SWITCH TO BOWLING PAYS OFF FOR LIM

Ex-footballer one of 96 in U-I8 category to get SOF-Peter Lim Scholarship

- Deepanraj Ganesan

Growing up, Manchester United fan Aiman Lim idolised goalkeeper David de Gea and dreamt of donning Singapore's national colours.

However, his sporting journey took an unexpected turn in 2018 when he enrolled in Hai Sing Catholic School, where football was not offered as a co-curricular activity (CCA).

The former F17 Football Academy trainee chose another sport, bowling, and now 18, Lim is more at home in a bowling alley than on a football pitch.

Lim, who is a two-handed bowler, said: "Not long after I joined bowling as a CCA, I started to realise that I was pretty good at it so I decided to focus all my efforts on it. My coach (Kenneth Ong) also saw the potential in me and he told my parents that I have what it takes to be a national bowler, so I was convinced that this is the path for me." The decision has started to pay off for the Temasek Polytechnic student. On May 27, he was one of 96 student-athletes in the high performance Under-18 category who received the Singapore Olympic Foundation-Peter Lim Scholarship at a presentation ceremony held at his school.