Olympian Geri Mewett has expressed his pride at being on hand to watch his daughters compete for Bermuda at the Carifta Aquatics Championship in Martinique.

Mewett was cheering on from the stands with his wife Maureen as eldest daughter Teagan won a gold medal in the medley relay and two bronzes in the 100 and 200 metres breaststroke.

It is 34 years since Mewett represented Bermuda at the Olympic Games in Barcelona buy his joy at that achievement may have been surpassed by watching one of his daughters make it to the podium and the other swimming internationally for the island.

“It was really neat to see the journey come full circle,” Mewett said.

“There has obviously been a lot of work for them to be involved and it’s just a lot of fun to be on the spectator side and be with all the other Bermuda families up in the stands, watching a pretty fast meet and having a lot of fun.

“It’s hard to step back in the moment and not just be totally focused on the race, but to see the sacrifice and the work that she’s put in finally pay off was really neat. To see how happy the team was on the side of the pool and see how happy she was really exciting.”

The Mewetts have been together since 1996 and married for 25 years. The family are now based in the United States, but Geri’s parents still live in Bermuda and they were glued to the livestream as their granddaughters took to the water.

“The grandparents were watching back in Bermuda and were on the laptop watching the live stream,” Maureen Mewett said.

“That was so exciting and they were WhatsApp messaging us while she was swimming and Geri’s brother was also watching.

“It’s really neat to see the girls embrace something that means so much to my husband and now them too

“When they were little, they tried every single sport, so it was really funny to see that they just gravitated towards swimming as well.”

This was the first time that the Mewett daughters had represented Bermuda and the entire family were welcomed with open arms by some of the island’s more experienced swimmers and their families/

“The girls are very lucky that they both go to school with Bermudian kids already, so they know a fair few of them,” Mewett said.

“Megan’s at Martinsburg and Maggie's at Baylor and there are Bermudians at both, so that helped. The kids were so welcoming and the girls have had so much fun this week getting to spend time with the other kids.”