Aleksa Gold, Swimming, Toronto
Second-year standout Aleksa Gold reached the podium seven times in leading the Toronto Varsity Blues women’s swimming team to a silver-medal finish at the 2020 U SPORTS championships in Victoria this past weekend.
Burlington, Ont. – Aleksa Gold has been named Ontario University Athletics (OUA) Female Athlete of the Week for the period ending February 23, 2020.
Female Athlete of the Week – Aleksa Gold, Toronto Varsity Blues, Swimming
Second-year standout Aleksa Gold reached the podium seven times in leading the Toronto Varsity Blues women’s swimming team to a silver-medal finish at the 2020 U SPORTS championships in Victoria this past weekend.
Gold won her first career individual national title on Day 3, clocking a time of 2:13.62 to garner the gold medal in the women’s 200m backstroke event. The life science major from Toronto, who will be vying for a spot on Estonia’s Olympic team this summer, also earned four silver medals, finishing second in the 100m freestyle (56.35), 100m backstroke (1:02.21) and helping the Blues to second-place finishes in the 400m freestyle and 400m medley relays.
A U SPORTS first team all-Canadian, Gold rounded out her podium finishes with a bronze-medal placing in the 200m freestyle (2:01.34) and helping the Blues to a third-place finish in the 800m freestyle relay.