Hawks take home 4 medals at AUS Championship

Hawks take home 4 medals at AUS Championship

At the end of the third and final day of the 2020 Subway AUS Swimming Championships, presented by Keep It Social, the Dalhousie women's team won their 19th straight AUS championship title while the Acadia Axemen earned their first championship title in 38 years.  

Dalhousie's Reagan Crowell led a podium sweep of the women's 800m freestyle event to start the night. She posted a U SPORTS qualifying time of 8:50.06. Teammates Imani Theodore and Amelia Lane were second and third respectively. 

Polina Konstantinova took home 3 medals for Memorial, scoring 2 silvers (100m Breaststroke, 50m Breaststroke), and 1 bronze in the 200m Breaststroke. 

Abbey Corish won gold in the women's 50m breaststroke, to earn Dalhousie their second gold of the evening. She was followed by Memorial's Polina Konstantinova and Acadia's Cali Bruce in second and third respectively. 

UNB's Leah Smal was first to the wall in the women's 200m breaststroke. She clocked in with a U SPORTS qualifying time of 2:14.29. Dalhousie's Claire Yurkovich and Sarah Bond were second and third, respectively.

Dalhousie's Isabel Sarty set a new AUS record in the women's 100m freestyle which she had broken during the heats earlier in the day. She posted a time of 55.19, bettering the time of 55.26 she set at the Kemp-Fry Invitational in November. Fellow Tiger Martine Nyhof was second, followed by Mary Beth Brown of Acadia in third. 

At the end of the third and final day of competition, the team standings are as follows: 

Women's:

Dalhousie - 1043.50 

Acadia - 677 

University of New Brunswick - 482 

Memorial - 479 

Mount Allison - 261.50 

Everyone who posted a U SPORTS qualifying time during the AUS season will be headed to the U SPORTS championships, hosted by the University of Victoria, February 20-22, 2020.