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Duo delivers new record for SFU swim team

Two Coquitlam products were members of the Simon Fraser Clan women's 200-metre medley relay squad that broke an 18-year-old meet record at a dual university swimming competition with Washington's Puget Sound Loggers on Saturday on Burnaby Mountain.

Two Coquitlam products were members of the Simon Fraser Clan women's 200-metre medley relay squad that broke an 18-year-old meet record at a dual university swimming competition with Washington's Puget Sound Loggers on Saturday on Burnaby Mountain.

Alexandria Schofield and Kristine Lawson were part of the SFU crew that finished in a sizzling 2:01.69 -- a full 16 seconds better than the runner-up UPS unit.

Grace Ni and Whitley Sheehan rounded out the winning foursome.

Also, Schofield established a new mark for her lead leg in the 3x100-metre butterfly relay with a clocking of 30.51 seconds, breaking the previous record set in 1997.

Meanwhile, Dimitar Ivanov, also of Coquitlam, was on the Clan men's 200-metre medley relay squad that placed second in 1:48.71.