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Alana
Alana, Elana or Ilana is a female given name. It is derived from the Gaelic or Celtic Languages meaning “rock” (al), “noble” (ail), “beautiful” (àlainn), or “child” (leanbh). It is also considered an anglicized version of the Gaelic name Eileanach, meaning "islander." In the Welsh Language, the name can mean “melody” or “harmony” (alawn). Additionally, Alana is a unisex given name in the Hawaiian Language, meaning “awakening”. People with the given name Alaina/Alana/Alanah/Alanna/Alannah Alaina * Alaina Bergsma (born 1990), American volleyball * Alaina Burnett (born 1977), Canadian voice actor * Alaina Capri (born 1939), Russ Meyer actress who appeared in ''Common Law Cabin'' and ''Good Morning and... Goodbye!'' * Alaina Coates (born 1995), American basketball player * Alaina Huffman (born 1980), Canadian film and television actress, also known professionally as Alaina Kalanj * Alaina Johnson (born 1990), American artistic gymnast * Alaina Kwan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alana I
Alana, Elana or Ilana is a female given name. It is derived from the Gaelic or Celtic Languages The Celtic languages ( ) are a branch of the Indo-European language family, descended from the hypothetical Proto-Celtic language. The term "Celtic" was first used to describe this language group by Edward Lhuyd in 1707, following Paul-Yve ... meaning “rock” (al), “noble” (ail), “beautiful” (àlainn), or “child” (leanbh). It is also considered an anglicized version of the Gaelic name Eileanach, meaning "islander." In the Welsh Language, the name can mean “melody” or “harmony” (alawn). Additionally, Alana is a unisex given name in the Hawaiian Language, meaning “awakening”. People with the given name Alaina/Alana/Alanah/Alanna/Alannah Alaina * Alaina Bergsma (born 1990), American volleyball * Alaina Burnett (born 1977), Canadian voice actor * Alaina Capri (born 1939), Russ Meyer actress who appeared in ''Common Law Cabin'' and ''Good Morning and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alana Blanchard
Alana Rene Blanchard (born March 5, 1990) is an American professional surfer and model. Blanchard has surfed on the ASP World Tour. Career Alana Blanchard was first taught how to surf when she was just 4 years old by her father, Holt. Alana rode her first wave at Hanalei Pier in Kauai. Then went on to compete for the first time when she was 9 years old. Blanchard took first place in shortboard at the 2005 T&C Women's Pipeline Championships. She has also won championships in the following: *The Women's Pipeline Championships, Hawaii *The Rip Curl Girls Festival Junior Pro, Spain *The Roxy Pro Trials in Haleiwa, Hawaii *The Billabong Pro Pre Trials in Hookipa, Maui *The Volcom Pufferfish Surf Series in Pinetrees, Kauai. Beginning in 2004, Blanchard also established her professional relationship with Rip Curl swimwear, in which she designed and modeled, including a line of wetsuits. In 2020, Rip Curl ended their sponsorship which Blanchard believes was due to her becoming a mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alana Cook
Alana Simone Cook (born April 11, 1997) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a center back for the Kansas City Current of the National Women's Soccer League and the United States national team. After playing collegiately for the Stanford Cardinal, Cook signed with French club Paris Saint-Germain. She signed with Seattle Reign FC in 2021. Cook debuted for the United States national team in 2019. She was selected in the squad for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup. Early life Cook was born in Worcester, Massachusetts to parents Florence and Bryan Cook and raised with sister Brianna in Worcester and Far Hills, New Jersey. She attended The Pennington School, a boarding school in Pennington, New Jersey, and helped guide the varsity soccer team to regional and state titles. Cook was named 2013 New Jersey Prep Player of the Year and 2015 NSCAA High School Scholar Player of the Year. Twice named NSCAA Youth All-American, Cook played in the NSCAA High School All-Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alana Beard
Alana Monique Beard (born May 14, 1982) is an American former professional basketball player. After playing college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils, she was drafted second overall by the Washington Mystics in the 2004 WNBA draft. She signed on with the Los Angeles Sparks as a free agent in 2012. Beard was the 2017 and 2018 WNBA Defensive Player of the Year Award, WNBA Defensive Player of the Year. Beard announced her retirement from the WNBA on January 23, 2020. Early years Beard was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, on May 14, 1982, to LeRoy and Marie Beard. She played for Southwood High School in Shreveport, Louisiana, where she led her team to four consecutive state titles. The team compiled a record of 144–6 while she was on the team. She scored 2,646 points during her four years, and finished her high school career with 53 consecutive victories. Beard was named a Women's Basketball Coaches Association, WBCA All-American. She participated in the 2000 Women's Basketball Coa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alana Boyd
Alana Quade ( Boyd, born 10 May 1984) is a former Australian pole vaulter and Olympian. Athletic career The 2008 Australian Champion, Boyd was selected for the 2007 World Championships, but did not make the final. She did not make the final at the 2008 Summer Olympics, but did at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where she finished in 11th place. Boyd won the gold medal for the women's pole vault at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, which she retained at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. She also reached the final of the 2012 Indoor World Championships, finishing in 9th. Her personal best jump of 4.81 metres, achieved in July 2016 on the Sunshine Coast, was an Australian record at the time. Personal life Boyd married Ryan Quade on 24 September 2016, with whom she has two children. Boyd's parents are both former Australian Olympians and her participation in the 2008 Beijing Olympics marked the first time a child of two former Olympians competed in an Australian Olympi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alana Cordy-Collins
