ST.LUCIA NAMES SEVEN SWIMMERS FOR THE 2008 CARIFTA SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
The St Lucia Amateur Swimming Association has named a powerful 7 member squad to participate at the 2008 CARIFTA Swimming Championships to be held in Aruba from the 26th to 31st March 2008
The 7 swimmers are
11-12 Boys Joshua Runako Daniel
13-14 Girls Siona Huxley
13-14 Boys Jon-L Innocent-Dolor and Jordan Augier
15-17 Girls Danielle Beaubrun and Sarah Georgeos
15-17 Boys Julien Brice
Each swimmer will be participating in at least 4 to 6 events
The only first time qualifier is Jon-L Innocent Dolor who has shown tremendous improvement over the past 12 months dropping his breaststroke time to qualify for the Games. He clearly is one of the swimmers to watch but will have stiff competition in that age group.
Runako Daniel has grown from strength to strength and recently posted a Quad A time in the 5 M Free. He will be looking for his first CARIFTA medal in ARUBA
Jordan Augier and Sara Georgeos have both recently come off a training hiatus and while selected for the team may find the going tough to medal but should final in some events, especially in the breaststroke for Sara. She had previously won two CARIFTA medals in 2005
Julien Brice who was nominated as junior sportsman of the year for swimming has also improved tremendously over the past two yeas and will also be looking for his first CARIFTA medal. He is particularly strong in the 50M Free
Siona Huxley, National Junior Sportswoman of the year is a definite medal contender at CARIFTA and will be looking for her medals in the Backstroke events and 50M Free in her age groups. Siona recently set a new national Record in the 50M Free
Danielle Beaubrun is the most senior swimmer on the team and now participates in her last CARIFTA as she will age out next year. She holds title as the St Lucian swimmer with the most CARIFTA medals (8 medals in total) any is expected to add to that impressive total in her specialty events the 50M, 100M and 200M Breastroke.
The selected swimmers have all trained hard and have recently shown tremendous improvements to be selected for the national CARIFTA Team.
SLASA has also named Jamie Peterkin as Head Coach with Assistant Coach being Karen Beaubrun. The team manager is Joyce Huxley and Team Doctor is Dr. Romel Daniel