Local swimmers continue to make waves in T&T

The boys 9-10 and girls 11-12 200m medley relay teams

Members of the Dorado Swim Club and Swim Academy Sea Otters continued to show their form as the Amateur Swimming Association of Trinidad and Tobago (ASATT) Invitational Swimming Championship continued Saturday evening and Sunday morning at the National Aquatic Centre in Couva, Trinidad.

Continuing what he started in the 800m freestyle on Saturday, Raekwon Noel swam another record- breaking time, this time in the boy 11-12 400m freestyle. The youngster completed the race yesterday morning with a time of 4:54:88.  Adding to the medals the club had already won was the boys’ 9-10 team when they finished second in the 200m medley relay. The team, made up of Tyler Allicock, Elliot Gonsalves, Vladimir Woodroffe and Jason Allen finished in a time of 2:50:23, behind the Tidal Wave Aquatics team who finished in first. Third place went to Sea Jay’s boys. Daniel Scott earned a bronze medal in the Men 15 and over 400m freestyle with a time of 4:35:81.

Swimming in the 100m butterfly girls 11-12 category, Dorado’s Lian Winter swam to 1:17:97 to finish in sixth position in a field of twenty-five girls. Winning the race was Kaizen Swim Club’s (Belize) Zaneta Alvaranga in 1:07:00. The only other Dorado member to compete in the 100m butterfly was Ethan Gonsalves who finished in a time of 1:17:26 to earn seventeenth position from a field of twenty-two swimmers in the boys’ 11-12 category.