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Carib Swim Team

St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles

CST Club Championships

 

June 21^st 2009 marked the last home meet of the Season.  It was our annual Club Championships; where the team comes together and races a little while celebrating the season and saying goodbye to the Athletes leaving.  The meet was a lot of fun for everyone involved.  We also sadly said farewell to Mi Jo Mucklow, Alyssa Van den Bosch, and Devin Helligar.  They are all leaving us this year.  Devin is moving to Connecticut, Mi Jo is moving to Wisconsin, and Alyssa is headed to Holland for College.  They will all be missed and we hope they will come back and visit.

 

The meet itself was a lot of fun.  The athletes had a good time racing each other.  It was so much fun we were able to entice Mercedes Antrobus into swimming a few races. 

 

The end of the Season awards were handed out at the meet as well.  Choosing these was difficult as expected.  So many swimmers have worked so hard this season making huge improvements through the season.

 

Boys		Girls
Yarden Arava	10 & Under Most Improved	Celine Mayeko-Coklee
Che Sheldon Charlemagne	11-12 Most Improved	Delphine Galloway
Joylon Ferron	13-14 Most Improved	Kelia Serramoglia
Harry Antrobus	15-18 Most Improved	Alyssa Van Den Bosch
Steven Cloose	High Point Winner	Kelia Serramoglia
Best all around swimmer  Morghane Mazurier

 

Lastly we announced Team Captains for next Season.  We are going to have Co-Captains this coming season.  Much will be expected of these two athletes and I am sure they will work together to fill the role of Captain and help our team continue to grown.  The two captains are Naomi Korstanje and Harry Antrobus.  Make sure you congratulate all of these athletes!

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XIII JEUX DES ILLES  -  MALLORCA 2009

Kelia Serramoglia participated in the XIII JEUX DES ILLES Swim meet this weekend.  She did very well in the meet!  She swam in the 50, 100, 200 Breast, the 200 IM and the 100 Back.  She also swam on the 4 X 100 Medley and Free relays, as well as the 4 X 200 free relay.  She swam very well.   She swam personal bests in the 4 of 5 events, including a 13 second improvement in the 100 back to set a new team record and a top ten finish.  She also finished in the top 10 in the 200IM by setting a new team record in that event.  She set a team record in the 100 Breast with a top 5 finish.  Lastly she won the gold in the 50 breast with a new team record 35.88.  Great job Kelia!!!!!!!!!

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18th Annual Aquatic Centre International - Barbados 2009 May 29th - 31st, 2009 

Eight CST athletes participated in the 18^th Annual Aquatic Centre International this weekend; Harry Antrobus, Stephen Looser, Steven Cloose, Che Sheldon Charlemagne, Jolyon Ferron, Devin Helligar, Julia Morel, Alyssa Van den Bosch.  They swam very very well this weekend. Over 65% of all their swims were personal bests leading to 34 top 10 finishes.   All eight swimmers contributed to a top 10 finish in the standing for the team.  Harry Highlighted his weekend with a 42 second improvement in the 400 IM to finish 4^th.  Steven Cloose had a great meet with 5 top 5 finishes and a 7.4 second improvement in the 400 FR.  Jolyon went to the meet sick and in spite of having to battle illness all weekend he went personal bests in every event and improved his 200 Fr time by over 16 seconds.  Devin had 4 top ten finishes and a 7.7 second improvement in 200IM.  Steven Looser finished with 7 top 10 finishes including top 5 finishes in the 100 Back and 1500 Free.  Julia finished with 3 top 10 finishes and improved her 100 free by 2 seconds.  Alyssa had top 10 finishes in every event she swam highlighted with the bronze medal in the 100 fly and a 3.5 second improvement.  And lastly Sheldon set a team record in the 11 year old 50 breast on the way to winning the gold in that event.    Great job everyone!!!!!!

