Tight battle between Toronto and UBC after first day
UBC’s Head Coach, Steve Price was proud of his women’s team. “They did a pretty good job tonight. We are pleased to be in the lead after the first day. The girls battled hard, they moved up, and to be ahead a very good team in the University of Toronto, we’ll take that. About the meet in general, it was a pretty exciting night for CIS swimming.”
On the men’s side, it was the Varsity Blues that picked up the most points with 276. The Calgary Dinos followed with 247 points, just ahead of the Thunderbirds who collected 242 points.
“We came to this competition thinking we had a chance, even though we were coming in ranked number one,” declared the head coach of the University of Toronto, Byron MacDonald. “Our goal was to start out the meet really well on day one and get some momentum. We are going to need a big lead if we are going to win this thing. We swam incredibly well tonight. If we can build that lead a little bit bigger, we might be able to hang on.”
On the individual level, Erika Seltenreich-Hodgson from UBC stole the show, winning two gold medals in the 200m freestyle and the 400m IM, on top of helping her team win the silver in the 4x100m relay.
Other highlights included Kylie Masse’s second gold medal of the day with her teammates of the U of T in the 4 x 100m freestyle relay. An unusual event also occurred when two swimmers were crowned in the women’s 100m butterfly. UBC’s Jacomie Strydome and Montreal’s Sophie Marois both touched the pad with an identical time of 1:01.14.
1. UBC, 245 points
2. Toronto, 227
3. Calgary, 160
4. Laval, 141
5. Western, 124
6. Dalhousie, 113
7. McGill, 91
8. Montreal, 78
9. Alberta, 68
10. Guelph, 56
11. Ottawa, 53
12. McMaster 46
13. Victoria, 45
14. Sherbrooke, 38
15. Regina, 34
16. UNB, 21
17. UQAM, 18
18. Laurentian, 16
19. Lethbridge, 13
20. Wilfrid Laurier, 7
21. Brock, 5
22. Waterloo, 3
23. Acadia, 2
Men (Nelson C. Hart trophy)
1. Toronto, 276 points
2. Calgary, 247
3. UBC, 242
4. Alberta, 136
5. Western, 106
6. Laval, 73
6. Dalhousie, 73
8. McMaster, 63
9. Guelph, 62
10. Ottawa, 49
11. McGill, 46
11. Victoria, 46
13. Sherbrooke, 36
14. Lethbridge, 32
15. Regina, 30
16. Montreal, 21
16. Manitoba, 21
18. Waterloo, 15
19. Queen’s 11
20. Laurentian 4
1. Erika Seltenreich-Hodgson, UBC, 2:00.90
2. Maia Brundage, UBC, 2:02.50
3. Paige Schultz, Toronto, 2:02.57
Men 200m Free
1. Keegan Zanatta, UBC, 1:50.28 *
2. Evan Van Moerkerke, Guelph, 1:51.14
3. Oliver Straszynski, Toronto, 1:51.68
W 50m Back
1. Kylie Masse, Toronto, 27.84 * (see note below)
2. Marie-Pier Couillard, Laval, 28.93
3. Phoebe Lenderyou, Dalhousie, 29.17
Note: Kylie Masse also set a CIS championship short-course record (26.72) in the preliminaries.
M 50m Back
1. Josh Dow, Calgary, 25.98 *
2. Daniel Kuiack, Toronto, 26.11
3. Christopher Courtis, Calgary, 26.21
W 100m Breast
1. Tera Van Beilen, UBC, 1:08.36
2. Erin Stamp, UBC, 1:10.09
3. Alexandra Naisby, Sherbrooke, 1:10.18
M 100m Breast
1. Eli Wall, Toronto, 1:02.43 *
2. Dillon Perron, Manitoba, 1:03.35
3. Jonathan Naisby, Sherbrooke, 1:03.37
W 100m Fly
1. Jacomie Strydom, UBC, 1:01.14
1. Sophie Marois, Montreal, 1:01.14
3. Marie-Lou Lapointe, Montréal, 1:01.42
M 100m Fly
1. Josiah Binnema, Alberta, 54.09
2. Gamal Assaad, Western, 54.41
3. Matthew Dans, Toronto, 54.70
W 400m IM
1. Erika Seltenreich-Hodgson, UBC, 4:45.21
2. Genevieve Cantin, Laval, 4:53.96
3. Tianna Rissling, Calgary, 4:55.07
M 400m IM
1. Osvald Nitski, Toronto, 4:23.90
2. Tristan Cote, Calgary, 4:24.78
3. Colin Eriks, UBC, 4:25.30
W 4 x 100m Free Relay
1. Toronto, 3:47.36
(Victoria Radounski, Heather Lam, Kylie Masse, Paige Schultz)
2. UBC, 3:48.41
(Rebecca Terejko, Tera Van Beilen, Maia Brundage, Erika Seltenreich-Hodgson)
3. Laval, 3:52.09
(Marie-Pier Couillard, Mila Arnautovich, Magalie Poudrier, Genevieve Cantin)
M 4 x 100m Free Relay
1. Toronto, 3:23.94 *
(Daniel Kuiack, Cameron Kidd, Oliver Straszynski, Mitchel Ferraro)
2. UBC, 3:24.18
(Keegan Zanatta, Justin G Chan, Carson Olafson, Marshal Parker)
3. Guelph, 3:27.63
(Eric Trevisan, Evan Van Moerkerke, John Carroll, Philip Vranic)
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