CISDay 1 CIS championships (prelims) Dinos Birds dominate opening session
CISDay 1 CIS championships (prelims) Dinos Birds dominate opening session Canada West OUA QSSF AUS Canada West OUA QSSF AUS CIS 5 Year Championship Schedule Womens Basketball Final 8 Round 1 East Regional Round 1 Central Regional Round 1 West Regional Mens Basketball Final 8 Cross Country Curling Womens Field Hockey Football Desjardins Vanier Cup Womens Ice Hockey Mens Ice Hockey University Cup Womens Rugby Womens Soccer Mens Soccer Swimming Track & Field Womens Volleyball Mens Volleyball Wrestling Basketball Cross Country Curling Field Hockey Ice Hockey Rugby Soccer Swimming Track & Field Volleyball Wrestling Basketball Curling Cross Country Football Ice Hockey Soccer Swimming Track & Field Volleyball Wrestling SSN Canada Website SSN Canada Webcast Schedule Le 5 Partant QSSF Basketball Show CIS Womens Hockey Weekly CIS Touchdown Football Show SSN Webcast Schedule Football Canada West OUA QSSF AUS Home Universiades FISU World University Championships StudentAthlete Info Members Info International Programs Committee About International Program Services International History Past Medalists Official BLG Website Past BLG Winners BLG Awards History History Past Winners Home ScheduleResults CIS Coaches Newsletter CANADA first News Day 1 CIS championships (prelims) Dinos Birds dominate opening sessionVANCOUVER (CIS) The University of Calgary Dinos and UBC Thunderbirds dominated the first preliminary session of the 2009 CIS swimming championships Thursday morning at the UBC Aquatic CentreChampionship website (live results & live video webcast)wwwcisportcaechampionshipsswimming2009The Dinos hold the early advantage in the womens team race with 13 swimmers qualifying for Thursday nights individual finals compared to nine for the host TBirds while in the mens competition UBC has 14 athletes going for individual gold this evening compared to 11 for CalgaryThe U of C women are looking for their firstever national title and hope to put an end to UBCs 11year domination of CIS swimming Calgary has placed second to its archrivals at the CIS meet each of the past eight seasonsThe Dino men are looking to repeat as CIS champions one year after putting an end to the TBirds 10year reignAmong qualifiers for tonights finals are Olympians Erica Morningstar (Regina) of Calgary in the womens 200metre freestyle Annamay Pierse (Edmonton) of UBC in the womens 100m breaststroke and Mike Brown (Perth Ont) in the mens 100m breastThursdays finals kick off at 6 pm PacificFollowing is a racebyrace recap of Thursday mornings preliminariesWomens 200 metre freestyleThe Calgary Dinos took charg...