By CINDY JUNOVICA
SUBANG JAYA: Public relations and marketing student Khoo Cai Lin, 26 received the award for being Malaysia's 'sportswoman' of the year for the third time in a row.
At only the age of 26, Khoo is already Malaysia's top woman distance swimmer and received her newest award recently at the Majlis Sukan IPTS Malaysia (Masiswa) 2014 Award Night.
She added that she is beyond grateful to Masiswa for acknowledging her efforts in swimming and being recognised for what she does.
Khoo has been swimming since she was three years old, and her swimming achievements began when she was 11.
She said, “I started winning inter-club and inter-state competition when I was about 11 years old and that was when my passion for swimming started to grow, till where I am now.”
Besides juggling between her education and swimming career, Khoo does occasional part time coaching as well.
“Sometimes, it’s not easy to do all of these at once, but this is a challenge I have to face,” Khoo said.
The other TU students, Shaun Yap and Erika Kong, were also awarded as the ‘sportsman’ of the year and ‘most promising athlete’ for woman’s category respectively.
In conjunction to this award, all three of them also competed for the 28th Sea Games from 6 to 11 June in Singapore, competing for Malaysia.
Khoo said, “I’m very proud to be able to represent my country in this competition.”
She expected to maintain her gold medal for the 800 metre freestyle category, as well as medal for the 400 metre freestyle category.
“I always motivate myself by setting realistic goals and making sure that I am able to achieve them,” she said.
At only the age of 26, Khoo is already Malaysia's top woman distance swimmer and received her newest award recently at the Majlis Sukan IPTS Malaysia (Masiswa) 2014 Award Night.
She added that she is beyond grateful to Masiswa for acknowledging her efforts in swimming and being recognised for what she does.
Khoo has been swimming since she was three years old, and her swimming achievements began when she was 11.
She said, “I started winning inter-club and inter-state competition when I was about 11 years old and that was when my passion for swimming started to grow, till where I am now.”
Besides juggling between her education and swimming career, Khoo does occasional part time coaching as well.
“Sometimes, it’s not easy to do all of these at once, but this is a challenge I have to face,” Khoo said.
The other TU students, Shaun Yap and Erika Kong, were also awarded as the ‘sportsman’ of the year and ‘most promising athlete’ for woman’s category respectively.
In conjunction to this award, all three of them also competed for the 28th Sea Games from 6 to 11 June in Singapore, competing for Malaysia.
Khoo said, “I’m very proud to be able to represent my country in this competition.”
She expected to maintain her gold medal for the 800 metre freestyle category, as well as medal for the 400 metre freestyle category.
“I always motivate myself by setting realistic goals and making sure that I am able to achieve them,” she said.