Barbados: A 16-year-old Shontae Alleyne-Clarke gained the Junior Soca Monarch of Barbados. She showcased her skills, abilities and arduous work and paved the profitable path within the pageantry.
Clarke has just lately participated within the 41st version of the Haynes Smith ‘Miss Caribbean Gifted Teen Pageant’ on thirtieth December on the St Kitts Marriott Resort.
Shontae was certainly one of ten contestants vying for the title which went to Miss St Kitts and Nevis, however she proudly walked away with the ‘Finest Theatrical Look’ Award after successful the ‘Finest Costume’, ‘Finest Speech’ and ‘Finest Query and Reply’ class.
Shontae’s love for stage and performing has impressed her to get entangled in each pageantry and calypso competitions. In 2019, she was the primary runner-up within the ‘Barbados Junior Prince and Princess Pageant’, and he or she gained the 6 to 12 age group class of the Richard Stoute Teen Expertise Contest in 2018.
She then went on to win the Barbados Junior Monarch in 2019 and 2022, and final yr, she gained the 2023 Junior Soca Monarch competitors. She was additionally first runner-up in ‘Baje to the World Season 2’ in 2022.
After competing in her first pageant, Shontae was impressed to proceed in pageants because it helped her to step out of her consolation zone and gave her the instruments to construct her confidence and make her a greater particular person.
Popping out of the regional pageant, Shontae acknowledged that, “My general expertise was inspiring and coronary heart warming as I used to be capable of signify my island to the perfect of my capacity and I used to be additionally ready to remove so much from the expertise”.
The decrease sixth-form pupil at Combermere Faculty who aspires to change into an Worldwide singer and humanitarian, gained six grade two passes and two grade one passes in her CSEC exams final June and he or she is now learning Regulation, Spanish and Literature at Combermere Faculty.
Clearly very well-rounded and dedicated to excelling, Shontae is an articulate and outgoing younger woman who enjoys writing, dancing, music and singing. She is a member of the Barbados Lady Information Affiliation, the Barbados Nationwide Youth Metal Orchestra, the President of the Combermere Scholar Council, and a youth chief.
She additionally has an curiosity in supporting the youth and that has led her to undertake a Main Faculty Scholar Council the place she began a Homework Membership for college students to have a secure place to do homework after college.
Now again in school after her thrilling trip, Shontae admits that settling again into the tutorial temper was a bit tiring, however with scheduling, planning and wonderful assist from her mother and father and granny, Shontae is concentrated on her upcoming exams and her music.
“I can’t let my grades slide”, she instructed us, “However Crop Over can also be arising and I get able to let go my music and I’m additionally hoping to enter one other pageant this yr”.
A job mannequin for younger ladies in Barbados, Shontae is great proof of how teachers mix with varied actions so long as one is dedicated to working arduous and reaching for the celebs.
