Regular publication highlighting the CIS world

Welcome! The very competitive world of Canadian university swimming will be updated by each team across the country throughout this season. Please take the time to read through our updates and keep informed about the successes of each team. The links with each school will direct you to their athletic pages and provide more details about schedules and rosters.

The season starts right away and will finish with CIS championships hosted by the University of Toronto February 18-20, 2010.

News from this week in CIS swimming:

University Challenge Cup This year was the third round of the pre-Canada Cup showcase of Canadian University swimming. With CIS champs taking place at the Toronto pool in only 3 months it was a great chance for the national competitors to test out the waters where they will challenge for the titles.

The University Challenge Cup title was decided with the last couple of events. The University of Dinos won the two 4X50 medley relays that concluded the competition to win. Calgary coach Mike Blondal was quoted on the SNC website “We brought a strong team and swam really well. There was a lot of depth at this meet and we had some exceptional performances.”

Second place in the team standings went to the host University of Toronto team who were lead by a strong men’s team. Colin Russell won the 50 and 100 free and was quoted saying “I’m really happy with my times for this point in the season. This is my last year with the U of T and I really want to help our school have a lot of success. This was a great start to what we hope can culminate with the team title at the CIS championships (in February).”

Third place in the team standings was the University of . Coach Bill Humby was justifiably proud of his team’s performance. Unsure of how the team was going to perform before the session began Humby saw several Panda and Bear swimmers pick up CIS qualifying standards and be very competitive in all the races. Alberta was 6th and 7th in the team races last season at CIS champs and have shown that they are going to challenge the top spots this year.

The closest individual race of the night saw the women’s 100 fly top three separated by less than 0.1 seconds. Krysten Flanagan (UA) beat Erin Miller (UBC) by 0.01 with Melissa Loyzer (UWO) only 0.07 behind that. Not to be missed Shaneese Nowlan (UBC) posted the fasted time of the event, 1:03.53, in the 2nd heat. The top individual swim went to Erica Morningstar (UC) who posted a swift 55.46 in the 100 free. On the men’s side the top swim was Colin Russell’s 49.37 100 free effort.

The deepest event on the men’s side was the 200 IM where 4 men were under the CIS standard in both the A and B heats. On the women’s side the first individual event, the 100 back, saw 9 women dip under the CIS standard. Concerns about performances being reduced because of the changes in suit rules appeared unfounded

at this early point in the season. Again quoting from the SNC article; “About two-thirds of the meet records were lowered tonight,” said Pierre Lafontaine, Swimming Canada’s head coach and CEO. “We’re not surprised to see those kinds of performances. Everyone saw the fast times at the recent World Cups and they came here ready.”

This meet has grown to showcase some excellent performances by the top CIS schools. The majority of swimmers continued racing into the weekend at the Canada Cup but several of the fastest times of the weekend were done while performing for their schools in the tight, quick format that the University Challenge Cup provides.

Full results are available at https://www.swimming.ca/meetreport.aspx?mid=8823

Canada Cup The racing moved to the suburbs from U of T as Etobicoke was the site for the 2009 Canada Cup. CIS swimmers again figured prominently throughout the sessions. Missing from the University Challenge Cup the looked very strong as a team as will the University of Ottawa Gee Gees with the addition of UBC transfer Matt Hawes in the new year.

CIS eligible swimmers who won medals through the Canada Cup included: Erica Morningstar – Calgary – 100 free, 100 IM, 200 IM Kevyn Peterson – Calgary – 200 free Hanna Kubas – Calgary – 50 back Katie Murdoch – Calgary – 100 back Genevieve Cantin – Laval – 200 back, 400 IM Martha McCabe – UBC – 200 breast Rory Biskupski – UBC – 50 free David Woodman – Calgary – 200 free Kelly Aspinall – UBC – 50 back, 100 back, 100 fly David Sharpe – Dalhousie – 50 back, 100 back, 100 fly, 200 fly Jason Block – Calgary – 50 breast Zack Chetrat – Toronto – 200 fly Andrew Ford – Guelph – 100 IM, 200 IM, 400 IM

Other news and meet results

The past couple of weeks have seen some excellent varsity meets being held across the country. Here are a couple of reports or links to results.

