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2025 Field Hockey Roster

13 Zelda Pretorius

  • Height 5-3
  • Class Freshman
  • High School Kempton Park Hoerskool
  • Hometown Benoni, South Africa
  • Instagram zellaaa.p

Biography

Prep: Competed on the field hockey team at Kempton Park Hoerskool. Pretorius played club hockey for Jeppee Ladies, Naledi Club, Hooked on Hockey, and Johannesburg Hockey League. Pretorius averaged two goals per game, and was part of the Eastern Gauteng Field Hockey Team who came second at the Inter Provision Tournament. Pretorius was the Vice Captain for the school first team, the Johannesburg Hockey League Ladies, and Captain for the U/16 Interprovincial Team. Pretorius helped her team win Noordvall 2024, the South African was named best attacking player, best all rounder, best defender, and top scorer. She was the highest achieved player, Runner-up in JHL girls u/18, Runner Up in JHL ladies, and was selected as part of top performers at hockey festival to tour the Netherlands. Outside of athletics, was part of Student Council, was awarded five years consecutive full colors for academic high performance, and part of the Top-10 academic achievers in grade.

Personal: is the daughter of Dawid and Madeleine Pretorius...has one sister named Nadia...Her cousin, Carli Pretorius played field hockey for North West University of South Africa.

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