2026 Northwest Conference Swimming Championships Digital Meet Program

Awards / Senior Recognition
Awards will be handed out after event results are finalized.  

Senior recognition will take place on deck prior to the final relay on Sunday.    

All nine institutions will be honoring their seniors on Sunday night.

Parking
Parking is on a first-come first-serve basis.  There is additional street parking located near the facility.

Results / Heat Sheets
All results and heat sheets will be available through the Meet Mobile app.  Spectators will need to register on the site.

Results will not be posted nor will heat sheets be sold at any time during the event.

Spectator Entrance
Spectators will enter ICAC through the main entrance to the facility.  
Re-entry will be allowed by showing their ticket.

Spectator Seating
There is no reserved seating for spectators and all seats are first-come, first-served.  The stands will be cleared after every session.
Participating teams will be seated on the pool deck.  
No parents/spectators are permitted on the pool deck.  

Team Snacks/Gifts
Any food/snacks or senior recognition gifts should be clearly marked with the name of the institution they are for and left with ticket personnel to deliver to the appropriate school or coach.

Ticketing
Tickets are available for online purchase only through our conference sponsor HomeTown Ticketing.  There will be no on-site ticket sales via cash or check.
Mobile tickets must be presented the first time a person enters the venue for each session.

Apparel
Northwest Designs Inc. will be on site selling championship apparel. Apparel will not be available for preorder. 

Timers
We will be asking for volunteers this year and they will be recruited and assigned by each team.  

Results links will be attached daily following each session.

