Violet Walrond

Hello and welcome blogger.

 Today I am gonna talk about Violet Walrond. If you don't know who she was?

She was New Zealand's first female Olympic athlete and at 15 years 178 days, the youngest swimming competitor at the 1920 Olympics. Walrond competed in two events at the Olympics. Did you know violet was just fourteen when she was selected for the team and not surprisingly, she had no idea of what olympics would be like. she was used to being coach by her father and competing in local. But sadly she died in the age of 91 17 december 1996. Can you beleive that she was still on her nineties before she died.