Toronto distance themselves from UBC at the Speedo CIS swimming championships:

QUEBEC CITY (CIS) – The University of Toronto dominated on day two of the 2016 Speedo CIS Swimming Championships, presented at Laval University, one day after sharing a piece of the lead with the University of British Columbia. The Varsity Blues now have a chance to add a 15th national banner to their collection on the women's side, and an impressive 19th men's title.

The Toronto men advanced their lead (605.50 points) from 29 to 96.5 points. UBC (509) and Calgary (477) follow in second and third. An impressive showing from the men, but even more so when it came to the Blues women's team. Trailing to the Thunderbirds by 18 points after day one of the championships, U of T took the lead with 527 points to UBC's 468.50 by the end of day two.

"Not what we expected!" said University of Toronto head coach, Byron Macdonald. "We kind of thought that we could pick up maybe 40 or 50 points on UBC, but we picked up a lot more than that. Our women swam amazing and our guys swam amazing, we're in a real strong position now, but UBC is not going to roll over. They're a heck of a good team and it's going to be a real good battle all the way."

UBC's head coach, Steve Price, was not completely surprised by the switch in leaders. "We did not have a lot of swims today and that's about where we thought that we would end up at the end of the day. We've got lots of racing tomorrow and I think that we will make it interesting," said Price. "The fact that we finished on two wins at the end of the night on those relays bodes well and anything can happen in the last day so we're pretty pleased with how we swam today."

Individually, Kylie Masse earned another CIS Championship record for a second straight day, winning the 100m backstroke in 59.81. She beat out former two-time defending champion and record holder, University Laval's Marie-Pier Couillard. Masse almost provided her team with another gold medal in her team's 4x200m freestyle relay, when she touched the wall only 15 hundredths of a second behind first place University of Toronto.

Eli Wall and Osvald Nitski also did their parts for the Varsity Blues by winning their second gold medals in as many days. Wall took home honours in the men's 200m breaststroke, while Nitski proved too strong in the 200m butterfly.

In the day's other highlights, two more CIS Championship records fell. Oleksandr Loginov of UBC beat his own record in the men's 50m free by 5 hundredths of a second. Meanwhile, Noah Choboter from the University of Regina completed the women's 100m backstroke in a record time of 55.78.

After winning the women's 50m butterfly and 50m freestyle, Paulina Bond enabled the Western University Mustangs to climb the women's rankings Saturday night. 2012 Canadian Olympic team member Tera van Beilen won her second championship gold medal in the 200m breaststroke. Thunderbirds teammate Maia Brundage took home first place in the women's 400m freestyle. In the men's 400m freestyle, UBC's Keegan Zanatta took home gold beating Tristan Cole (Calgary) and Jonathan Brown (UBC). Third last year in the 200m butterfly, Sophie Marois (Montreal) was able to claim victory this time around. Lastly, the tightest race of the evening was the men's 50m butterfly. The winner, University of Toronto's Matthew Dans finished six hundredths of a second ahead of second place Dillon Perron (Manitoba) and eight hundredths of a second ahead of third place Pascal-Hugo Caron-Cantin (Laval).

The 2016 Speedo CIS Swimming Championships wrap up Sunday at Desjardins-Université Laval Aquatic Centre. Preliminaries start at 10 a.m., with finals slated for 6 p.m. ET. CIS All-Canadian and major award presentations will take place following Sunday's finals.

NOTES: Finals are webcast live on www.CIS-SIC.tv... Live results from preliminaries and finals are available on the championships website (click HERE)... Since 2015, finals at the Speedo CIS championships are contested in a 50-metre pool (long course), while preliminaries remain short course races (25m pool)... Records set in the preliminaries are added to the Speedo CIS championship short-course record book.

DAY 2 TEAM STANDINGS

Women
1. Toronto 527 pts
2. UBC 468,50
3. Calgary 300
4. Laval 289,50
5. Western 267
6. Dalhousie 242
7. Montreal 177,50
8. McGill 164
9. Guelph 147
10. Alberta 120
11. McMaster 118,50
12. Victoria 114
13. Ottawa 82
14. Regina 76
15. Sherbrooke 74
16. UQAM 51
17. Laurentian 42
18. UNB 41
19. Manitoba 36
20. Brock 24
21. Lethbridge 18
22. Acadia 10
Waterloo 10
Laurier 10

Men (Nelson C. Hart trophy)
1. Toronto 605,50 pts
2. UBC 509
3. Calgary 477
4. Alberta 266
5. Western 234
6. Laval 172
7. Dalhousie 152
8. Ottawa 148
9. Guelph 140
10. Victoria 113,50
11. McMaster 106
12. McGill 104
13. Manitoba 62
14. Montreal 61
15. Sherbrooke 60
16. Regina 54
17. Lethbridge 49
18. Laurentian 23
19. Waterloo 15
20. Queen's 11

DAY 2 INDIVIDUAL MEDALLISTS (Saturday)

Women 100m Back
1. Kylie Masse, Toronto, 59.81 (CIS championship record)
2. Marie-Pier Couillard, Laval, 1:02.13
3. Genevieve Cantin, Laval, 1:02.29

Men 100m Back
1. Noah Choboter, Regina, 55.78 (CIS championship record)
2. Bradley Crocker, Calgary, 55.98
3. Daniel Kuiack, Toronto, 56.57

W 50m Fly
1. Paulina Bond, Western, 26.96
2. Kimberley Moors, Manitoba, 27.54
3. Marie-Lou Lapointe, Montreal, 27.61

