Sama­ki Fe­li­cian

Sport Cor­re­spon­dent

The Roy­hil Seals Wa­ter Po­lo Club made a sig­nif­i­cant im­pact at the Cu­raçao Aquat­ics As­so­ci­a­tion Sum­mer Wa­ter Po­lo Tour­na­ment over the past week, cul­mi­nat­ing in an ex­cit­ing fi­nals day on Sat­ur­day.

Rep­re­sent­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go with pride, the Port-of-Spain-based club field­ed two teams in the Un­der-14 Co­ed cat­e­go­ry and one team each in the Un­der-16 Girls and Un­der-16 Co­ed cat­e­gories. They faced off against top-tier clubs from Cu­raçao and Pe­ru.

In the Un­der-14 Co­ed di­vi­sion, it was an all-Roy­hil fi­nal, as both teams won their semi­fi­nal match­es. In a thrilling and close­ly con­test­ed game, Roy­hil Seals A nar­row­ly de­feat­ed Roy­hil Seals B, 19–14, se­cur­ing both gold and sil­ver medals for the club. Gio­van­ni Fe­li­cian-Moses was the stand­out play­er, scor­ing six goals for Team A, while Shane Gransaull con­tributed four goals for Team B.

The club’s Un­der-16 Girls de­liv­ered an im­pres­sive per­for­mance, bounc­ing back from a first-game loss to the Or­cas Club of Cu­raçao to claim gold in a best-of-sev­en se­ries.

Af­ter los­ing the first match, the Trinidad and To­ba­go girls won three con­sec­u­tive games. Al­though the Or­cas pushed the se­ries to a sixth game, the de­ter­mined Seals re­grouped and fin­ished strong with a 5–3 vic­to­ry, win­ning the se­ries 4–2 and tak­ing the top spot on the podi­um.

Mean­while, in the Un­der-16 Co­ed cat­e­go­ry, Roy­hil Seals se­cured a bronze medal, fin­ish­ing be­hind Aquat­i­ca of Pe­ru and the Or­cas of Cu­raçao.

De­spite the chal­lenges in the U16 Co­ed di­vi­sion, the tour­na­ment was a sig­nif­i­cant suc­cess for Roy­hil Seals, who walked away with two gold medals, one sil­ver, and one bronze across all age groups.