Check  results for 18th Annual Aquatic Centre International on                                       http://www.swimbarbados.com/

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CST Invitational  17th May, 2009

We hope that everyone who attended this meet, along with Supersplash, Akwamen, St Barths Natation, and a few unattached swimmers,  enjoyed themselves. 

CST looked great.  38 CST swimmers ages ranging from 8 years old to 17 years old participated in the meet. 

             Harry Antrobus, Bambou Bensaid, Govind Bharwani, Gregory Capraja, Lucas Charbonnet-Fohanno, Orane Charbonnet-Fohanno, Che Sheldon Charlemange, Steven Cloose, Remi Conte, Aba Coombs, Renee Drost, Jolyon Ferron, Delphine Galloway, Devin Helligar, PJ Holden, Benjamin Justine, Carmen Korstanje, Naomi Korstanje, Johanna Looser, Saskia Looser, Stephen Looser, Tess Martina, Nadika Matthew. Tasha Matthew, Celine Mayeko-Coklee, Morghane Mazurier, Naomi Mensana. Julia Morel, Tom Moriseau, Ugo Moriseau, Daichi Mucklow, Sena Mucklow, Camille Poirot, Mila Scot, Kelia Serramoglia, Loane Serramoglia, Alyssa Van den Bosch, Valentin Walter

Swimmers in bold swam personal bests in all of their events!!!

These swimmers combined for 142 swims of which 120 where personal bests.  This means 85% of the time these swimmers where swimming that event the fastest they ever had.  It was awesome!  All but one swimmer swam at least one personal best and the swimmer who did not swim a personal best is returning from an injury.  6 team records were set at the meet: Gregory Capraja set records in the 15 year old 200IM and 200 Breast, Morghane Mazurier set team records in the 11 year old 100 Fly, 100 Back, and 100 Free, and Kelia Serramoglia lowered the team record in the 13 year old 200 Breast.  Awesome job you three!!!  25 of the swimmers went personal bests in every event they swam.  This is an awesome achievement by them.  The swimmers clearly showcased their hard work and sacrifices over the course of this season.  I am sure that there are many exciting things to come as they continue to work towards their goals. 

GREAT JOB CST!!!!!!!!

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10th Dutch Caribbean Invitational

Curacao April 29^th – May 2^nd, 2009

Coach Ian’s Report

Though we choose to send a small team the meet went very well!  Throughout the meet personal bests were swam and team records fell!  Everyone on the team who participated in the meet swim a new personal best!  The swimmers swam in a total of 47 events of these 40 times were personal bests, which mean 85% of all swims were personal best times.  This is Phenomenal!  Alyssa Van den Bosch had a very strong meet also going personal bests in 5 of her 8 events highlighted with great swims in both the 100 fly and 200 IM. Aba Coombs, our youngest competitor at the meet rocked his first big travel swim meet by going personal bests in every event and moving into the top 20 in 5 of his 7 events.  Harry Antrobus battled through illness throughout the whole meet to go personal bests in 5 of his 8 events highlighted by more than 9.5 second improvements in both the 100 Fly and the 200 Back.   The largest Improvement was by Steven Cloose who lowered his 800 Free time by over 94 seconds.  The second largest Improvement was Stephen Looser who sent a team record in the 1500 by going over 62 seconds faster than his previous best with a time of 19:39.66.  Naomi Kostanje dropped over 3 seconds on the 100 Fly to lower the record and finish with a Silver medal.  Steven Cloose also lowered his 200 free time by 21 seconds to set a new team record in that event with the Time of 2:33.15.  The meet was a great experience for all of the athletes and all of the athletes showcased all of their hard work by swimming faster than they had ever done before.  GREAT JOB Swimmers!