M 50m Fly
1. Matthew Dans, Toronto, 24.51
2. Dillon Perron, Manitoba, 24.57
3. Pascal-Hugo Caron-Cantin, Laval, 24.59

W 400m Free
1. Maia Brundage, UBC, 4:18.91
2. Victoria Radounski, Toronto, 4:20.21
3. Katherine Webster, Dalhousie, 4:22.69

M 400m Free
1. Keegan Zanatta, UBC, 3:53.36
2. Tristan Cote, Calgary, 3:55.50
3. Jonathan Brown, UBC, 3:57.26

W 200m Breast
1. Tera van Beilen, UBC, 2:28.52
2. Tianna Rissling, Calgary, 2:29.88
3. Erin Stamp, UBC, 2:31.35

M 200m Breast
1. Eli Wall, Toronto, 2:16.19
2. Antoine Bujold, Montreal, 2:18.19
3. Dillon Perron, Manitoba, 2:19.02

W 50m Free
1. Paulina Bond, Western, 25.88
2. Paige Schultz, Toronto, 25.95
3. Rebecca Terejko, UBC, 26.03

M 50m Free
1. Oleksandr Loginov, UBC, 22.63 (CIS championship record)
2. Cameron Kidd, Toronto, 22.85
3. Robert Bonomo, Ottawa, 23.35

W 200m Fly
1. Sophie Marois, Montreal, 2:13.93
2. Jacomie Strydom, UBC, 2:14.68
3. Danielle D'Aoust, Calgary, 2:18.45

M 200m Fly
1. Osvald Nitski, Toronto, 2:01.61
2. Thomas Jobin, Calgary, 2:03.27
3. Gamal Assaad, Western, 2:03.52

W 4 x 200m Free Relay
1. UBC, 8:14.45
(Erika Seltenreich-Hodgson, Maia Brundage, Tera van Beilen, Rebecca Terejko)
2. Toronto, 8:14.60
(Victoria Radounski, Paige Schultz, Bridget Coley, Kylie Masse)
3. Laval, 8:30.87
(Magalie Poudrier, Caitlin Hodge, Mila Arnautovich, Genevieve Cantin)

M 4 x 200m Free Relay
1. UBC, 7:29.30
(Carson Olafson, Marshal Parker, Jonathan Brown, Keegan Zanatta)
2. Calgary, 7:34.46
(Tristan Cote, Alex Shogolev, Sterling King, Christopher Neave)
3. Toronto, 7:35.81
(Gaël Chaubet, Oliver Straszynski, Osvald Nitski, Hochan Ryu)

DAY 1 INDIVIDUAL MEDALLISTS (Friday)

Women 200m Free
1. Erika Seltenreich-Hodgson, UBC, 2:00.90
2. Maia Brundage, UBC, 2:02.50
3. Paige Schultz, Toronto, 2:02.57

Men 200m Free
1. Keegan Zanatta, UBC, 1:50.28 (CIS championship record)
2. Evan Van Moerkerke, Guelph, 1:51.14
3. Oliver Straszynski, Toronto, 1:51.68

W 50m Back
1. Kylie Masse, Toronto, 27.84 (CIS championship record / Canadian record) *
2. Marie-Pier Couillard, Laval, 28.93
3. Phoebe Lenderyou, Dalhousie, 29.17

* Kylie Masse also set a CIS championship short-course record (26.72) in the preliminaries.

M 50m Back
1. Josh Dow, Calgary, 25.98 (CIS championship record)
2. Daniel Kuiack, Toronto, 26.11
3. Christopher Courtis, Calgary, 26.21

W 100m Breast
1. Tera van Beilen, UBC, 1:08.36
2. Erin Stamp, UBC, 1:10.09
3. Alexandra Naisby, Sherbrooke, 1:10.18

M 100m Breast
1. Eli Wall, Toronto, 1:02.43 (CIS championship record)
2. Dillon Perron, Manitoba, 1:03.35
3. Jonathan Naisby, Sherbrooke, 1:03.37

W 100m Fly
1. Jacomie Strydom, UBC, 1:01.14
1. Sophie Marois, Montreal, 1:01.14
3. Marie-Lou Lapointe, Montréal, 1:01.42

M 100m Fly
1. Josiah Binnema, Alberta, 54.09
2. Gamal Assaad, Western, 54.41
3. Matthew Dans, Toronto, 54.70

W 400m IM
1. Erika Seltenreich-Hodgson, UBC, 4:45.21
2. Genevieve Cantin, Laval, 4:53.96
3. Tianna Rissling, Calgary, 4:55.07

M 400m IM
1. Osvald Nitski, Toronto, 4:23.90
2. Tristan Cote, Calgary, 4:24.78
3. Colin Eriks, UBC, 4:25.30

W 4 x 100m Free Relay
1. Toronto, 3:47.36
(Victoria Radounski, Heather Lam, Kylie Masse, Paige Schultz)
2. UBC, 3:48.41
(Rebecca Terejko, Tera Van Beilen, Maia Brundage, Erika Seltenreich-Hodgson)
3. Laval, 3:52.09
(Marie-Pier Couillard, Mila Arnautovich, Magalie Poudrier, Genevieve Cantin)

M 4 x 100m Free Relay
1. Toronto, 3:23.94 (CIS championship record)
(Daniel Kuiack, Cameron Kidd, Oliver Straszynski, Mitchel Ferraro)
2. UBC, 3:24.18
(Keegan Zanatta, Justin G Chan, Carson Olafson, Marshal Parker)
3. Guelph, 3:27.63
(Eric Trevisan, Evan Van Moerkerke, John Carroll, Philip Vranic)