Tidal Wave Aquat­ics emerged cham­pi­on of the first meet of the new swim­ming sea­son on Sun­day when the Tsuna­mi Swim Club host­ed the Pe­ter Awong Memo­r­i­al Swim Meet at the St. Michael's Pool in San Fer­nan­do. The Ma­coya based out­fit amassed 655 points to win the Cham­pi­on Club Chal­lenge Tro­phy, and nine of the 30 avail­able over­all age group awards in the com­pe­ti­tion.

Lead­ing the way for Tidal Wave was Syr­i­ah David, who won all sev­en of her events in the 11-12 fe­male age group earn­ing the max­i­mum 63 points, clock­ing per­son­al bests in all of her events. Eight and un­der fe­male, Vris­nelit Fau­re had a near per­fect record to win her age group for Tidal Wave. The bud­ding swim star won five out of her six events, with her on­ly non-gold medal be­ing bronze in the 100 free. Kael Yorke, Jeron O'Brien and Si­mone Maun­dy al­so won first place tro­phies for the club.

Christo­pher Reis was the on­ly oth­er swim­mer to win all his events on the day. The Stingray Swim Club mem­ber won the first placed tro­phy in the 15-17 age group. In the club stand­ings, Cen­tre of Ex­cel­lence Sea Hawks placed sec­ond with 580 points, with Stingray third with 349 points. Meet host Tsuna­mi Swim Club, and Tor­pe­does Swim Club round­ed off the top five.

Swim­ming ac­tion con­tin­ues at the same venue on Sat­ur­day and Sun­day,from 9 am, as Stingray Swim Club hosts its An­nu­al Oc­to­ber Clas­sic.

Com­bined Team Scores:

1 Tidal Wave Aquat­ics 655;

2 Sea Hawks 580;

3 Stingray 349;

4 Tsuna­mi 274;

5 Tor­pe­does 247;

6 Mar­lin 241;

7 Blue Dol­phins 131;

8 Petrotrin Bar­racu­d­as 109;

9 Un­at­tached 85;

10 Point Fortin Com­mu­ni­ty 60;

11 U.W.I. 53;

12 Man­ta Ray 48.

In­di­vid­ual Scores

8 & Un­der Girls:

1 Fau­re, Vris­nelit (TWA) 51;

2 Chai, Ja­da (UNA) 40;

3 David, Sab­ri­na (TWA) 39

8 & Un­der Boys:

1 Gillette, Luke (MARL) 52;

2 Grander­son, Jean Marc (UNA) 43;

3 Duke, Josi­ah (TWA) 31

9-10 Girls :

1 Pil­grim, Ami­ra (TSU) 52;

2 Downes, Arielle (TSC) 41;

3 Cabral, Mik­ka (MARL) 31

9-10 Boys:

1 Yorke, Kael (TWA) 36;

2 Ri­ley, Os­aze (TSU) 33;

2 Gillette, James (MARL) 33

11-12 Girls:

1 David, Syr­i­ah (TWA) 63;

2 Mul­rain, Jew­el (TSC ) 49;

3 Mar­cano, Meli­na (TSC) 39

11-12 Boys:

1 Sankar, Sachin ( PBARA) 58;

2 Ramkissoon, Joshua (SHSC) 50;

3 Lewis, Chris­t­ian (SHSC) 41

13-14 Girls:

1 Ma­haraj, Sangee­ta (SSC) 57;

2 Dun­can, Bryan­na (SHSC) 46;

3 Mar­cano, Marie-An­toinette (SHSC) 41

13-14 Boys:

1 O'Brien, Jeron (TWA) 47;

2 Ramkissoon, Jonathan (SHSC) 45;

3 Isaacs, Clifton (TWA) 43

15 & Over Girls:

1 Maun­dy, Si­mone (TWA) 59;

2 Smith, Noelle (UWISC) 53;

3 Jones, Megan (MANT) and Gopaul, Shiv­ine 6

15 & Over Boys :

1 Reis, Christo­pher (SSC) 63;

2 Obasi, Imhotep (TWA) 46;

3 Bones, Demetrius (SHSC) 38