Acadia finishes second at Amby Legere meet at UNB

(FREDERICTON, NB) The Dalhousie Tigers scored 12 wins in the 18 events held on the final day of competition at UNB's Amby Legere Invitational, the first meet of the 2024-25 Atlantic University Sport swimming season.

Acadia swimmers won four events, while host REDS captured a pair of race wins.

Dal's Alexia Morgan and Isaac Bahler swept the 200-metre butterfly events while teammates Emilie Schofield and Logan Sparkes won the women's and men's 400-metre freestyle races.

Dal's Quinn Nolan won the men's 50-metre backstroke while UNB's Leah Smal won the women's 50-metre backstroke, beating Acadia's Sophie Rooney by 13/100ths of a second.

In the women's 100-metre backstroke, Dal's Schofield edged Smal at the wall.

Tiger Liam Ferguson won the men's 100-metre backstroke.

Acadia swept the 50-metre butterfly races with Sara Bennett winning the women's race and Marcus Vaillancourt winning the men's race. Vaillancourt was just 2/10ths of a second quicker than UNB's Blake Kingston to the wall.

Ella Collins won the women's 100-metre breaststroke while Dal's Connor Maloney won the men's race, leading a Tigers podium sweep.

UNB's Maxime Kenny won the men's 100-metre individual medley in a time of 59.41 seconds, the only swimmer under one-minute. Kingston finished third, 6/100ths of a second behind Acadia's Nate Thompson.

Rooney won the women's 100-metre individual medley.

In the women's 200-metre individual medley, Dal's Kate Tuck beat UNB's Jessie Collett, and Dal's Sparkes won the men's race. UNB's Kenny was third.

The Tigers finished atop the team standings in the men's, women's, and overall categories.

Acadia finished second in all three categories, with UNB third and Mount Allison fourth.

The next event on the AUS schedule is the Jack Scholz Memorial Invitational, at Acadia, November 2 and 3.