Kelsey Wog is the Female Athlete of the Year | Brown & Gold Awards
Channel: University of Manitoba Bisons
Date: 10/04/2020

Kelsey Wog, 21, came into the 2019-20 swimming season with high expectations. Last year’s Bisons Female Athlete of the Year and a participant at the 2019 FINA World Championships in Korea, the Winnipeg native was on a trajectory to Tokyo — with the Olympics planned to be held this summer. 

With the varsity season as her lead-up, she was unstoppable against university competition and improved her times through the year. At the Canada West Championships in Lethbridge, the Agricultural and Food Sciences major took home five medals. Those included four gold medals and two conference records, along with a blazing leg in a 4x100 relay bronze for the women’s team.

In February, she somehow topped her 2019 nationals showing at the 2020 U SPORTS Swimming Championships. Matching her gold medal haul of four, she set the fastest time in the world at the time in the 200-metre individual medley — a time that also broke UVic’s pool record — while sweeping the breaststroke events. She was also named Female Swimmer of the Meet for the first time.

While the Olympics will be on hold for a calendar year, the 2019-20 season was further proof that Wog is ready to compete on the international stage in the red and white, while breaking new ground for swimmers in brown and gold.

Kelsey Wog is the 2019-20 Bisons Female Athlete of the Year.

Finalists: Taylor Randall (WBB), Jordy Zacharias (WHKY), Nicole Davis (WSOC), Madisson Lawrence (WTF)

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