Two years ago at the 2015 World Junior Swimming Championships in Singapore Aruba’s Patrick Groters was 44th in a time of 59.88. Fast forward two years a much improved Groters crushed that time and placing with a good performance in Indianapolis today.
Patrick, who holds the 15-17 CARIFTA record and Aruban national record with a time of 57.17 bettered that time with a 57.01 clocking. That time placed him 17th overall. The top 16th time was 56.75. Mere 26th hundredths from a second swim Patrick earned the accolade of being the top CCCAN swimmer at the Global Championships.
Analysis of Groters swims in 2015 and 2017
| Year | Venue | First 50 | Second 50 | Final time | Placing |
| 2015 | Singapore | 28.86 | 31.02 | 59.88 | 44th |
| 2017 | Indianapolis | 27.53 | 29.49 | 57.01 | 17th |
CCCAN Champion in the 15-17 Jack Kirby of Barbados produced yet another sub 58 seconds clocking to win heat 4 convincingly in 57.63 (split time 28.27).That performance placed him 23rd overall and second overall from the CCCAN region
Other times from the CCCAN region in the event
| Name | Event | Country | CCCAN ranking | Overall ranking | Time | Split |
| Guillermo Cruz Zuniga | Mexico | 3 | 29 | 59.00 | 28.34 | |
| Thomas Bozzo | US Virgin Islands | 4 | 38 | 1:01.64 | 29.87 | |
| Alejandro Rosa | Dominican Republic | 5 | 41 | 1:03.92 | 30.63 | |
| Terel Monplaisir | St Lucia | 6 | 46 | 1:06.49 | 32.04 | |
| Zeniel Guzman | Dominican Republic | 7 | 47 | 1:07.14 | 32.25 | |
| Jason Bento | Antigua & Barbuda | 8 | 48 | 1:07.26 | 32.22 | |
| Alexander Bento | Antigua & Barbuda | 9 | 49 | 1:07.65 | 32.88 |
