Trinity captain Shehan de Silva picked to swim at Singapore Nationals

by S.M. Jeffrey Abdeen, Kandy Sports Cor.

Trinity College, Kandy’s swimming captain Shehan de Silva has been selected to swim in the Singapore Swimming Nationals to be held in Singapore from June 21 to 31. He will be representing Sri Lanka national team and will compete in the 100 metres Dolphin Stroke and 100 metres Butterfly Stroke.

Shehan de Silva is in fine form at present and at the recently concluded CEPASA Swimming Championship won five gold medals in the Over-16 Age Group Championship and in the process broke five meet records. Net at the National Short Course Championship, he established the 50 metes record for the Butterfly Stroke event.

He also led Trinity College to win the National Penthathlon Swimming Championship after a lapse of 6 years and also led the team from the front by scoring the most number of points for the team.