in confident mood following a record blitz during the weekend's Bermuda Amateur Swimming Association annual age group championships.

Saltus student Fahy, a key member of the Island's national squad, smashed no less than two national records and five age group records in a three-day meet which saw him compete in eight events.

He lowered his own national 200 metres individual medley record by almost one and a half seconds, clocking 2:13.04 compared to the mark of 2:13.52 he set in July last year.

And the 17-year-old, who represented Bermuda at last year's Commonwealth Games in Canada and this year's CAC Games in Mexico, also shaved six tenths of a second off his own 400 metres individual medley national record, finishing in 4:42.01 compared to the 4:43.40 he swam last July.

Both were also age group records and Fahy, who along with Stanley Harris leaves for Atlanta next Sunday, added three more new age group marks -- in the 15-18 200 metres freestyle (1:57.70), the 15-18 200 metres butterfly (2:11.03) and the 15-18 100 metres butterfly (58.30).

Said BASA spokesperson Colleen Nelson yesterday: "Stephen was certainly man-of-the-meet, although there were an awful lot of other very good performances.

"I think what has to be recognised is that he was swimming in the 15-18 age group where it's a lot more difficult to break records. And he broke records in three different disciplines.'' The only other national record to fall over the weekend went to Stanley Harris who clipped more than one and a half seconds off his own 200 metres backstroke mark.

Harris was timed in 2:13.39, just a month after he set the previous record of 2:14.99.

Altogether a dozen age group records tumbled during the meet -- three of them to Matthew Hammond, who was the star of the Bermuda team's recent trip to Guadalajara for the CAC Games.

Hammond took a whopping six and a half seconds off the 13-14 400 metres freestyle record set by Geri Mewett back in 1989, clocking 4:18.26 compared to Mewett's 4:25.70.

He then destroyed the 13-14 200 metres backstroke record with a time of 2:18.52 -- Stephen Troake set the previous mark last month of 2:23.90.

And Hammond completed his record hat-trick with a time of 1:04.35 in the 13-14 100 metres backstroke, eclipsing Trevor Ferguson's old mark of 1:08.17.

Ferguson, however, notched a record of his own when he clocked 2:17.23 in the 15-18 200 metres backstroke, bettering Stanley Harris' previous best of 2:18.63.

Among the girls, just two records fell.

Rebecca Hanson of the Sharks Club shattered one of the longest-standing records in the 11-12 200 metres butterfly when she swam 3:02.77 to beat the mark set by Judith Brewer back in November, 1985, of 3:08.20.

Melanie Fullerton, competing in the eight-and-under division, won the 200 metres freestyle in a new record of 3:30.51.

RECORD SPLASH -- Stephen Fahy smashed two national records and five age group records during weekend meet.