QUEBEC CITY – All-Canadian John Hawes won three gold medals and was named swimmer of the meet as the McGill University men's swim team captured its first national title as the Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic Union championships wrapped up at Laval University on Sunday.

Four Canadian and six collegiate swimming records were either tied or bettered during the weekend. McGill won the individual school title with 367 points, 22 more than the University of Toronto. UBC placed third with 269.
 
Hawes, who won the 100 and 200-yard backstrokes, and anchored the winning 4x200 freestyle relay, had a part in two records, setting one new mark and tying another. He established a Canadian amateur record Friday with a clocking of 1:59.4 in the 200 back. The previous Canadian standard was 1:59.9 while the university mark was 2:00.3. Hawes also tied the Canadian and collegiate 100 back mark on Saturday with a time of 54.2 seconds.
 
The McGill 4x100 freestyle relay team of Bill Coke, Bill Gillespie, Chris Zajchowski and co-captain Ron Nesbitt also set another Canadian mark, winning the race in 3:14.8.

McGill's Dave Johnson (who later went on to a long career as coach of the Canadian national team), set a new collegiate mark in the 200 free, winning gold in 1:47.8.

All gold medalists automatically earned All-Canadian first team status, while silver medalists received second-team honours.

Other McGill team members included co-captain Richard Zajchowski, plus veterans Doug Farnell, Ian Young, Jim Frost, Dave Pope, Bob Carstairs and rookie John Jackson.

The most spectacular performance of the weekend occurred Friday in the 200-yard breaststroke final when all six finalists bettered the previous university mark of 2:19.8. UBC's Bill Mahoney won the event in 2:14.6, while Laval's Gabor Csepregi, the sixth-place finisher, clocked in at 2:18.3.
 
Bill Kennedy, from the University of Western Ontario, established a new record in the 200-butterfly as his time of 1:58.3 eclipsed the previous collegiate mark of 1:59.9. Toronto's Jim Adams followed with a 21.9-second performance in the 50-freestyle to tie another Canadian mark.
 
Alberta's Doug Jamieson clipped more than a second off the 800-yard individual medley mark of 2:01.7, touching the wall in 2:00.3.
 
The Western Canadian Athletic Conference topped all conferences with a total of 493.5 points, nine more than the Ontario University Athletic Association. The Quebec University Athletic Association finished third with 473 points, while the Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association was last with 105 points.
 
Swimmers from 21 Canadian universities competed at the championships. All records set or tied at the CIAU meet must be approved by the Canadian Amateur Athletic Association before they are recognized.

(NOTE: This report was compiled with files from The Canadian Press that were published in The Gazette on March 6, 1972)