Rising star Raekwon Noel has been creating waves in the swimming arena in Guyana.
The 12-year-old knew from a rather young age that the water was always for him.
He became curious about the sport after seeing other people swim at the Princess Hotel pool, resulting in him wanting to learn.
“When I was younger I would go to Princess and I used to see people in the pool swimming.
It’s from there that I knew I wanted to learn to swim.
“I started to swim at Colgrain Pool and I haven’t stopped since,” the youngster said.
As he progressed and began to learn the techniques of the different strokes and his speed developed, he started to do his own research to refine his new technique.
“After I started going to swimming at Colgrain and got past the `learn to swim’ (stage) and was able to swim well enough, I started to look at swimming videos online. I would spend a lot of time online just looking at videos and try to correct my technique so that I could be better in the water and so that my strokes would look cleaner and smoother plus to improve my speed so I would get faster,” he recalls.