2009 AUS Invitational – hosted at Dalhousie University - results are here http://www.athletics.dal.ca/documents/swimming_results/2009-10/AUS%20results%20%20-%202009.pdf

Coupe Universitaire 2 - Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières – resultants ici http://www.sportetudiant-stats.com/universitaire/natation/0910/resultats-coupe2.pdf

2009 OUA Divisional Championships

The thirteen Ontario university varsity teams are divided into two divisions based on the previous year’s final OUA rankings. The odd numbered teams (finishing 1st/3rd/5th/etc) are in one division while the even number finishing teams are in the other. Both divisions run the exact same order of events on the same dates. This is a great opportunity to have a mid season report card to see where the whole conference stands.

The Divisions are named for long time coaches in the OUA that added significant legacy to the OUA swimming programs. The one division is called the Robin Campbell Division (former coach at U of T) and the other one is called the Bob Eynon division (former Western Ontario coach). The honour is for ten years, after which the divisions will be renamed for two more distinguished coaches.

This year’s champions in the Enyon Division were the University of Western Ontario on the strength of some excellent swimming by their women’s team. The Campbell Division was won by McMaster University with a balanced and deep team carrying the day.

Highlights from the Campbell Division held at the University of Guelph were: - McMaster won the overall title with 1735-1678 over Toronto, with the hosts in third with 1439; followed by Laurentian, Queens, York, and Carleton. - In the Men’s contest, Toronto topped McMaster 884-830 with the others falling in line as Guelph, Queens, Laurentian, York, and Carleton - In the women’s contest, McMaster topped U of T 908-794 with the remaining teams coming in as Guelph, Laurentian, Queens, and Carleton - Guelph pleased the home town folks with fifteen gold medals (12 individual and three relay gold) - Star of the meet with four gold medals was Andrew Ford of Guelph who won the 100, 200 back and 200, 400IM - Triple gold medalists were: Andrew Townsend (Toronto – 50, 100 fly and 100 free); Alexandra vanOomen (McMaster – 50, 100, 200 breast); Chantique Payne (Guelph – 50 free, 100 fly, 200 IM) - Double gold were Bethany Flemington (Guelph); Melanie Davis (Toronto); Stefan Kalaba (Toronto); and Curtis Samuel (Toronto).

Results are available at https://www.swimming.ca/meetreport.aspx?mid=8585

Highlights from the Eynon Division held at the University of Ottawa were: - University of Western Ontario won the overall title 2054 – 1208 over the University of Waterloo. Ottawa was third followed by Brock, Laurier and Trent. - On the men’s side Western won 916-760 over Ottawa with Waterloo, Laurier, Brock and Trent following. - On the women’s side Western dominated with 1138 points over Brock with 538 followed by Waterloo, Laurier, Ottawa and Trent. - The top performers with 4 wins were Whitney Rich of Laurier who won the 50, 100, 200 breast and the 200 IM and Robert Irvine of the host Ottawa Gee Gees who swam a demanding program over two days and won the 200 fly, 400 IM, 400 and 1500 free. - Triple gold medalists were: Brittany Cooper (400 IM, 400, 800 free); Melissa Loyzer (Western – 50, 100 fly and 100 free); Jonny Calderone (Western – 50 back, 50 free, 50 fly); Wesley Greig (Waterloo – 50, 100, 200 breast) - Double gold winners were: Hans Fracke (Ottawa – 100, 200 free); Adam Best (Ottawa – 100, 200 back)

Results are available at https://www.swimming.ca/meetreport.aspx?mid=8730

There were several swimmers from several teams absent with the flu.

MEMORIAL SEA HAWKS AND LETHBRIGE PRONGHORNS COMPLETE HOME AND HOME SERIES

On Remembrance Day the St. John’s Sea Hawks flew across the country for a week to remember with the Lethbridge Pronghorn Swim Team. Upon arriving the two teams made their way out to Banff National Park for

the day. For many of the Newfoundland swimmers this was their first trip to the Rockies. Memorial swimmers billeted with the Lethbridge team for the week.

