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First SEA Games in two decades for 52-year-old indoor hockey player
The Straits Times continues the countdown to the 32nd SEA Games, held in Cambodia for the first time from May 5 to 17. Over five days, we profile Singapore athletes looking for their “firsts” in Phnom Penh. Today, we feature Phua Min Tze, who is back at the Games at 52 for a first appearance in indoor hockey.
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Phua Min Tze is proving that age is not a barrier by participating in the SEA Games at the age of 52. She shares five key firsts from her career.
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SINGAPORE – The year is 2001 – a world without iPhones, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. It is also when Phua Min Tze and her hockey teammates win a SEA Games bronze at the Malaysia National Hockey Stadium.
Twenty-two years later, the world has changed but something hasn’t. Phua is kitting up for Singapore again, this time as part of a 12-woman indoor hockey team who will compete at the Cambodia SEA Games.
