The Tribune

LYFORD Cay International School’s (LCIS) mission is Inspiring Excellence and every day its students embody that.

During the 2018-2019 school year, LCIS students have reached great heights academically, in the community and in the field of athletics.

LCIS students have proven themselves to be well-rounded, excelling in a number of different areas this year.

Sergio Charles (Grade 12) and Conan McGannon (Grade 11) are building on LCIS’s tradition of academic excellence, posting SAT scores of over 1,500.

Charles, the Class of 2019 valedictorian, was accepted to top schools in the US, including Stanford and MIT and Ivy League schools Yale, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Princeton and Penn.

The class of 2019 has a 100 per cent college matriculation rate with students gaining acceptance to other prestigious universities, including Emory, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, The American University of Paris, Dalhousie and the University of Toronto.

LCIS students are also learning and excelling outside the classroom. Writers Tianya Bethel and Aaron Dean won a number of writing awards.

Bethel’s poem Impermanence will be published after winning honourable mention in the UK young writers competition, while Dean was the overall winner out of over 1,000 students worldwide in the Collins International Big Cat competition for his short story, Hero.

Roy Seligman (Grade 4) also won the National Spelling Bee, beating a number of opponents much older than him. Roy’s feat was so impressive that Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis even requested to meet him during a recent trip to the campus. Roy will represent The Bahamas at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in May in Washington, DC.

LCIS students are able to supplement their academics with the rich learning opportunities the school provides outside of the classroom. Students hosted and participated in a number of events on the school’s campus.

The school hosted BETA Hack-A-Thon in March and a Model United Nations (MUN) Symposium in April. The Hack-a-Thon saw students from a number of schools such as Windsor Prep, St John’s and Genesis Academy on its campus to attend seminars and compete in events where they used technology to solve world issues.

During the MUN symposium, LCIS students hosted students from St Andrew’s to collaborate on solving the South American Drug Crisis.

This year has also been a successful one for LCIS athletes on the track, on the pitch and in the pool. LCIS students excelled in the CARIFTA aquatics games in Barbados this year.

Alexander Turnquest (Grade 11) won gold as a part of the water polo team in April and swimmer Delaney Mizell (Grade 8) competed in the CARIFTA swim championships, winning three silver medals and a bronze in relay races.

LCIS finished the BAISS football season with a bang, winning the BAISS football championships in the three divisions they entered.

The senior boys’ team beat Aquinas 3-1 to win their title, while the junior boys routed Queen’s College 3-0 and the senior girls won a hard-fought match against St Andrew’s to win 3-2.

A number of players on the senior girls, including some starters, were Grades 7 and 8 playing against high school juniors and seniors, making their accomplishments all the more noteworthy.

Runners Jayden Wright (Grade 8) and Oliver Townend (Grade 10) secured the school’s first BAISS track and field medals with Wright winning the silver medal in the under-17 3,000-metre race at the meet and Townend winning gold in the under-20 5,000-metre race. Both students competed in older divisions.

LCIS students have exemplified what it means to inspire excellence this year, academically, athletically and in the community.

With the school having broken ground on a 17.5-acre secondary campus, that features state-of-the-art classrooms, athletics facilities and art and music spaces, LCIS will drastically expand its already generous academic, co-curricular and athletic offerings.

The expansion will also allow LCIS to offer more scholarships to deserving students.

The future is brighter than it has ever been for the school at the western end of the island and its students.

If you would like to inquire about being a future student at LCIS, limited spaces and funding are still available for next year. Or, begin the application process for 2020 today.

To learn more about LCIS, go to www.lcis.bs or call 242-362-4774.

For information on the admissions process and scholarships, email admissions@lcis.bs