Lethbridge, AB – The Two Guys and a Pizza Place Pronghorn Athletes of the Week for the week ending November 7, 2021.
Male Athlete of the Week:
Apollo Hess – Men’s Swimming
Continuing to turn heads in the pool, swimmer Apollo Hess is putting his stamp on the Pronghorn record book in only his first year of eligibility. After setting new program records in both of the previous meets this season, Hess set two more individual school records and helped set two relay records this past weekend in Vancouver at the Odlum Brown Colleges Cup.
Opening the meet on Saturday, Hess set a new program mark and broke the meet record in the 50 metre breaststroke in the preliminaries. He finished second in the finals later that day.
The LASC product also set the school record in the 200 metre breaststroke later in the meet and now holds the school record in all three distances in breaststroke.
Swimming on all four of the Pronghorn relay teams, Hess was part of new records in the 4X50 freestyle and medley relays, while finishing second in both events.
The Pronghorns swim team will now prepare for the Canada West Championships at the end of November in Edmonton.
Female Athlete of the Week:
Sophie MacLean – Women’s Swimming
Coming off a lost 2020-21 season, second-year swimmer Sophie MacLean has had a great start to the new season and has set new personal bests and moved into Pronghorn all-time top 10 times early into the season.
This past weekend in Vancouver at the Odlum Brown Colleges Cup in Vancouver, the Calgary, Alberta product set new personal best times in the 50 and 100 metre backstroke events. In the 50 she swam the fifth fastest time in Pronghorn history and moved into sixth on the Pronghorn all-time list in the 100 metre.
She placed 12th in the 50 metre event, competing against all of the Canada West swimming schools, plus NCAA’s Simon Fraser University. She also swam in three of the four Pronghorn relays that finished in the top eight on the weekend.
MacLean will look to build on these results at the end of November at the Canada West Championship in Edmonton, hosted by the University of Alberta.
