Thunderbirds proceed to roll on Day 2 of Canada West Swimming Championships

With two-thirds of the Canada West Swimming Championships within the books, the Thunderbirds proceed to carry out at a really excessive stage on each the boys’s and ladies’s sides of the occasion. UBC swimmers earned gold in 11 of the 14 occasions on Day 2, with a handful of convention data damaged for good measure.

In the general group standings, the T-Birds stay in first place with 707.5 on the ladies’s aspect and 719.5 on the boys’s. Calgary’s ladies’s and males’s groups are the closest behind them, with 496.5 and 529.5 respectively.

Kayla Sanchez kicked off the night time by setting one other particular person Canada West document at 23.90 within the ladies’s 50m freestyle, after breaking her personal earlier one set in 2024. Calgary’s Eliza Housman earned second (25.35), and Ella Howe of the University of Manitoba earned their first medal, ending with a time of 25.50.

 

In the boys’s occasion, Yuri Kisil claimed the highest spot, touching the wall in 21.50, smashing his 2017 document of 21.78. Kisil’s teammate Frank Ho clinched second (22.62) and Gibson Black from the Dinos got here in third to the wall, coming in at 22.65.

The subsequent occasion noticed Calgary star Alexanne Lepage win her second of the competitors within the ladies’s 400m particular person medley with a time of 4:41.05. Dinos teammate Sarah Haugen completed second with 4:48.54, and UBC’s Lindsay Gordon completed third with 4:54.68.

In the boys’s 400m particular person medley, UBC took the primary and second spot on the rostrum with Aiden Kirk (4:14.69) claiming the gold and Jaques Harrison (4:15.96) ending with silver. Carter Scheffel earned 16 factors for the Dinos with a time of 4:20.23.

 

The Thunderbirds accomplished a podium sweep within the ladies’s 100m butterfly, with the ultimate placements coming all the way down to the tenths of a second. Sela Wist earned gold in 1:00.00, adopted by teammates Benya Mattig (1:00.65) and Brooklyn Wiens (1:00.66)

Claiming gold within the males’s 100m butterfly in 51.93 was the Dinos’ Nicholas Duncan. Thomas McDonald of Calgary (52.72) clinched second, whereas Wells Ginzer from UBC (52.76) rounded out the rostrum.

 

In the ladies’s 200m backstroke, UBC swept the rostrum with Bridget Burton incomes gold with a time of two:06.75. Emma O’Cronin ending in 2:11.50 took silver, whereas Piper Mitchell acquired third in 2:13.61.

Harrison (1:55.91) and Raben Dommann (1:58.26) from UBC claimed first and second respectively on the boys’s aspect of the 200m backstroke, with Calgary’s Ewan Shearer (2:00.04) coming in third.

 

After the second medal ceremony of the night time, Alexanne Lepage continued to point out her dominance within the pool with a gold medal efficiency (1:05.54) within the ladies’s 100m breaststroke. UBC’s Eloise Allen was second in 1:06.64, whereas the Pronghorns’ Ryenne Katerhagen gained her group’s first bronze medal of the Championship with a time of 1:09.87.

 

In the boys’s occasion, Justice Migneault (59.62) from the T-Birds was on the rostrum in first, whereas the Dinos’ Duncan completed subsequent in 59.863. We noticed our first tie of the night time when Dinos swimmer Ian Cameron and UBC’s Ethan Hemeon each hit the wall with a time of 59.92.

 

The prime two spots within the ladies’s 200m freestyle went to Birds, with Sanchez crushing the competitors with a time of 1:55.49, and Ruby Kehler and Calgary’s Myriam Hickey following behind at 2:02.43 and a pair of:02.95, respectively.

 

The remaining particular person occasion of the night time noticed comparable outcomes to the ladies’s end. UBC took the gold and silver with Paul Hebrard ending in 1:47.92 and Jake Gaunt shut behind with 1:48.15. Victoria’s Keir Oglivie was third with a time of 1:49.10.

 

The Thunderbirds broke Canada West data in each 400m freestyle relays, with the ladies smashing their earlier document at 3:36.54 and the boys ending in 3:14.90.

 

The 2025 Canada West Swimming Championships finish on Sunday, with prelims starting at 8:00 a.m. and finals at 3 p.m. (PT).

 

Team Scores

WOMEN

UBC – 707.5

Calgary – 496.5

Victoria – 286

Lethbridge – 223

Manitoba – 117

Regina – 93

 

MEN

UBC – 719.5

Calgary –   529.5

Victoria – 283

Lethbridge – 192

Manitoba – 112

Regina – 79