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Clan Cup - Day 2

Simon Fraser

Simon Fraser University won six individual races by six different swimmers and captured all four relays on Day 2 of the Clan Cup Saturday at the Margaret & Paul Savage Pool at SFU.
 
Simon Fraser won 10 of 14 events on Saturday.
 
Day 2 of the Clan Cup was highlighted by the men’s 200 medley relay where the Clan foursome of Gabriel Lee, Colton Peterson, Justin Kiedrzyn, and Adrian VanderHelm narrowly set a new Clan Cup record. They finished the race in 1 minute 42.58 seconds shaving one tenth of a second off the old record set by the Clan in 2013.
 
Two of the closest races of the meet to date happened Saturday. VanderHelm edged teammate MacKenzie Hamill 3:51.21 to 3:51.77 to win the 400-meter freestyle and SFU’s James Cormier edged teammate Colton Petersen 2:06.46 to 2:06.57 in the 200 IM.
 
Justin Kiedrzyn also pulled off an individual win, capturing the 100 butterfly in 53.83.
 
On the women’s side Meaghan Frenks won the 100 breaststroke (1:11.00), Maran Kokoszka won the 100 backstroke (1:03.21) and Lauren Swistak captured the 400 freestyle (4:25.41).
 
SFU captured the men’s and women’s 800 freestyle relays and women’s 200 medley relay as well.
 
This is the 19th year of the Clan Cup International in which 44 events will be contested over three days. On Sunday, the preliminaries begin at 9:00 AM and the Finals at 4:30 PM.

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