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UVic swimmers best 12 school records at first U Sports championship since pandemic

Sophie Tarrant takes bronze in 200-metre breaststroke at Quebec City meet
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First-year Vikes swimmer and breaststroke specialist Sophie Tarrant competes at the U Sports Swimming Championships in Quebec City last weekend. Tarrant won bronze in the 200-metre final and set new school records in three different events. (Don Voaklander/courtesy of University of Victoria)

The University of VictoriaB次元官网网址檚 swim team ended the 2021-22 season with 12 new school records, set over the course of the three-day U Sports Swimming Championship in Quebec City.

Vikes first-year swimmers Sophie Tarrant and Maxwell Fang, and the menB次元官网网址檚 4 x 100-metre medley relay team shatter Vikes records on the meetB次元官网网址檚 final day Saturday (March 26).

Tarrant, coming off a bronze medal-winning performance Friday in the 200-metre breaststroke final, placed fifth in the 50m breast A final on Saturday in 31.90, one-tenth of a second faster than previous Vikes record holder Jamie Hellard (2019). TarrantB次元官网网址檚 200-metre time of 2:27.44 broke UVic Sports Hall of Famer Christin PetelskiB次元官网网址檚 1998 mark by .45 seconds.

After Tarrant cracked the schoolB次元官网网址檚 100m breast record and finished fourth in the ThursdayB次元官网网址檚 final in 1:07.74, just .15 seconds off the podium, Vikes coach Ryan Clouston said, B次元官网网址渟he continues to rewrite the record books and approach the nationB次元官网网址檚 best swimmers.B次元官网网址

Among the Saturday Vikes school record breakers, FangB次元官网网址檚 100m freestyle time of 50.30 seconds in the C final, shaved .10 seconds off the previous mark, while the medley relay team of Fang, Jacob Rambo, Padric Mckervill and Ethan Hemeon placed sixth in the final in 3:38.75, more than four seconds faster than the previous Vikes standard set in 2018.

Besides Tarrant, two other Vikes cracked multiple UVic marks over the first two days of the championships.

Mckervill lowered the standard in both the 50m and 100m butterfly in prelims, then broke his own marks in finals, going 54.19 in the 100 on Thursday and 24.17 in the 50 on Friday. He was also a part of the record-setting 4 x 100m free relay team including Ricky Millns, Rambo and Fang, who clocked a 3:20.80 time. Along with his relay work, Rambo set then lowered a school mark in the 50m backstroke Thursday, going 25.36 in the B final, then lowered the 100m back time, touching the wall in 54.48 to take second in the B final.

Hemeon contributed a personal best time to the dozen new marks with a 1:01.31 swim in the 100m breast on day 1 of the meet, good for fourth in the B final.

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B次元官网网址淔or most of our team, itB次元官网网址檚 their first U SPORTS experience, similar to many teams here. This meet is always the loudest and most exciting meet by far for our athletes, so itB次元官网网址檚 nice to see them get a chance to experience it,B次元官网网址 Clouston said of the U Sports meet, held for the first time since the start of the pandemic.


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