Her father Feyes Botha drives her to get out of bed and train.
Track is her thing, not so much road racing.
"Mainly because there are no hills on the track. I'm not particularly strong on the hills. On the track, I just put my power down and go fast."
She is powerful through the hips and thighs, and that is crucial for a track sprinter. But Botha can race tactically, pursuit and sprint. She is far from one-dimensional.
This week's event in Australia is the Anzac Cup, where the New Zealand juniors will compete in the teams' pursuit, the scratch race and the points race. It will be a prime chance for competition before Kazakhstan.
"We want to see where we are compared to the Aussies, because they are our main competition when we go to the junior worlds," says Botha.
Her main opportunity for good track training comes at camps down at the new velodrome in Cambridge. The rest of the time her work is done on the road or a wind-trainer. That's why she is eyeing up study at Waikato University next year, as she is moving to Cambridge to be near the best facilities and coaching. Then it will be all roads leading to Gold Coast 2018 and the Commonwealth Games, not to mention the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. Her goals are set, her pathway mapped out. There will be drug testing ahead and stiff competition, but Botha is prepared for all that.
She had a taste of the elite cycling level when she competed with the New Zealand team pursuiters in Colombia.
"It was really cool, watching their technique and how they changed and how close they rode together."
She will race in the North Island schools champs in Cambridge in a few weeks, and that will lead into her final junior worlds' preparation. Her mantra as she lines up on the start line won't change: "I self-talk a lot. I tell myself I have done the training and I can do it."
