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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