Jaime Skeete: A highly-qualified swimming coach

By Noelle Smith

Learning to swim was always on Jaime Skeete’s bucket list and it was while doing work study at was then the Guyana Television Broadcast Company (GTV) in 2000 – now the National Communications Network (NCN) – that he became involved with swimming.

“I took the opportunity to say that I’ve always been interested in learning to swim and the coaches who really took me up were Auntie Steph (Stephanie Fraser) and Vibert Charles,” Skeete told Stabroek Sports in an exclusive interview.

It was communication with Fraser that led to him learning to swim at the Dorado Speed Swim Club where his best events were the butterfly and freestyle events.

“Being competitive by nature I guess it was only a matter of time before the competitive thing followed and that’s how I got into training with some of the big swimmers,” Skeete, who has assisted in preparing the country’s Inter Guiana Games swimmers said.

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