She started training with the national wushu youth team at the Singapore Wushu Dragon & Lion Dance Federation at least three times a week at Braddell Heights Community Club when she was in Primary 5.
While her peers in the national youth team were called up by the national team for overseas competitions one or two years after joining the squad, Emily, who is a JC2 student, had to wait until she was in Sec 3. Even then, her international breakthrough came at the 2009 World Junior Wushu Championships.
When Emily was ignored for more than three years, her mother, Tang Teow Jong, wanted her to quit the national team.
Madam Tang, 48, told The New Paper (TNP): "I didn't want her to waste her time training if she didn't have the chance to compete overseas."
Fast forward a few years... her first full international was the World Wushu Championships last year.
There, she became world champion.
Her next international assignment was last year's South-east Asia Games in Jakarta.
She won the gold medal too.
Today, she is happy that she persevered and ignored her parents' call to withdraw from the national squad.
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