By Peter Bills
No man has ever done it, no team or coach has ever achieved it.
But if South Africa win the Rugby World Cup in Paris on Saturday night, a woman will clinch a place in the sport's record books as the first person to win back-to-back World Cup winner's medals.
Clive Woodward insisted on utilising her skills in 2003 with England and Jake White snapped up her talents for the South African World Cup campaign this time.
What would it feel like to make Rugby World Cup history by winning with a different country and different coaching team at successive tournaments? Sherylle Calder is typically modest.
"I just want the team I work for to do well. There is no doubt that (although she is South African) I wanted England to win in 2003, now I want South Africa to succeed.
"I am a professional, that is what it's about. But I don't think about myself winning two World Cup medals. I believe South Africa are going to win and it's very exciting.
"We have worked pretty hard, put in lots of hours. But I love what I do and of course I'd be proud to receive winner's medals at successive Rugby World Cups. It would mean a lot."
There isn't a lot of Sherylle Calder. She is slim, petite and very feminine. But amid the world of huge men, bruising collisions and immense physicality, she has carved out a reputation as a specialist hand/eye co-ordination skills coach of the highest order.
If you think the number of interceptions Bryan Habana has seized in world rugby to scorch home from anything up to 80 metres is an aesthetically pleasing coincidence, think again. In fact, Jean de Villiers did the same at Cape Town against New Zealand a couple of years ago when the All Blacks were beaten.
It is part of the Springboks' minute attention to detail that the skills required for intercepts derive directly from Calder's programme. "The value of visual and awareness skills is seen in many ways on the field," she says.
"Bryan Habana practises his passing and reacting skills against a net in training, throwing the ball against a net which returns it at all kinds of angles, heights and different speeds. Three weeks ago, in a 60-second intense session, he scored 84.
"This week, he did 118, which is virtually two per second. With such fast reactions and visual awareness, he will have opportunities for the intercept.
"These interceptions are no coincidence. He has intercepted more passes in the two years I have worked with him than he had done in his whole career."
Calder won 50 caps for the South African hockey team from 1982-1996. But it is as a visual awareness skills coach that she has helped professional rugby really make serious progress in a field that was largely unknown until recent times.
How has it changed since 2003 with England? "South Africa now are well ahead of where England were in 2003.
You develop better programmes, both on line and out on the field. It is evolving all the time. Essentially, I am training the eyes to see better and process that information faster so that the mind can respond accordingly. It is about peripheral awareness and responding to it in the most propitious manner possible.
"Since working with England, I have developed a training programme perhaps 80 percent improved on past times. It is now much more specific, not just to the sport but the individual player."