Day 1 & 2 Report

We swam the first session last night, Wednesday, which wrapped up at 10:30 pm.  In spite of the lateness of the meet the athletes swam extremely well.  Everyone swam personal bests.  The meet started with Steven Cloose swimming an 800 free dropping over 90 seconds.  It was followed by the 1500 swam by Stephen Looser, who dropped 63 second, and lowered the team record by 42 seconds.  The next swim was by Aba Coombs who dropped 2 seconds in the 50 backstroke.  Stephen Looser swam again in the 50 back, and though tired from the 1500 still swam right on his best time.  The following event was swum by both Aylssa and Naomi.  Alyssa had a good swim and Naomi dropped another half a second in her swim.  Harry finished off the 50 backs swimming within a second of his best time inspire of being sick for the last week.  We followed the 50 back with the 100 fly.  The first swimmer in the 100 fly was Steven Cloose who improved his best time by over 1.5 seconds.  Next up was Naomi and Alyssa.  Alyssa rocked her 100 fly going a personal best.  Naomi put a phenomenal performance dropping her time by over 3 seconds to set a new team record and finish second in her age group (15-17)!

Session two began Thursday morning with warm-ups beginning at 8:30am.  The first event of the day was the 200 Free.  It all started with Steven Cloose who went a personal best in the event with a new team record of 2:33.15.  Awesome job Steven!  Stephen Looser followed this up with his own personal best in the 200 free with a 3 second improvement and a time of 2:19.13.  The next event on the program was the 50 fly.  This event was led off with a personal best and 3 second improvement by Aba Coombs.  The following 2 swimmers were Alyssa and Naomi who both improved their times.  Naomi improved her time by a half a second and Alyssa by just over a second.  The 50 fly was finished off by Harry who in spite of being sick for the last week hung in there to go right at his personal best time.  The last event of the meet for our athletes was the 100 Back again it was lead off by Aba Coombs who went a personal best in the event with the time of 1:38.68.  The next swimmer in the 100 back was Steven Cloose who also went a personal best with the time of 1:28.82.  Stephen Looser was the next swimmer to continue the trend of personal bests with a time of 1:16.70.  Aylssa and Naomi swam solid times, 1:36.50 & 1:23.05 respectively.  Lastly was Harry who again matched his personal best time, and was a turn away from having a personal best.  So far through 2 sessions the athletes have performed very well and are all excited and happy with how things are progressing.

 

Results and photos can be found at  http://sites.google.com/site/buladoswimclubmain/10th-dutch-anual-invitational     or    http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/results/hy-tek/10th%20Dutch%20Caribbean%20Invitational%202009%20-%20(04-29-2009%20-%2005-02-2009)/index.aspx

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RHAC 10th Invitational   Swim Meet, St Lucia   April 2 - 5, 2009

A small delegation of 4 Carib Swim Team Swimmers represented St Maarten in the 10^th Rodney Heights Aquatic Club Invitational Meet held in St Lucia April 2ns-5^th 2009.

Che Sheldon Charlemange, Steven Cloose, Devin Helligar and Saskia Looser, made their presence known placing 10^th overall. A total of 265 swimmers representing 12 clubs competed.

Saskia swimming 50m, 100m and 400m freestyle, 200m IM, 50m and 100m breaststroke, 50m & 100m back and 50m fly  beat every one of her personal best times, taking 10^th overall in the Girls 11-12 age category.

This was a first international meet for Che Sheldon, who competed in the 200m IM, 50m & 100m breast, 50m & 100m free, 50m back and 50m fly events. He impressed everyone winning 2 gold medals on his 50m & 100m  breastroke  and a Bronze on his 50m backstroke,  finishing 5^th overall in his age group.

Steven Cloose who swam some of the longer distance events had a phenomenal first session swim crushing his 1500m freestyle personal best by over 4 minutes and the team record by 1:20, cruising to a 1^st place finish with a 21.00.29.  What a great way to start the meet.  He continued with , 400m, 200m, 100m & 50m freestyle, 50m & 100m fly and 100m backstroke coming home with and impressive 3 Gold medals, 1 Silver and 4 Bronze medals plus a 3^rd place overall in his age group.

Devin swam 400m & 200m IM, 400m, 100m & 50m free, 200m, 100m & 50m fly and 50m backstroke, coming home with a 1 Gold, 2 Silver and 2 Bronze medals.

