Swim team brings home recent record 33 medals

SAINT JOHN, N.B. – The Acadia swimming team bettered last year's AUS Swimming championship medal haul of 21 with 33 medals this past weekend. The Axemen and Axewomen finished second in their respective gender category and second overall.

"The team came together after an amazing season of commitment to training. The guys team was in tough all weekend and actually held the lead once on Friday and once on Saturday," said head coach Gary MacDonald.

"We actually outscored Dalhousie in Sunday's final but Dal's strength on Day Two kept them ahead. It was an incredible weekend and everyone swam their hearts out," added MacDonald.

Brett Liem was chosen as the AUS Male Swimmer of the Meet and first-year Acadia swimmer Josh Nowlan was named the Male Rookie of the Meet.

The Women's team also came up big and easily outscored all other teams for a huge second place finish as well.

"We have a group of 5 swimmers heading to U SPORTS Nationals in 10 days. No new qualifiers this weekend" noted MacDonald.

The Axewomen finished second overall in the women's division and the Axemen finished a close second to Dalhousie. Acadia finished second in the combined scoring.

Medal winners:

Kelsea Vessey – Gold 200m butterfly, Silver 200m freestyle, Silver 100m butterfly, Bronze 800m freestyle

Jessica Pelletier – Gold 100m backstroke, Silver 50m backstroke

Alison MacEachern – Silver 50m butterfly, Bronze 100m butterfly, Bronze 50m freestyle

Benjamin Henger – Silver 50m backstroke, Silver 100m butterfly, Silver 100m backstroke, Bronze 200m individual medley

Hannah Doiron – Bronze 100m breaststroke

Brett Liem – Gold 50m breaststroke, Gold 50m butterfly, Gold 50m freestyle, Silver 100m freestyle

Adam Deutsch – Gold 200m breaststroke, Gold 100m breaststroke, Silver 400m individual medley, Silver 200m individual medley

Chris Johnson – Bronze 100m breaststroke

Isaiah Grambo – Silver 50m butterfly, Bronze 100m butterfly

Patrick Henger – Silver 200m butterfly

Joshua Nowlan – Bronze 1500m freestyle

Relays:

Silver – 400m Women's freestyle relay

Silver – 400m Men's freestyle relay