{{Short description|Jamaican Badminton player}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}} {{Use British English|date=July 2022}} '''Alya Dawn Lewis''' (born 1980) is a badminton player and coach from Jamaica.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2011-01-23|title=100 per cent Jamaican!|url=https://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20110123/sports/sports1.html|access-date=2022-02-20|website=jamaica-gleaner.com|language=en}}</ref>
== Career == Aged 18, Lewis took part her first international competition at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, on 10 September 1998.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Eighteen-year-old Alya Lewis pumps her fist as she stretches to...|url=https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/eighteen-year-old-alya-lewis-pumps-her-fist-as-she-news-photo/1137418811|access-date=2022-02-20|website=Getty Images|language=en-gb}}</ref>
Competing at the Jamaican senior level, Lewis paired with Nigella Saunders to win the ladies' doubles in 2005, 2006, and 2007.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=National Senior Champions|url=http://badmintonjamaica.org/players/national-champions/|access-date=2022-02-20|website=Jamaica Badminton Association|language=en-GB}}</ref> She won the ladies' singles in 2010.<ref name=":0" /> In 2011, she paired with Christine Leyow-Mayne to win the ladies' doubles and with Bradley Graham to win the mixed doubles.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Graham, O'Conner are AJ badminton champs - Sport - Jamaica Star - November 29, 2011|url=https://old.jamaica-star.com/thestar/20111129/sports/sports4.html|access-date=2022-02-20|website=old.jamaica-star.com}}</ref>
Pairing with Garron Palmer, Lewis won the mixed doubles final in 2009 and 2010.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Jamaica Gleaner Online|url=http://mobile.jamaicagleaner.com/20091118/sports/sports4.php|access-date=2022-02-20|website=mobile.jamaicagleaner.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2010-07-25|title=Gold for Jamaica's Lewis and Palmer|url=https://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100725/sports/sports8.html|access-date=2022-02-20|website=jamaica-gleaner.com|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2010-11-17|title=Pyne, Lewis are the national champions|url=http://cmslocal.gleanerjm.com/gleaner/20101117/sports/sports81.html|access-date=2022-02-20|website=cmslocal.gleanerjm.com|language=en}}</ref>
Lewis was the number one ranking women's Badminton player in Jamaica for most of 2012.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2013-04-09|title=Henry siblings emerge top ShuttleSMASHERS|url=https://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130409/sports/sports4.html|access-date=2022-02-20|website=jamaica-gleaner.com|language=en}}</ref>
Between 1997 and 2010, she played 38 matches in her international badminton career, winning 20 of them.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=BWF|url=https://bwf.tournamentsoftware.com/player-profile/4895C5F8-3C28-4D3B-A490-964AABCD5A72|access-date=2022-02-20|website=bwf.tournamentsoftware.com}}</ref> Her most recent international match was at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi.<ref name=":1" />
She completed the Badminton World Federation Level One coaching course.in 2014,<ref>{{Cite web|last=Allen|first=Ruddy|date=7 Dec 2014|title=We are injecting new life into badminton, says Valdez|url=https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sport/We-are-injecting-new-life-into-badminton--says-Valdez_18070414?profile=&template=PrinterVersion|access-date=2022-02-20|website=Jamaica Observer}}</ref> and worked as a coach and a manager for the Jamaica Badminton Association from at least 2013 to 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Day 9: Unfortunate turn of events|url=http://www.cpbf.org/1/post/2013/01/day-9-unfortunate-turn-of-event.html|access-date=2022-02-20|website=Charles Pyne Badminton Foundation|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Jamaica Observer Limited|url=https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sport/JBA-readies-for-badminton-Champs_18804994|access-date=2022-02-20|website=Jamaica Observer}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Scott|first=Livingston|date=29 Jul 2015|title=High expectations for badminton juniors|url=https://www.pressreader.com/jamaica/the-star-jamaica/20150729/282376923284937|access-date=2022-02-20|website=The Star (Jamaica)}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{BWF2}} * {{BWF}} * {{CGF|41897|Alya Dawn Lewis}} * {{2006 Commonwealth Games profile|107073|Alya Dawn Lewis}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lewis, Alya}} Category:1980 births Category:Living people Category:Jamaican female badminton players Category:Badminton players at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Category:Badminton players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Category:Jamaican badminton coaches Category:Competitors at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games