Championships following another brilliant performance in the pool recently.

The only swimmer from the Island so far to qualify for this year's Sydney Olympics, 22-year-old Fahy, a senior at Yale University, broke a 12-year-old record at the EISL meet held at the DeNunzio Pool, at Princeton University last week.

And he did so in convincing style.

Competing in the 200 yards individual medley, Fahy won in a time of 1:47.31, beating the old record of 1:47.50 set in 1988.

In pulling off the victory he also smashed his own Yale record by 1.19 seconds which he set last month.

It still has to be established whether the performance will allow Fahy to qualify for the NCAA Championships which will be held from March 23-24 at the University of Minnesota.

He should know this week following the last meet on Saturday of the eastern Inter-Collegiate Swimming League. Eight Ivy League schools plus Army and Navy have been competing.

It was just last month that Fahy smashed his own 200IM national record and two Yale records.

He narrowly missed out on the Atlanta Olympic Games four years ago and became the first local swimmer to make a Pan-Am Games final last August in the 100 metres butterfly in Winnipeg. It was that performance that qualified him for the Sydney Games where he hopes to compete in the 200 IM and the 100 butterfly.

Recently he attributed his good start to this year to the rigorous training programme he undertook last summer in the US with coach Frank Keefe who coached the 1984 US Olympic team and was manager of the 1988 team.