Zindzi Swan comprehensively demolished her Bermuda high jump record at the weekend when she soared to new heights never reached by a local female athlete.

She was razor sharp during the Bermuda Track and Field Association?s weekend meets at the National Sports Centre for CARIFTA Games when she pulled off the feat by leaping 1.80 metres on her second attempt, clearing the bar by several inches to set a new junior women?s national record ? surpassing her old mark of 1.76 metres set last year.

Swan, who has already met the CARIFTA qualifying marks in both the high jump and long jump, followed up her record-setting performance by also recording her best long jump of the year, with a leap of 5.77 metres.

Her achievements over the weekend made it the fourth junior national record that has been set in recent weeks. The other three were also set by national squad competitors ? Brittney Marshall broke her own junior women national discus record with a throw of 38.64 metres while James Bergl bettered the junior men?s national record on two occasions, the most recent mark being a toss of 48.55 metres.

Swan, Bergl and Marshall have competed at previous CARIFTA Games. Swan and Marshall made their debuts at the 2000 Games in Grenada. While Bergl made his in 2002 in Bahamas. Bergl?s best position has been fourth while Swan managed at least two fourth-place finishes and two gold medals and Marshall has earned six medals from her four CARIFTA outings.

In addition to Swan, Bergl and Marshall (all in the under-20 age group), five other national squad athletes have also surpassed the performance guidelines for the 2004 CARIFTA Games.

Derrick Golding, regaining his fitness after an illness, threw the discus this past weekend 36.28 metres. Earlier in the year he threw the discus to a new personal best mark of 39.58 metres.

Golding, in the under-20 age group, is looking to make his fourth CARIFTA Games appearance this year.

Lovintz Tota has made his mark recently in the in the long jump.

Needing to clear 6.70 metres, he has defied gravity to clear 6.92 and 6.91 metres during the two recent track meets ? he is bidding to make his first CARIFTA Games team and compete in his first international competition.

Three national squad athletes in the under-17 group have made the performance grade so far. Tristan Francis, a member of West End Athletic Club and finalist at the 2003 Games in Port-of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, has made the mark in the 100 metres.

Latroya Darrell who made her first Games appearance in 2002 and is still in the under-17 age group, is looking to challenge again in the triple and high jump events. She won silver medals at both events in 2002 and earned a silver medal and fourth place respectively in the high and triple jumps in Trinidad last year.

She has jumped to a new personal best mark of 12 metres in the triple jump already this year, a distance that would have secured the silver medal last year. In the high jump she has managed a height of 1.65 metres this year.

The youngest member of the national squad is 13-year old Deanne Lightbourn, a member of Bermuda Pacers Track Club.

Under less than ideal conditions at most meets and recently recovered from an illness, Lightbourn ran the 400 metres in 58.31 seconds at the weekend, the fourth time she has run sub-59 seconds for the 400 metres in recent meets.

She has also made waves in the 800 metres, surpassing the standard of 2:29.0, with a time of 2:23.38 ? this would be her first CARIFTA appearance. The next track meet is March 6 and 7.