Friday Prelim Results

9:30 a.m. | Men's 500 Freestyle Prelims

9:54 a.m. | Women's 500 Freestyle Prelims

10:32 a.m. | Men's 200 IM Prelims

10:42 a.m. | Women's 200 IM Prelims

10:54 a.m. | Men's 50 Freestyle Prelims

11:00 a.m. | Women's 50 Freestyle Prelims

Friday Finals Results

5:00 p.m. | Men's 200 Freestyle Relay Finals

5:03 p.m. | Women's 200 Freestyle Relay Finals

— 15 Minute Break — 

5:24 p.m. | Men's 500 Freestyle Finals

5:35 p.m. | Women's 500 Freestyle Finals

5:48 p.m. | Men's 200 IM Finals

5:54 p.m. | Women's 200 IM Finals

6:00 p.m. | Men's 50 Freestyle Finals

6:03 p.m. | Women's 50 Freestyle Finals

— 15 Minute Break — 

6:21 p.m. | Men's 400 Medley Relay Finals

6:26 p.m. | Women's 400 Medley Relay Finals

Saturday Prelim Results

9:30 a.m. | Men's 400 IM Prelims

9:52 a.m. | Women's 400 IM Prelims

10:10 a.m. | Men's 100 Butterfly Prelims

10:16 a.m. | Women's 100 Butterfly Prelims

10:22 a.m. | Men's 200 Freestyle Prelims

10:35 a.m. | Women's 200 Freestyle Prelims

10:51 a.m. | Men's 100 Breaststroke Prelims

11:00 a.m. | Women's 100 Breaststroke Prelims

11:09 a.m. | Men's 100 Backstroke Prelims

11:16 a.m. | Women's 100 Backstroke Prelims

Saturday Finals Results

5:00 p.m. | Men's 200 Medley Relay Finals

5:03 p.m. | Women's 200 Medley Relay Finals

— 15 Minute Break — 

5:25 p.m. | Men's 400 IM Finals

5:35 p.m. | Women's 400 IM Finals

5:47 p.m. | Men's 100 Butterfly Finals

5:51 p.m. | Women's 100 Butterfly Finals

5:55 p.m. | Men's 200 Freestyle Finals

6:01 p.m. | Women's 200 Freestyle Finals

6:07 p.m. | Men's 100 Breaststroke Finals

6:11 p.m. | Women's 100 Breaststroke Finals

6:15 p.m. | Men's 100 Backstroke Finals

6:19 p.m. | Women's 100 Backstroke Finals

— 15 Minute Break — 

6:44 p.m. | Men's 800 Freestyle Relay Finals

6:52 p.m. | Women's 800 Freestyle Relay Finals

Sunday Prelim Results

9:30 a.m. | Men's 200 Backstroke Prelims

9:42 a.m. | Women's 200 Backstroke Prelims

9:52 a.m. | Men's 100 Freestyle Prelims

10:00 a.m. | Women's 100 Freestyle Prelims

10:12 a.m. | Men's 200 Breaststroke Prelims

10:24 a.m. | Women's 200 Breaststroke Prelims

10:37 a.m. | Men's 200 Butterfly Prelims

10:45 a.m. | Women's 200 Butterfly Prelims

— 20 Minute Break — 

11:14 a.m. | Men's 1650 Freestyle Finals-S

11:50 a.m. | Women's 1650 Freestyle Finals-S

5:00 p.m. | Men's 1650 Freestyle Finals-1

5:19 p.m. | Women's 1650 Freestyle Finals-1

5:41 p.m. | Men's 200 Backstroke Finals

5:47 p.m. | Women's 200 Backstroke Finals

5:54 p.m. | Men's 100 Freestyle Finals

5:58 p.m. | Women's 100 Freestyle Finals

6:01 p.m. | Men's 200 Breaststroke Finals

6:08 p.m. | Women's 200 Breaststroke Finals

6:15 p.m. | Men's 200 Butterfly Finals

6:21 p.m. | Women's 200 Butterfly Finals

— 15 Minute Break / Senior Recognition — 

6:43 p.m. | Men's 400 Freestyle Relay Finals

6:47 p.m. | Women's 400 Freestyle Relay Finals

Men's & Women's Roster

Men's & Women's Schedule

About the Bruins: George Fox returns four All-Northwest Conference swimmers in Cameron Alexander, Kaylee Dicey, Laurel Knox and Jesse Urback. As a team, both Bruin squads finished seventh at last season's conference championships in Federal Way, Washington. Senior Riley Parker and freshman Gabbie Patti have earned NWC swimmer of the week honors this season, where Patti's second honor came after breaking the NWC record in the women's 200-yard Backstroke with a time of 2:01.93. The first-year Bruin also holds the fastest time in the women's 50-yard Freestyle entering the meet, recording an impressive 23.90-second time at the Bruin Invitational earlier this season. Patti can be found all over the NWC's top times list, leading the conference in five-different events, and having top-five times in 10-different events. Patti enters with the fastest times in the 50-yard Freestyle, 200-yard Freestyle, 100-yard Backstroke, 200-yard Backstroke and the 200-yard IM. The women's team ranks third in two relay events, the 200-yard Freestyle Relay and the 400-yard Medley Relay entering the weekend. 

Men's & Women's Roster

Men's & Women's Schedule

Reigning Champions: Men's 400-yard Freestyle Relay champions… Ezra Billings - 50-yard Freestyle, 100-yard Freestyle and 100-yard Butterfly champion.

About the River Otters: Lewis & Clark returns numerous All-Conference honorees as well as the NWC Men's Swimmer of the Meet and NWC Men's Swimming Coach of the Year from a season ago. Ezra Billings looks to follow up a breakthrough meet at last season's championships, where he won three events and became the first men's swimmer of the meet in school history. Billings' wins in the 50-yard Freestyle, 100-yard Freestyle, and 100-yard Butterfly were the River Otters' first since 2006, earning him Oregon Small College Men's Collegiate Athlete of the Year by Sport Oregon. He enters the meet first in the NWC in both the 50-yard and 100-yard Freestyle events, and second in the 100-yard Butterfly. The men's squad won the final event of the meet a year ago, returning seniors Ezra Billings, Zach Martin and sophomore Sam LoCurto, who earned the school's first relay title since 1988. Head Coach Caitlin DeNise earned the program's first coach of the year honor for the men's team in 2025, returning four of seven All-NWC swimmers. 

Senior Elise Barton headlines three All-NWC honorees back in 2026, sitting in the top-five in the conference in both the 50-yard and 100-yard Freestyle events. Junior Angie Cummings earned Second Team All-NWC in a pair of events last season, and holds the fastest time in the conference in the 50-yard Backstroke. Senior Aniyah Gaffoor looks to repeat a strong performance as a first-year student-athlete, making three finals appearances while holding the program record in the 100-yard Butterfly (57.84). 

Men's & Women's Roster

Men's & Women's Schedule

Reigning Champions: Sarah Arpag - 100-yard Butterfly, 200-yard Butterfly and 100-yard Backstroke champion… Kirsti Keppo - 500-yard Freestyle and 1,650-yard Freestyle champion.

About the Wildcats: Linfield returns four of five First Team All-Northwest Conference swimmers from last season, most notably the Co-Swimmers of the meet Sarah Arpag and Kirsti Keppo who combined for five individual titles at the 2024-25 championships. For Keppo, winning is the standard, the two-time NWC Swimmer of the Meet has claimed five Northwest Conference titles and 11 First Team All-NWC honors in her career, looking to win the women's 500-yard freestyle for a third consecutive season. In the classroom, Keppo is a two-time College Sports Communicators Academic All-District honoree, entering the weekend with five top times in the NWC, all of which in the Freestyle events except for the 50-yard Freestyle. Fellow senior Sarah Arpag is a six-time NWC champion and 12-time First Team All-NWC honoree, consistently posting her season-best times at the conference championship meets in years past. Arpag earned the conference's Rookie of the Year honors back at the 2023 Northwest Conference Championships after claiming one individual title, two individual runner-up finishes, and three appearances on championship-winning relay teams as a freshman. Arpag enters the championships with two top-five times in the NWC, leading the conference in the women's 100-yard Individual Medley (1:01.34). 

