Lepage, Duncan lead medal haul in Day 2 at CW Championships

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. – Alexanne Lepage received two gold medals, Nicholas Duncan added one other and the University of Calgary Dinos swim group had an excellent day within the pool within the second day of motion from the 2025 Canada West Championships contained in the Max Bell Regional Aquatic Centre.

The Dinos end Day 2 sitting in second place on each the lads’s and ladies’s sides, whereas UBC sits in first heading into Sunday.

Calgary began Saturday’s finals classes on a robust word, with Eliza Housman bringing residence the silver medal within the 50 freestyle. The fourth yr touched the wall in 25.35. Julianne Moore completed fifth in 25.73.

On the lads’s facet, Gibson Black introduced residence the bronze in 22.65, whereas Ethan Fast positioned fifth in 22.69 and Liam Dennett was eighth in 23.10.

The Dinos then almost swept the rostrum within the girls’s 400 IM. Lepage received the occasion for the third consecutive season, this time topping the sector in 4:41.05. Rookie teammate Sarah Haugen claimed the silver medal in 4:48.54.

Carter Scheffel claimed the lads’s bronze because the Dinos confirmed off their depth with 4 finishers within the A-final, with Matthew Syrgiannis, Patrick McCloy and Aiden Luykenaar all additionally bringing residence invaluable factors for the Dinos within the occasion.

Nicholas Duncan and Thomas McDonald went 1-2 within the males’s 100 butterfly. Duncan introduced residence the gold with a successful time of 51.93, whereas McDonald simply touched out UBC’s prime swimmer in 52.72 for silver.

Rookie Ewan Shearer earned his first Canada West medal by claiming bronze within the 200 backstroke. Shearer had a robust time of two:00.04, whereas Syrgiannis got here in fifth in 2:02.66 and Luykenaar positioned eighth in 2:04.50.

The Dinos as soon as once more loaded up the factors within the girls’s 100 breaststroke. Lepage once more topped the sector, touching the wall in 1:05.54 for gold. Abby Gebhardt (1:10.49), Haugen (1:10.92) and Isabella Duncan (1:11.03) gave the Scarlet & Gold 4 of the top-seven finishers within the occasion.

It was almost a Dinos’ sweep as N. Duncan claimed the silver medal on the lads’s facet within the closest race of the evening. The standout second yr touched the wall in 59.63 – a mere one one-hundredth of a second behind Justice Migneault for the highest spot. Ian Cameron claimed bronze in 59.92, whereas Stephen Moore positioned seventh total in 1:00.98.

In the ultimate particular person occasion of the evening, second-year Myriam Hickey earned a bronze medal within the girls’s 200 freestyle. Hickey led one other Dinos caravan within the A-final, taking third, whereas Emily De Jager got here in fifth and Claire Bennett sixth.

Calgary closed out the evening bringing residence silver in each the lads’s and ladies’s 400 freestyle relays.

The third and remaining day of swimming will get underway Sunday morning with prelims at 9 a.m. Finals are slated to start out at 3 p.m. 

MEN’S TEAM SCORES – DAY 2

1. UBC – 719.5

2. Calgary – 529.5

3. Victoria – 283

4. Lethbridge – 192

5. Manitoba – 112

6. Regina – 79

WOMEN’S TEAM SCORES – DAY 2

1. UBC – 707.5

2. Calgary 496.5

3. Victoria – 286

4. Lethbridge – 223

5. Manitoba – 117

6. Regina – 93

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