The Tribune

THE BARRACUDA Swim Club dominated its annual Leno Corporate Services Invitational Swim Meet at the Betty Kelly Kenning National Swim Complex over the weekend.

The club accumulated a total of 1,279.50 points to distance itself from its nearest rivals - visiting Freeport Aquatic Club - who took 495.50 points back to Grand Bahama. Swift Swimming rounded out the top three with 434.50.

The other clubs finished in the following order:

Dolphin Swim Club, fourth, with 401.50; Grand Bahama Tritons, fifth with 312; Alpha Aquatics Swim Club, sixth with 278; Abaco Swim Club, seventh with 265.50; Team Orca, eighth with 197.50; Sea Waves Aquatic, ninth with 92; Lyford Cay Swim Club, 10th with 65.50; St Anne’s School Blue Waves, 11th with 55; Mantas Water Polo Club, 12th with 43.50 and Unattached – Grand Bahama Tritons, 13th with 24.

At the end of the meet, Passion Daniel, Ayden Bain, Seannia Norville-Smith, Marvin Johnson, Abayomi Brown, Noah Albury, Anya MacPhail, DaVante Carey, Kaitlyn Slatter and Joshua Murray were awarded the girls’ and boys’ high point winners in the various age groups.

Five of those titles went to Grand Bahama.

Passion Daniel, representing the Freeport Aquatic Team, took the girls’ 8-and-under title after she secured 63 points, 20 more than her nearest rival Rayven Ward from the Barracuda, to lead the Grand Bahama charge.

Ayden Bain, her teammate from Freeport Aquatic, joined her in taking the boys’ 8-and-under crown with 59 points, holding off Grand Bahama Tritons’ Tristen Hepburn, who had 52.

Norville-Smith made sure she wasn’t left out as she added the girls’ 9-10 title to Freeport Aquatic Club’s tally with 52 points ahead of Sea Waves’ Anjaleah Knowles, who had 43.50.

Marvin Johnson made it four straight for Freeport Aquatic when he posted 63 points to cart off the 9-10 boys’ title. Amauri Bonamy of the Barracuda followed with 36.

The streak continued for Freeport Aquatic as Abayomi Brown picked up the fifth title in the 11-12 girls division with 59 points. She won over Keianna Moss of the Barracuda, who had 42 for second place.

Noah Albury took another title out of New Providence as he carried the 11-12 boys crown to Abaco with his total of 49 points. Erald Thompson III of Swim Swimming was the runner-up with 41.

Anya MacPhail out-dual her Barracuda teammate Katherine Slatter 49-48 in a close match-up for the 13-14 girls’ divisional title.

DaVente Carey, representing Swift Swimming, made sure that the 13-14 boys title didn’t go to Grand Bahama as well with Lamar Taylor of Freeport Aquatic. Carey won 61-56 over Taylor.

Barracuda’s Kaitlyn Slatter was six points better than Jasmine Gibson of the Grand Bahama Tritons as she won the 15-and-over girls title 42-36.

And Joshua Murray of the Barracuda and Darren Laing of the Grand Baham Tritons collected 50 points each to seal a two-way tie for the 15-and-over boys title. Tenajh Gaitor of the Barracuda Swim Club was third with 44.