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T-Birds, Varsity Blues make a splash on Day 1 of competition

U SPORTS Staff

Defending U SPORTS national champions UBC and Toronto lead the respective men’s and women’s fields after day one of the 2023 U SPORTS Championships, Feb. 23.

The UBC Thunderbirds claimed three individual and one relay title to lead the men’s team field with 416 points after the first night of competition. Ottawa and Calgary hold second and third places in the team standings with 321 and 307 points, respectively.

On the women’s side, defending U SPORTS champions Toronto leads all teams with 479 points, followed by UBC in second at 436.5 points, and Calgary in bronze position with 321 points.

Breaking the lone U SPORTS record to fall on night one, Toronto’s Gabe Mastromatteo captured the men’s 50m breaststroke crown with a time of 27.53.

UBC’s Blake Tierney finished the day with two individual medals, finishing with a silver medal in the 100m backstroke with a 56.19 mark and a bronze in the 200m IM with a time of 2:04.78.

Toronto’s Aleksa Gold and Hayley Klenk led the individual medallists on the women’s side, each capturing two medals. Gold took silver in the 50m freestyle with a time of 26.12 and bronze in the 100m backstroke at 1:03.36, while Klenk took second in the 100m back with a 1:03.30 showing and bronze in the 200 IM with a 2:20.19 performance.

Capturing the gold medal in front of her hometown crowd, Victoria native and Victoria Vike Lauren Crisp won the women’s 100m backstroke with a 1:03.27 performance. Laval’s Danika Ethier (50m breaststroke, 31.80) and McGill’s Pablo Collin (400m freestyle, 3:57.71) round out day one highlights from Saanich Commonwealth Place.

Day two of the 2023 U SPORTS Swimming Championships resumes Feb. 24, with preliminaries beginning at 10 a.m. PT.

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TEAM STANDINGS AFTER DAY 1
 
Men's:

  • UBC – 416 
  • Ottawa – 321 
  • Calgary – 307 
  • McGill – 288 
  • Toronto – 278.5 
  • Victoria – 148 
  • Lethbridge – 147.5 
  • Alberta – 90 
  • Waterloo – 80  
  • Western – 77 
  • Laurier – 47 
  • Laval – 45 
  • Regina – 39 
  • Montreal – 35 
  • McMaster – 33.5 
  • Dalhousie – 32 
  • York – 30.5 
  • Acadia – 20
  • Carleton – 12


Women's:

  • Toronto – 479 
  • UBC – 436.5 
  • Calgary – 321 
  • McGill – 307 
  • Victoria – 127 
  • Western – 121 
  • Manitoba – 116.5 
  • Laval – 84 
  • Ottawa – 78 
  • Guelph – 70 
  • Lethbridge – 66 
  • Dalhousie – 64 
  • Montreal – 49 
  • Waterloo – 49  
  • Alberta – 48 
  • Acadia – 22 
  • McMaster – 17 
  • Sherbrooke – 4 
  • Regina - 2 

DAY 1 MEDAL WINNERS

Women 50m Freestyle

  1. Ainsley McMurray, Toronto – 26.07
  2. Aleksa Gold, Toronto – 26.12
  3. Rebecca Smith, Calgary – 26.13

Men 50m Freestyle

  1. Stephen Calkins, Calgary – 22.87
  2. Liam Weaver, Toronto – 22.93
  3. Dima Lim, UBC – 23.22

Women 100m Backstroke

  1. Lauren Crisp, Victoria – 1:03.27
  2. Haley Klenk, Toronto – 1:03.30
  3. Aleksa Gold, Toronto – 1:03.36

Men 100m Backstroke

  1. Hugh McNeill, UBC – 55.68
  2. Blake Tierney, UBC – 56.19
  3. Richie Stokes, Calgary – 56.29

Women 50m Breaststroke

  1. Danika Ethier, Laval, 31.80
  2. Shona Branton, Western – 31.98
  3. Alicia L’Archeveque, UBC – 32.05

Men 50m Breaststroke

  1. Gabe Mastromatteo, Toronto – 27.53
  2. Hugo Lemesle, Ottawa – 28.00
  3. Apollo Hess, Lethbridge – 28.30

Women 400m Freestyle

  1. Emma O’Croinin, UBC – 4:13.27
  2. Marit Anderson, Calgary – 4:20.01
  3. Claire Howard, Toronto – 4:20.04

Men 400m Freestyle

  1. Pablo Collin, McGill – 3:57.71
  2. Quinn Matteis, Toronto – 3:58.69
  3. Nathan Beaudin-Bolduc, Ottawa – 4:00.19

Women 100m Butterfly

  1. Rebecca Smith, Calgary – 59.21
  2. Josie Field, UBC – 1:00.72
  3. Sela Wist, UBC – 1:02.04

Men 100m Butterfly

  1. Keir Ogilvie, UBC – 54.01
  2. Thomas Mcdonald, Calgary – 54.27
  3. Siu Lun Ho, UBC – 54.67

Women 200m IM

  1. Anna Dumont-Belanger, UBC – 2:17.66
  2. Nina Mollin, Toronto – 2:17.69
  3. Haley Klenk, Toronto – 2:20.19

Men 200m IM

  1. Brodie Young, UBC – 2:04.11
  2. Charlie Skalenda, Calgary – 2:04.62
  3. Blake Tierney, UBC – 2:04.78

Women 4x100m Medley Relay

  • Calgary – 4:11.82 (Hannah Johnsen, Mackenzie Wallich, Rebecca Smith, Avery Movold) 
  • UBC – 4:12.90 (Eloise Allen, Alicia L’Archeveque, Josie Field, Emma O’Croinin)
  • Toronto – 4:14.04 (Aleksa Gold, Madeline Spencer, Nina Mollin, Ainsley McMurray) 

Men 4x100m Medley Relay

  • UBC – 3:41.90 (Hugh McNeill, Justice Migneault, Keir Ogilvie, Dima Lim) 
  • Toronto – 3:43.45 (Carter Buck, Gabe Mastromatteo, Ben Loewen, Bernard Godolphin) 
  • Calgary – 3:44.55 (Richie Stokes, Aiden Luykenaar, Thomas Mcdonald, Stephen Calkins)