\u2019s-rugby in die Olimpiese Spele in Parys, Frankryk, losgespeel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens Shilton se trotse ouers, Coby (59) en Blance (54) van Wyk, was Shilton van kleins af rugbym\u00e1l. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy het reeds op laerskool by St. Andrews in White City en op ho\u00ebrskool by die Weskusskool uitgeblink, en hulle moes bontstaan tussen al die toernooie en Craven-weke waarvoor hy gereeld gekwalifiseer het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hier is die gesin veral dankbaar teenoor Sea Harvest, waar Coby al die jare gewerk het, vir hul volgehoue geldelike steun van Shilton se loopbaan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Een van sy mentors wat vir Blance uitstaan, is juffrou Yvonne Kotze, wat Shilton op laerskool raakgesien en aangeprys het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dan is daar ook Pa Coby, wat al vir jare \u2019n afrigter by die Saldanha-rugbyklub is. \u201cShilton het \u2019n natuurlike talent. Dit is nie iets wat jy vir iemand kan leer nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shilton het sy skoolloopbaan in 2017 voltooi en die volgende jaar vir die Saldanha-rugbyklub as vleuel en heelagter begin speel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy uitsonderlike talent het reeds met die eerste Super Agt-paastoernooi in die Saldanha-stadion na vore gekom en hy is as Speler van die Toernooi aangewys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy het in 2019 by die Boland-rugbyspan aangesluit en in 2020 by die Stellenbosch Akademie vir Sport se rugbyakademie. Hier moes hy behoorlik vasbyt, vertel sy pa, maar hy het uiteindelik die vrugte daarvan gepluk deur in 2021 vir die Blitsbokke gekies te word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In mediasportberigte word na hom as die Blitsbokke se \u201csterk driedrukker\u201d verwys en hy het ook by die Olimpiese Spele di\u00e9 naam gestand gedoen met sy kenmerkende gaps van die bal die oomblik dat die teenstanders hul o\u00eb daarvan afhaal. En dan is dit reguit doellyn toe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die Van Wyks is opreg trots op al hul jongste seun se prestasies, maar die Olimpiese medalje was die groot een. \u201cParys was die ultimate <\/i>eer; \u2019n nuwe uitdaging. Shilton het nog altyd ges\u00ea hy wil eendag Paris <\/i>toe gaan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Blance sal nooit haar seun se oproep vergeet om te s\u00ea hy is vir die span gekies nie. \u201cMamma, ek het die span gehaal,\u201d was sy eenvoudige woorde.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pa Coby erken ruiterlik dat hy bewo\u00eb geword het. \u201cDis of daar \u2019n groot stilte oor my gekom het. Ek moes trane stort, want ek was so gelukkig; borrelend van blydskap. Dit is so \u2019n anderste gevoel wat ek nie kan beskryf nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Coby is ook baie trots daarop dat Shilton verlede jaar deur sy eweknie\u00eb as die MyPlayers- 7\u2019s-speler van die Jaar aangewys is. Suid-Afrikaanse rugbyspelers stem om die toppresteerders in verskeie afdelings vir uitnemendheid, toewyding en sportmangees te vereer. \u201cHy was nie in een of ander spogsportskool nie \u2013 net in gewone skole met gewone onderwysers as afrigters, maar hy is van zero to hero<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tydens die Olimpiese Spele-wedstryde moes die bure maar vrede maak met die lawaai, want die Van Wyks het bankvas gesit om Shilton luidkeels te ondersteun. Dit het onder meer sy ouer broer, Colan van Wyk (30), en Shilton se twee kinders, Noah (1) en Skyler (4) en sy meisie, Erin-Lee Bester, ingesluit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nieteenstaande Shilton se prestasies, gaan dit nie na sy kop toe nie, verseker sy ouers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHy bly ernstig en doelgerig, met sy voete plat op die aarde en sy o\u00eb na Bo. Hy staan vas in sy geloof en is nie skaam om op openbare platforms daarna te verwys nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2019n Helde-ontvangs word vandag (Donderdag 1 Augustus) vir Shilton gere\u00ebl met verskeie groot rolspelers wat gaan saamkom om aan hom hulde te bring, voordat sy welverdiende maand lange vakansie begin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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