With the curtains coming down on the Amateur Swimming Association of Jamaica (ASAJ) 2015 season, a number of swimmers were in an aggressive mood as they wiped out nine records over three sessions at the Christmas Open Championships at the National Aquatics Centre on the first two days.

With the curtains coming down on the Amateur Swimming Association of Jamaica (ASAJ) 2015 season, a number of swimmers were in an aggressive mood as they wiped out nine records over three sessions at the Christmas Open Championships at the National Aquatics Centre on the first two days.

The four-day meet, which got under way on Thursday evening and will end today, has attracted many of Jamaica’s promising swimmers who are now based overseas.

The swimmers were in a no-nonsense mood as they aimed to improve their times ahead of a busy 2016 calendar season, which includes the Carifta and Caribbean Islands Swimming Championships (CISC).

A total of six records were erased on yesterday’s morning session in sunny conditions, with national age-group record holder Jesse Marsh leading the way with a flashy 59.09-second clocking in the boys’ 13-and-over 100-metre butterfly event.

The now unattached swimmer, who was affiliated with the Tornadoes swim club, won ahead of Kevaughn Campbell (1:03.71) of Swimaz Aquatic and Orane Garrick (1:04.59) of Marlins.

Marsh, who achieved the blistering national age-group record of 58.49 seconds at a meet in Florida recently, matched his own record established on Friday evening when he took down the previous time of 59.60 seconds set by Brad Hamilton in 2008.

Sean Douglas-Gooden was also in good form when establishing records in the boys’ 13-and-over 50-metre and 200-metre breaststroke events, respectively.

The Tornadoes representative achieved the first in the 50-metre dash, where he clocked a fast 31.71 seconds to beat Campbell (32.86sec) and Marlins’ Keith-Jordan Wilkinson (34.02sec), on his way to lowering the previous record of 31.86 seconds set by Brad Hamilton in 2007.

Douglas-Gooden then returned to demolish Campbell’s two-year-old record of 2:45.30 minutes set in 2013, when he clocked 2:40.42 minutes in the 200-metre equivalent, beating Wilkinson (2:51.93) and Chester Adams (2:56.67) of Y-Speedos in the process.

DaVante Carey, who flew in from The Bahamas to represent Swift swim club, ensured that the trip was not in vain as he took down Douglas-Gooden’s old mark of 34.21 seconds set in 2013 with a 33.23-second clocking in the boys’ 10-12 50-metre equivalent. He won ahead of Cameron Brown (35.59sec) of Y-Speedos and Akeem Alleyne (36.37sec) of Swimaz Aquatic.

But with Carey absent from the boys’ 10-12 200-metre equivalent, Brown made amends with a 2:51.10-minute clocking to pull down the four-year-old mark of 2:54.52 minutes set by Xavier Phillips in 2011 on his way to victory ahead of Alleyne (3:07.18), with teammate Rajiv Redhi (3:10.50) back in third.

The Tornadoes swim club A team of Nicholas Haughton, Alex Mignott, Douglas-Gooden and Christian Alberga then brought the curtains down on the morning session with a 1:43.56-minute clocking to win the boys’ 200-metre freestyle relay and rewrite the club’s old meet record of 1:45.86 minutes set in 2012.

Swimaz Aquatic A, comprising Kymon Naar, Mat Cole, Alleyne and Campbell were second in 1:51.58 minutes, while the Marlins team of Garrick, Wilkinson Joel, David Deslandes and Keith-Jordan Wilkinson were third in 1:51.74 minutes.

Meanwhile, Karci Gibson, who recently returned home from the ASATT Invitational in Trinidad & Tobago, and Emily MacDonald, shared the records that fell during Friday’s evening session in dramatic fashion.

Gibson of Marlins seized the initiative when she clocked 2:22.65 minutes to win the girls’ 10-12 200-metre freestyle to lower the previous mark of 2:23.08 minutes set by Samantha Bailey in 2013. She did so while beating the Swimaz Aquatic pair of MacDonald (2:27.95) and Thandiwe McDonald (2:38.66) in the process.

However, MacDonald turned the tables in the 100-metre butterfly event, where she stopped the clock at 1:14.03 minutes to just dip below the old mark of 1:14.66 minutes set by Anjuii Barrett in 2013. Gibson (1:24.48) was left in second, while Paig’e Lewis (1:36.09) of Y-Speedos was third.

Britney Williams of Swimaz Aquatic achieved the only record on Thursday in the girls’ 800-metre freestyle, where she finished tops with a time of 10:12.19 minutes to lower the old mark of 10:13.15 minutes and beat the previous holder Leanne McMaster (10:33.92) into second. Gibson (10.39.74) was third.