2016 CIS CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Quebec City, QC
- SCM – Prelims
- LCM – Finals
- Prelims 10:00 am ET
- Finals 6:00 pm ET
- Defending men’s champions: UBC
- Defending women’s champions: UBC
- Live results
- Live Stream
WOMEN’S 50m BREASTSTROKE
UBC’s Tera Van Beilen is perfectly set up to sweep the breaststroke events here at her last CIS Championships. Van Beilen was a 31.43 this morning in the 50m breaststroke in order to take the top seed over Rebecca Terejko.
As the winner of both the 100 and 200m breaststrokes, Van Beilen looks to have the advantage tonight, but there is plenty of talent in the final.
Erin Stamp, who could make it a 1-2-3 podium sweep for UBC if both Van Beilen and Terejko retain their placings, was a 31.57 for third overall. She tied with Tianna Rissling of Calgary.
Behind Stamp and Rissling was Alexandra Naisby of Sherbrooke who has been a threat all meet long in the breaststroke events. She was a 31.98 this morning for the fifth seed overall.
MEN’S 50m BREASTSTROKE
Jonathan Naisby is looking for another one after a stellar performance this morning in the 50m breaststroke. The Sherbrooke standout dropped a 27.92 to take the top seed over Alberta’s Stephen Giovanetto and Manitoba’s Dillon Perron.
Giovanetto and Perron were both a 28.20 this morning to take the second and third seeds overall ahead of Eli Wall. Wall, who won the 100m breaststroke on night one, is seeded fourth in 28.39.
Ean Van Moerkerke and Cameron Kidd are also in the final to add some speed.
WOMEN’S 200m BACKSTROKE
Kylie Masse will have her work cut out for her tonight if she wants to take home a sweep of the backstroke events. Genevieve Cantin of Laval was a 2:06.79 this morning to take the top seed by over two-seconds and make her mark on the race.
Masse was second behind her in 2:09.24 followed by Dalhousie standout Phoebe Lenderyou in 2:10.26.
Erika Seltenreich-Hodgson also qualified for tonight’s final, taking the fifth seed in 2:11.28.
MEN’S 200m BACKSTROKE
Alberta’s Josiah Binnema was the fastest backstroker this morning with a 1:58.11 performance to beat out two UBC athletes. Both Karl Wolk and Marshal Parker put up sub 1:59-times of 1:58.60 and 1:58.92 to take the second and third spots in tonight’s final.
Noah Choboter of Regina was fourth ahead of Jared Tsang and last year’s 100m backstroke champion Brad Crocker.
WOMEN’S 100m FREESTYLE
Western’s Paulina Bond looks to be the one to beat in the 100m freestyle after putting up a 55.26 this morning. If anyone could disagree more with that statement it would be Toronto’s Paige Schultz who was right behind in 55.27.
The two leaders won’t be alone tonight. Montreals Roxane Lemieux put up a swift 55.69 to take the third seed ahead of UBC’s Rebecca Terejko. Terejko was a 55.84 at the touch.
MEN’S 100m FREESTYLE
Guelph’s Evan Van Moerkerke was out like a rocket this morning in the 100m freestyle dropping a 48.74 to be the only swimmer under 49-seconds from the entire group.
Behind Van Moerkerke was Mitchel Ferraro of Toronto and Carson Olafson of UBC. Oliver Straszynski, Marshal Parker, 200 and 400m freestyle champion Keegan Zanatta, and Alex Shogolev make up the remaining finalists.
All finalists were under 50-seconds this morning with the right spot going to Shogolev with a 49.94.
WOMEN’S 200m IM
The women’s 200m IM final might be one of the most competitive finals of the entire competition as all the top seven in the event have won a CIS medal at some point in their careers, several of them include gold.
Canadian national record holder Kylie Masse and Pan Am Games finalist Erika Seltenreich-Hodgson tied this morning with a 2:12.65 to take the top seeds. Behind them was UBC’s Erin Stamp in 2:14.40 just ahead of Tera Van Beilen.
Van Beilen, who will swim the 200m breaststroke final prior to the 200m IM final, rocked a 2:14.94 to take the fourth seed. Toronto’s Paige Schultz and Montreal’s Marie-Pier Couillard closely followed.
Add in Sophia Marois from Montreal and the final is jam packed with talent and will see some previous CIS medallists adding to their medal count.
MEN’S 200m IM
UBC’s Jonathan Brown swam a 2:00.67 this morning putting him in a position to win the 200m IM. The Thunderbird will have to battle against Calgary freshman Christian Ng. Ng was a 2:01.06 to finish second behind Brown.
Colin Eriks, also from UBC, took the third spot in 2:01.34 with Alan Balch of Alberta and Montana Champagne of Ottawa right behind him.
Breaststroker Eli Wall and IM specialist Tristan Cote will also be in the final.
