T&T end­ed with­out a medal at the Fifth Com­mon­wealth Youth Games in Samoa, yes­ter­day af­ter swim­mers Jeron Thomp­son and Ami­ra Pil­grim failed to climb the medal ros­trum at the Tu­a­na'ima­to Sports Fa­cil­i­ty.

Thomp­son swam the fourth and fi­nal men's 50m freestyle pre­lim­i­nary heat and touched the wall in 25.15 for sixth spot be­hind Aus­tralian Jack Cartwright (23.58), New Zealand's Mario Koenigsperg­er (23.93), Wales' Joseph Clark (24.26), Eng­land's Kyle Chisholm (24.40) and Ghana's Abeiku Jack­son (24.61).

How­ev­er, with on­ly the top 16 ad­vanc­ing to the A and B fi­nals, Bovell was forced in­to a swim-off with Bar­ba­di­an Da­mon St Prix, Jer­sey's Har­ry Sha­la­m­on and Ja­maican Joseph Black for the fi­nal three B-fi­nal spots.And in the swim off the T&T swim­mer was first home in 24.72, a new per­son­al best ahead off Sha­la­m­on (24.92), Black (25.03) and St Prix (25.40),

In the fi­nals, Thomp­son could not re­peat his form and reached home in joint sev­enth in 25.10, the same as Brody Hewi­son.Ami­ra Pil­grim had a much bet­ter out­ing in the women's 50m freestyle third heat with a 27.13 clock­ing for sec­ond in heat three andm eight best over­all, and be­hind New Zealand's Gabrielle Fa'amaulsili (26.84).

Swim­ming out of lane eight in the fi­nal, Pil­grim com­plet­ed her lap in 27.11 to earn sev­enth spot, well adrift of the top three fin­ish­ers, Aus­tralian Shay­na Jack (25.71). South African Erin Gal­lagher and New Zealand's Gabrielle Faa­mausili, who were joint sec­ond in 25.82The T&T swim­mers then joined to­geth­er with swim­mers from Grena­da, An­tigua & Bar­bu­da, Bar­ba­dos and Cyprus to swim in an ex­hi­bi­tion 400m freestyle fi­nal to third spot 3rd po­si­tion in 3:30.20.

Pil­grim al­so swam a per­son­al best in the 50m breast­stroke to fin­ish fourth in her heat in 36.94. How­ev­er, her time was not fast enough to se­cure her a spot in the fi­nal.One high­light for Team TTO was the op­por­tu­ni­ty to take part in UNICEF's Just Play Pro­gramme.The Samoa 2015 Chef Jean­nette Small, and track and field duo Aki­dah Brig­gs, who was sixth in the women's shot put and Akan­ni His­lop en­gaged in foot­ball with young kids from the small Pa­cif­ic Is­land.

The Just Play Pro­gramme pro­motes phys­i­cal ac­tiv­i­ty for chil­dren aged 6 - 12 years old through foot­ball-re­lat­ed ac­tiv­i­ties, while al­so ad­dress­ing en­dem­ic is­sues such as non-com­mu­ni­ca­ble dis­eases, poor nu­tri­tion, gen­der equal­i­ty, stig­ma and dis­crim­i­na­tion to­wards chil­dren with dis­abil­i­ties.