RECAP DAY 2 (of 3) CIS swimming championships: Dinos women pull ahead, men’s race down to the wire

Photo credit David Moll

CALGARY (CIS) – The University of Calgary women hold a commanding lead in the team standings while the UBC Thunderbirds ensured it would be a two-horse race in the men’s competition as Day 2 of the CIS swimming championships wrapped up Friday.
 
Official website (live results & video webcast of finals): http://english.cis-sic.ca/championships/swim
Full results: http://www.godinos.com/cisswimming
 
While the Dinos women have a cushion of more than 140 points in their hunt for a three-peat, the men’s race will come down to the final day as UBC edged in front of defending champion Calgary by just 9.5 points. The Thunderbirds trailed the Dinos by just 3.5 points after Day 1 but got a 13-point swing despite just two podium finishes on the night. With 18 swimmers against Calgary’s 13, the T-Birds’ depth allowed them to move in front of the hometown squad.
 
Toronto trails UBC by nearly 200 points for third in the women’s standings with 222 points, while Victoria (162.5), Montreal (154), and Alberta (126) round out the top six.
 
The Dinos men got some badly-needed points back in the final event of the day, the 4x200-metre freestyle relay. The Calgary team of Connor Maxey, Brad Hankewich, Colin Miazga, and David Dimitrov took gold in a time of 7:17.97, then got some help from Laval and Toronto. The Rouge et Or grabbed silver while the Varsity Blues took bronze, knocking UBC off the podium. It was the first non-medal finish for the Thunderbirds in a CIS championship relay since 2004 and ended a string of 16 consecutive podium finishes in the 4x200 free relay for UBC.
 
Laval and Toronto find themselves in a tight race for third in the men’s standings as well, with the Varsity Blues sitting just 10 points ahead of the Rouge et Or’s 258 points with one day remaining.
 
While the men’s team race was intriguing to watch on Day 2, there were some spectacular individual performances posted. Friday saw the meet’s first record-breaking swim in the women’s 50-metre freestyle with Marie-Pier Ratelle of Laval taking 12 hundredths off Erica Morningstar’s 2009 CIS championship mark of 25.17. Her new mark of 25.05 inches CIS women closer to breaking the 25-second barrier in the ‘splash-and-dash’ and set the stage for a teammate in the following race.
 
Moments later, Dominique Massie-Martel completed a Laval sweep of the 50 free with his winning time of 22.68, beating out UBC’s Tommy Gossland by just five hundredths.
 
Olympic medallist Ryan Cochrane of Victoria won his second gold medal of the meet Friday. After finishing in a dead heat for the title with Calgary’s Colin Miazga in the 200 freestyle Thursday, Cochrane pulled away from his Dinos challenger, Dimitrov, in the 400 free to finish with a time of 3:48.13.
 
Three swimmers repeated their CIS titles won in 2010, led by UBC’s Martha McCabe in the 200-metre breaststroke. Calgary’s Jason Block out-touched Western’s Bryn Jones for the second straight season to add 200-metre gold to his 100-metre breaststroke title from Thursday, while Toronto’s Zack Chetrat took home consecutive golds in the men’s 200-metre butterfly.
 
Other defending champions didn’t fare so well. Chantique Payne of the Guelph Gryphons was pushed back to the silver medal position in the 50-metre butterfly by Toronto’s Paige Schultz, while defending 400-metre freestyle champion Kevyn Peterson of Calgary too bronze behind UBC’s Savannah King and Dinos teammate Julianne Brown in the event.
 
Calgary’s Morningstar extended her unbeaten string at the CIS championships to 18 events with two more gold medals Friday. After stopping the clock in 59.34 in the 100-metre backstroke, the first event of the evening, Morningstar led off Calgary’s victorious 4x200-metre freestyle relay team. After building up a lead of more than four seconds after her opening leg, Morningstar watched teammates Brown, Talia Benson, and Peterson pull away from the pack to post a winning time of 8:05.63, nearly six seconds better than silver medal-winning UBC.
 
Other individual champions Friday included UBC’s Kelly Aspinall in the men’s 100-metre backstroke, Toronto’s Mike Smerek in the 50 fly and Stephanie Horner of Victoria in the 200 fly.
 
The three-day CIS championships wrap up Saturday with prelims starting at 10 a.m. Mountain Time and finals at 6 p.m. MT.
 
DAY 2 TEAM STANDINGS
 
Women
 
1. Calgary 545
2. UBC 402.5
3. Toronto 222
4. Victoria 162.5
5. Montreal 154
6. Alberta 126
7. Western 120
8. Guelph 111
9. Laval 95
10. Dalhousie 87
11. McMaster 62
12. Ottawa 52
13. Laurier 39
T-14. Lethbridge 31
T-14. McGill 31
16. UQTR 29
17. Laurentian 13
18. Manitoba 13
19. Brock 10
20. UNB 8
 
Men (Nelson C. Hart trophy)
 
1. UBC 354
2. Calgary 344.5
3. Toronto 268
4. Laval 258
5. Alberta 164
6. Dalhousie 150
7. Victoria 132.5
8. Montreal 125
9. Ottawa 103
10. McGill 98
11. Guelph 94
12. Western 83
13. McMaster 45
14. Sherbrooke 32
15. Manitoba 26
16. Waterloo 23
17. Lethbridge 13
18. Acadia 6
19. York 4
 
DAY 2 INDIVIDUAL MEDALLISTS (Friday)
 
Women 100m Back
1. Erica Morningstar, Calgary, 59.34
2. Hilary Caldwell, Victoria, 1:00.70
3. Andrea Jurenovskis, Toronto, 1:00.88
 
