Anita Moncur

Latonya Moss

Meet Anita Moncur, aka “Lynx”, Special Olympics Bahamas’ Inspirational Ambassador, athlete and assistant bocce coach.

Anita has been an athlete with Special Olympics Bahamas for more than 35 years and has seen and done more than most only dream about. Over the past decades, She has trained and competed in athletics, aquatics, basketball, bocce, bowling, equestrian, soccer and tennis, and has represented The Bahamas at numerous Special Olympics World Games.

Lynx is a true inspiration to the athletes (as well as to coaches), and has narrowed her sporting activities as an athlete primarily to bowling, with some swimming activity. An assistant bocce coach for the past 5 years, she also actively participates in Global Messenger Training sessions, and takes pride and pleasure in leading transportation arrangements for our athletes for all training, competition and social events taking place in New Providence.

Anita is employed in the ceramics department at Abilities Unlimited, Dolphin Drive, and whether its work, sports or any other Special Olympics related activity, she is definitely not showing any signs of letting up any time soon.

Amazingly, both Anita and the Special Olympics Movement were born in 1968.

Meet Latonya Moss, native Abaconian and present day resident of Treasure Cay. Latonia is just one of many talented Special Olympics Bahamas athletes that have “Taken their game to the world” and demonstrated why they have earned “the right to play on any playing field…” as expressed by the late Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of Special Olympics International.

For the past fifteen years, Latonya has been an active member of the Special Olympics Bahamas training program in Abaco, focusing her efforts on athletics and bocce. She has competed in several National Bocce Championships held in Tarpum Bay, Eleuthera, as well as competing in a number of Track and Field Nationals held in New Providence. Latonya’s hard work, dedication and team spirit was eventually rewarded with a selection to the 2019 Special Olympics World Summer Games team for The Bahamas and subsequently travelled to Abu Dhabi in March of 2019 to compete in these games, where she won a pair of gold medals in bocce singles and doubles.

At the 2019 National Sports Awards hosted by the Bahamas Ministry of Sprts, Latonya was presented with the Female Athlete of the Year with a Disability Award, a well deserved honour for her national and international performances during 2019.

Not to be overshadowed was her harrowing ordeal of battling the category 5 winds of hurricane Dorian for many hours, and being blessed to survive it all.

Latonya’s other talents includes her creative ceramic productions and her “Green Thumb”, assisting in the family’s small farm production of pumpkins, watermelons, papayas and a variety of other fruits and vegetables.

Congratulations Latonya, continue to make Treasure Cay, Abaco and the entire Bahamas proud.