The Davie Nadadores summer season is not over yet. Head Coach, Alex Pussieldi, is getting ready to take 8 of his swimmers to the Junior World Championships in Dubai. The championship begins on August 26th and continues through August 31st. Eight swimmers from six different countries will be representing their home countries as well as the David Nadadores at the 2013 Junior World Championships.
Coach Alex Pussieldi is taking the eight swimmers to Kuwait on August 16th for a team training camp. The athletes will stay in Kuwait until the 24th, and then they will travel to Dubai for the championships.
Dylan Carter, Joshua Romany, and Jonathan Ramskissoon will all be representing Trinidad and Tobago. Jordy Groters will be representing Aruba. Mateo Gonzalez will be representing Mexico. Christian Selby will be representing Barbados. Luis Carlos Martinez will be representing Guatemala. And last but not least, Renxo Tjon A Joe will be representing Suriname.
This meet will be the fourth Junior World Championships. In 2011, this meet was held in Lima, Peru and 58 nations participated with a total of 528 swimmers. 94 countries and 900 swimmers are expected to be at the meet in Dubai at the end of the month.
I don’t know very much about these boys, but I was wondering if they all have citizenship for the countries that they are representing? Or are they dual citizens? I am sure they will have a great time out there!
Wahoo Strong – some are duals, some are singles. Carter, for example, is Dual U.S. and T&T citizen, and would have made either team, but he declared himself a T&T ‘sporting citizen’ a while back.
The whole point of world meets is to have the world represented. That is why each country has their selection standards and sends who they consider their best athlete. We all know that countries like Australia, USA or France have legions of fast swimmers who could be the kid from say, Zimbabwe. That does’t mean that kid is any less deserving to represent his country – that’s the whole point.
Alex Pussieldi probably last major meet as Head Coach.. he twitted he will back off as Head Coach on September..
he will probably focus on media work and focus on some specifi swimmers to train (He is Felipe Lima Coach)
Beautiful pic. of swimmers united from different countries going to do battle in Dubai. Best of luck guys and have a blast.
cool – Congrats to these great kids!!!
no girls? too bad
let’s be real though.. these are not swimming ‘powerhouse’ countries
FYI
Romany had some injuries earlier this year, but last year as a 16 year old was 23.5 in the 50 free, 50.99 in the 100 free, and 1:52.46 in the 200 free. His 50 has been due for a dop for some time now as he was 23.77 as a 14 year old.
Renzo has been 23.19 already this year in the 50 free.
no Americans? too bad
At least they were good enough to make it…..
dylan carter is probably good enough to make it in the US though
that was meant for justsayin
ya Dylan Carter and that’s it. The rest most likely wouldn’t have even made finals at juniors
justsayin – inaccurate. Romany most likely would have made finals. That’s the most obvious one…haven’t looked deep enough at the rest of their times.