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Integrated swim programme opens in Mobay
BY PAT ROXBOROUGH-WRIGHT Editor-At-Large/Western Bureau
Thursday, May 07, 2009
Like most parents in Montego Bay, Paula Hurlock just wasn't happy with the lack of cohesiveness in the various swimming programmes for children.
But as a full-time mother and career woman, she couldn't do much about it.
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| Paula Hurlock with three of her young charges. (Photo: Pat Roxborough-Wright) |
However, even as she put in the back-breaking pioneering work as Executive Director of the Dolphin Head Trust (DHT) she nutured the dream of a programme that would enable her six-year-old son Dillon to compete on a level field with his cousin, D'agaene Clarke who swims with Jamaica's champion Tornadoes Swim Club.
On leaving the DHT, she began to consolidate her resources to initiate an integrated swim programme which would bring the existing programmes in the second city under an umbrellor organisation.
"The idea was to get everybody on-board to facilitate the vast potential that is within the children of the second city," she told the Observer West. And so she went about identifying a suitable pool. It wasn't long before she found one at the Sea Gardens hotel. At first, proprietor Dennis Morgan said no. However, Hurlock refused to give up. And after about two months of arguing and cajoling, she got him to agree to allow the progamme to utilise the facilities.
Today they're open for business with over fifty students at various stages of the sport.
The Integrated Swim Programme for Montego Bay comprises Joyce White's Swim Jamaica Programme and the Amateur Swimming Association of Jamaica.
Ultimately, the ISP hopes to establish itself as the official representative for all swimming endeavours in the second city.
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