Swim stalwart Edmund Pouchet passes

The swim­ming fra­ter­ni­ty was plunged in­to mourn­ing on Mon­day fol­low­ing the pass­ing of for­mer na­tion­al swim coach Ed­mund Pouchet. He was 77 years old and was a dial­y­sis pa­tient.

​Pouchet’s love for the sport led him to cre­ate a fam­i­ly of top swim­mers that in­cludes Franz, Mark, Melis­sa, Re­nee, and Shawn Pouchet, the cur­rent pres­i­dent of the Aquat­ic Sports As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (ASATT), all of whom rep­re­sent­ed the coun­try at the na­tion­al lev­el.

​In ad­di­tion, the se­nior Pouchet en­sured that the coun­try was well rep­re­sent­ed through top names such as Shas­tri Roberts, Chris­t­ian Homer, Cherelle Thomp­son, Zarek Wil­son, and Caryl Blondell, among many oth­ers.