{"id":21151,"date":"2013-07-16T11:54:31","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T09:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/womens-rugby-star-meiring-hangs-up-her-boots\/"},"modified":"2013-07-16T11:54:31","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T09:54:31","slug":"womens-rugby-star-meiring-hangs-up-her-boots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/womens-rugby-star-meiring-hangs-up-her-boots\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s rugby star Meiring hangs up her boots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=9180\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9180\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9180\" alt=\"Yolanda Meiring in action for the Springboks. Photo: University of Pretoria\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/523e0_92072473yolanda.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"313\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yolanda Meiring in action for the Springboks. Photo: University of Pretoria<\/p>\n<p>Veteran Springbok Women\u2019s Sevens and 15-a-side player Yolanda Meiring has decided to call it a day following a spectacular rugby career dating back to 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Meiring cited her desire to focus on her career as a teacher at Laerskool Constantiapark in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Pretoria\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=-25.7461111111,28.1880555556spn=0.1,0.1q=-25.7461111111,28.1880555556 (Pretoria)t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Pretoria<\/a> as the main reason for her decision, and said with her 30th birthday next month it was the right time to call it a day.<\/p>\n<p>The inspirational player, who has been a key figure in Women\u2019s rugby in the last few years, featured in four Rugby World Cups.<\/p>\n<p>This included the 15-a-side IRB Women\u2019s World Cups in 2006 and 2010, as well as the 2009 and 2013 IRB Rugby World Cup Sevens tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>She also participated in two IRB Nations Cup tournaments, in 2009 and 2011, among other internationals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was not an easy decision, especially since I have been playing rugby for such a long time and I have a deep passion for the game,\u201d said Meiring. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarugby.co.za\" target=\"_blank\">SARU<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/523e0_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yolanda Meiring in action for the Springboks. Photo: University of Pretoria Veteran Springbok Women\u2019s Sevens and 15-a-side player Yolanda Meiring has decided to call it a day following a spectacular rugby career dating back to 2004. Meiring cited her desire to focus on her career as a teacher at Laerskool Constantiapark in Pretoria as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-21151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}