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Annabel Pennefather Award 2021

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7 February, 2022

The Annabel Pennefather Excellence Award 2021 was awarded to 2 deserving young women – Jasyln Hooi, 21 and Cheung Kemei, 16.

Jasyln Hooi

Shuttler Jaslyn Hooi Yue Yann is a national athlete on the rise. She first represented Singapore at the Youth Olympic Games in 2018 in Buenos Aires where she finished 4th in the Women’s Singles. Since then, Jaslyn has participated and won a bronze at the 2019 SEA Games, and is set to take on the region’s best at the SEA Games this year. In September 2021, she claimed the Women’s Singles title at the Polish International, making it the best win in her career thus far. Among one of the top local shuttlers, Jaslyn won the Women’s Singles title at the Singapore National Open Championships consecutively in 2020 and 2021.

Jaslyn joined the Singapore Sports School in Secondary 1, before moving on to the Diploma
in Business Studies (DBS) course offered jointly with Ngee Ann Polytechnic. She extended the completion of her Diploma programme to pursue her badminton career seriously while working towards equipping herself with a Diploma certificate. Besides being an outstanding national athlete, Jaslyn is also a conscientious student-athlete in class. She graduated in May 2021 with an impressive 3.8 GPA score. Since completing her Diploma programme, Jaslyn has been playing badminton full-time. She aspires to play well in bigger tournaments this year and to make it to the Top 80. Her ultimate goal is to make it to the 2024 Olympic Games and is determined to give her best effort to make her dream come true.

Cheung Kemei

Cheung Kemei has already garnered several achievements under her belt at the tender age of 16. Last year, she qualified to participate in the World Junior and Cadet Fencing Championships, and Asian Junior & Cadet Fencing Championships, but Singapore decided not to send a team for the former while the latter was cancelled due to COVID-19. Kemei has had an outstanding year at local national and age-group competitions. The foilist punched above her weight to win a gold at the Singapore Senior Championships in February. She also won another gold medal for the U17 Women’s Foil Individual at the Singapore Cadet Nationals, a silver each at the Singapore Senior Tournament and Singapore Senior Challenge, 2 bronze medals in U20 Women’s Foil Individual at the Singapore Junior Nationals and Singapore Junior Challenge and a bronze at the Singapore Senior Nationals. Her eyes are set on making it to the final list of competitors for the upcoming SEA Games and hopes to represent Singapore at the 2022 Asian Games.

Kemei is currently in Singapore Sports School’s International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP). As Kemei has been marked as an up-and-coming fencer, she has been granted to take up the extended IBDP by International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) and World Academy of Sport (WAoS). This allows her to push her sporting goals forward as she can complete the IBDP in three years instead of the usual two years. Kemei is determined to fly the Singapore flag high at the Olympic Games in the future.

About the award

The Annabel Pennefather Excellence Award aims to recognise graduating female student-athletes between the ages of 16-25 who have achieved outstanding sporting excellence in their fields. Recipients of these awards should also demonstrate good moral character, conduct, strong leadership, passion, integrity and community spirit.

This award is sponsored by the International Women’s Forum (IWF) Singapore Education Grant, managed by the Community Foundation of Singapore.