ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY SPORT ATHLETES OF THE WEEK
Week ending Nov. 26, 2023
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FEMALE ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Name: Ella Collins
University: Acadia University
Sport: Women’s Swimming
Hometown: Halifax, NS
Year of eligibility: Second
Academic program: Kinesiology
Ella Collins of the Acadia Axewomen swimming team is the Atlantic University Sport Female Athlete of the Week for the week ending Nov. 26, 2023.
The product of Halifax had a very successful weekend in the pool at the Kemp Fry Invitational, hosted by Dalhousie University.
She started the three-day event by setting an AUS record in the 50-metre breaststroke prelims, clocking in at a time of 31.83 to beat the mark of 31.96 10 years ago by Dalhousie’s Audrey Prayal-Brown. Two days later, Collins bested her own newly achieved record, swimming to a time of 31.76 in the 50m breaststroke final.
Collins also took top spot in the 100 and 200m breaststroke events, and helped her team capture the 400m medley relay – all three races saw new Acadia benchmarks set.
MALE ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Name: Chris Weeks
University: Memorial University
Sport: Men’s Swimming
Hometown: Mount Pearl, NL
Year of eligibility: First
Academic program: General Studies
Chris Weeks of the Memorial University Sea-Hawks swimming team is the Atlantic University Sport Male Athlete of the Week for the week ending Nov. 26, 2023.
The first-year swimmer from Mount Pearl, NL took an eraser to the AUS record book this past weekend at the Kemp Fry Invitational, hosted by Dalhousie University.
He kicked things off Friday night by setting a new AUS mark in the 50m butterfly with a time of 23.69, besting the record of 23.99 set by Acadia’s Shane Kenny back in 2021. The record did not last, as Weeks toppled his newfound benchmark just two days later with an even faster time of 23.64.
Weeks also set a new AUS record in the 50m freestyle when his Saturday time of 22.52 eclipsed the old mark of 22.57 set in 2019 by Brett Liem (Acadia); and in the 100m freestyle on Sunday with a time of 48.62 to surpass Noah Mascoll-Gomes’s (Dalhousie) time of 49.50 set just last season.
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