Queen's Artistic Swimming got off to a strong start in their first event of the competitive season at the McGill Invitational, 

Queen's Artistic Swimming
 
In experienced free events, Victoria Mee and Coco Petracchi, placed third in duet while Alyssa You, Faith Bennet, and Jayla Seymour gave a strong performance as a trio. Swimmers Maggie Keogan and Nadia Garcia also debuted an energy packed duet, and Sarah Taylor and Claire Christie swam beautifully in the solo event. Many of the experienced swimmers regrouped to end their day with a third place finish in the team event.
 
In novice technical events, athletes Anissa Nielson and Olivia Winslow placed fourth in duet, Lily Ingram placed third in solo, and the team gave an exceptional performance that secured them a third place finish. This was the first competition ever for many of the athletes on the novice team including: Anissa Nielson, Julia Elmslie, Charlotte Rooney, Ruth Tullis, Alexandria Schneider, Allyson Jones, and Hanna Chau.
 
Experienced athlete and novice coach Elizabeth Hunt also returned to competition after a year off and swam in the Athletes With Disability solo event, receiving a first place ribbon."

Queen's Fencing

Alexandre Prefontaine wins Bronze for Queen's Fencing at the 2024 Brock Open


 
Nov. 16-17, 2024 — Queen's Fencing travelled to St. Catharines this weekend where 44 fencers competed in eleven events and where they earned a medal, one top 8 finish, two top 16 finishes, and 14 top 32s. 
 
On the first day of competition, Alexandre Prefontaine won the Bronze medal the Senior Men's Sabre event in a closely contested match. This is the second bronze for Prefointaine this season.
 
Luigi Burrito (Men's Sabre Captain) and Andrew Boulos also had strong finishes in Sabre on Saturday, narrowly missing the Round of 16, finishing in 17th and 18th, respectively.
 
Additional Top 32 finishes were achieved in Senior Women's Foil, with Sarah Jacobson placing 24th and Wendy Li coming in 25th. In the first day's Junior events, Brogan Long finished 32nd in Junior Men's Foil and Lillian Liu placed 13th and Julia Robinson 17th in Junior Women's Epee.
 
The Sabre team also captured the best result in Sunday's events, with Tia Gayowsky coming in 9th place in Senior Women's Sabre with additional strong finishes in that event from Women's Sabre Captain Joyce Lyn Fox, who placed 18th, and Quintyn Zuber who came in 23rd.
 
Other Top 32 results were achieved on the second day of competition
by Men's Team Captain, Cameron Hostetler Keates, and Men's Foil Captain, Ewan Peterson, who came in 22nd and 23rd in the Senior Men's Foil event, and by Women's Epee Captain, Elizabeth Fullerton, who placed 28th in the Senior Women's Epee event.
 
In Sunday's Junior events, Jay Solomon came 12th in Junior men's Epee and, in Junior Women's Foil, Sarah Jacobson came 21st and Shayna Sharma finished her day in 32nd place.
 
The Queen's Varsity Fencing Team next competes in the Carleton Team Invitational on January 11th-12, 2025.
 
Full Queen's Fencing results from the 2024 Brock Open:
 
Senior Men's Epee
Herbert Wang - 38th
Asher Wolk - 51th
Gary Ge - 53th
Jay Solomon - 65th
Grayson  Jeffrey - 71st
John Liu - 76th
Nathan Harrison - 84th
 
Junior Men's Foil
Brogan Long - 30th
 
Senior Women's Foil
Sarah Jacobson - 24th
Wendy Li - 25th
Nancy Chua - 38th
Miranda Hong - 41st
Sophie Kitson - 42nd
Shayna Sharma - 49th
Annika Kim - 61st
 
Senior Men's Sabre
Alexandre  Prefontaine  - BRONZE
Luigi Burjato - 17th
Andrew Boulos  - 18th
Justin Bhatla - 47th
Jayson Pomfret - 59th
Jack  Atkinson - 66th
 
Junior Women's Epee
Lillian Liu - 13th
Julia Robinson - 17th
 
Senior Men's Foil
Cameron Hostetler Keates - 22nd
Ewan Peterson - 23rd
Pendleton Murray - 66th
Brogan Long - 71st
Jimmy Lu - 74th
Benjamin  Niemi - 84th
Luc Grenier - 89th
 
Junior Women's Foil
Sarah Jacobson - 21st
Shayna Sharma - 32nd
Cary Tu - 33rd
 
Senior Women's Sabre
Tia Gayowsky - 9th
Joyce Lyn Fox - 18th
Quintyn  Zuber 23rd
Aya El-Awour - 36th
Sara Gharbaoui - 37th
Emma Gardner - 39th
Alisha  Zheng  - 51st
 
Senior Women's Epee
Elizabeth Fullerton - 28th
Sarena Sandhu - 38th
Eli Hiatt - 39th
Autumn Wang - 45th
Lillian Liu - 59th
Julia Robinson - 61st
 
Junior Men's Epee
Jay Solomon - 12th

Queen's Squash

This weekend, The Queens Women's Squash team travelled 5 hours and had the opportunity to play both Western and University of Toronto women's at the London Squash Club. We arrived Saturday night to prepare for matches bright and early the next morning at 9am! 

The 9am game was against the Western Women's Squash team. There was excitement regarding the matchups at the first two positions, as they stemmed from some junior rivalries, with Ashley Hall (western) versus Gabby Waite (queens) at position 1 and Maggie Davis (queens) versus Katie Boulanger (western) at 2. The matches were tight, and our girls put up a fight but western took the win 5-2. Each of our 7 girls played good squash and made the Gaels proud. Special shoutout to Co-captain Julia Nash for coming away with a 3-1 win! The matches against Western Women were super fun and the girls look forward to hosting them at the next crossover in January.

Next, the girls played University of Toronto at 11am, the matches were close, and, in the end, University of Toronto took the win 6-1. Honourable mention to rookie Sage Eberhard for winning both of her matches! We are very proud of our girls for supporting and helping coach each other. Queens women definitely had the loudest cheers this weekend and are looking forward to hosting the next crossover on our home courts!