SMU Social Science undergraduate diver Myra Lee is among just 51 athletes from the 130-strong Singapore Youth Olympic Games (YOG) contingent still pursuing sports at an elite level. A former gymnast, she switched sports in 2009 after a hamstring injury forced her out of her first love. While she finished last among 12 girls in the 10m platform event at the YOG, the Games proved to be a springboard for her subsequent regional success, diving her way to a bronze in the synchronised 3m springboard event at last year's SEA Games in Naypyitaw.
"I grew to really like diving, and at the same time, I could tell that the diving committee wanted this sport to last," said Myra, now 20 and a medal hopeful for next year's Singapore SEA Games. "They really had a plan for the future, and a plan for us to continue on in the sport. I saw that this sport was going to go somewhere and I wanted to be a part of it."