Barbados: Jaiya Simmons received the 13-14 age group title on the CARIFTA Swimming Video games held within the Bahamas over the Easter weekend after claiming a complete of 12 medals, seven golds and 5 silvers, of which eight had been from particular person occasions and 4 from relays.
Jaiya Simmons’s excellent efficiency didn’t come as a shock to those that have adopted the Harrison Faculty scholar as she has excelled in native and regional meets since she began to swim.
In her debut CARIFTA swimming championships held in Barbados in April 2022, Jaiya competing within the 11-12 age group, achieved 8 particular person gold medals within the 8 occasions she entered. With the assistance of her teammates, she assisted Barbados in acquiring 3 extra gold medals within the 4x100M Particular person Medley, 4x50M Combined Freestyle and 4×50 Particular person Medley relays, finishing the championships with a complete of 11 gold medals and the Age Group Champion award.
In July 2022, Simmons participated in her first Central American and Caribbean Swimming Championships (CCCAN) the place she medalled in every particular person occasion she swam, attaining 3 gold, 2 silver and three bronze medals for Barbados, bettering on her nationwide file instances in 3 occasions.
Jaiya was additionally a member of the 4x100M Particular person Medley, 4x50M Particular person Medley and 4x50M Freestyle relays, serving to to safe 3 further silver medals for Barbados, closing the championships with a complete of 11 medals.
In 2022 Simmons was awarded the Barbados Olympic Affiliation Junior Feminine Athlete of the Yr Award in addition to the Barbados Olympic Affiliation Individuals’s Selection Award.
In April 2023, Jaiya competed on the CARIFTA swimming championships in Curacao and received gold within the 50M Freestyle, silver medals within the 50M Butterfly and 100M Freestyle, and bronze within the 100M Butterfly.
Simmons was a part of the 6-member Youth Commonwealth Video games swim crew held in Trinidad and Tobago in August 2023, putting eleventh out of 57 opponents within the 100M Freestyle in a private greatest and nationwide file breaking time of 59.68 seconds.
