WAL­TER AL­IBEY

She had a love for foot­ball but young Ja­da Re­nales didn't get back that re­sponse from the sport.Her habit though of at­tend­ing train­ing ses­sions with her fa­ther Der­win Re­nales, an ex-na­tion­al bad­minton stand­out, paid huge div­i­dends as she quick­ly be­came one of the coun­try's most suc­cess­ful bad­minton play­ers.

She has won all at stake as a ju­nior play­er in­clud­ing a pe­ri­od of dom­i­na­tion from 2009-2016 where she achieved six triple and two dou­ble crowns and has be­come a house­hold name in the Caribbean, hav­ing placed sec­ond at nu­mer­ous re­gion­al tour­na­ments to date.

Now coached by her fa­ther, the Holy Cross Col­lege Sixth Form stu­dent is hope­ful of more suc­cess­es as she en­ters the fray as a se­nior next year. She will, for the last time as a ju­nior, com­pete at the So­lo Se­niors at the end of the month and lat­er con­test the Suri­name In­ter­na­tion­al in No­vem­ber to close off an il­lus­tri­ous ca­reer that be­gan on­ly when she re­alised her fa­ther's skills in the sport had been in­her­ent­ly be­stowed up­on her.

At 17 she re­mem­bers the mo­ments of silent­ly try­ing out the sport of bad­minton in the con­fines of her bed­room, af­ter the more pop­u­lar foot­ball, swim­ming and gym­nas­tics couldn't earn her the ad­mi­ra­tion of the mass­es and suc­cess­es as on the bad­minton courts.

In 2014 she be­came the youngest play­er to com­mand a place on both the T&T ju­nior and se­nior teams, de­spite falling short of cop­ping the win­ning prize at the Care­ba­co Ju­nior Cham­pi­onship in Ja­maica, plac­ing sec­ond among the Un­der-17 Girls and guid­ing her team to the sil­ver medal and pro­duced a sim­i­lar string of per­for­mances at the same tour­na­ment in San­to Domin­go, claim­ing run­ner-up spots in the Girls Sin­gles and Dou­bles be­fore se­cur­ing bronze in the Mixed Dou­bles and sil­ver in the Team event.

JA­DA'S AC­COM­PLISH­MENTS

TT­BA Ju­nior Na­tion­al Tour­na­ments 2009 -2016

6 Triple Crowns, 2 Dou­ble Crowns

TT­BA Ju­nior Open Tour­na­ments 2009 & 2011

2 Triple Crowns

So­lo Ju­nior Open Tour­na­ments 2012 - 2016

5 Triple Crowns

CBAC Ju­nior Open Tour­na­ments 2011-2013

4 Sin­gles Ti­tles, 4 Dou­bles Ti­tles

3 Time FCB Youth Award Nom­i­nee

TT­BA's Most Out­stand­ing Fe­male Ju­nior 2012

TT­BA's Fe­male Play­er of the Year 2014

TT­BA's Ju­nior Fe­male Play­er of the Year 2015

Over­all Lo­cal Ju­nior Tal­ly: (13 Triple Crowns, 2 Dou­ble Crowns, 4 Ad­di­tion­al Sin­gles

Ti­tles & 4 Ad­di­tion­al Dou­bles Ti­tles)

TT­BA Se­nior Na­tion­al Tour­na­ment: 2015

Mixed Dou­bles 1st Place

Women's Dou­bles 2nd Place

Women's Sin­gles 3rd Place

So­lo Se­nior Open Bad­minton

Tour­na­ment: 2015

Women's Dou­bles 1st Place

Mixed Dou­bles 1st Place

TT­BA Se­nior Na­tion­al Tour­na­ment: 2016

Women's Dou­bles 1st Place

Mixed Dou­bles 3rd Place

Over­all Lo­cal Se­nior Tal­ly: (4 Ti­tles, 1 Sec­ond Place & 2 Third Place)

Caribbean & In­ter­na­tion­al Ac­com­plish­ments

CARE­BA­CO Ju­nior In­di­vid­ual Cham­pi­onships (Puer­to Ri­co): 2013

U17 Girls Sin­gles - Third Place

CARE­BA­CO Ju­nior In­di­vid­ual & Team Cham­pi­onships (Ja­maica): 2014

U17 Girls Sin­gles � Sec­ond Place

U17 Girls Dou­bles - Sec­ond Place

Ju­nior Team Events - Sec­ond Place

CARE­BA­CO Ju­nior In­di­vid­ual & Team Cham­pi­onships (San­to Domin­go): 2015

U19 Girls Sin­gles � Sec­ond Place

U19 Girls Dou­bles - Sec­ond Place

U19 Mixed Dou­bles - Third Place

Ju­nior Team Events - Sec­ond Place

CARE­BA­CO Ju­nior In­di­vid­ual Cham­pi­onships (Aru­ba): 2016

U19 Girls Sin­gles - Third Place

U19 Girls Dou­bles - Third Place

U19 Mixed Dou­bles - Third Place

CARE­BA­CO U19 In­ter­na­tion­al Cham­pi­onships (Aru­ba): 2016

U19 Girls Dou­bles - Sec­ond Place

U19 Mixed Dou­bles - Third Place

Over­all Caribbean Tal­ly: (6 Sec­ond Place & 5 Third Place)

Over­all In­ter­na­tion­al Tal­ly: (1 Sec­ond Place & 1 Third Place)