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Sarah Harris

Sarah Lee Harris was born in Cape Town on 11 November 1987. She attended Reddam House High School. She played water polo for both South Africa and Australia, competing at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships and 2011 World Aquatics Championships.

Sarah moved to the University of the Pacific in California, and then to the Arizona State University where she played 3 years of Division 1 water polo as a Sun Devil from 2009 - 2011. In 2012 she acquired Australian citizenship just for a shot at Olympic glory, playing for the Hunter Hurricanes team. Later she took the top coaching position with  South African women’s polo without pay, in 2018 she fell foul of the "politicians" in the governing body called Swimming South Africa and ended up being "fired" from her role as coach of the national team.  

After her playing career was over Sarah returned to Cape Town, where she owned a water polo academy in Sun Valley, coached at Somerset College and Stellenbosch University, and in 2017 she was the South African girls under 16 coach. 

https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/seri-harris-drops-a-bomb-on-swimming-south-africa/ 

2008 South African Women's team at the World League in Lille, France.

Top row - Sarah Harris, Lee Keet-Stewart, Hayley Price Moor, Megan Schooling, Mbali Mpofu, Tammy Lynn Heydenrych, Christine Barretto

Sitting - Nicole Noo Stanley Gouveia, Jade Liddell, Marcelle Keet, Laura Marie Beare, Nicola Poulas, Nadene Smith

Sarah Harris: In Love with South Africa 

1st February, 2007

https://gsport.co.za/sarah-harris-in-love-with-south-africa-2/ 

She may be thousands of miles away from home, but Sarah Lee Harris’ heart belongs to South Africa.

At the age of 19, she is South Africa’s best woman water polo player, and it’s evident that the key to her success is her absolute love for the sport and her willingness to whatever it takes to succeed.

Having taken up water polo in Grade 8, Sarah Lee (Seri) is now on a scholarship to the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, but admits to missing home terribly, especially Cape Town, which she regards as the best city in the world.

Seri is the sister of Proteas cricketer, Paul Harris, and the similarities in their personalities are incredible.

Both play sport for the love of the game, rather than, for the money. And the two are unashamedly proud South Africans, who always strive to promote our country’s diversity.

On the wall of her room here at home, Sarah has a saying: ‘Champions expect pain; Champions endure pain; Champions never complain.’

In the month we celebrate love, it’s our pleasure to pay tribute to a young woman who, has such an open and beautiful approach to life.