AFTER the greatest participation and biggest wins, the Barima-Waini team accrued 568 points to inevitably win the Heritage Games Indigenous Swim Meet, which concluded last Saturday at the National Aquatic Centre, in Liliendaal.

They were more than 300 points above second-place finishers, Mahaica Berbice, who ended with 242 points, still some way ahead of Region Three, who mustered 178 points.
Bringing up the rear were Demerara Mahaica with a mere 12 points.
Low participation from the other teams, left the Region One at times with literally no competition, as was the case in the Boys 9-10, where Nelon Lucas simply raced against the clock as he picked up the 25m backstroke (20.67s) and 25m freestyle (16.18s) wins.
Region Three picked up crucial points in the Boys 13-14 category, where sole competitor Damion Smith championed the 25m backstroke (24.51s), 25m freestyle (15.69s) and 50m freestyle (39.07s).

Overall, however, Region One dominated both the male and female sides.
For the Boys, Smith’s results were the only wins that Barima-Waini did not pick up as Nelson Lucas controlled all the Boys 11-12 wins, and Hyde Williams did the same in the Boys 18 and over category. In the Boys’ 15-17 category the spoils were shared between Nyron Ohermuller and Tyeal Campbell.
In the 25m and 50m freestyle Barima-Waini made a clean sweep of all three top spots, with Campbell, Obermuller and their team mate Vaughn Fredericks taking first to third, respectively, in both events.

On the distaff side, there was also a clean sweep for Region One in the Girls’ Under-17 50m freestyle, where Teshanna Hunter (31.90s), Leona Gonsalves (33.52s), and Anastacia Valenzuela (36.28s), respectively, copped the top spots.
Hunter also championed the 25m backstroke 17.38s, while Valenzuela won the 25m freestyle in 15.72 seconds.
Top performer for Region 5 was Monia Dunlus, who won the Girls 13-14 25m backstroke (23.95s), 25m freestyle (18.68s), and 50m freestyle (44.74s).