Alyssa Schiera, a fourth grader at Village Elementary School, represented nine-year-old girls in New Jersey at the U.S. Kids Golf World Championship in Pinehurst, North Carolina. She qualified this past September scoring a 36 and a 45 for two nine hole rounds in the U.S. Kids Golf Finals held at Cranbury Golf Club. She will again represent New Jersey in 2008, this time for 10-year-old girls, at the U.S. Kids Golf World Cup in Pinehurst. She is the daughter of Nick and Denise Schiera of West Windsor.##M:[more]##
Alyssa has been playing golf since she was five years old. She has taken lessons at Cranbury Golf Club and most recently at Forsgate Country Club. Last summer she attended the Nike Golf Camp held at the Lawrenceville School and received the award for the golf student with the most potential.
Alyssa plays golf with her father on weekend afternoons at Forsgate and has played tournaments with U.S. Kids Golf for the past two years. This fall she also played with Junior Golf America and competed with boys and girls throughout New Jersey.
Her other activities include West Windsor-Plainsboro Soccer Association’s Premier Travel Team for U-10 Girls, the Troublemakers; West Windsor Little League Recreational Softball League; and the Wildcat’s, the division’s travel softball team. Also a serious swimmer, she swims with X-cel, a competitive swim team in Princeton with practices five days a week. She has been swimming for the West Windsor Whalers for the past three summers and won the girls sportsmanship award for the past two years in a row.
In her spare time she plays the violin and is active with St. David the King Church.
“Alyssa has learned to manage her time effectively, going from one sports practice to another and still makes time for homework, projects, studying, chores, and helping with the family business, Great Clips,” says her mother.
