COLE BAY-Carib Swim Team hosted the third annual Corail Helicopteres Fall Invite, featuring two days of intense competition. Three local clubs – Sharks Swim Team, Super Splash Swim Team and Carib Swim Team – put forward a combined 78 swimmers, who competed in 48 different events.
Carib Swim Team won the meet with 664 points; Super Splash Swim Team came in second with 245 points, and Sharks Swim Team placed third overall with 218 points.
This meet served as the last chance for swimmers to qualifying for the upcoming OECS Championships competition, to be held in St Vincent, November 11-13. Swimmers qualifying for the St Maarten Aquatic Federation National Team are as follows: 8 and under girls – Adaya Bourne and Sacha Tobias, Sharks; 9-10 girls – Deina Liverpool, Sharks; 11-12 girls – Kiemoy Flemming, Sharks, Emma Marshall and Micah Sinke, Carib Swim Team; 13-14 girls – Taffi Illis, Carib Swim Team; 11-12 boys – Paul ten Broecke, Carib Swim Team; 13-14 boys – Rashad Peterson, Carib Swim Team.
Swimmers qualifying for the St. Martin National Team are as follows: 13-14 girls – Naima Dessout and Freya Knaggs, Carib Swim Team; 8 and under boys – Maxime Gibbs, Miles Cheasley and Matias Piazza, Carib Swim Team; 9-10 boys – Sacha Gibbs, Carib Swim Team.
