Little Ramdhani is an inspiration to many other young persons

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Dear Editor,

I was very impressed with your coverage of this year’s national sport awards, in particular the story on the 10-year-old badminton champion, Priyanna Ramdhani. Truly, this youngster is an inspiration to many children and even adults, as this shows that irrespective of age, one can assume great heights with hard work and dedication.

I am sure that not many Guyanese would have heard about her prior to your news report.

This is a true champion and surely she deserves the publicity afforded to her. I should mention that Priyanna has not only won the Junior Sportswoman-of-the-Year award for 2011, but also stamped her name in history as the youngest person to ever win a National Sports Commission accolade since it became an annual feature in the 1950s.

Even though Priyanna is only 10, she already has quite a number of achievements to her name. Apart from the bronze medal at the Pan American Junior Championship, she won 10 local competitions, namely the GBA Open Doubles; NSC Mashramani Under-11 Singles; a clean sweep of the Easter Junior tournament (copping first in the Under-13 Singles, Doubles and Mixed Doubles) among others.

Priyana is now ranked as the Caribbean number one at the Under-11 category and number two at Under-13. In table tennis, Priyanna finished as runner-up in the 10 and Under category at the National Championship, and third in the same category at both the annual Independence tournament and the Mashramani championship.

Editor, I am indeed happy to see that such a young person won the award, and hope this would serve now as an inspiration to the youngsters who want to play the game. I know for sure that her fellow students would be motivated by her achievements.

Yours truly,

R Persaud

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