HLSCC to get 25m pool @ Paraquita Bay campus - BVIOC secures commitment from from Panam Sports & World Aquatics

PARAQUITA BAY, Tortola, VI- The BVI Olympic Committee (BVIOC) has announced it has secured a commitment from Panam Sports and World Aquatics (the international swimming federation formerly known as FINA) to support the supply of a 25m international competition standard swimming pool from Myrtha Pools to be installed and managed by H. Lavity Stoutt Community College on Tortola, [British] Virgin Islands.

According to a press release from the BVIOC on February 1, 2023, the development of the project has been formalised following six months of discussions between Mr Ephraim E. Penn, President of the BVIOC, Mr Ivar Sisniega, Secretary General for Panam Sports and Dr Richard W. E. Georges, President of the HLSCC.

It said preparatory work on the proposal included a meeting with the President of the BVI Swimming Federation, schematics from Myrtha Pools received through Panam Sports and a rough order of magnitude.

“Dr Georges initially approached the BVIOC in July with an offer of partnership for the installation of a swimming pool following a response I had given to a question on the status of swimming in the territory at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games press conference,” said President Penn. “This was a timely outreach that came on the heels of a Panam Sports National Olympic Committee Consultation meeting that Secretary-General Lloyd K. Black, Treasurer Mark Chapman and I attended in Miami in May 2022."

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