February 2, 2003.
When the shouting
died down at the end of the final session of the ‘Y’ Speedos’ Karl
Dalhouse International Memorial swim meet, on Sunday February 2,
twenty-three records were broken and the host team ‘Y’ Speedos Swim
Club came out clearly on top, but not without having faced a strong
challenge from the Tornadoes Swim Club. ‘Y’ Speedos amassed a total
of 1,511.5 points to Tornadoes’ 1,352.5. In third place was the
Stingray team from Cayman with 365.5 points.
Over the three days
of the meet a total of 25 records were broken. These included 2
National Age Group records and 2 Allcomers Age Group records (two of
these having been over 20 years old) as well as 21 Meet records.
Tornadoes Swim Club
were responsible for 12 meet records, and ‘Y’ Speedos 2 National Age
Group, 2 Allcomers Age group and 6 Meet records. Blue Seals, Sithoc
of Curacao and Stingrays broke one Meet Record each. (See attached
break down)
Competition was keen
and there were some very close races, with some good swimming by
National representatives Todd Johnson of ‘Y’ Speedos and Jevon
Atkinson along with his team mates Brad Hamilton and Rene Wright of
Tornadoes. The three Tornadoes swimmers were among the record
breakers with more than one each. Jevon Atkinson broke 4, Brad
Hamilton 3 and Rene Wright 2 records.
Eight & Under Girl
Raynae Hall of ‘Y’; Speedos broke the National Age Group, Allcomers
Age Group and Meet 50m Butterfly records in a time of 40.29secs. The
old time of 40.73 was held by R. Broven of Stingrays (Ja) since 1983.
The excitement of the
Medley relays at the end of the meet brought the crowd to its feet
with some close finishes. Five (5) meet records were broken by ‘Y’
Speedos and two by Tornadoes.
The overseas teams
from Aruba, Cayman, Curacao and Panama gave the seven local teams some
tough competition and a taste of what is to come in the Carifta Games
Swimming to be held in Jamaica at Easter.
The Karl Dalhouse
Meet also saw the inclusion of the Masters Swimmers (the 25s and over)
competing for their own trophy - the Karl Dalhouse Masters’ Trophy.
Tornadoes Masters came out winners in this category with 148 points to
second place ‘Y’ Speedos’ 113, and third place Aruba Dolphins 12. Some
close finishes were seen in the men’s 50m Freestyle and 50m Butterfly
between Speedos’ Lynval Lowe and Tornadoes’ Michael Lee; whilst two
Tornadoes coaches, Jacky Walter and Syreta Daley had a “photo finish”
in their 50m Butterfly.
Encouragingly, the
number of registered Masters swimmers is increasing and more will be
seen of them in the water at the Walter Rodgers’ Age Group
Championships at the end of February.
Barbara Briggs,
Meet Coordinator KD2003
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