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Cayman swimmers off to CCCAN Championship
- Updated: 27 June 2019
L-R: Coach Kirk Ermels, Coach Darren Mew, Will Sellars, Corey Frederick-Westerborg, Kaitlyn Sullivan, Stephanie Royston, Team Manager Terry Barrowman. Second row: Harper Barrowman, Stefano Bonati, Sarah Jackson, Alex Dakers. Absent from photo: Lauren Hew, Zachary Moore and Jake Bailey.
A team of 11 swimmers are set to represent the Cayman Islands at the Central American and Caribbean Swimming Championship (CCCAN) in Barbados from 28 June to 2 July.
The group, ranging in ages from 12 to 18, is Will Sellars, Corey Frederick-Westerborg, Kaitlyn Sullivan, Stephanie Royston, Harper Barrowman, Stefano Bonati, Sarah Jackson, Alex Dakers, Lauren Hew, Zachary Moore and Jake Bailey. The swimmers and their coaches left Grand Cayman on Wednesday (26 June).
The CCAN is an age group swimming championship with 11-12, 13-14, 15-17 and an 18 and over age categories. Over 500 swimmers across all swimming disciplines and over 400 swimmers in competitive swimming over 151 events. The races will be swam as preliminary qualifying heats in the morning and finals in the evenings, a similar format to CARIFTA and other four or five day swim meets.
Swimmers from 28 countries will be represented at the swimming championships, including:
Antigua & Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, México, Nicaragua, Panamá, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vicente and Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos and the US Virgin Islands.
“Cayman has become a competitive force and a challenger to much bigger teams from bigger islands. With number one seeding in some races and podium position seeding in several others, Team Cayman is ready,” stated Stephen Broadbelt, CIASA Director for PR & Media.
Technical Director Bailey Weathers, commented “The swimmers are excited, and it looks like it is going to be a fast meet. 493 swimmers from 28 countries in the pool and 81 swimmers from 13 countries in open water”.
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