Children aged from toddlers up to 17-years old jumped into the water at the Lions Pool, George Town for the Pete Ribbins Memorial Consolidated Water Meet.

The annual swim meet – the biggest and most popular on the island, takes place over a period of four days. There were kids from both the Stingray Swim Club and the Camana Bay Aquatic Club there, with plenty of mums and dads cheering on the older kids who were being selected for the CARIFTA games in April.

In addition, this year is the first year a new group, the Treasure Island Swim School took part in the Meet. Treasure Island is the only group there who specializes in actually teaching the kids- especially the very young ones- to swim, according to Treasure Island’s Head Coach, Marie Shepheard. “We had 36 swimmers entering throughout the weekend, and 30 of them were swimming in their first swim meet on Friday night,” Ms Shepheard said.

“I was delighted with all the swimmers’ performances. However what really stole the show on Friday was our four-year-olds all completing for their first time in the ‘Under – 6’ category. It’s been fantastic watching our little ones progress from terrified two and three year-olds old on their first lesson to being able to watch them grow and swim in their first meet at four years old.

“The smiles on both the parents and children’s faces makes teaching swimming the best job in the world I’m just so proud of all of them,” Ms. Shepheard said.

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