St Lucia’s two senior swimmers overseas, Johnny Calderon and Daniel Beaubrun helped their respective schools, University of Western Ontario and Florida Gulf Coast University, to major victories on the College swimming circuit.

Calderon, who swims for the University of Western Ontario Mustangs in Canada, was the top Male swimmer at the Bob Eynon Senior Division Championships on November 16 where he captured three gold medals in the 50M Back (27.77), 50M Fly (26.92), 50 Free (24.40) and two relay silvers in the Freestyle and Medley relay.

Mustangs head coach Paul Midgley was naturally pleased with his team’s performance and looked forward to their upcoming meets.
“It gets a lot tougher from here,” Midgley said. “While these are good results for this point in the season, we face a bit of a reality check with next week’s University Challenge followed by the Canada Cup.”

The final team scores were: Western Ontario, 2054.5; Waterloo, 1208; Ottawa, 1150; Brock, 750.5; Wilfred Laurier, 681; Trent, 324.

Further south in Oxford, Ohio USA swimming NCAA at the 16th Annual Miami Invitational held at the Corwin Nixon Natatorium from December 3-5, Danielle Beaubrun helped her Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) Eagles to second place overall for the second consecutive year. The Eagles held off a field that featured schools from major Division One conferences (Illinois and Cincinnati) as well as some of the nation’s top Division Three schools (Emory and Denison).

Beaubrun placed first in the “B” Final of the 100 yard Breast (1:04.80) and second in the “B” final of the 200 Yd breaststroke (2:23.29) and her team placed fourth in the 200 Yd Medley relay and 5th in the 400 Yd medley relay. FGCU finished second of the eight schools participating, scoring a total of 1438 points in the meet. Miami University, the host school, who competed with 13 more swimmers and four more divers than the Eagles, won the event with 2321 points. Emory University, who came in trailing FGCU by just seven points, finished a distant third with 1355 points. Oakland (1008 points) and Illinois (1004) rounded out the top five, followed by Denison (919), Cincinnati (735), and Wright State (608), the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (213) and Tsinghua University (72).