THE FINAL day of the national long course swimming championships saw more CARIFTA qualifying times as well as qualifications for the Central American and Caribbean Amateur Swimming Confederation (CCCAN).
Pirates’ Christopher Pollard continued his power strokes in the pool to win the 11-12 Boys’ 200 metres backstroke well inside the qualifying time for both championships.
With the CARIFTA and CCCAN qualifying times being 2:38.35 and 2:34.97 respectively, Pollard won in 2:34.51.
In the same event, Zachary Taylor finished second in 2:34.53 to meet the CARIFTA qualifying standards.
He swam 1:18.26 to qualify for CARIFTA and CCCAN in the 100 metres Boys’ breast stroke.
Danielle Titus of Alpha missed out on the CCCAN qualification in the 13-14 Girls’ 400 metres on Friday night but made the qualification in the 200 metres on Sunday night as well as for CARIFTA, winning the event in 2:28.22.
Kai Trotman also qualified for the 11-12 Boys’ 50 metres freestyle in 27.56 seconds way, ahead of the CARIFTA time of 28.63 seconds.
He barely managed to qualify for CCCAN after clocking a time of 27.59 seconds.
Alpha’s Nkosi Dunwoody met the time standards for CARIFTA in the 13-14 Boys’ breaststroke in 1:10.96 seconds but missed out on the qualifying time for CCCAN. (RG)
