TORONTO, ONT – The McGill University women's swim program produced a school record and a silver medal performance 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 third of 25 schools on the women's side and fourth in the men'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.

Beset with a plethora of fourth-place finishes, the Martlets finally reached the podium with the 4x200m relay squad which was clocked in eight minutes, 7.88 seconds. The result shredded the previous short-course school standard of 8:12.00 set in 2022. It was the second Martlets record to fall in as many days, in the wake of Emilie de Chazal's performance on Thursday. The physical education sophomore from Zug, Switzerland, placed sixth in the 100m butterfly, clocking in at 1:01.24, which erased the school mark of 1:01.60 set in 2020 by Grace Valihora.

Despite McGill's superb time in the 4x200, UBC easily won the race in 7:54.04, while Calgary finished third in 8:10.98.
 
The McGill foursome included Naomie Lo, a software engineering senior from Toronto, in the leadoff spot. Elizabeth Ling, a civil engineering senior from Calgary, swam the second leg. She was followed by Iris Tinmouth, a science junior from Comox, B.C., and Maya McGhan, a management sophomore from Ottawa.
 
UBC's Kayla Sanchez, a two-time Olympian, claimed the women's 50m freestyle gold medal in a championship meet record time of 24.18. She added another record in the 50m butterfly (25.85), securing a second individual gold on Day 2 and third in the meet. Sanchez then joined Emma O'Croinin, Anna Dumont-Belanger and Bridget Burton to win the 4x200 freestyle relay, rounding out a spectacular Day 2.

The full list of event medalists 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 MEN'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)