Story Links TORONTO — Three school records were broken, and Ella Howe made the U SPORTS All-Star Team in a fantastic showing for the Bisons swim team at nationals in Toronto.Overall, five different Bisons set personal bests. Along with Dupre, Howe and Usan, Shea Guest set a new PB in the 100m backstroke, while Kostelnyk […]
TORONTO — Three school records were broken, and Ella Howe made the U SPORTS All-Star Team in a fantastic showing for the Bisons swim team at nationals in Toronto.Overall, five different Bisons set personal bests. Along with Dupre, Howe and Usan, Shea Guest set a new PB in the 100m backstroke, while Kostelnyk did so in the 100m breaststroke.Manitoba sent twelve swimmers to the annual U SPORTS Championships, with Eric Dupre, Andriy Usan and the men’s 4×100 medley relay setting new school records. On the women’s side, freestyle specialist Ella Howe earned a selection to the U SPORTS All-Star team that will compete against England this June in Loughborough.Howe — who holds the school record in the 50 free — was sensational all week, including in her marquee events of the 50 and 100m freestyle. She reached the A final in both events, touching the wall in the 50 free final in a time of 25.54 seconds for fifth overall. Meanwhile, her time of 56.08 seconds (prelims) set a new personal best and she finished eighth in the final in 56.50 seconds.Dupre shattered his own school record in the 200m backstroke in a time of 2:01.13, while Usan set a new school standard in the 200m butterfly in a time of 2:02.35. Additionally, the men’s 4×100 medley team, consisting of Usan, Dupre, Rhade Kostelnyk and Ty Unrau broke the program record with a time of 3:43.94.In total, the women scored 148.5 points, and the men scored 65 points.Senior Kelsey Fillion also reached the finals in all three freestyle events, (500, 100, 200) while fellow senior Emma Mitchell swam to a season’s best in the 200m individual medley, and rookie Tam Doam reached his first U SPORTS final in the 50m breaststroke.
