Ja­da Chai of At­lantis Aquat­ics and Vris­nelit Fau­re of Areios Aquat­e­chs added two more events to their sched­ule for this East­ers' Carif­ta Swim­ming Cham­pi­onship (April 22-26) in Aru­ba when Na­tion­al Age Group Long Course Cham­pi­onships host­ed by the Am­a­teur Swim­ming As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (ASATT) con­tin­ued at Mar­lins Swim­ming Pool, Morne Co­co Road, West­moor­ings, on Thurs­day night.Swim­ming in the 11-12 girls 100m freestyle heats, Chai (1:03.48) and Fau­re (1:05.59) at­tained the Carif­ta qual­i­fy­ing A (1:03.71) and C (1:06.47) stan­dards, re­spec­tive­ly. Chai lat­er re­turned to the pool to top the 50 me­tre back­stroke splash heats in 34.28 to bet­ter the Carif­ta B mark of 34.56 while Fau­re won her 100m breast­stroke heat in 1:24.56 which bet­tered the Caribbean Is­lands Swim­ming Cham­pi­onship (CISC) B stan­dard mark of 1:25.92.

Oth­er qual­i­fiers from Thurs­day night heats were Os­aze Ri­ley, Sports­woman of the Year Kristien Julien, Do­minic Mc Leod, Justin Sam­lals­ingh, Jabari Bap­tiste, David Mc Leod, Luke Gillette, Dario Omiss, Jeron Thomp­son and Jeron O'Brien.Ri­ley of Aquat­e­chs topped the 13-14 boys 100m freestyle in 56.67 to bet­ter the Carif­ta B mark of 57.10; his club­mate Julien won her 15-17 girls pre­lim­i­nary splash in the ex­act Carif­ta B stan­dard time of 1:00.33; and Mc Leod (Do­minic), in the 18 & Over boys 100m freestyle in 53.85, well un­der the CISC B mark of 54.44.Sam­lals­ingh touched the wall in 30.03 in the 13-14 boys 50m back­stroke to dip un­der the CISC B time of 30.07 while Bap­tiste and Mc Leod (David) were one-two in the 15-17 boys back­stroke in 28.42 and 28.79 re­spec­tive­ly, bet­ter­ing the 28.90 CISC B qual­i­fy­ing grade.And the qual­i­fiers for the 100m breast­stroke from the heats to the Carif­ta meet were Gillette, who equalled the Carif­ta C qual­i­fy­ing time of 1:24.81 in the 11-12 boys event; Omiss (1:13.24) and Thomp­son (1:13.70) were faster than the Carif­ta B 13-14 splash qual­i­fy­ing time of 1:14.10 while O'Brien's 1:09.17 was well ahead of the 15-17 boys B mark of 1:10.52.

On Wednes­day's open­ing night, Chai, com­pet­ing in the 11-12 girls 50m but­ter­fly qual­i­fied with a time of Carif­ta A time of 30.36 ahead of club­mate Deshor Ed­wards who at­tained a B stan­dard time of 32.31.The duo then clocked 30.75 and 33.01 in the fi­nal for A and C qual­i­fy­ing times, re­spec­tive­ly.And in the 15-17 girls 50m but­ter­fly, Kris­ten Julien of Areios Aquat­e­chs again had the on­ly oth­er Carif­ta A time when she won the fi­nal in 28.81 well ahead of the qual­i­fy­ing mark of 29.52 while sec­ond placed Jes­si­ca Gay (30.67) just beat the CISC B mark of 30.69. In the morn­ing ses­sion, Julien al­so sur­passed the Carif­ta A bar­ri­er with a time of 28.80.The Tidal Wave Aquat­ics trio of Aqeel Joseph (31.10), Gabriel By­noe (31.45) and Josi­ah Duke (32.18) all went un­der the Carif­ta C time of 32.25 in the 11-12 boys 50m but­ter­fly in their fi­nal.

In the heats, Joseph and Duke al­so achieved the Carif­ta C stan­dard, a qual­i­fi­ca­tion on­ly el­i­gi­ble for 11-12 swim­mers, post­ing 31.49 and 32.08, re­spec­tive­ly.In the morn­ing ses­sion, there were two oth­er Carif­ta qual­i­fiers, but based on B stan­dard times in Jah­mia Harley and Chai af­ter their one-two fin­ish in the 11-12 girls 400m freestyle.Harley of Tidal Wave Aquat­ics, fresh from her record break­ing streak in the girls 9-10 age-group at ASATT In­vi­ta­tion­al in De­cem­ber of last year, touched in 4:56.47 ahead of Chai (5:00.74).A reg­u­lar mem­ber of the na­tion­al team, Jabari Bap­tiste had the top time in the 15-17 boys but­ter­fly for a Carif­ta B qual­i­fy­ing time of 26.10 while sec­ond placed David Mc Leod of At­lantis touched the wall in a CISC B mark of 26.61, just in­side the 26.67 qual­i­fy­ing time.In the fi­nals, Mc Leod (26.64), Lance Cer­tain (26.66) and Bap­tiste (26.66) all qual­i­fied for the CISC.

Do­minic Mc Leod was the sole CISC A qual­i­fi­er among the old­er boys in the 50m But­ter­fly with the time of 25.17 in the heats and then re­peat­ed his feat again in the fi­nals with a 25.07 tim­ing, well ahead of the qual­i­fy­ing stan­dard of 25.55.Fau­re of Aquat­e­ch won the 11 & Over girls 200m breast­stroke in 3:00.63 which was good enough for a Carif­ta B and CISC B qual­i­fy­ing mark.

Oth­er qual­i­fiers for the CISC which takes place in Bar­ba­dos in Ju­ly to date are Chris­t­ian Mars­den, Kael Yorke, David Wilt­shire, Jeron O'Brien and Ami­ra Pil­grim.The five-day meet which ends to­mor­row is the fi­nal op­por­tu­ni­ty for T&T swim­mers to qual­i­fy for the Carif­ta Swim­ming Cham­pi­onships, to be held in Aru­ba from April 22-26.