Button(ed) to the top
Blues swimmer Jen Button won honours as both the OUA and CIS female athlete of the week (for the week ending February 3rd). The fifth-year physical education student sparkled in leading the women’s swim team to a first place finish at last weekend’s Ontario University swimming championships. She claimed five gold medals while setting two OUA records (200M butterfly and 200M freestyle) and broke her own CIS record in the 100M butterfly. Her other golds came in the 400M and 800M freestyle relay events. She shared Swimmer of the Meet honours with teammate Liz Warden (5 gold medals, two OUA records for U of T).

We can play too
The men’s swim team joined in the fun as they also repeated as OUA champs cruising to a 128-point victory over supposed rival McMaster. Peter Szaflarski led the way with two gold medals and a silver.

Squashing the competition
Women’s squash player Julia Hamilton won second place at the Individual Squash Championships last weekend and will lead the women into OUA team championships hosted by Toronto this weekend.

Sword-swinging fun
The women’s fencing team followed up the men’s strong performance on Saturday (February 4 issue of the Varsity) at the Western sectionals with one of their own on Sunday. Of the eighteen female competitors advancing to Finals in individual events, seven are Blues. The dominating performance in the six-school event extended to the team competitions of all three weapons: Foil (first), Epee (first), Sabre (second).

Volleyball scramble
It has already been determined that the men’s volleyball team will be hosting a first round playoff game this Sunday at 3pm in the Sports Gym. Playoff ordering is a lot less clear on the women’s side. The Blues will play Ottawa at 1 p.m. on Sunday in their final home game of the regular season before traveling to Laurier (2/15) for their season finale. They are still battling with Queen’s (@Lakehead 2/8&9, Ryerson 2/16), Ryerson (Ottawa 2/9, @Queen’s 2/16) and Ottawa (@Ryerson 2/9, @Toronto 2/10) for playoff position. See standings for details. ‘s hockey earned an upset against #7 UQTR this past weekend (not #2 as had been stated in February 4 issue of the Varsity).