Alya Lewis

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Alya Dawn Lewis (born 1980) is a badminton player and coach from Jamaica. [1]

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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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  2. ↑ "Eighteen-year-old Alya Lewis pumps her fist as she stretches to..." Getty Images. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 "National Senior Champions". Jamaica Badminton Association. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
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  5. ↑ "Jamaica Gleaner Online". mobile.jamaicagleaner.com. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
  6. ↑ "Gold for Jamaica's Lewis and Palmer". jamaica-gleaner.com. 25 July 2010. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
  7. ↑ "Pyne, Lewis are the national champions". cmslocal.gleanerjm.com. 17 November 2010. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
  8. ↑ "Henry siblings emerge top ShuttleSMASHERS". jamaica-gleaner.com. 9 April 2013. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
  9. 1 2 "BWF". bwf.tournamentsoftware.com. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
  10. ↑ Allen, Ruddy (7 December 2014). "We are injecting new life into badminton, says Valdez". Jamaica Observer. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
  11. ↑ "Day 9: Unfortunate turn of events". Charles Pyne Badminton Foundation. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
  12. ↑ "Jamaica Observer Limited". Jamaica Observer. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
  13. ↑ Scott, Livingston (29 July 2015). "High expectations for badminton juniors". The Star (Jamaica). Retrieved 20 February 2022.
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