{"id":26675,"date":"2019-02-26T20:30:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T18:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=26675"},"modified":"2019-02-26T20:30:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T18:30:13","slug":"lloyd-cele-excited-to-perform-at-puma-school-of-speed-4-in-pretoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/press-release\/lloyd-cele-excited-to-perform-at-puma-school-of-speed-4-in-pretoria\/","title":{"rendered":"Lloyd Cele excited to perform at PUMA School of Speed #4 in Pretoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having made his <strong>PUMA School of Speed Series <\/strong>debut in Roodepoort (at the PUMA School of Speed #2 in February), <em>Lloyd Cele is counting down the days to his second performance, this time at the <\/em><strong>PUMA School of Speed #4<\/strong> at the LC de Villiers Sportsground (Pretoria) this coming Saturday, 02 March 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe PUMA School of Speed Series is a fantastic initiative,\u201d said <em>Cele.\u00a0 \u201cIt <\/em>allows students to compete in a fun and challenging environment that is organised in a very professional way.\u00a0 I was amazed to see so many talented athletes.\u00a0 There was an all-round happy, fun vibe on the day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am looking forward to seeing whether the Pretoria crowd can make more noise than the Roodepoort crowd.\u00a0 Athletes and spectators can expect to hear familiar hits that will get them out of their seats, dancing and singing along with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>EVENT INFORMATION<\/u><\/strong><strong>:\u00a0 PUMA School of Speed #4<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Launched in November 2016 by PUMA and Stillwater Sports, the PUMA School of Speed Series is headed by the World\u2019s Fastest Man Usain Bolt and is committed to identifying and developing young South African athletes who believe that their future is #ForeverFaster.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"170\"><strong>Date:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"454\">Saturday, 02 March 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"170\"><strong>Venue:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"454\">LC de Villiers Sportsground (Pretoria)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"170\"><strong>Start Time:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"454\">11:00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"170\"><strong>Entry Fee:\u00a0 <\/strong>Athletes<\/td>\n<td width=\"454\">No Cost to enter the event<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"170\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"454\"><strong><em><u>Enter Online<\/u><\/em><\/strong><strong><em>:<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0 www.schoolofspeed.com<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"170\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"454\"><strong><em><u>Please Note<\/u><\/em><\/strong><strong>:\u00a0 <\/strong>Athlete entries close two days prior to each event.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"170\"><strong>Entry Fee:\u00a0 <\/strong>Spectators<\/td>\n<td width=\"454\">R20 \/ adults<\/p>\n<p>R10 \/ children<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"170\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"454\"><em>Pay as you enter the stadium.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"170\"><strong>Events:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"454\">100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 1500m, Long Jump, High Jump, 100m Hurdles (Boys 15, Girls 17 &amp; 19 only), 90m Hurdles (Girls 15 only) and 90m Hurdles (Girls 15 only) and 110m Hurdles (Boys 17 &amp; 19 only)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"170\"><strong>Age Categories:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"454\">U15, U17 and U19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>All entrants will stand a chance to be scouted and contracted to the PUMA Squad. The contract will be for the duration of one calendar year.<\/p>\n<p><u>Podium winners of each event final will win the following<\/u>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1st Place \u2013 PUMA School of Speed Tee, PUMA peak cap &amp; category medal.<\/li>\n<li>2nd Place \u2013 PUMA School of Speed Tee, PUMA drawstring bag &amp; category medal.<\/li>\n<li>3rd Place \u2013 PUMA School of Speed Tee &amp; category medal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The APE\/ASA table will be used to determine the top 3 overall male and female athletes.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Next Up<\/u><\/strong><strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>PUMA School of Speed #5: <\/strong>Wednesday, 13 March 2019 \/ Puk McArthur Stadium in Potchefstroom<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Like our Facebook page<\/u><\/strong><strong>:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/School-of-Speed-South-Africa-513779772084375\/?ref=bookmarks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">School of Speed South Africa<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Instagram<\/u><\/strong><strong>:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/schoolofspeed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@schoolofspeed\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For further information on the PUMA School of Speed please contact Stillwater Sports on 082\u00a0991 0045, via email <a href=\"mailto:info@schoolofspeed.com\">info@schoolofspeed.com<\/a> or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schoolofspeed.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.schoolofspeed.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>Issued by:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/newsportmediatv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NEWSPORT MEDIA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On behalf of:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stillwatersports.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">STILLWATER SPORTS<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schoolofspeed.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PUMA School of Speed Series<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having made his PUMA School of Speed Series debut in Roodepoort (at the PUMA School of Speed #2 in February), Lloyd Cele is counting down the days to his second performance, this time at the PUMA School of Speed #4 at the LC de Villiers Sportsground (Pretoria) this coming Saturday, 02 March 2019. \u201cThe PUMA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":58746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3435,1206],"tags":[3885,3167,3838,3847],"class_list":["post-26675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-athletics","category-press-release","tag-lc-de-villiers-sportsground","tag-puma","tag-puma-school","tag-puma-school-of-speed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}