Superb swim by all.

 

Results and photos can be found posted on http://www.slasa.info.  You will need to go to the top menu bar and select; Meets & results 2009 RHAC Invitational.  You will find the results in PDF.

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St. Barths Copie de Triathlon 2009

Coach Ian’s report;-

I hope everyone who went to the meet enjoyed it.  There were certainly a lot of good swims at the meet.  There was also a lot of cheering for each other, with everyone trying to help their teammates succeed.  The work all the athletes have put in and the support they gave each other really showed up at the meet. 

The athletes swam 92 times and went personal bests on 82 of them.  This means that over 89% of the time, when an athlete dove into the water, they touched the wall the fastest they ever had.  It is great to see their hard work paying off!  There were a lot of stand out swims but several swimmers had amazing improvements of close to a minute or greater in one event; Delphine Galloway improved 59.54 seconds in the 200 Free, Loane Serramoglia 81.93 seconds in the 100 IM, and Nadika Matthew improved 92.35 seconds in the 400 free.  Every swimmer on the team had at least 1 personal best time with 22 of the athletes swimming personal bests in every event; Jolyon Ferron, Delphine Galloway, PJ Jennen, Johanna Looser, Tess Martina, Nadika Matthew, Tasha Matthew, Morghane Mazurier, Naomi Mensana, Tom Moriseau, Ugo Moriseau, Loane Serramoglia, Alix Violet, Valentin Walter, Agis Carty, Cement Cassao, Lucas & Orane Charbonnet-Fohanno, Remi Conte, Aba Coombs, Abiola Dessout, and Renee Drost.  Nine of the swimmers improved over 20 seconds on a swim and another 18 swimmers improving more than 10 seconds on an event.

We should also note that once again a team record has fallen; Kelia Serramoglia has broken the team record for 14 year old girls in the 200IM with a time of 2:41.64.

Congratulations to everyone who participated, it was a very successful meet and we are all looking forward to when they will get a chance to show off in the future.

The final results on of the meet will be posted on the bulletin board for you to look over today.  We also want to THANK the Voyager for the smooth trip to and from the meet.  They were GREAT!

 

Press release;-

31 swimmers plus one master swimmer travelled on the Voyager to St. Barths on Sunday March 22nd to compete in the Triathalon des Jeunes. Each swimmers swam 2 freestyle events plus 1 IM event.

Those born in 2000 or before swam 100m free style, 100 IM and 50free. Those born in 98/99 swam 200m free, 100 Im and 50 free. Those born in 96/97 and masters swam 200m free, 200IM and 50 Free. Those born in 94/95 swam 400m free, 50 free and 200IM.

Competing were Carib Swim Team, Akwammen and St. Barths Natation.

Carib Brought home 26 medals, 14 gold, 8 silver and 5 bronze.

Taking gold were Naima Dessout (3), Isabelle Adams (3), Steven Cloose (2), Kelia Serramoglia (3), Stephen Looser (3)

Taking silver was Naomi Mensana (2), Morghane Mazurier (2), Valentin Walter (2), Jolyon Ferron, Abayomi Coombs

Taking bronze was Naomi Mensana, Remi Conte, Valentin Walter, Jolyon Ferron (2)

18th Annual Aquatic Centre International - Barbados 2009

May 29th - 31st, 2009 

CST Invitational  17th May, 2009

10th Dutch Caribbean Invitational

Curacao April 29^th – May 2^nd, 2009

RHAC 10th Invitational   Swim Meet,      St Lucia    April 2 -5, 2009

 

Time Trials   Congratulations to the swimmers who did a time trail 1500 and swam fantastic.  Every swimmer went a best time, and 4 swimmers went on to setting team records.  A 5^th swimmer tied the team record. 

GREAT JOB ALL OF YOU

 

 

Carib Swim Team Association
Swim-a-thon
(6 hours swimming)
Sunday October 26th, 2008