The medal session on the opening night of the 2019 CARIFTA Championships at the Aquatic session in Barbados yielded a treasure trove of medals for Team Jamaica. The highlight of the session was yet another record breaking performance by Sabrina Lyn in the 13-14 girls 100 metre butterfly.
Lyn entered the final with a new personal best as well as the national age group record and Championship record of 1:03.47. Added to those accolades was the fact that she had also become Jamaica’s fastest ever junior swimmer in the record with her morning swim.
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The Carifta swim team will dive into action today with Britney Williams and Naomi Eaton in the girls' 800m freestyle.
The boys' section will be contested by Daniel Mair.
The team went through a good familiarisation session at Barbados National Aquatic Centre yesterday morning with most of the home coaches participating in the session.
The familiarisation session was led by Gillian Millwood and as the swimmers did before departure they did some fine tuning of the starts and turns which are critical areas of the entire race game which sometimes gets overlooked.
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The morning session of qualifying heats was highlighted by Sabrina Lyn’s new personal best, 13-14 national record and CARIFTA Championship record and PAN AM GAMES B time of 1:03.47 in the 100 metre butterfly.
She bettered her old national record and personal best of 1:03.82 , the Championship record of 1:03.50 set in 2016 held by Bermuda’s Emma Harvey and the PAN AM Games B standard of 1:04.93. She is now the fastest ever female age group swimmer from Jamaica as the 15-17 record of 1:03.48 set by Kelsie Campbell in 2016.
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Our Tornadoes swimmers are ready for this Easter weekend swimming championship in beautiful Barbados.
The team will departure with the Team Jamaica contingent on April 18th competition begins on April 20th.
Nelson, Kokolo, Jaleel, Nathaniel, Daniel, Sabrina and Zachary: two girls and five boys will get into action in the pool and open water events over five days.
The excitement begins on Saturday with the following events 1500m freestyle, 200m breast, 50m backstroke, 100m butterfly and the 4 x 100m free relays across all age groups.
Daniel Mair will start the competition in the 1500m free and he will end the championship in open water event on April 24th.
Anticipated races include the 100m series in all strokes and the relays. Coaches and swimmers are confident for a great weekend with the possibilities of medals and records.
The theme of greatness will be on display this Carifta and we will have every reason to celebrate Go Tornadoes Happy 30th Anniversary.