no one forgets her.

A frequent visitor since leaving the Island as a child, Blackburn set three national swim records on the opening day of the Harbour Open Championships.

And there could be more to come. Wednesday's efforts were in the heats and she swam three more heats last night, meaning the likelihood of as many as six finals on Saturday at BASA Pool.

Now 25 and fresh from the Canadian Championships in Edmonton, Alberta, Blackburn established new standards in all three events she entered -- the 100 metre breaststroke, 100m freestyle and 100m backstroke.

Although Bermudian and eligible for national team selection, Blackburn has never represented the Island because she has been funded by the Canadian Swimming Association. But after just missing out on two Commonwealth Games and one Olympics, she has her sights set on the 2000 Olympiad in Sydney with either nation, said her father Ray.

She made her point on Wednesday, when she beat former Bermuda Olympian Jenny Smatt's 1992 record in the 100m breast by .16 seconds (1:12.55), Tiffany Gosling's six-year-old mark in the 100m backstroke (1:09.49) and her own in the 100 freestyle (59.56).

Blackburn attended school in Canada and recently graduated from the University of Ottawa with Bachelor of Science in Human Kinetics and Bachelor of Education degrees. A swimming coach with the Nepean Kanata Barracudas, she was fourth in the 100m breast and sixth in the 200m breast at the Canadian championships but failed to make the national team.