It was a grueling four days of competition at the Betty Kelly-Kenning National Swim Complex as swimmers hit the water and several of them were able to break age-group and national records during the Bahamas Aquatics Federation’s 49th REV National Swimming Championships this past weekend.
After the first day of the meet, last week Thursday, the Barracudas Swim Club’s Izaak Bastian only had one of the three breaststroke national records – the 200 meters (m) breast. At the end of the meet, he had broken Dustin Tynes’ five-year records in the 50 and 100m breaststroke events. He broke Tynes’ 50m breast time of 28.18 seconds on Saturday morning when he clocked 27.60 seconds. The following morning he took down Tynes’ time of 1:01.56 in the 100m breast. Bastian smashed it when he swam to an Olympic ‘B’ standard time of 1:00.87.
Bastian powered his way to a time of 2:15.14 in the 200m breast. The Tokyo 2020 Olympic bound swimmer lowered his own previous national record of 2:16.07.
Mako Aquatics Club’s DaVante Carey was able to lower his own 50 and 100m backstroke national records. He switched his previous record of 26.46 seconds to 26.10 seconds in the 50m back. The new time was swam in the final last week Thursday night. He returned the next night and smashed his 100m back national record time of 58.12 seconds after posting a time of 57.60 seconds.
Carey’s teammate Lamar Taylor swam a strong 100m freestyle race on Saturday, and was able to break Jared Fitzgerald’s national record time of 50.81 seconds. In that race, the 17-year-old speedster clocked a blistering 50.52 seconds to ink his name in the record books.
Other than securing the 100m free national record, Taylor was able to break three other meet records in the boys 15-17 age group. He broke Vereance Burrows’ 50m free record of 23.01 when he clocked 22.95 seconds. The Henderson State University swimmer also broke Carey’s 50m back record of 26.46 seconds, swimming 26.35 seconds. He then broke Carey’s 100m back record of 58.96 seconds, replacing it with 57.94 seconds.
The women’s 50 and 200m breast national records also fell over the weekend. In the 200m breast, Mako’s Laura Morley improved her own national record from 2:27.83 to 2:26.91. In the process, she lowered her Olympic ‘B’ standard time.
Lilly Higgs, who swam unattached, lowered her own 50m breast national record of 32.52 seconds. She broke it in the final on Saturday night when she clocked 32.06 seconds. She first lowered it on Saturday morning in the preliminaries when she clocked 32.18 seconds.
Swimming for the final time in the 13-14 boys age category was YMCA WaveRunners Marvin Johnson out of Freeport, Grand Bahama. The 14-year-old broke that age group national record in the 100m, 200m, 400m and the 1500m free events. He broke Taylor’s record of 53.96 seconds after swimming 53.43 seconds in the 100m free. In the 200m free, he broke an almost 15-year record by John Bradley. Johnson’s 1:58.98 time bettered Bradley’s 2:03.28 time. In the 400m free, Johnson posted a time of 4:22.99 which lowered Alec Sands’ record of 4:24.15. In the long distance swim, Johnson crushed Matthew Lowe’s record of 17:54.45 when he swam 17:09.76.
The WaveRunners’ Zoe Williamson was on a mission this past weekend in the 11-12 girls age category. She came away with age group national records in the 100m free; and the 50m, 100m and 200m butterfly. In the 100m free, she broke Taryn Smith’s record of 1:02.75 when she swam 1:01.69. In the 50m fly, she posted 30.34 seconds to lower Jana Johnson’s previous record of 30.75 seconds. In the 200 fly, Williamson’s swim of 2:39.12 was enough to break Bria Deveaux’s record of 2:45.61. Her final record-breaking performance came in the 100m fly in which she bested Devin Cuffy-Bethel’s time of 1:09.66 after swimming 1:06.90.
In the 11-12 boys age group, Lightning Aquatics’ Donald Saunders II broke three national records and the WaveRunners’ Tristen Hepburn broke one record. Saunders did it in the 200m free, 200m back and the 200m individual medley (IM) events. In the 200m free, he lowered Taylor’s time of 2:12.21 when he posted a time of 2:08.55. Marvin Johnson held the record in the 200m back with a time of 2:32.50 but Saunders’ time of 2:24.08 erased that record. Saunders’ final record-breaking swim came in the 200m IM. He recorded a time of 2:28.51 to break Dustin Tynes’ record of 2:29.20.
Hepburn broke his teammate Nigel Forbes’ record of 5:18.05 in the 400m IM. Hepburn dropped almost four seconds off that record when he touched the wall in 5:14.65.
Three girls 9-10 national records were also broken this past weekend, with the feats coming in the 200m free, 50m breast and 50m fly events. Alpha Aquatics’ Seleste Gibson swam away with the new 200m free record of 2:31.53. Deveaux held the previous record of 2:32.19. The 50m breast record of 39.78 seconds held by Williamson was broken by her teammate Kimaya Saunders who clocked 38.46 seconds. The Barracudas’ Madyson Julien broke the 50m fly record of 32.64 seconds held by Williamson. Julien posted a time of 32.25 seconds.
Mako’s Taylen Nicolls came away with a national record in the 8-and-under girls 50m fly. She posted a time of 38.97 seconds to lower the record of 40.02 seconds which was set by Skyler Smith.
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