St. Kitts captures Special Olympic Relay Swim Title
SANDY POINT, St. Kitts (29th March 2017) - The 17th Annual Nevis to St. Kitts Cross Channel Swim was held on Sunday the 26th of March 2017 from Oualie Beach, Nevis to Cockle Shell Beach, St. Kitts.
This event had attracted some 200 swimmers from around the world, including the USA, England, Scotland, Ireland, Brazil, St. Kitts and Nevis and a number of other islands in the Caribbean.
Thirty-six-year-old Ashley Whitney of Nashville Tennessee had won the event. She is a 1996 Summer Olympic gold medallist in one of the preliminary heats of the women 4x200 that was won by the USA.
Additionally, for the first time in the history of the Nevis to St. Kitts Cross Channel Swim did the organisers partnered with the Special Olympic St. Kitts and Nevis to host an open water unified relay swim. The race was between St. Kitts and Nevis and each participant of the four-member teams had to swim a distance of 1 kilometer.
Team St. Kitts won the event which was made possible by Roger, Jonathon and Robert.
Equally important, for the third year the 16th Annual Nevis to St. Kitts Cross Channel Swim was partnered with the St. Kitts Turtle Conservation group to help raise awareness of our ocean and the endangered species.
The coordinator of this event was Mr. Winston Crooke and among the sponsors that made it a success were Four Season Resort, Sponge, Ross University, St. Kitts Follow Your Heart, Spice Mill and St. Kitts Nevis Swimming Foundation.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Ms. Cheyanne Govia is a Fourth Form student at the Charles E. Mills Secondary in Sandy Point and a member of the Mus Tri (Master-Ur-Skills Triathlon) media team. The article was written as an assignment for a recent Workshop conducted by Open Interactive and SKNVibes for a five-member group from that educational institution.
