IMMACULATE HIGH, CAMPION COLLEGE AND UWI WIN AS 17 MORE  RECORDS FALL IN MAYBERRY INVESTMENT SCHOOLS SWIM MEET

Immaculate High School continued their recent domination in schools girls swimming when they won the Mayberry Investments Girls Champion Trophy by almost 200 points over their nearest rivals St. andrew High. In the Boys division, Campion College (502 points) dethroned St. Georges College (458) in a close battle while the University of the West Indies topped the University of Technology (274-224). (Final Point Standings)

St. Andrew’s Rene Wright and Kingston College’s Brad Hamilton swimming the first two events of the competition, started a parade of record-breaking performances. In all, seventeen (17) records were broken with fifteen (15) going to the Boys two (2) to the Girls. In the very first event, Wright took six seconds off the 11-12 200 M Free record, swimming 2:27.35 in an exciting finish with Gillian Stewart, who also broke the record in 2:27.56. Wright and Stewart returned to electrify the crowd in the 100 M Free, with Wright swimming a personal best 1:07.45 to better Janelle Atkinson’s record of 1:07.51. Despite swimming a personal best 1:08.47, Stewart had to settle for second place. 11 year old Hamilton was easily the swimmer of the meet as he easily won the 11-12 200 Free (2:19.64), 50 M Butterfly (30.87), 200 M Individual Medley (2:41.37) and 50 M Free (28.79), all in meet record time.

Campion’s Dominic Lee continued his recent form smashing three (3) 15-16 Meet Records. Lee lowered the 200 M Individual Medley record by 8 seconds swimming 2:23.47 in an easy win. The 200 M Freestyle was expected to be a close battle between Lee and Wolmers Boys Todd Johnson, but Lee surprised the field and went out fast to swim the first 100 in 1:00.05, turning 4 seconds ahead of Johnson. Lee maintained that lead in the second 100 and returned to finish in 2:07.45. Johnson swam 2:13.47 to take the silver. Lee’s third record came in the 50 M Breaststroke, which saw a fascinating battle with Sheridan Chung (St. Georges College). Both swimmers went under Phillip Borrasingh’s five year old record of 33.96 with Lee reaching the pads in 32.91, just ahead of Chung (33.64).

Ardenne’s Jason James, James Smith (St. Georges College) and Rene Wright had two record-breaking swims each. Full results have been posted.

The club swimmers now turn their attention on the Walter Rogers Age Group Championships scheduled to start February 28 at the National Stadium Pool. This meet will be the last competition for swimmers to qualify for Jamaica’s CARIFTA Swim Team.