Injured: 15 April 2000, aged 16, while scrumhalf playing for Suid Natal High School. Quintin lives at his family home in Shelley Beach, KZN and works as a sports editor.
“I broke my neck (C5 vertebra) at the age of 16 while playing scrumhalf for Hoërskool Suid-Natals first XV against Durban North College in Durban on 15 April 2000.
After matriculating, Quintin combined his passion for sport and writing and completed a creative writing course through Intec as well as a community journalism course through UNISA, leading to a successful career as a sports journalist. Quintin has worked as editor at SARugby.com, sports editor at The Fever Media Group, deputy editor at eHowzit, and senior staff writer at Rugby365.com. Quintin boasts close to 20 years’ experience and is currently a freelance sports writer, who has written for SA Rugby’s website, springboks.rugby, while he is a regular contributor at Bet Central. His work has also featured in various newspapers including The Witness and Daily Maverick, as well as Sports Illustrated, Sport24, Zigzag, Sixty40 Bodyboarding, Physique MMA Magazine, Bicycling, Cycle Nation and Enduro World Magazine. Quintin’s work has been recognised far and wide with a number of awards, including being named the Outstanding Journalist of the Year at The Fever Media Group, winning the MDDA-Sanlam SA Local Sports Journalist of the Year award and taking home the Vodacom KwaZulu-Natal Sports Journalist of the Year award three times.