According to Mike Stubbs of 980 CFPL London, world champion Maggie Mac Neil of London, Ontario set the National Collegiate Athletic Association record outright this weekend in the women’s 100 yard butterfly on Friday. Mac Neil posted a time of Read more
Three Canadian Olympic gold medalists will receive the Order of Canada according to The Canadian Press on Friday. They are figure skaters Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of London, Ontario, as well as swimmer Mark Tewksbury of Calgary, Alberta. Virtue Read more
There will be no national championships at the Canadian university level in basketball, hockey, swimming, track and field, volleyball, and wrestling in 2020-21 due to coronavirus according to Signa Butler of CBC Sports on Thursday. The decision to cancel the Read more
Nine-time Canadian Paralympic gold medalist Benoit Huot of Longueuil, Quebec, has been named the Canadian Chef de Mission for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England, according to the Canadian Press on Tuesday. Huot won nine gold medals in swimming for Read more
According to the Canadian Press on Thursday, Kelsey Wog of Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Aboubacar Sissoko of Montreal, Quebec, have been named the 2020 Canadian University Sports athletes of the year on Thursday. Wog was the star of the 2020 Canadian Read more
According to the Canadian Press on Wednesday, Canadian swimming sensation Maggie Mac Neil of London, Ontario was named the Big Ten Conference female swimmer of the year on Wednesday. Mac Neil won six gold medals for the University of Michigan Read more
Sydney Pickrem of Halifax, Nova Scotia and Markus Thormeyer of Newmarket, Ontario each won gold medals for Canada in the FINA Champions Swim Series in China last week. Thormeyer won the gold medal in the men’s 200 metre backstroke in Read more
Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Brent Hayden of Mission, British Columbia has decided to come out of retirement. In an announcement made on Wednesday, what is remarkable about this announcement is that Hayden retired from competitive swimming seven years ago, after Read more
Team Canada increased their gold medal count to 31 on Friday at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru.The five gold medals came in four different sports (wrestling, rowing, sailing and swimming). In women’s 76 kilogram freestyle wrestling, Justina Read more
Team Canada won a national record 11th medal on Sunday at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships in Gwangju, South Korea when they won the bronze medal in the women’s 4×100 metre medley relay. The previous Canadian record was 10 medals Read more