CONGRATULATIONS to Milla Herbst who has been selected to represent the Marine Surf Lifesaving Club of South Africa at the World Lifesaving Championships in the Netherlands in September. She is one of the youngest members to have been chosen.
Milla will form part of a relay team competing in two events with U18 individual South African National Stillwater gold and silver medallist Kristen Bellingham, U17 individual SA National Stillwater silver and bronze medallist Keli Reynolds and U16 silver and bronze individual SA National Stillwater medallist Teagan Hardwick with whom Milla won a gold medal in the Rescue Tube Relay event of the Surf division in the Lifesaving SA National Stillwater Championships earlier this year.
Milla will also be competing in two individual pool events - 100m Manikin Tow and Tube event in which she won an individual silver medal at the SA National Stillwater Championship. She will also compete in three other Stillwater relay events.
It is a great honour to be placed with other world class competitors and compete against the world's best lifesavers at the 2016 Rescue World Lifesaving Championships.
Milla is the daughter of Nico and Delia Herbst of Greytown.