TORONTO, ONT – Loïc Courville-Fortin and Mats Baradat each won a silver medal and the former registered a pair of records for the McGill University men's swim program to highlight the team's results on Day 2 at the U SPORTS championships, Friday.
 
Six total U SPORTS meet records tumbled while both the UBC Thunderbirds women's and men's teams continued to hold their leads in the overall standings. McGill sits fourth of 25 schools on the men's side and third in the women's division.
 
The evening session was preceded by the presentation to the U SPORTS Student-athlete Community Service Awards to McGill's Erik Linseisen and Marcella Whelan of the Memorial Sea-Hawks.

Courville-Fortin, a 20-year-old biochemistry freshman from Repentigny, Que., captured silver in the 200-metre individual medley, posting a time of one minute, 57.57 seconds. That erased his own school record of 1:59.33, which also stood as the RSEQ conference benchmark. The 6-foot-1 rookie was beaten in the race for gold by UBC's Findlay Know, who set a U SPORTS championship meet record in 1:54.15. Laurier's Kent Goni-Avilla took the bronze in 1:58.07.

Baradat, a 21-year-old economics sophomore and two-time swimmer of the year in the RSEQ conference, finished second in the men's 400 freestyle, touching the wall in 3:50.08. He was edged out by UBC's Olivier Risk, who won gold in 3:49.79. The bronze went to Toronto's Quinn Mattias (3:51.12).
 
The UBC duo of Olympians Blake Tierney and Finlay Knox gold secured both medals and U SPORTS records on Day 2. Touching the wall in 51:00, Tierney claimed the 100 backstroke, setting a new fastest time at Nationals. Meanwhile, Knox claimed his third U SPORTS record time of the meet, converting a 1:54.15 in the 200 individual medley into a national mark and U SPORTS gold. The pair were then joined by Jake Gaunt and Olivier Risk in the 4x200 freestyle relay, where they set another record time of 7:04.23.

Also achieving a U SPORTS meet record was York's Eric Ginzburg, who touched the wall in 23.05 during the 50 butterfly, tying the previous national mark. Ginzburg captured a second U SPORTS gold medal on Day 2, winning the highly-competitive 50 free in a time of 21.80. The York sprinter now has three national gold medals after two days of competition, also securing gold in the 100 butterfly on Day 1.

The full list of event medalists from the first two days of competition is included below.

Swimmers will conclude the national championships inside the U of T Athletic Centre's Varsity Pool on Saturday morning beginning with prelims at 9:30 a.m., followed by finals at 5:30 p.m.

All sessions are streamed live in English on CBC GEM, CBC Sports Youtube, and cbcsports.ca  and in French on Radio-Canada.ca/Sports and ICI Tou.TV.

LINK TO McGILL WOMEN'S RECAP

LIVE RESULTS AT U SPORTS CHAMPIONSHIP

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TEAM STANDINGS (after Day 2 of 3)

WOMEN
1. UBC, 1054.0
2. Calgary, 597.5
3. McGill, 591.5
4. Toronto, 496.0
5. Alberta, 212.0
6. Western, 198.0
7. McMaster, 163.5
8. Lethbridge, 159.0
9. Victoria, 144.5
10. Laval, 142.0
11. Guelph, 132.0
12. Brock, 127.0
13. Montreal, 125.0
14. Ottawa, 115.5
15. Dalhousie, 111.0
16. Manitoba, 100.5
17. Waterloo, 88.0
18. Acadia, 55.0
19. Sherbrooke, 4.0
20. UNB, 2.0

MEN
1. UBC, 947.0
2. Toronto, 748.5
3. Calgary, 589.0
4. McGill, 524.5
5. Alberta, 248.0
6. Western, 233.0
7. Ottawa, 190.0
8. Victoria, 182.5
9. Waterloo, 140.0
10. York, 96.0
11. Lethbridge, 90.5
12. Laval, 80.5
13. Laurier, 68.0
14. McMaster, 63.0
15. Memorial, 58.5
16. Dalhousie, 53.0
17. Montreal, 48.0
18. Sherbrooke, 42.0
19. Regina, 38.0
20. Carleton, 36.0
21. Manitoba, 33.0
22. Acadia, 25.0
23. UNB, 16.0
24. Brock, 13.0
25. UQTR, 2.0
 
Day 2 EVENT RESULTS (25m short-course)

(W) 50 m Freestyle 
1. Kayla Noelle Sanchez, UBC: 24.18 - U SPORTS RECORD 
2. Teagan Vander Leek, Toronto: 25.27
3. Zea M Wetzlaughk, Western: 25.61

(M) 50 m Freestyle
1. Eric Ginzburg, York: 21.80
2. Albert Bouley, Toronto: 21.84
3. Liam Weaver, Toronto: 21.89

(W) 200 m Breaststroke 
1. Alexanne Lepage, Calgary: 2:25.73
2. Emma Spence, UBC: 2:28.93
3. Romane Hereng, Montreal: 2:30.01

(M) 200 m Breaststroke 
1. Hugo Lemesle, Ottawa: 2:08.06
2. Nathan Thomas, Toronto: 2:09.10
3. Tanner Cole, UBC: 2:09.70

(W) 400 m Freestyle
1. Emma O'Croinin, UBC: 4:09.88
2. Anna Dumont-Belanger, UBC: 4:13.65
3. Raphaelle Tremblay, Laval: 4:14.13

(M) 400 m Freestyle
1. Olivier Risk, UBC: 3:49,79
2. Mats Baradat, McGill: 3:50.08
3. Quinn Mattias, Toronto: 3:51.12

