Jamaican Badminton player
Alya Dawn Lewis (born 1980) is a badminton player and coach from Jamaica.[1]
Career
Aged 18, Lewis took part her first international competition at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, on 10 September 1998.[2]
Competing at the Jamaican senior level, Lewis paired with Nigella Saunders to win the ladies' doubles in 2005, 2006, and 2007.[3] She won the ladies' singles in 2010.[3] In 2011, she paired with Christine Leyow-Mayne to win the ladies' doubles and with Bradley Graham to win the mixed doubles.[3][4]
Pairing with Garron Palmer, Lewis won the mixed doubles final in 2009 and 2010.[5][6][7]
Lewis was the number one ranking women's Badminton player in Jamaica for most of 2012.[8]
Between 1997 and 2010, she played 38 matches in her international badminton career, winning 20 of them.[9] Her most recent international match was at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi.[9]
She completed the Badminton World Federation Level One coaching course.in 2014,[10] and worked as a coach and a manager for the Jamaica Badminton Association from at least 2013 to 2015.[11][12][13]
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