Swimming begins quick at convention championships

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. – The University of Calgary Dinos swim group introduced house seven medals in a powerful displaying to begin the 2025 Canada West Championships Friday afternoon from the Max Bell Regional Aquatic Centre.

Through the primary 10 occasions, the Dinos sit in second place on each the lads’s and ladies’s aspect. 

Thomas McDonald introduced house the primary Calgary medal of the weekend within the males’s 50 butterfly, touching the wall in 23.93 to earn his approach onto the rostrum. Ian Cameron additionally swam within the A-final, ending with a time of 24.42 for eighth within the unimaginable tight race.

The Dinos practically swept the rostrum within the ladies’s 50 breaststroke. Alexanne Lepage gained the occasion for the second straight yr with a successful time of 30.08. Isabella Duncan introduced house the bronze in 32.21, whereas Julianne Moore got here in fourth in 32.31. Rookie Abby Gebhardt made it 4 within the top-six for the Dinos, touching the wall in 32.41.

On the lads’s aspect, Stephen Moore claimed bronze with a time of 27.55 – lower than one-tenth of a second shy from the highest spot. Cameron had his second sturdy end of the evening, inserting fourth in 27.60 so as to add extra priceless factors.

In the 50 backstroke, Ethan Fast lived as much as his final identify and introduced house the bronze medal with a time of 24.87. T. McDonald (25.55) and Henry Sclater (26.07) confirmed off the Dinos’ depth by inserting fifth and seventh, respectively.

On the ladies’s aspect Hannah Johnsen (29.37) and Eliza Housman (29.92) completed seventh and eighth within the A-final. Housman additionally got here in sixth earlier within the evening within the ladies’s 50 butterfly.

In the space occasion of the evening, Emily De Jager led the way in which for a bunch of Dinos ladies within the 800 freestyle with a fourth-place end in 9:01.57, adopted by rookie Kaitlyn Luu (9:07.94) inserting eighth and Claire Bennett (9:13.93) for ninth.

Four Dinos completed within the top-seven within the males’s 1500 freestyle. Hunter Payne got here in fourth in 15:33.55, adopted intently by Aiden Gyorfi (15:45.43), Patrick McCloy (15:54.65) and Xavier Pimentel (16:01.60).

Calgary closed out evening one with silver medal’s in each the lads’s and ladies’s 800 freestyle relays.

The groups are proper again within the pool Saturday at 10 a.m. for prelims, with finals set to begin at 5 p.m. 

MEN’S TEAM SCORES – DAY 1

1. UBC – 318

2. Calgary – 202

3. Victoria – 114

4. Lethbridge – 71

5. Manitoba – 50

6. Regina – 45

WOMEN’S TEAM SCORES – DAY 1

1. UBC – 305.5

2. Calgary 202.5

3. Victoria – 112

4. Lethbridge – 100

5. Manitoba – 47

6. Regina – 40

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