11 college data fall at U SPORTS Swimming Championships

The Brock Badgers girls’s and males’s swimming groups set new program requirements.

Competing over three days from Thursday, March 12 to Saturday, March 14, the Badgers broke 11 college data on the 2026 U SPORTS Swimming Championships held on the Markham Pan Centre in Markham, Ont. 

The girls’s crew positioned tenth with 184 factors to earn their finest end since 2001, whereas the lads’s group completed sixteenth with 86 factors to tie their finest inserting since 2006.

“We had a great breakthrough year for our women’s team,” stated head coach Dave Ling. “We thought we had a pretty strong team in the beginning of the year and they just got better by the month. Them moving up to third in the province was great and being Top 10 here was our goal, and it went all the way down to the last relay.”

Tatum O’Connor led the Badgers girls’s swimming outcomes with two appearances within the A finals, ending fourth within the 100-metre backstroke occasion with a time of 1 minute and 300 milliseconds and sixth within the 50m backstroke in a Brock report time of 27.49. That record-breaking time surpassed the 27.65 she posted final yr to say bronze in the identical occasion. 

The Dundas, Ont., product partnered with Cassidy Karrel, Quinn Mersereau and Grace Chai to seize eighth place within the 4x100m freestyle relay (3:46.45), setting a college report and eclipsing the earlier mark of 3:52.25 set by her, Chai, Mersereau and Adriana Martone. 

The Badgers continued their record-breaking relay success within the 4x200m freestyle relay as Chai, Karrel, Mersereau and Mia Frederiksen mixed for a time of 8:28.14 to interrupt the earlier program report of 8:36.42, which had stood since 2011 and was set by present assistant coach Victoria Culp together with Baylee Colquhoun, Ashley Duquette and Cora Michener

In the ultimate relay race of the competitors, O’Connor, Martone, Chai and Danielle Moss positioned sixth within the 4x100m medley relay with a time of 4:10.31, which broke the earlier report held by this group (4:13.22).

Chai and Martone each set Brock data in particular person races as Chai touched the wall in 55.81 within the 100m freestyle preliminaries earlier than ending thirteenth total within the race (56.26), whereas Martone broke the college mark twice within the 50m breaststroke, first posting 32.53 within the heats earlier than bettering to 32.45 within the C ultimate later that day. Both bested their earlier efforts of 56.13 and 32.57, respectively. 

On the lads’s facet of the competitors, Noah Chang impressed in his first nationwide championship, inserting sixth within the A ultimate of the 50m breaststroke in a time of 27.57. His preliminary time of 27.51 set a brand new Badger customary that he beforehand set (27.58) and ranked him the fifth heading into the ultimate.

“It’s easy to get lost in the women’s team success and not recognize the men’s program,” Ling stated. “At the OUA Championships, they scored more points than they last year and having three men contribute to the point total at U SPORTS is very exciting.”

Courchene-Carter additionally handed his personal program data within the 200m breaststroke as he first recorded a time of two:15.69 within the heats earlier than decreasing it to 2:14.21 within the C ultimate. 

Both Chang and Courchene-Carter additionally contributed factors early within the meet, ending seventh (fifteenth total) and eighth (sixteenth total) within the B ultimate of the 100m breaststroke with instances of 1:00.72 and 1:00.96.

In the 200m particular person medley, Ethan Rotsaert-Smith eclipsed the earlier time of two:06.90 set by Lucas Moavro in 2024 as he touched the wall in 2:06.27 within the heats. 

The crew standings noticed the UBC Thunderbirds sweep each titles, with the Toronto Varsity Blues ending second on each side. The Calgary Dinos positioned third within the males’s competitors, whereas the McGill Martlets captured bronze within the girls’s standings. 

With these outcomes, Ling is eager for the way forward for this system.

“When we look at next year, we got a bunch of people pre-qualified for U SPORTS ,and we hope to add a few more,” he stated. “We have some nice incoming first years that we’re really excited about. We lose our senior leadership, but it creates a vacuum where we see some of those on the team step up and want to pursue finalists at that next level.”

WOMEN’S TEAM STANDINGS AT THE 2026 U SPORTS SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS 
1. UBC, 1,445.00
2. Toronto, 1,029.00
3. McGill, 978.50
4. Calgary, 723.50
5. Western, 493.00
6. Ottawa, 354.00
7. Victoria, 278.50
8. Laval, 268.50
9. Montreal, 262.50
10. Brock, 184.00
11. Guelph, 179.50
12. Lethbridge, 174.50 
13. Dalhousie, 167.50 
14. McMaster, 137.00
15. Waterloo, 118.00 
16. Manitoba, 112.00
17. Sherbrooke, 79.00
18. Carleton, 59.00

MEN’S TEAM STANDINGS AT THE 2026 U SPORTS SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS 
1. UBC, 1,644.00 
2. Toronto, 935.50 
3. Calgary, 883.50
4. McGill, 770.50
5. Montreal, 345.00
6. Ottawa, 342.00
7. Victoria, 324.00
8. Western, 288.00
9. McMaster, 175.00
10. Dalhousie, 149.00
11. York, 140.00
12. Waterloo, 135.50
13. Laval, 111.00
14. Laurier, 110.00
15. UNB, 95.00
16. Brock, 86.00
17. Sherbrooke, 82.00
18. Lethbridge, 78.00
19. Manitoba, 60.00
20. Regina, 35.00
21. UQTR, 4.00