The Simon Fraser University swim teams started their 2013 season on Saturday with a sweep of the University of Puget Sound Loggers.
The women's team defeated the Loggers 171-80, while the men won 158-97.
The Clan swept all 28 events that the two sides competed in, including four relays.
Grace Ni, Brianna Bailey, Alexandria Schofield and Nicole Cossey won the opening event, the 200-metre medley relay, in a time of 2:01.74. The Clan also came second as Katrina Sharpe, Katie McEvoy, Lauren Swistak and Charlene Hew finished behind their teammates in a time of 2:04.34.
The men then came out and won the 200m medley relay as Dimitar Ivanov, Julian Monks, Ciaran McDonnell and Hans Heyer won in a time of 1:47.16.
In the 800m freestyle, freshman Claudia Mathieu won for the Clan, capturing her first collegiate race in a time of 9:21.87, while the men's race was taken by another freshman Duncan Andrews in a time of 8:59.15.
The Clan women finished one-two in the 200m freestyle as Schofield won the race in a time of 2:11.70 and Carman Nam finished second in a time of 2:15.42. The men's team also took the top two spots as Ivanov won in a time of 1:58.90 and Justin Kiedrzyn of New Westminster finished second in a time of 1:59.29.
SFU took the top three spots in the 100m backstroke, led by Ni who won in a time of 1:05.81 and followed by Carly Guraliuk, who finished second in a time of 1:06.89 and Sharpe, who finished third in a time of 1:08.71.
The men also took first, second and third with Heyer winning in a time of 56.92, Brandon Bronson finishing second in a time of 58.43 and Keenan Elliott, who finished third in a time of 1:00.56.
In the 100m breaststroke, Bailey finished first for the Clan in a time of 1:14.11 followed by McEvoy at 1:16.22 and Sydney Lata at 1:20.73, while the men took the top two spots, led by Lucas Greenough in a time of 1:07.01 and Monks, who finished second in a time of 1:07.14, just behind his teammate.
Swistak and Nam finished first and second in the 200m butterfly, with Swistak winning in a time of 2:17.83 and Nam finishing second in a time of 2:25.04, while McDonnell and Jordan Morford took the top two spots on the men's side, with McDonnell winning in a time of 2:09.65 and Morford finishing in a time of 2:10.32.
The 50m freestyle event went to Cossey on the women's side in a time of 26.84, while Heyer won the men's race in 24.27. Cossey was back at it in the 100m free, winning the race in a time of 58.34 while the Clan's Dane Simmons won in a time of 54.51.
Ni got her third win of the day in the 200m back, finishing first in a time of 2:22.02 and on the men's side, Ivanov won in a time of 2:07.84.
Bailey took her third race of the day next when she won the 200m breast in a time of 2:40.48, and in his first day of collegiate competition, Greenough took his second win of the day in the men's 200m breast, winning in a time of 2:28.42.
The Clan then swept the 400m free with Nam taking the women's race in a time of 4:48.24 and Andrews winning the men's in a time of 4:16.41, before Swistak and McDonnell swept the men's and women's 100m fly in times of 1:03.56 and 57.84, respectively.
In the last individual races of the day, Bailey won the 200m medley on the women's side in a time of 2:26.86, while Greenough wrapped up a successful first day of NCAA competition for himself on the men's side with a win in 2:14.34.
The competition ended with the 200m free relay race as the Clan's Sharpe, Ni, Nam and Cossey took the win on the women's side in a time of 1:53.10, while Heyer, Simmons, Ivanov and Monks won the men's race in a time of 1:37.58.
Both Clan teams will be back in action in Colorado Springs on Friday, when they take on Division I Air Force.
