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“EVERYTHING CLICKED INTO PLACE FOR ME FROM THERE AND I WAS ACCEPTED INTO PHYSIOTHERAPY...”
Whether the relentless pursuit to extend mental and physical fitness levels will ever reach a peak from where they cannot further improve is yet to be determined. For now, the push continues.
Wits’ influence on my life Diesel counts himself fortunate to have graduated as a physiotherapist when Sports Science was still in its infancy in South Africa and worldwide, as he was able to get ahead relatively quickly in a new field. “Wits University and the Wits Physiotherapy Department were a huge influence on my life, as well as the lives of my four brothers, who all studied at Wits – one studied Electrical Engineering, another Mechanical Engineering, and two studied Computer Science,” he says. He too, first pursued the Computer Science route at Wits but after completing his first year he applied to study Physiotherapy. “I had always had an interest in medicine and sport, but I hadn’t connected the two, until, on my Dad’s advice, I went to speak to a friend of his, Jenny Crocker (then Mason-Jones), who was a lecturer in the Physiotherapy Department at the time. “Everything clicked into place for me from there and I was accepted into Physiotherapy, where I had exceptional input from the team, including the late Prof. Johlyne Beenhakker, Prof. Cecelia Eales and Prof. Aimee Stewart.”
WITSReview | March 2015