SMU congratulates final-year School of Social Sciences undergraduate Yip Pin Xiu on being named Straits Times Athlete of the Year 2016. Click the link below to read about her well-deserved win and look out for an interview with her in the forthcoming March issue of SMU Engage, which was conducted shortly before this award was announced.

Main photo: Para-swimmer Yip Pin Xiu, 24, receiving her Straits Times Athlete of the Year award from Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Grace Fu. The world record-breaker and Asean Para Games champion edged out Shayna Ng (bowling), Shanti Pereira (athletics), Khairul Anwar (para-football) and 2014 winner Joseph Schooling (swimming) to become the second para-athlete after equestrian Laurentia Tan (2012) to win the annual award. ST photo: Neo Xiaobin.