(W) 100 m Backstroke
1. Bridget Burton, UBC: 59.30
2. Hannah Johnsen, Calgary: 1:00.26
3. Tatum O'Connor, Brock: 1:00.31

(M) 100 m Backstroke
1. Blake Tierney, UBC: 51.00 - U SPORTS RECORD
2. Andrew Herman, Toronto: 51.49
3. Benjamin Lowen, Toronto: 52.85

(W) 200 m Indiv. Medley
1. Nina Mollin, Toronto: 2:13.46
2. Camryn Stannard, UBC: 2:14.46
3. Emma Spence, UBC: 2:16.04

(M) 200 m Indiv. Medley
1. Finlay Knox, UBC: 1:54.15 - U SPORTS RECORD
2. Loic Courville-Fortin, McGill: 1:57.57
3. Kent Goni Avilla, Laurier: 1:58.07

(W) 50 m Butterfly 
1. Kayla Noelle Sanchez, UBC: 25.85 - U SPORTS RECORD
2. Eloise Allen, UBC: 26.59
3. Una Borchgrevink, UBC: 27.00

(M) 50 m Butterfly
1. Eric Ginzburg, York: 23.05 - U SPORTS RECORD
2. Kai Lilienthal, UBC: 23.14
3. Finlay Knox, UBC: 23.35

(W) 800 m Freestyle Relay
1. UBC (Anna Dumont-Belanger, Emma O'Croinin, Camryn Stannard, Kayla Sanchez): 7:54.04
2. McGill (Naomie Lo, Elizabeth Ling, Iris Tinmouth, Maya McGhan): 8:07.88
3. Calgary (Alexanne Lepage, Hannah Johnsen, Emily De Jager, Hannah Bennett): 8:10.98

(M) 800 m Freestyle Relay
1. UBC (Blake Tierney, Jake Gaunt, Olivier Risk, Finlay Knox): 7:07.23 - U SPORTS RECORD
2. Toronto (Ben Winterborn, Brendan Oswald, Bill Dongfang, Quinn Matteis): 7:16.24
3. Victoria (Ricky Millns, Elijah Agostinelli-Stull, Matthew MacDonald, Keir Ogilvie): 7:17.33

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Day 1 EVENT RESULTS

(W) 200M Freestyle  
1. Kayla Noelle Sanchez, UBC: 1:54.74 
2. Emma O'Croinin, UBC: 1:56.44 
3. Anna Dumont-Belanger, UBC: 1:59.13 

(M) 200M Freestyle 
1. Paul McKenzie, Alberta: 1:47.02 
2. Bill Dongfang, Toronto: 1:47.07 
3. Ben Winterborn, Toronto: 1:47.55 

(W) 100M Breaststroke 
1. Alexanne Lepage, Calgary: 1:05.79 
2. Eloise Allen, UBC: 1:07.41 
3. Romane Hereng, Montreal: 1:08.72 

(M) 100M Breaststroke 
1. Nicholas Duncan, Calgary: 59.38 
2. Hugo Lemesle, Ottawa: 59.48  
3. Nathan Thomas, Toronto: 59.60 
3. Justice Migneault, UBC: 59.60 

(W) 100M Butterfly 
1. Nina Mollin, Toronto: 59.71 
2. Una Borchgrevink, UBC: 1:00.03  
3. Brooklyn Weins, UBC: 1:00.67 

(M) 100M Butterfly 
1. Eric Ginzburg, York: 51.89 
2. Wells Ginzer, UBC: 52.53 
3. Thomas Mcdonald, Calgary: 52.76 

(W) 50M Backstroke 
1. Eloise Allen, UBC: 27.45 
2. Bridget Burton, UBC: 27.50 
3. Tatum Connor, Brock: 27.65 

(M) 50M Backstroke 
1. Finlay Knox, UBC: 23.39 – U SPORTS RECORD 
2. Blake Tierney, UBC: 23.74 
3. Andrew Herman: Toronto: 23.77 

(W) 400M Medley 
1. Alexanne Lepage, Calgary: 4:42.17 
2. Olivia Brendzan, Alberta: 4:43.53 
3. Emma Spence, UBC: 4:45.53 

(M) 400M Medley 
1. Tanner Cole, UBC: 4:13.67 
2. Jacob Gallant, Toronto: 4:16.08 
3. Hugh McNeill, UBC: 4:17.12 

(W) 400M Freestyle Relay 
1. UBC (Emma O'Croinin, Anna Dumont-Belanger, Bridget Burton, Kayla Noelle Sanchez): 3:37.78 
2. Calgary (Eliza Housman, Hannah Johnsen, Alexanne Lepage, Hannah Bennett): 3:44.54  
3. Toronto (Kayla Houlder, Gemma Norman, Katie Marovino, Teagan Vander Leek): 3:45.95 

(M) 400M Freestyle Relay 
1. UBC (Finlay Knox, Blake Tierney, Jake Gaunt, Joel Blanco): 3:11.80 – U SPORTS RECORD 
2. Toronto (Andrew Herman, Ben Winterborn, Liam Weaver, Albert Bouley): 3:14.58 
3. Calgary (Gibson Black, Stephen Calkins, Ethan Fast, Thomas Mcdonald): 3:15.40 


SOURCE:
Earl Zukerman
Sports Info Officer
McGill Athletics & Recreation
earl.zukerman@mcgill.ca
(514) 983-7012 (cell)