Why I Play: Underwater rugby player Dawn Ng.
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I didn’t get a surgery because the doctor was like, “You’re still young and can recover.” But I couldn’t do high-impact sports anymore, especially jogging or basketball, which I used to play as well. So I started having a strong preference for water sports instead. I started swimming a lot because it was part of the physiotherapy that I had to go through, and I also picked up scuba diving and water skiing.
It has been very interesting, like when we go around telling people, “Eh, you know, we are playing underwater rugby”, everyone is just like, “What on earth is that?” I can’t imagine not going for trainings anymore, or not meeting any of my teammates anymore, because we’ve bonded quite a fair bit during the Champions Cup. We’ve become pretty much involved in one another’s personal lives. There have been a lot of weddings, so it was like, “Yay, party time for the club.”
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