For­mer na­tion­al swim­mers, sis­ters Dr. Ayeisha Col­ly­more and Kim­ba Col­ly­more, as well as Don­na-Marie Wick­ham, are among the 61 swim­mers who will don the red, white, and black colours in the swim­ming seg­ment of the ninth edi­tion of the Pan Amer­i­can Aquat­ics Mas­ters Cham­pi­onships, which splash­es off at the Na­tion­al Aquat­ic Cen­tre in Bal­main Cou­va.

The trio were all for­mer mul­ti­ple cham­pi­ons across the Carif­ta Games and the Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean Swim­ming Fed­er­a­tion and will be hop­ing to turn back the clock to their for­mer glo­ry days at the Cham­pi­onships, which be­gan yes­ter­day with the artis­tic swim­ming com­pe­ti­tion. 

Oth­er no­table mem­bers of the T&T con­tin­gent that will look to dom­i­nate the age groups (18-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, 50-54, 55-59, 60-64, 65-69, 70-74, 75-79, 80-84, 85-89, and 90-94) are for­mer Par­lia­men­tar­i­an Glenn Ra­mad­hars­ingh, Danielle Cosier, Ma­lik Nel­son, An­ton Gopauls­ingh, Mosi De­noon, Christo­pher George, and Mar­quise Nel­son.

The swim­ming seg­ment will take place dai­ly from 10 am to noon un­til Wednes­day, Ju­ly 24, fol­lowed by the open wa­ter event on Fri­day, Ju­ly 26 at Five Is­lands, Ch­aguara­mas, from 9 am. 

In ad­di­tion to the in­di­vid­ual events, re­lay events will be based on the to­tal age of team mem­bers as of De­cem­ber 31, 2024, in­clu­sive. 80-99, 100-119, 120-159, 160-199, 200-239, 240-279, 280-319, 320-359, and 40-year in­cre­ments as high as nec­es­sary.

In ad­di­tion to the T&T, the oth­er par­tic­i­pat­ing coun­tries to be rep­re­sent­ed by 339 ath­letes are Brazil, Chile, Mex­i­co, France, Cana­da, the USA, the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, Ja­maica, Pe­ru, Cos­ta Ri­ca, Ecuador, Grena­da, Uruguay, Guyana, Colom­bia, Ar­genti­na, Venezuela, An­tigua and Bar­bu­da, Bar­ba­dos, and Aus­tralia.

Speak­ing ahead of the com­pe­ti­tion, Lyn­d­say Gillette, Pres­i­dent of the Aquat­ics Sports As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (ASATT), stat­ed that it was with im­mense pride and bound­less en­thu­si­asm that his as­so­ci­a­tion wel­comed all par­tic­i­pants.

Gillette, in his ad­dress, added, “We are ho­n­oured to bring to­geth­er the finest aquat­ic ath­letes from across the Amer­i­c­as in a cel­e­bra­tion of sports­man­ship, ex­cel­lence, and uni­ty.

“T&T, with its rich cul­tur­al ta­pes­try and stun­ning nat­ur­al beau­ty, of­fers a unique back­drop for this pres­ti­gious event. From our world-renowned car­ni­val to our idyl­lic beach­es, we in­vite you to ex­pe­ri­ence the warmth and vi­bran­cy of our na­tion.

“We are com­mit­ted to pro­vid­ing an event that not on­ly meets but ex­ceeds in­ter­na­tion­al stan­dards. Our ded­i­cat­ed team has worked tire­less­ly to en­sure that every as­pect of the cham­pi­onships, from the com­pe­ti­tion venues to the cul­tur­al events, will leave a last­ing im­pres­sion.”

T&T Pan Amer­i­can Aquat­ics team

Pa­tri­cia Camp­bell, Mar­shall Camp­bell, Glenn Ra­mad­hars­ingh, Terese Otero, Jamie Leigh Wheat­ley, De­bra At­tin Neville, Tehe­li Sealey Lee Lum, Pa­tri­cia Anne De La Rosa, Ar­lene Fran­cis, Trent Luke Bethel, James Ed­ward Robert­son, Dono­van Mar­tin Garib, William Kei­th Daniel, Rochelle Cherise Pierre, Melanie Eva Main­got, Danielle Co­zi­er, Dr Ayeisha Col­ly­more, Aman­da Sher­lock De La Rosa, Mixi Karelis Men­doza Or­tiz, Ma­lik Nel­son, Mark Look Yan, Nicholas Wash­ing­ton Jude, An­ton Gopauls­ingh, Jonathan Stephen Am­mon, Mosi De­noon, Kevin Mc In­tyre, Joseph Ryan, Christo­pher George, Mar­quise Nel­son, Daniel Paulling, John Em­manuel, Patrick Lee Loy, Richard David Knag­gs, Cur­tis Harp­er, Michael Col­lis, Raul Vieira, Jaleel Pierre, Adri­an Mur­phy, Pe­ter Roger De La Rosa, Sam­ra Con­liffe, Ar­lene Fran­cis, Denise Williams Black­man, Ed­di­son Ro­many, Mervyn Camp­bell, Clyde Ak­bar, Kim­ba Col­ly­more, Judy Ken­nesh Thomas, Kyn­delle Cheyene Moore, Jude Nicholas Wash­ing­ton, Adri­an Nuzum, Adri­an Mike, Joshua Changar, Stephen Sankars­ingh, Apol­lo Ar­joon, Anoush­ka Ram­s­ingh, Ra­jiv Nar­i­nesingh, Julien Ash­ton Charles, Manzur Mo­hammed, Kyle Quashie, Don­na-Marie Wick­ham, El­sa Genar-Marie Govia.