Ytannia Wiggins

Ytannia Wiggins joined the Board of Directors of the Barbados Olympic Association Inc. as a Director in October 2017 having been co-opted to the Women in Sport Commission in 2011. Ytannia now chairs the Women in Sports Commission. In 2018, Ytannia was also elected as an Executive Board member of the regional body, The Caribbean Association of National Olympic Committees (CANOC) and “manages the Social Media and communications for that body”.

Ytannia was a member of women’s committee of the Barbados Football Association (2004) and was appointed as the first team manager for the Barbados Women’s Under 20 and Senior Women’s National teams for seven consecutive years (2004 -2011). during which time she became a certified referee and level 1 coach. Ytannia relinquished her managerial post to work in the area of sport for development as Country Co-ordinator with the A Ganar program, which utilizes sports as a tool to teach at-risk youth employability skills in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Professionally, Ytannia is a full-time mathematics lecturer at The Barbados Community College and The University of the West Indies Open Campus.