Dylan Carter, 2009 multiple Carifta and CCCAN gold medallist, and aspiring star Kael Yorke smashed two records each at last weekend’s Stingray October Classic at St Michael’s Pool in San Fernando.

Carter, of Marlins Swim Club, broke two records which belonged to his club’s head coach Franz Huggins.

On Saturday, he erased the 11-12 male 100-metre freestyle record of 56.02 seconds set by Huggins in December 1992.

The new record established was 55.73 seconds.

One day later, he continued his mission to better his mentor by erasing the 50-metre freestyle record of 25.52 with an impressive time of 24.98 seconds.

Carter also won the 11-12 male age group overall and achieved 2010 13-14 male qualifying times for the Caribbean Islands Swimming Championships (CISC) and/or Carifta in the 50m free, 200m free, 100m backstroke and 200 individual medley (IM).

Yorke, of Tidal Wave Aquatics, broke the 8 & under male 50-metre butterfly and freestyle marks on Sunday.

First, in the 50-metre fly, he swam a fast 36.03 seconds to erase Stuart Gillette’s record of 36.30 set in December 1996.

He then went on to clip the December 2005 50m free record of Jonathan Fabio of 32.56 seconds, registering a new mark of 32.54.

Yorke, a 2009 Goodwill Games national team member, also convincingly won the overall trophy for his age group.

Many swimmers started to make bids for 2010 national age-group team places by achieving qualifying times for CARIFTA Games, scheduled for April 2010 in Jamaica, and/or CISC, set for Cuba in July.

Among the qualifiers were Caryle Blondell, Kimberlee John-Williams, Cherelle Thompson, Rejan Chin and Kadeja Phillip of Blue Dolphins; Jabari Baptiste, Keegan Boisson-Yates, Jonathan Gillette, Jason Rodriguez, Joshua Romany and Joel Sankar of Marlins; Cadell Lyons of Petrotrin Barracudas; Napoleon Howell and Bryanna Duncan of Sea Hawks SC; Jeron O’Brien and Syriah David of Tidal Wave; and Kristin Julien of Tsunami Swim Club.

The next opportunity for swimmers to qualify is at the Tsunami second annual swim meet on October 18 at the same venue of last weekend’s event, before the Torpedoes Invitational from October 23-25 at the Centre of Excellence, Macoya.