Ferreira leads Trinity Masters swim team

A 14-member Trinity Masters Swim Club will represent Trinidad and Tobago at the seventh Latin and American Masters Swim Meet from September 1-5 in Barbados.

Open to swimmers 26 years and over, the team is led by Munich 1972 Olympic swimmer and World Master’s Swim Championships gold medallist Geoffrey Ferreira. The team also includes US-based Master Michael Stollmeyer, Triathletes Donna Pollard and Jackie Jodhan and Wayne Crooks who recently circled Trinidad in a kayak. The meet, which has been hosted by Barbados, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Fort Lauderdale in Florida, USA and Costa Rica, features competition in the butterfly, freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke in five age groups. There is also an open water swim over 3000 and 5000 metres on September 6.

The full Trinity Masters team is: Geoffrey Ferreira, Patty de La Rosa, Bruce Kaufmann, Richard Knaggs, Randy Attin, Jackie Millar, Gordon Borde, Louis Martin, Paul Alloy, Peter De La Rosa, Michael Stollmeyer, Wayne Crooks, Leslie Nunes, Donna Pollard and Jackie Jodhan.