The women's squad sets their sights on winning a team conference championship for the first time since 2022-23, while the men's team last won the NWC title in 1998-99. 

 Caley Haydu, Ivan Tontchev, Rocco Velie, and Carson Washburn return after earning Second Team All-NWC honors last season. 

Freshman Kira Etheredge has proved herself as one of the best young swimmers in the Northwest Conference this season, typically dominating in the breaststroke events. She ranks third in the 50-yard Breaststroke, fourth in the 100-yard Breaststroke, and second in the 100-yard Individual Medley; she trails only her teammate Sarah Arpag amongst the NWC's top times in the 100-yard IM. Junior Chloe Lazaraton enters with two top-eight times in both the 1,000-yard and 1,650-yard Freestyle. 

The Wildcat women's team ranks third in the conference in two relay races, the 400-yard Freestyle Relay and the 200-yard Medley Relay. 

On the men's side, sophomore Kai Laitinen has had a strong season in the men's freestyle distance events, holding top-seven times in each of the 500-yard, 1,000-yard, and 1,650-yard Freestyle races. Laitinen earned two First Team All-NWC honors after podium finishes in both the 1,650-yard Freestyle and 400-yard IM last season.

Ivan Tontchev and Jack Sappington team up for the men's breaststroke events, both ranking in the top-eight of each the 50-yard, 100-yard and 200-yard Breaststroke events. Tontchev ranks third in both the 50-yard and 100-yard races. Rocco Velie joins Sappington as the Wildcat's best times in the 100-yard Individual Medley. The men's team has three top-four relay times entering the championships, most notably the third-fastest time in the 400-yard Medley Relay.

Men's Roster

Women's Roster

Men's Schedule

Women's Schedule

About the Boxers: Pacific aims to improve on last season's ninth place finishes on both the men's and women's standings. The Boxers rely on young rosters led by Chago Bradbury who holds the fastest time in the Northwest Conference's men's 50-yard Backstroke (22.96). 

Men's Roster

Women's Roster

Men's Schedule

Women's Schedule

About the Lutes: Both men and women's teams from Pacific Lutheran finished sixth at last year's Northwest Conference Swimming Championships, entering this season with a 6-2 record in NWC dual meets. On the men's side, the Lutes return Christian Georgi and Tyler Tanaka who earned All-Northwest Conference honors, while newcomer Vyron Domingo broke a school record in the 200-yard Backstroke that stood for over a decade. Emma Gassman, Scout Hawkins and Riley Maher return for the women's squad, each earning All-NWC honors a season ago. Gassman aims to lead the Lutes back to the top of the podium in the 400-yard Medley Relay, where she played a role in the Lutes capturing the title in 2024. 

Domingo paces the NWC in the backstroke, entering the meet with the fourth-fastest 100-yard time and the No. 1 mark in the 200-yard Backstroke (1:52.37). Both Georgi and Tanaka look to make waves in the breaststroke events, each holding a top-five time in the conference. The Lutes 200-yard Freestyle Relay squad also ranks No. 3 in the NWC entering the trip to Boise.

Gassman holds the third-fastest time in the 200-yard Backstroke, paced back in November at the Bruin Invitational. Freshman Harper Canessa has proved herself early in the breaststroke, ranking top-three in the NWC in each the 50, 100 and 200-yard events. Kei Nishikawa and Riley Maher round out the Lutes lineup in the 200-yard Butterfly and 400-yard Individual Medley with top-four times in the races. With many of their fastest times coming at the Bruin Invitational, the Lutes 400-yard Medley Relay squad trails Whitworth by just half-a-second with a five second buffer on the rest of the field entering the championships.

Men's & Women's Roster

Men's & Women's Schedule

Reigning Champions: Sam Lyon - 500-yard Freestyle champion… William Cabana - 100-yard Backstroke champion.

