QUEBEC CITY – Rookie Yegor Semenyuk of Gatineau, Que., was the surprise swimmer of the weekend for the McGill men's team at the Coupe de Quebec Senior swim meet, a three-day open competition that concluded on Sunday at held at Laval's 25-metre pool.
 
McGill scored 4,054.5 combined points (men and women) to finish second of 41 teams overall, behind the renowned CAMO Swim Club (4,976). The Redbirds produced seven podium finishes, collecting one gold, one silver and five bronzes.
 
Semenyuk, a 19-year-old software engineering freshman, posted qualifying time in three separate events that qualified for the 2025 U SPORTS national championships., to be hosted the University of Toronto, March 6-8. The middle-distance individual medley specialist qualified in the 200-metre butterfly as well as the in the 200m and 400m IM events. He also narrowly missed qualifying in the 100 fly, by .04 seconds.
 
"We would've liked to have had a few more qualifiers but we got a bunch of new people a whole lot closer where we will hope to get them across the line at the RSEQ champs in February," said McGill head coach Peter Carpenter.
 
The lone gold medal was won in the mixed 4x50 MR with Romain Vanmoen and Erik Linseisen from the men's team, along with Emilia Mastromatteo and Stella Barsalou on the women's squad.
 
The silver-medal finish was also in a mixed race, the 4x50 freestyle relay, where Mathieu Ionescoux-Tremblay and Bruno Dehem-Lemelin teamed up with Maya McGhan and Barsalou.

The swimmer of the meet was Loic Courville-Fortin, a 20-year-old McGill freshman who was competing for CAMO, his club team.
 
Jagdev Gill, a para-Olympian member of the Redbirds shone in a separate meet. The 20-year-old science junior from Brockville, Ont., captured a pair of gold medals and one silver at the Ken Demchuk International Invitational in Markham, Ont. In the process, he established personal best times previously set at the Para PanAm Games last year and beat out Paris Paralympic finalist Fernando Lu in both of his gold medal wins.
 
The McGill squad now has a two-month break for exams, holidays and training. The meet schedule resumes with the RSEQ conference's fourth University Cup competition at the Trois-Rivieres on Feb. 1.
 
LINK TO WOMEN'S RECAP

COMPLETE RESULTS
 

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Earl Zukerman
Sports Information Officer
Athletics & Recreation
McGill University
514-983-7012 (Tel.)
www.mcgillathletics.ca
earl.zukerman@mcgill.ca