2019-20 Acadia Swimming News
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Harrison-Murray returns from the land down under
September 04, 2020The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the planning of vacationing Canadians this summer and this has not spared many around the world -
Sangster making an impact in his first year swimming at Acadia
February 14, 2020By John DeCoste ‘77 0 Dean Sangster came to Acadia last September as one of the program's top recruits, but it’s a good bet not many expected him to be this good this soon.
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Liem named AUS Subway Athlete of the Week - Feb. 3-9, 2020
February 11, 2020HALIFAX, N.S. - Atlantic University Sport announced the Subway Athletes of the Week today and Swimming's Brett Liem was selected as the Male Athlete of the Week for this past weekend's performance at the AUS Championships.
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Axemen are champions, by snapping 21 year hold of title by Tigers
February 09, 2020WOLFVILLE, N.S. - 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, snapping a winning streak by the men's Tigers of 21 seasons.
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Axemen dominating AUS Swimming Championship, Axewomen placing strong second
February 08, 2020WOLFVILLE, N.S. Dalhousie swimmers found themselves atop of the podium in seven of the 14 events at the end of day two of the 2020 Subway AUS Swimming Championships presented by Keep it Social. However, Acadia won five events and look to break Dalhousie's 21-year grip of the Men's Championship, while UNB and Mount Allison each won one event.
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Swimming's Sangster and MacDonald honoured as AUS major award winners
February 07, 2020(HALIFAX, N.S.) Atlantic University Sport is pleased to announce the 2019-20 AUS swimming major award winners as selected by the conference’s head coaches and Acadia's Dean Sangster was named the Rookie of the Year. Head Coach Gary MacDonald was named the Male Swimming Coach of the Year.
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Axemen lead after 1 session, while Axewomen trail first place Dalhousie
February 07, 2020HALIFAX, N.S. - After the first session of the AUS swimming championship hosted by Dalhousie, the Axemen find themselves comfortably in front of the reigning champion Dalhousie Tigers, while the Axewomen sit in a close second to the Tigers.
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Axemen top Tigers in men’s results, while Acadia wins combined results
January 19, 2020WOLFVILLE, N.S. – The Acadia swim team pulled off their second combined result win this year today and also won the men’s results at the Acadia Invitational swim meet.
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Acadia leads in combined scores at Acadia Invitational Meet
January 18, 2020WOLFVILLE, N.S. – The last AUS meet of the regular season kicked off today at Acadia with its first and only session of the day resulting in an Acadia lead in the combined score and men’s results.
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Axemen finish second to McGill & Axewomen post third place finish
November 18, 2019WOLFVILLE, N.S. – While the Axemens swim team didn’t finish first overall for the third meet in a row, the did finish second to RSEQ powerhouse McGill who attended this year’s Kemp-Fry meet hosted by Dalhousie.
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Acadia swim team wins combined, Axemen win men's at Jack Scholz meet
November 03, 2019WOLFVILLE, N.S. – The Acadia Swim team captured the overall combined women’s and men’s scores to win their second meet in a row in the early stages of the AUS season at the Jack Scholz Memorial Meet.
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Acadia leads overall team standings after session 1 of Jack Scholz
November 02, 2019WOLFVILLE, N.S. – Session one of the Jack Scholz swim meet was nothing but fast and furious as the host Acadia Axemen and Axewomen hoped to challenge the visiting Dalhousie Tigers, Mount Allison Mounties and UNB Reds.
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Axemen win first AUS meet in recent history, Axewomen finish second
October 20, 2019FREDERICTON, N.B. – The Acadia swim team finished second in combined overall team standings at the opening meet of the 2019-20 AUS swim season in Fredericton, N.B. this past weekend.
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Acadia Swim Team announces additions to the 2019-20 roster
September 20, 2019WOLFVILLE, N.S. – Acadia swimming head coach Gary MacDonald is pleased to announce this year’s incoming class of freshmen and freshwomen.