About the Loggers: Puget Sound looks to remain one of the top men's and women's teams in the Northwest Conference, finishing second in the men's standings and third in the women's standings at last season's Northwest Conference Swimming Championships. Three Loggers hold current school records: Medleine Brennan (100-yard Butterly, 56.76, broken at the 2024 NWC Championships), Sam Lyon (100-yard Butterfly, 49.46, broken at the 2025 Logger Invite) and Anderson Bennett (200-yard Breaststroke, 2:00.90, broken at the 2025 Logger Invite). Lyon currently holds the NWC's top times in the 500-yard Freestyle, 1000-yard Freestyle, 1,650-yard Freestyle, 100-yard Butterfly and 200-yard Butterfly, aiming to upset the Whitworth Pirates who claimed some of those titles last season on their way to claiming both 2025 NWC team titles. He also returns as the reigning Northwest Conference Rookie of the Year, boasting three top-30 times nationally this season. The Puget Sound men's team enters with the fastest time in the 400-yard Medley Relay, meanwhile the women's squad holds the fastest mark in the 200-yard Medley Relay.

Men's & Women's Roster

Men's & Women's Schedule

Reigning Champions: Women's 200-yard Medley Relay and 400-yard Medley Relay champions… Anneliese Hanson - 200-yard Freestyle Champion.

About the Blues: Reigning Northwest Conference Co-Coach of the Year Jennifer Blomme and the Whitman Blues look to reclaim conference titles on both the men's and women's standings, each having claimed the top spot once in the last three seasons. On the women's side, the Blues have won six of the last eight conference titles, all of which led by Blomme. Both young rosters, the Blues combine for six seniors, just two of which on the men's squad. Junior Brodie Salzbrener leads the men's team in the 100-yard and 200-yard Freestyles. Ian McClellan, Finn Stukerjergen and Keenan RiggsTurpin are other Blues holding top-eight times across individual events entering the weekend. Sophomore Avery Riley looks forward to her second NWC Championships, boasting the second-fastest time in the 500-yard Freestyle and the top time in the 100 and 200-yard Butterfly. With historically strong relay teams, Whitman's 400-yard Freestyle Relay team is the second-fastest in the conference.

Men's & Women's Roster

Men's & Women's Schedule

Reigning Champions - Men's: 2024-25 NWC men's swimming team champions… Henry Brewster - two-time 200-yard Butterfly champion… Parker Dangelis - 200-yard Freestyle champion… Samuel Draeger - two-time 400-yard IM champion… Austin Elwyn - two-time 200-yard IM and 200-yard Backstroke champion… Alex Popov - 100-yard Breaststroke and 200-yard Breaststroke champion… Jake Sachtjen - 1,650-yard Freestyle champion… Whitworth relay teams -  200-yard Medley Relay, 400-yard Medley Relay, 200-yard Freestyle Relay and 800-yard Freestyle Relay champions.

Reigning Champions - Women's: 2024-25 NWC women's swimming team champions… Isabella Hoopes - 200-yard IM and 400-yard IM champion… Whitworth relay teams - 200-yard Freestyle Relay and 800-yard Freestyle Relay champions.

About the Pirates: Having swept last season's team championships, the Pirates return key pieces from both teams and welcome in strong newcomers in hopes of repeating last year's success. The Pirates won the 2025 men's title by 278 points, the second-largest margin of victory and the second-highest point total in NWC history.  The Bucs have won 21 men's conference titles. The Pirates women's team won their fifth title, and first since 2013 by unseating 2024 defending champion Whitman College.  Whitworth lays claim to many of the NWC's fastest times thus far this season, welcoming back both Northwest Conference Rookies of the Year from two seasons ago in Kai Jon Hayashida and Makhaela Parrish. Isabella Hoopes, 2025 Co-NWC Swimmer of the Year returns to defend her two titles and runner-up finish in the 200-yard Breaststroke. With depth on their side, the Pirates Nathaniel Van Liew, a three-time finalist and runner-up in the 50-yard Freestyle teams up with Ben Butler who also was a three-time finalist and runner-up in the 1,650-yard Freestyle. First-year Bucs, Kallie Badry, Paide Dangleis and Molly Konop combine for top-three marks in eight events this season. 

Men's Roster

Women's Roster

Men's Schedule

Women's Schedule

About the Bearcats: The women's team finished fifth at last seasons NWC Championships, led by sophomore Tessa Ciatti who set a school record in the 200-yard Butterfly last year, earning three All-Northwest Conference honors. Leah Howell and Jillian Price join Ciatti as three Bearcats to earn All-NWC honors a season ago to return in 2026. Price holds a top-five time in the NWC in the 200-yard Freestyle, while Howell has a top-five mark in the 50 and 100-yard Backstroke. The Willamette women's squad aims for their first NWC team title since 1994. 

The men's squad last hoisted the NWC team title in 1991, returning one All-NWC honoree in Ka'olapa Maskuko who earned Second Team honors in the 100-yard Breaststroke at the 2025 championships. Kevin Olmedo is the lone member of the Bearcats senior class, while freshman Trai Xiong has been a force for Willamette in each of the breaststroke and individual medley events this season, boasting top-eight times in the conference.