TRIDENTS AQUATICS SWIM MEET

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Dunross Preparatory School came out on top of the first Swim Meet hosted by Tridents Aquatics at the Center of Excellence over the weekend. Some 30 schools took part in the competition with over 160 children participating. President of the club Patrick Loney spoke about the idea behind the school initiative as the club aims to expand.

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00:00 Trident Aquatics is the new kid on the block when it comes to swimming as the

00:04 club has only been around for four years. However, they boast of having an

00:08 experienced team with swimming coach Patrick Loney as the president and they

00:13 started off with a bang by hosting their first swim meet.

00:16 It is our first and me being in competitive for many of years as a

00:22 assistant coach, a coach and forming this team it was a pleasure. You know the idea

00:29 about it is I always like teaching swimming. I grew up from a London swim

00:32 background straight into competitive. I also have my own London swim school so

00:36 just that motivation of seeing Trident coming from nothing to something is all

00:41 well and good. Like I had swimmers like Geron Thompson, Akil Joseph, Daishaw

00:46 Edwards they were some of my inspirations growing up and I started them from

00:50 London swim straight up into competitive and they move on and become great swimmers.

00:53 Clubs will now be on the lookout for a tough team. We came out out to the

00:59 pandemic very nice where one of my swimmers made the Goodwill team and he

01:03 came home very well. I finally performed very well so that is

01:08 McKay, Burgess, McKay sorry. Alright he did well so now we are looking at

01:14 long course coming up we're looking at Goodwill for next year for the rest of

01:19 the team who will be moving up into competitive and who will be

01:23 staying in the non-com arena so we're juggling to see who will be going up and

01:26 who will be coming back down. As for the competition Lonnie says it could not

01:30 have gone better. The competition was competitive we have schools like Dunross

01:34 and Bishops they always go neck and neck and fighting and stuff and Dunross came

01:38 out on top of the co-ed schools we have St. Joseph boys and we also have some

01:44 girls like St. Joseph girls so they always competing every year you know I

01:48 had schools like St. Augustine in the secondary schools, St. Joseph girls, St. Joseph boys

01:52 that I coached many years ago so they're coming back up into the free and proving

01:57 themselves. Now it's on to bigger things. Next competition we are looking at March

02:01 we haven't set a date yet but we'll send out everything holistically to all the

02:06 schools all media houses and get all the dates in we supposed to have a primary

02:11 school secondary school and a club meet in next year coming. More on the

02:14 competition tomorrow Sergio Lufo TV6 Sport

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