Paul-Andre Walker, Staff Reporter
CAMPION COLLEGE and Immaculate Conception High School took top honours at the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) Swimming Championships at the National Stadium Pool on Friday night.
At the meet where 16 records were broken, Campion ran away with the boys' section by tallying 414 points, way ahead of Wolmer's Boys' who ended second with 219 points.
St. George's College, who have been a resurgent force, ended the night in third place with 181 points.
In the girls' segment Immaculate accounted for a whopping 469.5 points and were never bothered by the efforts of second-placed Campion College, who ended with 289 points.
The real battle among the girls went on between the second and third place teams as St. Andrew High fought tooth and nail with Campion but found themselves a little short with 258 points.
As for the records, Campion College's Gillian Millwood broke the 17 and over girls 50-metre butterfly meet record in a time of 32.86 seconds. This was before returning to clock 31.03 in the 17 and over 50-metre butterfly to become the new record holder in that event.
Her teammate Kendise Nangle put two records under her belt, breaking the 12 and under girls 50-metre backstroke record in a time of 35.15 seconds, which is a national age-group record, and the 50-metre freestyle in a time of 30.82 seconds.
NEW RECORD
In the same age group, Victoria Ho broke the 50-metre breastroke record, setting the new time at 40.29 seconds.
Immaculate's Gisselle Dal-mage also found her way into the record books after she set a new time of 41.65 in the girls 17 and over 50-metre breaststroke event. Lora D'Oyen is the new holder of the girls 17 and over 50-metre freestyle record.
For the boys, Hillel's David Bromfield broke the 12 and under backstroke record in a time of 33.64 seconds and pre-University's Garrick Robinson now holds the 17 and over 50-metre butterfly record after his 27.26 seconds swim.
In the 13-14 50-metre freestyle for boys, Campion's Matthew Duhaney is now the new meet record holder after he swam 26.38 seconds in hitting the wall first.
Mark Chisholm broke the boys 17 and over 50-metre breastroke in a time of 31.08 seconds.
However, the performance of the night came from the University of the West Indies' Dominic Lee, who equalled the 1:09.84 seconds 100-metre breaststroke open record, before going on to break the 200-metre individual medley and the 50-metre breastroke records.
PREP/PRIMARY CHAMPS
In the Prep/Primary Schools competition on Saturday, Immaculate Preparatory ran away with top honours in both the female and combined sections after bagging 435.5 points.
Hillel Academy were second in both sections with 114 points in the female section and 335 in the Combined. They took top honours in the boys' section with 221 points, after fighting off the challenges of Wolmer's Prep (190) and St. Peter and Paul (137).
Mona (99) were third in the female section, while Wolmer's Prep were third in the combined rankings.
The story of the afternoon though, was the rise of Naggo's Head, as they upstaged Excelsior Primary (34) to take top honours with 58 points.
The only record to go among the youngsters was the 10-12 100-metre freestyle, where Queen's Prep's Jason Craig-Burnett lowered the mark from 1:16.05 to 1:15.83.
In that race, Sean James from St. Peter and Paul also went lower than the record in a close finish, where he clocked 1:15.91.
