Monday May 20, 2019
Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw described the hard journey of the Reggae Girlz on the road to their historic World Cup campaign in France and promised “to make Jamaica proud” at last week’s press conference. We want to assure her that they have already made us proud. Imagine, they were two goals down in Haiti and managed to come back with a draw to move forward.
Observer writer Dwayne Richards quotes her: “A year ago today we were in Haiti and I am sure many of you guys would not have known what we have been through in this whole process of qualifying for the World Cup. We dealt with a lot of adversities.. It was tough, we managed to go through the first round and we played against the US … the game didn’t go as what we wanted, but we knew that we had another game in hand, then we played against Panama … we knew that we had to go out there and win this game, we had to give it our all. As you can tell by our celebrations in the locker room, how proud we are to represent the country and to give it our best effort.”
Khadija’s dedication to her education is also exemplary. Recently, she completed studies for her degree at University of Tennessee, as she takes the long view of life: “I knew what I wanted and I knew at the end of the day my knees are going to get old and my muscles are going to get weary, but my brain won’t leave me, so at the end of the day, I just wanted to graduate and say when I walk across that stage, I gave it my best effort.”
Congratulations to Khadija on being named a Brand Ambassador for Puma – they have chosen well. Bonne chance Reggae Girlz!
Jean Lowrie-Chin
Jamaica Highlights 