T&T's 40-mem­ber swim team will splash off their hunt for an eighth straight ti­tle when the 27th edi­tion of the Good­will Swim­ming Cham­pi­onships host­ed by the Aquat­ic Sports As­so­ci­a­tion of Ja­maica at the Na­tion­al Aquat­ic Cen­tre in Kingston, Ja­maica from Fri­day (Au­gust 18) to Sun­day (Au­gust 20).

The com­pe­ti­tion will start on Fri­day from 6.30 pm (TT time) and con­tin­ue on Sat­ur­day and Sun­day from 10 am (TT time).

The three days of com­pe­ti­tion will see com­peti­tors from T&T, Bar­ba­dos, Ja­maica, St Lu­cia, Grena­da, Guyana, Suri­name, and Ba­hamas com­pete for in­di­vid­ual and team ho­n­ours in the Eight and Un­der, 9-10, 11-12, 13-14 and 15-17 age-groups for both boys and girls.

The Turks and Caicos Is­lands have al­so been in­vit­ed by the Aquat­ic Sports As­so­ci­a­tion of Ja­maica to be a guest team at the com­pe­ti­tion.

Last time on home soil, the T&T swim­mers cap­tured their sev­enth ti­tle on the trot led by the sex­tu­plet of Mic­ah Alexan­der, Tay­lor Marchan, Kyle Leera, Ne­ta­nia Ed­wards, Aaron Colthrust, and Keryn Burke who all won their age-group High Point ti­tle when host­ed by the Aquat­ic Sports As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (ASATT) at the Na­tion­al Aquat­ic Cen­tre in Bal­main, Cou­va.

In the Boys Eight and Un­der com­pe­ti­tion, Alexan­der won four of his sev­en races to end with 46 points, sev­en ahead of Ja­maican Alex Rain­ford while Suri­name’s Djoel Old­en­stam was third with 38 points.

Marchan cap­tured one gold medal and had four bronze swims among her ten events in the 9-10 Girls cat­e­go­ry to share the top spot with Ba­hami­an Skyler Smith, who won five gold medals.

Leera swam his way to the age-group ti­tle in the 9-10 boys com­pe­ti­tion with two wins among his ten events for 65 points, just two ahead of Ba­hami­an Chris­ton Joseph while Suri­name’s Jairo Old­en­stam end­ed third with 55.

Ed­wards was dom­i­nant in the 11-12 girls cat­e­go­ry, cap­tur­ing six gold medals for 68 points, well clear of Ba­hami­an Ada­iah Smith’s 49 points with an­oth­er T&T swim­mer, Har­moni Nel­son, third with 37.

In the 11-12 Boys cat­e­go­ry, Colthrust, with his two gold medals among his haul and 58 points, led a T&T 1-2 with Jonathan Sam­bra­no sec­ond with 50 points and five gold medals to his name, while Ja­maican Howard Wal­lace se­cured the third spot in 48 points.

And in the 13-14 girls, Burke’s four first-placed swims helped her to 58 points just ahead of Ja­maica’s Ri­an­na Scott and T&T’s Is­abel­la Men­doza, who both earned 56 points each.

Oth­er no­table points con­tri­bu­tions for T&T came via Katelon Leera (35), Mare­na Mar­tinez (28), Aidan May­ers (24), Alyssa Reid (26), Joshua Sam­bra­no (15), Za­laya­har Lewis (17), Mack­ay Burgess (12), Anya Davis (17), Jan­nai Ap­ple­white (25), Daniel­la Black­man (31), Mar­i­lyn Moses (25), Chaz­zane Charles (18), Anan­da Ma­haraj (13), Levi Smith (32), Pe­ter Trepte (30) and Nathan Pas­call (16).

Over­all, the lo­cal team led by head coach Mau­rice Faria won a to­tal of 125 medals, 50 gold, 40 sil­ver, and 35 bronze for a tal­ly of 1,442 points while Ja­maica with 92 medals (33 gold, 37 sil­ver, 22 bronze) end­ed sec­ond with 1,002 points with Bar­ba­dos third with 723 points and 35 medals (3 gold, 21 sil­ver, 21 bronze).

Boys

Eight & Un­der: Eli­jah Brown, Ma­son Granger, Wy­att Har­ri­son, Kam­den Williams.

9-10: Mic­ah Alexan­der, Aiden Nixon, Eli­hu Brown, Eli Ed­wards

11-12: Zion Ap­ple­whaite, Shi­an Grif­fith, Jadon Ramdeen, Qadir Lewis

13-14: Jan­nai Ap­ple­whaite, Do­minic Bowrin, Bran­don Bal­four, Aaron Colthrust

15-17: Quil­lon Leera, Ja­mal Nep­tune, Tristin Roberts, Nathan Pas­call.

Girls

Eight & Un­der: Athalia Gid­dings, Ama­ra Bal­go­b­in, Suri Dan, Lil­lie-Belle Balkissoon.

9-10: Za­laya­har Lewis, Za­hara An­tho­ny, Katelon Leera, Sarai Gid­dings.

11-12: Asia-Marie Pouchet, Amari­ah Capiatha, Ki­mari An­toine, Sophia Car­rion Deyan.

13-14: Anya Davis, Sid­dhi Sieu­sankar, Caylee Sylvester, Kaylee France.

15-17: Za­hara Alexan­der, Jale­na Coutain, Toni Rae Yates, Daniel­la Black­man

Tech­ni­cal staff: Nisha Charles (head coach), Jo­hann Jer­ry-Lovell (man­ag­er), An­tho­ny Ce­les­tine (as­sis­tant coach), Fabi­an De France (as­sis­tant coach), Ce­line Ba­boolal (as­sis­tant), Ma­li­ka Wal­ter (chap­er­one), Na­talia Suite-Nar­ine (chap­er­one), El­liot Ash (chap­er­one).