Biography
UTAH: South African National Team Member will compete for Utah while
training for a shot at representing her country in the 2004 Olympics.
CLUB/HIGH SCHOOL: Member of South African National Team since 1998 … fifth
in all-round at 2002 Como Cup in Italy … in 2001 SA International
Cup, placed second all-around, first on bars and second on vault … South
Africa's top finisher at 2001 World Championships in Ghent, Belgium … at
2000 South African Nationals, placed third all-around, won floor, was
second on bars and third on vault … at 2000 National Trials, won
all-around, vault, beam and floor and finished second on bars … team
won gold at African Championships in 1998 and 2000 and she was fourth
on beam … competed in the 2000 Como and Monte Forte Cups in Italy … placed
fourth on beam and helped team to third-place finish at 1998 Pre-Commonwealth
Games … fourth all-around, third on beam and bars at 1999 Leverkusen
Cup … trained for Visions Academy of Gymnastics in Johannesburg,
South Africa, for coach Michelle Theocharis … won awards for math,
science, biology and Afrikaans as a student at Redhill High School … matriculated
with four distinctions.
PERSONAL: Daughter of Catherine Errington and William D'Oliveira … last
name is pronounced doll-a-veer-a … enjoys music, reading and dancing … interested
in career in forensics and criminal investigation … born Jan. 19,
1984 in Cape Town, South Africa.
"I'm very excited abgout Dominique's potential to contribute
this year. She's very powerful and has a good competitive background,
yet she readily admits she has a lot to learn. She already has big skills,
so the key will be her ability to imporve her execution. Dominique will
contend for a place in the all-around if she improves as much as I think
she will."
-Coach Greg Marsden
University of Utah
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