Alana Kathleen Cordy-Collins (5 June 1944 – 16 August 2015) was Professor of Anthropology at the University of San Diego. She was an archaeologist whose primary specialization was Peruvian prehistory. Biography She was born in Los Angeles, California. Her father was Mayanist Napoleon Cordy. She received her bachelor's degree, master's degree and Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She worked on the Ulluchu Project, a botanical research project on the north coast of Peru. A secondary specialization was shamanism, where she developed a project in Mongolia. In addition to her professorship, she was director of the David W. May Indian Artifacts Gallery and curator of the collection. She was also a former curator of the Latin American collections at the San Diego Museum of Man. Scientific career Cordy-Collins played a major role in the excavation of several important Moche tombs in Peru starting in 1972, including the Royal Tombs of Sipán and Dos Cabeza ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alana Boden
Alana Evie Boden (born 1997) is an English actress. She was nominated for a Critics' Choice Award for her performance in the Lifetime film '' I Am Elizabeth Smart'' (2017). Early life Boden was born in Surrey and grew up in Hampshire. She has two sisters. She began her career as a child model when she was nine before moving into television commercials and short films. She was homeschooled to make time for her career. Career Boden made her television debut as Beatrice Selfridge in the second and third series of the ITV period drama ''Mr Selfridge''. She won the Rising Star award at the 2016 London Short Film Festival for her performance in the drama '' The Earth Belongs to No One''. That same year, she starred as Elaine Wiltshire in the Canadian YTV series ''Ride'' about an equestrian school in England. In 2017, Boden played a young version of the titular person Elizabeth Smart in the Lifetime biographical film '' I Am Elizabeth Smart'', for which Boden was nominated for B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alana Alexander
Alana Alexander (Ngāpuhi, Te Hikutu) is a New Zealand bioinformatician at the University of Otago. In 2021, she was awarded a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship to investigate the past impacts of fisheries on Hector's and Māui dolphins, and use genomics to inform models of the future effects of climate change on whales and dolphins. Education Alexander completed a PhD in Wildlife Science at Oregon State University in 2014, with a thesis titled ''The influence of social structure and molecular evolution on genetic diversity in the sperm whale'' (Physeter macrocephalus), supervised by Scott Baker. Research career Following her PhD, Alexander undertook postdoctoral work at the University of Kansas, working on sperm whales. Her research showed that there was a "sperm whale Eve", from whom all other sperm whales are descended, about 80,000 years ago. Following this she returned to New Zealand for a postdoctoral position in Neil Gemmell's laboratory in the Department of Anato ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alana Barber
Alana Barber (born 8 July 1987) is a New Zealand race walker who won a silver medal in the 20 km race walk at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Early life and family Barber was born in Auckland on 8 July 1987, the daughter of Shirley Somervell, who represented New Zealand at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games finishing seventh in the final of the 800 m. Barber was educated at Diocesan School for Girls, Auckland. Athletics Barber competed in the 20 kilometres race walk at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics, finishing 18th and setting a New Zealand record of 1:33:20. The following year, at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics, she recorded a time of 1:35:55 in finishing 35th in the same event. Her inaugural New Zealand national title came in the 20 km race walk in Hamilton in 2018. In the 20 km walk at the 2018 Commonwealth Games The 2018 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXI Commonwealth Games and also known as Gold Coast 2018, were an international mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alana Bremner
Alana Bremner (born 10 February 1997) is a New Zealand rugby union player. She plays for Matatū in the Super Rugby Aupiki competition and for Canterbury provincially. She also represents New Zealand internationally and was a member of their 2021 Rugby World Cup champion squad. Rugby career 2020 Bremner had a breakthrough season in 2020, she led her side to their fourth consecutive Farah Palmer Cup title and was the leading try scorer for the season with eight tries. Bremner was the first woman to play 50 matches for Lincoln University, and earned 50 caps for Canterbury. She played three matches for the New Zealand Development side at the 2019 Oceania Rugby Women's Championship in Fiji. In 2020, she captained the New Zealand Barbarians in the two-match series against the Black Ferns. Her older sister, Chelsea, made her Black Ferns debut in the first match. 2021–22 Bremner was named in the Black Ferns squad for the European tour of England and France in 2021. She m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alana Bartol
Alana Bartol (born June 15, 1981, in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian artist currently based in Calgary and teaching at the Alberta University of the Arts. Alana's multidisciplinary practice involves aspects of performance, installation, video and bioart through site-responsive and community embedded practices. Her work explores topics of place, species, bodies, and care, and draws upon the divination practice of dowsing. Bartol has been exhibited at Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art (Winnipeg), ARC Gallery (Chicago), Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, Karsh-Masson Gallery (Ottawa), SIMULTAN Festival (Romania), Museo de la Ciudad (Guadalajara, Mexico), Access Gallery (Vancouver), InterAccess (Toronto), Media City Film Festival (Windsor, ON), Groupe Intervention Vidéo (Montréal) and TRUCK Gallery (Calgary) among others. Alana is the recipient of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, The City of Windsor and the Ontario Arts Council The Ontario Arts Council ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alana Castrique
Alana Castrique (born 8 May 1999) is a Belgian professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Major results ;2017 : 2nd Time trial, National Junior Road Championships ;2018 : 2nd Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships ;2019 : 1st Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships : 5th Road race, National Road Championships ;2021 : 3rd Road race, National Road Championships : 3rd Time trial In many racing sports, an sportsperson, athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial (TT) against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athle ..., National Under-23 Road Championships ;2024 : 1st National Gravel Championships References External links * 1999 births Living people Belgian female cyclists Place of birth missing (living people) Cyclists from Roeselare 21st-century Belgian sportswomen {{Belgium-cycling-bio-1990s-stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
