Barbados: Aliyah Greaves secured victory within the shot put occasion for women on the Nationwide Major Faculty Athletics Championships final week. She gained the occasion for her faculty and shone within the swimming exercise for her membership.
Whereas making ready for the Widespread Entrance Examination in Might, Aliyah Greaves is displaying easy methods to stability sports activities and lecturers as she competed in each NAPSAC for her faculty and swimming for her membership.
She was the winner of the shot put occasion for women at NAPSAC and her document breaking throw of 10.01m was higher than the boys’ successful throw and even higher than the junior ladies’ throw of 9.49m at BSSAC.
The ten-year-old Head Lady at Trinity Academy Head gained three gold medals and three bronze medals on the simply concluded BASA nationwide lengthy course swimming championships which have been held on the Aquatic Centre in Wildey.
Her gold medals got here within the 50m freestyle, 50m backstroke and 200m backstroke whereas she gained bronze within the 100m freestyle, 400m freestyle and 200m IM.
Aliyah has made CARIFTA requirements in 4 occasions and would be the youngest swimmer on the Barbados crew this yr and the one one nonetheless at main faculty. She is going to take to the pool in her first outing at CARIFTA within the 50m backstroke, 100m backstroke, 200m backstroke and the 50m freestyle.
In addition to this, the Barbados crew has been progressing at totally different championships with quite a few sporting occasions. The Barbados under-16 tennis crew competed within the Junior Davis Cup within the Dominican Republic earlier this month. The crew comprised Aidan Clarke, Lucas Davis and Dimitri Kirton.
They performed in Group D in opposition to Trinidad and Tobago, the US Virgin Islands, and hosts Dominican Republic, the place Trinidad obtained Barbados off to a shedding begin, happening 3-0.
Barbados then misplaced 2-1 to the US Virgin Islands earlier than they redeemed themselves by defeating hosts Dominican Republic 3-0. The Barbados crew fell out of the highest eight and needed to play for the ninth to twelfth positions.
They defeated Honduras 2-0 earlier than shedding 2-0 to Puerto Rico to complete in tenth place.
