Black Sands Swim Squad (BSSS) swimmers have spent the last 6 weeks resetting some of St. Vincent\u2019s national swimming records.<\/p>\n
With the support of the SVG Swimming Federation, BSSS hosted time trials event for 6 consecutive weekends from 9th May \u2013 13th June.<\/p>\n
Complying with the recommended social distancing and event holding guidelines in relation to Covid-19, 34 swimmers participated in the time trials which resulted in a total of 14 national records being broken.<\/p>\n
Jamie Joachim, the youngest of the Joachim swimming family, broke a total of 5 national records in the Girls\u2019 11-12 age group as follows: 100m Freestyle \u2013 1:02.16; 100m Breaststroke \u2013 1:11.26; 100m Butterfly \u2013 1:09.77; 100m Individual Medley \u2013 1:11.31; 200m Individual medley \u2013 2:36.51.<\/p>\n
Kevern DaSilva achieved 1 record in the same age group, setting a new mark of 32.22 for the 50m Backstroke.<\/p>\n
Mya DeFreitas, selected as an Olympian for the now postponed 2020 Games, produced a total of 4 record breaking swims in the Girls\u2019 13-14 age group. Her record-setting marks were 1:01.46 in the 100m Freestyle; 4:35.48 in the 400m Freestyle; 1:07.65 in the 100m Butterfly and 1:11.07 in the 100m Individual medley.<\/p>\n
Abigail Deshong also smashed two records in that age group for girls, registering 32.95 for the 50m Backstroke and 29.63 in the 50m Butterfly.<\/p>\n
Back from his first year at Stanford University, Shane Cadogan managed to break 2 national records in the men\u2019s open age group. His time of 23.74 is the new record for the 50m Freestyle and he also set a new mark of 1:00.44 for the 100m individual medley.<\/p>\n
BSSS Head Coach Kyle Dougan commented that some of the times would have placed our age group swimmers among the top 10 swimmers in places like the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n
Swimmers here now look forward to the SVG FLOW National Invitational Swimming Championships to be held from 10th \u2013 16th August 2020. (Source: BSSS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Black Sands Swim Squad (BSSS) swimmers have spent the last 6 weeks resetting some of St. Vincent\u2019s national swimming records. With the support of the SVG Swimming Federation, BSSS hosted time trials event for 6 consecutive weekends from 9th May \u2013 13th June. Complying with the recommended social distancing and event holding guidelines in relation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mainstory","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"\n