OTTAWA, Ont. – The Golden Hawks swim team reached new heights on Saturday, winning the women's, men's, and combined categories in the season-opening Ravens Tri-Meet hosted by Carleton.

With Laurier carrying a full men's and women's roster for the first time in program history, the meet against the Ravens and Queen's Gaels showed what a full swimming roster can accomplish in the OUA. 

At last year's OUA Championships, only the men's team had a full roster of 18 swimmers and was able to best both Carleton and Queen's, while the women's team only had 12 out of the maximum 18 swimmers and was able to best Carleton but fell right behind Queen's .

Across the board, the Golden Hawks were swimming faster than ever before this early, achieving podium finishes in 29 of 34 events. 

The purple and gold got the meet started with a splash in the 200m medley relays, with the women's side finishing fourth and fifth while the men finished second, third, seventh, and ninth. 

The first individual event was the 400m freestyle, where Olivia Francis and Katarina Brezovan finished second and third, respectively. 

On the men's side, Jacob Wahba, Kent Goni Avila and Ethan Handy finished second, third, and sixth overall.
 
In the 200m breaststroke, Maxeen Mullen, Bailey Breitkreutz, and Montana Geris finished second through fourth - in that order. 

Next up, Owen Jibb won Laurier's first event of the meet - the 200m breaststroke - while Brandon Brock finished second.

The 50m backstroke saw the podium full of purple and gold with Emma Young, Simrit Grewal, and Peyton Croteau finishing in the top three. 

Morgan Pequin, Katie Cosgriffe, and Tara Tavoularis finished fourth, sixth and eighth, respectively. 

Tyler Greenwood was second overall on the men's side with Dylan Thomas, Connor Cartier and Dylan Murray finishing eighth, 10th and 12th overall. 

In the women's 200m butterfly, Megan Smith finished second. On the men's side, Nolan Pittman became the second Golden Hawk to top the podium with his first-place finish while Sawyer Kay finished fourth.

After that was the 200m freestyle, where Geris and Catherine Tenai finished fifth and sixth on the women's side, while Handy finished first on the men's.

The 100m individual medley is a rare event in the OUA and the Hawks were eager to participate in it. 

Grewal, Young, Breitkreutz, Cosgriffe, Katie Marton, Kaitlin Couillard, and Tavoularis raced to success, finishing fourth through sixth and 12th through 14th. 

The men were also ready to soar.

William Bryer and Kelton Langman raced against strong competitors and finished second and sixth overall. 

The 100m butterfly saw Aleesha Tejani finish third overall on the women's side while Goni Avila and Daniel Romagnoli provided a 1-2 finish on the men's side. 

Jibb, Murray, Thomas, and Cartier finished fifth, eighth 10th and 12th, respectively. 

Laurier has been a dominant breaststroke team, and that streak continued in the 100m races.

Marshall and Olivia Frost found the podium and finished first and third, while Kaitlin Couillard and Geris finished sixth and seventh, respectively. 

On the men's side, John Ryan topped the podium while Brock, Andrew Zab, Liam Connolly, Pittman and Kay also had strong performances finishing fourth, sixth, seventh, eighth, and 11th overall. 

Having won the last two events, the Hawks kept their streak alive as Croteau, Pequin and Tejani finished first, third, and 10th overall while Wahba, Greenwood, Griffin Oldman and Handy placed first, second, fourth and 10th overall. 

Queen's snapped Laurier's win streak away in the 50m butterfly as Francis finished second, Marton finished eighth, and Smith finished 12th overall. 

Goni Avila and Langman brought Laurier back to the podium, finishing first and third, with Bryer close behind in fifth.

A flock of Hawks continued Laurier's dominance in the backstroke, taking over the podium in the 100m races. Grewal, Young, and Cosgriffe finished first through third on the podium with Tavoularis and Tenai not far behind in fifth and 10th, respectively. 

Tejani was the lone Hawk on the women's side in the 200m individual medley, where she raced to a fifth-place finish. 

On the men's side, Jibb and Romagnoli went one-two topping the podium with Brock, Cartier, Zab and Kay finishing sixth, seventh, and 10th respectively. 

In the 50m freestyle. Croteau kept her podium streak alive, finishing third, and teammates Francis, Couillard, Marshall, Brezovan, and Frost in the top 16 with sixth, ninth, 13th, 14th, and 15th placements, respectively. 

Greenwood kept his podium streak alive with a second-place finish and was joined by Ryan, who finished third. The duo was followed closely by Oldman and Murray who finished fourth and 10th respectively. 

Laurier's backstroke was golden thanks to strong performances from Pequin and Thomas. Pequin finished second while Thomas was first. 

In every backstroke event, Laurier had a first-place finisher. 

The last individual event of the event was the 50m breaststroke, where Frost, Marshall, Breitkreutz, Mullen, and Marton finished just off the podium from fourth through eighth. 

On the men's side, Ryan was second followed by Langman, Connolly, Oldman, Zab, Wahba and Romagnoli in the top 16. 

The Hawks finished the meet impressively in the 200m freestyle relays, with both the women's and men's A relays touching the wall in first. 

The women's relays also finished fourth, sixth, and seventh while the men's finished third, fifth, and ninth, respectively. 

Laurier's swimmers are back in action on Sunday, October 20 at the Brock Fall Invitational. 

Results:

Combined
Laurier 1194.5 – 1035.5 Queen's
Laurier 1213 – 1078 Carleton

Women
Laurier 575.5 – 562.5 Queen's
Laurier 611 – 513 Carleton

Men
Laurier 619 – 472 Queen's
Laurier 602 – 565 Carleton