Swimmers get first win of the season

Both the women's and men's swim teams got their first team wins of the season at the Jack Scholz Invitational at Acadia over the weekend.

Swimmers get first win of the season
October 16, 2016

Source: Acadia Athletics

WOLFVILLE, N.S. – The Dalhousie Tigers dominated the opening of the swim season at the Jack Scholz Swim Meet hosted by Acadia University.

The Tigers captured 32 of 38 events over the day and a half meet in Wolfville and won the men's and women's team standings for the eighth year in a row since the return of the Scholz Meet.

Multiple medal winners included Dalhousie's women including Alexis Bragman who was first in the 400m IM and 50m and 200m breaststroke events.

Phoebe Lenderyou had a Dalhousie-high four first place finishes including 50m, 100m and 200m backstroke and 200m IM events. Lenderyou qualified for the CIS championship in February in the 200m backstroke.

Lise Cinq-Mars was first in the 50m, 100m and 200m butterfly events while Claire Yurkovich claimed victory in both the 50m and 800m freestyle events.

In all, Julia Sarty, Bragman, Lenderyou, Cinq-Mars, Yurkovich, Annie Douglas, Kaetlin Fenton all won events. The Tigers also captured all three relays.

On the men's side, the Tigers multiple event winners included Alec Karlsen with wins in the 400m IM and 100m and 200m butterfly events. Gavin Dyke had wins in 100m and 1500m freestyle events.

The biggest surprise of the Scholz meet was first year Acadia swimmer Brett Liem who qualified for the CIS championship with a winning time of 23.19 in the 50m freestyle in Saturday's session. Liem also came first in the 50m butterfly..

The Mount Allison Mounties' Justin LeBlanc captured wins in the 50m and 100m Breaststroke events while Mountie Geraint Berger added a gold in the 200m Freestyle.

Tigers swimmers Karlsen, Tony Liew, Keenan Teghtsoonian, Tyler Immel-Herron and Dyke all won events and the Tigers captured two of the three relays.

In the six relay events over the three sessions, the Tigers captured gold in 200m women's and men's freestyle; women's 200m medley relay and women's and men's 400m freestyle relay. The host Axemen team grabbed a win in the 200m medley relay.

Team Standings:

Overall

  1. Dalhousie
  2. Acadia
  3. UNB
  4. Mount Allison
  5. UPEI

Women's

  1. Dalhousie
  2. Mount Allison
  3. UNB
  4. Acadia
  5. UPEI

Men's

  1. Dalhousie
  2. Acadia
  3. UNB
  4. Mount Allison
  5. UPEI