On a day filled with great Jamaican swimming, one Jamaican National Record and a Jamaican National Age Group Record were broken at the Florida Gold Coast Junior Olympics. In the 15-16 100 M Breaststroke, Adi Atkinson won the Gold and broke Olympian Andrew Phillips seventeen year old Jamaican National Record time of 1:09.95, when he swam a fantastic 1:09.48. While Adi's preliminary heats time was only 1:13.52, his record breaking finals swim was .5 second under his previous personal best and 15-17 National Age Group Record time of 1:09.97.  

12 year old Alia Atkinson bettered her 11-12 50 M Freestyle preliminary heats time of 29.15 to take the Gold in 28.00, a whopping .75 of a second ahead of her nearest pursuer Emily Kaser of KJ Swimamerica. Her time shattered her own Age Group Record by .23 seconds. Her time is the 4th fastest 50 M Free time for a Jamaican woman for the year regardless of age. 

Great swims by both Atkinson's which augurs well for the Carifta, CISC and hopefully CAC and Commonwealth teams come 2002.

In the 400 metre Freestyle finals, Allison Bardowell bettered her prelims time 4:51.69 but not her placing of 6th swimming a time of 4:47.98, just 2 seconds away from her personal best. She did post a best time in the 100 metre Breastroke prelims by swimming 1:25.50, beating her old time of 1:26.08 for a finals seeding of 8th. Allison then lowered it again, touching 5th in 1:23.98. 

Melissa Bardowell swam for 8th in the heats of the 200 m IM for a time of 2:50.46. She lowered the time for in the finals but remained in 8th with 2:48.52. 

Alia competing in the 200 M IM bettered her prelims time of 2:43.33 to finish 5th in the the finals in a time of 2:39.28. In the 200 M Medley relay, Allison Bardowell's FLST team finshed fourth despite her leadoff effort on the backstroke being out toched by Plantation Swim Team, 2:09.72 to 2:10.19

In the 200 M Freestyle relays, Adi continued his winning ways helping FLST team to the gold in 1:52.20, more than a second ahead of KJ Swimamerica.