By Neto Baptiste
Recently named Women’s Volleyball Player of the Year at John Jay College in the USA, national player Josanne Lewis, wants to see other motivated young Antiguans enjoy the benefits of being on the collegiate circuit.
Speaking with Observer media, Lewis said that having played on the collegiate level for roughly four years, has helped to develop her game while helping to build critical aspects of her character.
“Volleyball is a team sport and no matter how much individual talent you have on the court, if you don’t work well together then you can’t execute so I learnt leadership being here and playing at this level. I think that could help a lot of Antiguan youths just to know that there is a future in volleyball. I feel like having a goal or a wish in life makes you work harder at something and I feel like there is not much to look up to in Antigua in playing volleyball or in playing sports and I feel like that’s why a lot of people don’t work as hard as they should but we do have a lot of talent in Antigua,” she said.
The Antiguan also recently led the college’s women’s volleyball team, the Bloodhounds, to its first Cunyac women’s volleyball championship with a 3-1 win over top-seeded Hunter College in the USA and was named Most Valuable Player (MVP) in the championships tournament.
Apart from excelling on the court, Lewis has also been making waves in the classroom and hope other Antiguans could follow in her footsteps.
“I am getting my bachelors in forensic psychology. I am also adding criminal justice to my major so I intend to get a Masters and a PHD in the future in criminal justice and forensic psychology. I would like to be a psychologist sometime in the future but there are also many other things I would like to be because I’s also like to work in the Department of Justice. I would like to be an FBI agent and next year, I am going to be training for the bar,” she said.
Lewis has won the college’s Player of the Year award for three consecutive years.