On Thursday the teams swam two combined workouts and enjoyed a pot luck dinner and social gathering. Friday was the first of three team challenges. The Hawks and Horns went head to head in a Water polo match, the Horns winning 7-1. Following the Match the teams completed another joint practice.

Saturday morning was intense on the court. The team’s measured themselves again in a floor hockey game. The Hawks took an early lead, up 2-1 for the first 30 minutes. But, the Pronghorns rolled the lines over well and stormed back in the second half to win 5-3. Again, the teams swam it out in the pool following the game.

Saturday afternoon was all business, “The Dual in the Pool Two, The Rematch”. In October the Horns were in St. John’s and won the first dual. The first dual featured 50’s, 200’s, 800 free, and 200 relays. In Lethbridge, the program was similar, 50’s, 100’s, 400 free, 200 IM, and 400 relays. Scoring was 5, 3, 1 for the individual events and 7-0 for relay win.

The Hawks took a quick lead winning both freestyle relays. But, the Horns came right back in the 100’s winning 6 of 8 events. The 200 IM and 400 freestyles left the teams even at the break. Although Memorial’s David Forbes won all three 50’s he swam, Horn’s swimmers matched with 2nd and 3rd place touches. The home and home series would come down to the relays. Both the ladies and the men Pronghorn teams won their last event respectively. Final Score Lethbridge Women 57, Memorial 48; Lethbridge Men 57, Women 47. Combined Score 113 to 95 for the Horns.

“This was a great experience for both our programs. To have traveled, trained, raced, and taken in the local culture was an awesome university student-athlete experience for the swimmers and coaching staff. Having the respective teams billet added value to the tour and increased swim community bonding.”

Conference News

http://www.acadiau.ca/ sports/homepage.htm http://www.goseahawks.ca/index.php

Dalhousie University http://www.athletics.dal.ca/default.cfm?id=0 http://athletics.mta.ca/modules.php?na

me=Content&pa=showpage&pid=242

http://vreds.unb.ca/Teams/Swimm http://www.upei.ca/athletics/swimming ing/default.aspx /

Conference News

University of Manitoba http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/kinrec/bsal/bison University of Alberta http://www.bears.ualberta.ca/Swimming/ s/index.php?page=team&sport=swimming

University of British Columbia http://www.gothunderbirds.ca/ http://www.reginacougars.com/ind ex.aspx?path=swim&

http://www.godinos.com/index.aspx ?tab=swimming&path=swim http://vikes.uvic.ca/teams/index.p hp?team=Swimming&sportid=22

University of Lethbridge http://horns.uleth.ca/combined_team/team.cfm?tea mID=Swimming

Conference News

http://www.gobadgers.ca/sports/swim/ind ex

Carleton University http://www2.carleton.ca/goravens/teams/swimming/ http://www.trentvarsity.ca/team.php?team= Swimming

University of Toronto http://www.athletics.uoguelph.ca/Va http://www.varsityblues.ca/index.aspx?tab=s rsity_Sport/_Teams/Swimming wimming&path=swim

http://www.athletics.uwaterloo.ca/varsity/sports/200 9_2010/swimming/index.htm http://www.luvoyageurs.com/swi mming/index.html University of Western Ontario http://www.westernmustangs.ca/index.aspx?tab=sw imming&path=swim

http://www.athrec.mcmaster.ca/a thletics/teams/swimming/wswimming.htm http://www.athletics.wlu.ca/varsi tyathletics/createteam.php?sport=SWIMM

University of Ottawa http://www.geegees.uottawa.ca/?q=node/336&sid= 19 York University http://www.sport.yorku.ca/interuniversity_sport/tea Queen’s University ms/swimming/index.asp http://www.gogaelsgo.com/index.aspx?path=swim &tab=swimming

Conference News

http://www.rougeetor.ulaval.ca/les_clubs/natation/n atation_accueil/index.html http://www.sports.uqam.ca/citadins/

http://www.mcgill.ca/athletics/varsitysports/teamsh https://oraprdnt.uqtr.uquebec.ca/pls/public/gasw005 ome/swimming_w/ .afficher_equipe_web?owa_cd_sport=N

http://www.usherbrooke.ca/natation/ http://www.carabins.umontreal.ca/pages/Sports/nata

tion.aspx?lang=FR-CA

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