Brock hosts OUA Swimming Championships where Varsity Blues and Mustangs shine
Rob Boudreau
Issue date: 2/9/10 Section: Sports
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Brock University hosted the 2010 OUA Swimming Championships at the Eleanor Misener Aquatic Centre from Feb. 4-7.
Thirteen schools participated across 42 events, where the Toronto Varsity Blues and Western Mustangs defended their men's and women's titles, while 11 new OUA records were set at the championship.
The Varsity Blues finished with 998 points and are now seven-time defending men's champions. The Mustangs finished second with 656.5 points and the Ottawa GeeGees took third with 469.5 points. On the women's side, the Mustangs won their second consecutive banner with 1032.5 points, followed by Toronto with 630 points and the McMaster Marauders who had 419 points.
For Brock, the women won sixth place with 268 points, six points behind Ottawa. The men finished in 10th place with 84 points, just 4.5 points behind the Laurier Golden Hawks, and improved from last year's four-point, last-place finish.
"One of our team goals was for the men's team to reach the top-10, which they did," said Brock swimmer Holly Hopkins. "The women's team [wanted] to reach top-five […] We were sixth last year and we got sixth again this year, but we did beat Guelph which was one of our goals."
Hopkins led the Badgers in the pool. She placed sixth in the 200-meter backstroke (2:22.53) and eighth in both the 50-meter backstroke (30.78) and 100-meter backstroke events (1:05.81). Baylee Colquhoun placed sixth in the 400-meter IM (5:10.81), Delia Caughlin placed seventh in the 50-meter breaststroke (34.52) and Ilana Romanow finished eighth in the 200-meter IM (2:25.97).
Hopkins, Romanow, Katie So and Victoria Culp finished fifth in the 400-meter medley relay with a time of 4:27.78. Hopkins, Culp, Cora Michener and Lisa McCann placed fifth in the 400-meter freestyle relay (4:02.10) and Hopkins, Romanow, So and Erica Dugas were sixth with a time of 2:02.60 in the 200-meter medley relay.
Brock's young swim team improved tremendously from last year, when a core group of OUA rookies joined the team and broke out this season.
"They are improving drastically this year," Hopkins said. "A few of our rookies are really close and we're hoping to get more next year and just build up a big base."
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