Cayman’s superstar Pan Am games medal winners, Brett and Shaune Fraser spoke about their swimming careers to excited young swimmers from the Camana Bay Aquatic Centre and the Stingray Swim clubs at the Camana Bay swimming pool.

The brothers spoke about how they started off, just like many of the kids listening to them, by going to the Lions pool after school, and the Learn to Swim programme.

“When we were about nine or ten was when we started getting more serious about it and we had a coach help us with our technique, which is probably the most important thing in swimming,” said Brett, 23, who won a gold medal in the games.

“Swimming can open a lot of doors for you guys in the future. You just want to keep improving on your best time and that’s the best thing you can do,” he added.

Then 24-year old Shaune who won Silver, described the excitement of participating in his first Olympics at the tender age of 16:

“It was definitely a little bit overwhelming. I don’t know if anybody’s watched the Olympics on TV but it’s like that, but maybe 100 times over in real life,” he said. 

Talking about the brothers’ recent triumph in winning both the Gold and Silver medals in the Pan American games, Shaune said: “We just wanted to go out there and give it our all; it was definitely a good experience.

Brett said: “This year was a good year for both of us.”

Shaune said: “We have a big year coming up. We are going to the Olympics and I think we are swimming in the same event in London in July of next year. We are getting excited and I think we are going to be ready to go when it comes time.”