Yet another Bahamian female swimmer is making waves in the water.<\/p>\n
On the heels of Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace\u2019s double NCAA sprint titles, McKayla Lightbourn is proving that she will also be a force to reckon with at this year\u2019s RBC Swimming Nationals. The latter broke her own national record in the 200 meters (m) Individual Medley (IM) recently, lowering the new mark to 2:19.72. The old record of 2:20.09 was set by her at the 2008 CARIFTA Swimming Championships in Aruba.<\/p>\n
Her new record is still about a second off the qualifying time for this summer\u2019s FINA World Championships, but coach Andy Knowles is pleased with her progression and is looking forward to her improving her times as the Nationals draw near.<\/p>\n
Lightbourn is expected home for the RBC Swimming Nationals, which is set for June 18-21, at the Betty Kelly Kenning National Swim Complex. The 14th FINA World Championships are scheduled for July 16\u201331, in Shanghai, China, and the 16th Pan American Games will be held from October 14\u201330, in Guadalajara, Mexico. Lightbourn is hoping to be a member of both teams as well as the Central American and Caribbean Swimming Confederation (CCCAN) Championships team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bahamian collegiate swimmer McKayla Lightbourn set a new national record and plans to qualify for the FINA World Championships this summer, and the 2012 London Olympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[55,131],"class_list":["post-7951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-awards","tag-sports-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}