The Northern Marianas Swimming Team hopes to compete in the Pacific Games in the Solomon Islands in 2023 and win at least one medal every day.
"Swimming has to be the first medal sport for Team NMI! We will win a medal every day, I'm sure of that," head coach Hiroyuki Kimura declared. Isaiah Aleksenko, Juhn Tenorio, and Maria Batallones are considered to have the best prospects of winning a medal for Team CNMI out of the 15 swimmers on the strong squad. All three competed in the FINA World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, earlier this year. The 50, 100, and 200-meter butterfly races are Aleksenko's events in the Solomons meet. Tenorio will compete in the 50-, 100-, and 200-meter backstroke, and Batallones will compete in the same…
