Vincentian swimmers bag 16 medals in Trinidad Championships

Four Vincentian swimmers combined to win 18 medals at the 2024 staging of the Aquatic Sports Association of Trinidad and Tobago (ASATT) Invitational Swimming Championships.

Represented by five swimmers- two from the Black Sands Swim Squad and three from Blue Marlins Swim Club, the Vincentians left their mark on the December 11-15 event which took place at the National Aquatic Centre in Balmain, Couva.

The medal count showed Kennice Greene who swam in the Female 15-16 age group, securing 2 gold and 4 silver medals.

Next was Eltonique Leonard, who copped 2 silver and 4 bronze. Like Greene, he represented the  Black Sands Swim Squad.

The other medallists were Hazen Dabriel and Jadon Hamilton, both of Blue Marlins. Dabriel was a double silver medallist, and Hamilton had two bronze medals.

The other Blue Marlins representative was six year-old Zane Dabriel, who did not medal in the Male 8 and Under.

Apart from gaining two gold medals, Greene was the stand out, clothing herself with three national open records, and six in the 15-16 age group.

Greene thus set new national open records in the 50m, and 100m Backstroke, and the 100m.

The 50m Backstroke record now stands at 33.10s, as Greene shaved off 0.01s from the old mark she had set.

She also broke her own 100m Freestyle record, with a time of 1:00.56, reducing it from 1:01.09; and she shattered Jamie Joachim’s 100m Backstroke time, bettering the 1:12.40, to establish a new time of 1:11.82.

Her six age group records included the three new national marks in the 50m and 100m Backstroke, as well as the 100m Freestyle.

Greene also lowered the times in the 200m Backstroke, as well as the 50m and 100m Butterfly.

The 200m Backstroke record is now 2:40.44; the previous being 2:47.26, while the best 50m Butterfly time is 28:96, down from 29.15s.

In the 100m Backstroke, the new time is 1:06.80, erasing the previous 1:07.38.

Five of the six records were also held by Greene.

Hazen Dabriel also entered the record books by taking off more than three seconds from the 13-14 Male 200m Freestyle with a clocking of 2:08.51, breaking the old mark of 2:11. 53.