Acadia swimming post 3rd & 4th place finishes at Dal

HALIFAX, N.S. - This past weekend, 18 swimmers ,3 coaches and 1 manager travelled to Dalhousie this past weekend for the first ever Kemp-Fry Invitational. The meet had just been renamed to include Coach David Fry, who recently passed away with a battle with cancer. Coach Fry had been Acadia's coach for the 2014-15 season.

The meet was extraordinarily fast with 2 power houses, Dalhousie and McGill, going head to head. Although small in numbers the Acadia team challenged at every chance and came away with many great swims. Rebecca MacPherson led the way with 4 outstanding swims including a victory in the 200 freestyle. She earned 3 CIS standards with 3 top 3 performances ( 200Free 100 Free and 200 Back ) Acadia's top male performer was Hayden Adams who had 4 spectacular final performances including an awesome morning swim in the 200 back which earned his ticket to CIS champs in Laval.

Other notable performances included freshman, Hannah Doiron, who made significant drops in all 3 of her breaststroke swims to compete in the A finals in all of them.  All her swims were personal bests. The best of the rest were top finalists, Alison MacEachern, Brendan Vibert, Adam Deutsch, and Patrick Henger who are all closing in on their CIS standards. The relay teams were a high lite with both squads, men and women, taking home 3 bronze medals swims in the 4x100 FR and 4x100 MR.

Here is some of the top performances;

200 Fly  A. MacEachern – ( .5 off her  CIS standard)

200 Fly   P. Henger -  ( 7 second improvement to set a varsity record )

50-100-200 breast   H. Doiron – ( 3 new varsity records )

200 free-100 free-200 Back   R. Macpherson  (  Gold, Silver Bronze )

100 free H. Adams  - (  varsity record )

100 back   H. Adams  ( bronze medal  , varsity record )

200 Back H. Adams   - ( CIS Qualifier )

100 fly  A. MacEachern  - ( top 4 in A finals )

100 Breast    A. Deutsch   ( bronze medal )