Barbados: Aliyah Greaves returned dwelling on Monday from attending the CCCAN Video games in Mexico to the information that she will probably be attending Queen’s School from the subsequent faculty time period.
The outgoing head woman at Trinity Academy scored 98% in Arithmetic and 89% within the English Paper with an A in composition to realize a spot on the faculty the place her mum Joyanne Atherley excelled in teachers and which was her first alternative.
Aliyah is an energetic and well-rounded pupil who represented her faculty within the Psychological Math Competitors, swimming and observe and subject and she or he is a nationwide swimmer who represented Barbados on the Goodwill Video games, CARIFTA and CCCAN.
Whereas youngsters her age had been making ready for the CEE, Aliyah was arduous at coaching for CARIFTA which was held through the Easter trip. The Easter trip is a time when most youngsters doing CEE go to high school for classes and even have further classes.
In the course of the time main as much as the CEE, Aliyah by no means gave up her sports activities. As an alternative whereas youngsters had been attending further classes and going to high school through the Easter trip, Aliyah was coaching and was spectacular in her performances in NAPSAC, CARIFTA and CCCAN.
Aliyah received the women’ under-13 Shot Put on the 2024 NAPSAC video games and she or he did whereas setting a brand new document of 10.44m, a measurement that overshadowed the boys’ measurement (identical division) of 9.87m and was method higher than the second place woman who threw 8.40m.
Aliyah was additionally the youngest member of the 2024 Barbados CARIFTA Swimming Staff for the video games held within the Bahamas this 12 months and she or he was the one major faculty youngster on the staff.
Decided and gifted, Aliyah copped a bronze medal within the ladies’ 11-12 age group 50m backstroke with a private finest time and she or he swam on the relay groups which received a silver medal within the 4x50m freestyle relay, the staff that received silver within the 400m IM relay and the staff that received a bronze medal within the 4x100m freestyle.
Along with the above, Aliyah received a silver medal on the CCCAN Video games in Mexico final week whereas setting a brand new nationwide document within the 11-12 age group.
Aliyah has proven the way it must be executed. She was attentive at school, at all times targeted and loads of her improvement got here by sports activities. Her aggressive nature, her time administration abilities, her work ethics and her skill to analyse conditions had been all abilities nurtured at dwelling and thru her athletics and swimming.
The individuals in her speedy setting, her mother and father and sibling had been additionally very supportive and are glorious examples of arduous work and diligence. Her sister is the highest junior feminine bicycle owner in Barbados, her dad Ron Greaves nonetheless cycles and so they present an setting that’s conducive to creating the thoughts.
