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Celestine Lutricia Albury-Wilson Member of the National Hall of Fame Class of 2010 Celestine “Celes” Lutricia Wilson-Albury was endowed with the physical acumen visited upon but a chosen few, powers limited to those able to govern internal forces as kinetic as the mighty Amazon Riv- er.
Such a gift was in perfect complement with her sensitive metaphysical receptors, bringing her into perfect alignment with the John Wooden inscription that an athlete’s character is more important than his natural abilities in the race towards success because while pure talent may get you there, the perse- verance of good character will cement you there.
So strident was her conviction in such a belief that it was one she lived throughout her ascent to world prominence in volleyball, basketball, softball and track & field, an elevated status she maintained from 1973 to 1998, a year that she represented Exuma & Rag- ged Island in the 4th Bahamas Games.
As a result of the early scholarship she practised at primary school in Ragged Island, Celes won admission to Government High School in 1967, proceeding to represent that institution in volleyball, basketball, softball, netball, field hockey and track & field until her matriculation in 1972.

All of these varsity teams she led to championship after championship, year after year.
So outstanding were her individual contribution to those championships that she was recruited by local upper echelon Sporting Clubs, particularly those traditionally successful in softball, volleyball and basketball, inclusive of the Baintown Flyers in track & field, the Big yard Stoppers in softball, Baintown Bridge Inn in basketball and The Tribune Blazers in volleyball.
Yet in her tender years, she was a member of this Country’s first junior national team to participate in the CARIFTA Games, in 1973 in Trinidad.

She also participated at those Games in 1974.

Celes next enrolled at the Bahamas Teachers College to pursue certification as a physical education instructor in 1974.
In that same year, she achieved national distinction when she was voted the Most Outstanding Bahamian Female Athlete by the national umbrella organization of the time, the Bahamas Confederation of Amateur Sport.

Having earned her diploma from the Teacher’s College, Celes taught secondary school physical education for three years before continuing her exemplary academic pursuits as a prized student-athlete at the University of Central Florida, which she entered in 1978.
Celes’s impact on the athletic programme of that university was as immediate as it was dynamic, for in her first year there, she led Central Flor- ida to Conference Championship titles in both basketball and volleyball.

The volleyball team advanced to the 1978 NCAA Division II National Tournament for which she had reserved her best game.

As a result Central Florida won the National Tournament and the Title.
She subsequent- ly won All American Honours in volleyball, matching a similar accomplishment she achieved that same year in basketball.

Later that year, she balanced off these high level achievements by being named Academic All American.

All three of these individual feats she again accomplished in 1979.

Celes’s excellence of play and constancy of character allowed her to extensively headline Bahamian national teams in major international com- petition at the senior level.
She seized the unique opportunity to use her tremendous spiking ability to lead The Bahamas through tough region- al competition at the 1974 Central American and Caribbean Games in Santo Domingo, the results of which was an invitation to the International Volleyball Federation’s World Championships in that same year in Mexico.

As a result of her play and that of her team mates, The Bahamas was ranked #3 in the world.
She again participated at the Central American & Caribbean Games in 1978 as well as in a number of other regional tournaments dominated by The Bahamas.

She was also a member of national teams that represented The Bahamas in softball and basketball.

On all these occasions she won individual citations her outstanding contributions to the success of Team Bahamas.
Celes also etched her name into local softball folklore when she became the female player to hit a ball onto the northern side of Poinciana Drive while hitting from the home plate at the diamond on the College of Bahamas playing field.

She formally retired from active competition in 1998 when she participated in the 4th Bahamas Games.

She nevertheless continues to aid national sports development as a physical education teacher and varsity coach.
Throughout her illustrious local and international sporting career, Celes displayed all the positive mannerisms of the ideal elite athlete, thoughtful and unassuming, dedicated and determined to display the best about Bahamian sport.

In so doing, she manifested the symptoms of character referred to above as mentioned by Wooden.
Little wonderment can therefore be found as to the source of the world class achieve- ments of her two champion daughters, both seemingly eager to emulate a mother who represented greatness personified.