Teaches: Stretch / Fitness / Pole / Lyra / Silks

A bit of a jack of all trades, Cathy has dabbled in a wide range of sports over the years - gymnastic and ballet as a child, horse riding, fencing, ballroom dancing (yes, there are pictures) boot camp workouts, the occasional open water swim and recently she has taken up archery "just to do something different".

When not doing something physical (and probably upside down) Cathy plays with mud in her role as a metallurgical specialist at Anglo American. She used to be able to say she makes drugs - not the fun kind - as a researcher at Wits, but now she uses these skills to make Cat's Claw - a grip aid developed in part to lockdown restrictions as well as her own struggles with grip on the pole.

Cathy started pole in 2021 as an attempt to do something both physically and mentally demanding, as well as being something different. The bug bit hard, and she soon started visiting the studio regularly, almost to the point of moving in. Cathy has competed at APAC but she finds the stage is not her thing, preferring to be behind the scenes and can often be found doing the rigging backstage at competitions.