Men 100m Back
1. Kelly Aspinall, UBC, 53.89
2. Matt Hawes, Ottawa, 53.98
3. Gleb Suvorov, Calgary, 54.08
 
W 50m Fly
1. Paige Schultz, Toronto, 27.43
2. Chantique Payne, Guelph, 27.55
3. Caroline Lapierre-Lemire, UQTR, 27.61
 
M 50m Fly
1. Mike Smerek, Toronto, 24.05
2. Mark Maizonnasse, Sherbrooke, 24.33
3. Joshua Au, Alberta, 24.61
 
W 400m Free
1. Savannah King, UBC, 4:11.47
2. Julianne Brown, Calgary, 4:14.88
3. Kevyn Peterson, Calgary, 4:16.12
 
M 400m Free
1. Ryan Cochrane, Victoria, 3:48.13
2. David Dimitrov, Calgary, 3:51.12
3. Frank Despond, Toronto, 3:52.81
 
W 200m Breast
1. Martha McCabe, UBC 2:23.15
2. Hanna Pierse, UBC, 2:26.84
3. Fiona Doyle, Calgary, 2:28.70
 
M 200m Breast
1. Jason Block, Calgary, 2:12.11
2. Bryn Jones, Western, 2:12.46
3. Frédéric Le Blanc, Montreal, 2:12.59
 
W 50m Free
1. Marie-Pier Ratelle, Laval, 25.05 (CIS championship record)
2. Seanna Mitchell, Calgary, 25.27
2. Chantique Payne, Guelph, 25.50
 
M 50m Free
1. Dominique Massie-Martel, Laval, 22.68
2. Tommy Gossland, UBC, 22.73
3. James Goodway, Calgary, 22.78
 
W 200m Fly
1. Stephanie Horner, Victoria, 2:12.69
2. Vanessa Treasure, Toronto, 2:14.72
3. Jessica Johnson, Calgary, 2:15.02
 
M 200m Fly
1. Zack Chetrat, Toronto, 1:57.45
2. David Dimitrov, Calgary, 1:59.69
3. Curtis Samuel, Toronto, 2:00.53
 
W 4 x 200m Free Relay
1. Calgary, 8:05.63
(Erica Morningstar, Julianne Brown, Talia Benson, Kevyn Peterson)
2. UBC, 8:11.44
(Brittney Harley, Heather MacLean, Savannah King, Fionnuala Pierse)
3. Victoria, 8:16.49
(Stephanie Horner, Siobhan Newell, Hilary Caldwell, Kim Bryan)
 
M 4 x 200m Free Relay
1. Calgary, 7:17.97
(Connor Maxey, Brad Hankewich, Colin Miazga, David Dimitrov)
2. Laval, 7:19.62
(Dominique Massie-Martel, Vincent Fontaine, Jonathan Blouin, Adam Szoo)
3. Toronto, 7:21.30
(Zack Chetrat, Taylor Bond, Frank Despond, Curtis Samuel)
 
DAY 1 INDIVIDUAL MEDALLISTS (Thursday)
 
Women 200m Free
1. Kevyn Peterson, Calgary, 1:59.08
2. Heather McLean, UBC, 1:59.89
3. Savannah King, UBC, 2:00.26
 
Men 200m Free
1. Ryan Cochrane, Victoria, 1:47.81
1. Colin Miazga, Calgary, 1:47.81
3. Adam Szoo, Laval, 1:47.83
 
W 50m Back
1. Hilary Caldwell, Victoria, 28.25
2. Bethany Flemington, Calgary, 28.67
3. Jy Lawrence, Calgary, 28.93
 
M 50m Back
1. David Sharpe, Dalhousie. 24.99
2. Kelly Aspinall, UBC, 25.21
3. Gleb Suvorov, Calgary, 25.48
 
W 100m Breast
1. Erica Morningstar, Calgary, 1:05.99
2. Allison Long, Calgary, 1:07.73
3. Martha McCabe, UBC, 1:07.83
 
M 100m Breast
1. Jason Block, Calgary, 1:00.11
2. Bogdan Knezevic, Calgary, 1:01.05
3. Bryn Jones, Western Ontario, 1:01.13
 
W 100m Fly
1. Seanna Mitchell, Calgary, 1:00.98
2. Jessica Johnson, Calgary, 1:01.18
3. Chantique Payne, Guelph, 1:01.32
 
M 100m Fly
1. Zack Chetrat, Toronto, 53.30
2. Mike Smerek, Toronto, 53.71
3. Joshua Au, Alberta, 53.85
 
W 400m IM
1. Stephanie Horner, Victoria, 4:41.40
2. Hanna Pierse, UBC, 4:43.66
3. Hayley Pipher, UBC, 4:44.12
 
M 400m IM
1. Steven Bielby, McGill, 4:13.60
2. David Dimitrov, Calgary, 4:17.33
3. Ryan Cochrane, Victoria, 4:19.24
 
W 4 x 100m Free Relay
1.Calgary 3:41.03
(Erica Morningstar, Bethany Flemington, Fiona Doyle, Seanna Mitchell)
2. Laval 3:46.04
(Marie-Pier Ratelle, Charlotte Dandurand, Sarah Routhier, Vanessa Taileffer)
3. UBC 3:46.39
(Kimberly Bowman, Colleen Nesbitt, Heather MacLean, Fionnuala Pierse)
 
M 4 x 100m Free Relay
1. UBC 3:17.83
(Tommy Gossland, Rory Biskupski, Kelly Aspinall, Duncan Furrer)
2. Calgary 3:17.93
(Colin Miazga, Brad Hankewich, Connor Maxey, James Goodway)
3. Laval 3:19.14
(Dominique Massie-Martel, Maxime Jacomelli, Jonathan Blouin, Adam Szoo)
 
 
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