Grace Barclay is a remarkable grade12 student-athlete at St Anne’s school. Her leadership and dedication to her teams have been on display in playing on the flag football, volleyball, track and field, basketball and soccer teams. She was a co-captain and MVP of both the soccer team and flag football team who won the CISAA Division 1 championships two years in a row. Her favourite sport is flag football.
Off the field, Grace, 17, is a world-class highland dancer. As a three-time Ontario and two-time Canadian Highland Dance champion, she has qualified to dance at the World Championships twice in Scotland, and has been invited to dance this July at the famous Basel military tattoo in Switzerland.
As Head Prefect of the first graduating class, she plays a vibrant part of student life and leadership at St Anne’s school. She has led the prefect team on a variety of initiatives devoting herself outside of her studies to the success of student involvement and at school. She has spearheaded many events as the first ever head prefect at her school, with the goal of engaging the student body from both upper school and middle school outside of academics in initiatives run by student leaders. She also serves as a student ambassador at official school functions and enjoys speaking on behalf of her school.
Equally determined academically with a 97% average, she excels in business, French, science and math, and has her sights set on studying kinesiology at Queen’s University. In the arts, she has performed as a dancer each year at both the annual Celtic Night and Focus Festival on the Arts and this year acted in the school play. As a creative musician and artist, she has studied both piano and guitar from a young age.
She is an active part of the yearbook club, prom committee, worked on the student council and served as one of the first house captains in grade 10 and 11.
With an interest in entrepreneurship fostered by her business leadership course, she has participated in various Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Development conferences across Ontario including QLead at Queen’s University.
Outside of school, she is actively involved in the community: working part-time at a local medical centre, volunteering at charity events in her dance studio, coaching flag football, and in her church participating in international service trips.
Grace’s favourite athlete is gymnast Simone Biles and she enjoys the music of artist Olivia Dean.
Congratulations, Grace!
