The Midwest Conference released its 2025 Men's Swimming and Diving Coaches Poll this week and Lake Forest College was third in the rankings.
Voting is done by the MWC head men's swimming and diving coaches. Each coach votes for the other eight schools in the league in order of predicted finish. Points are assigned in reverse order of voting (eight points for first, seven for second, etc.). Coaches may not vote for their own teams.
Grinnell College was atop the ballots of eight of the nine coaches in the league and finished with the maximum 64 points. St. Norbert College edged out the Foresters for second place 53 points to 50. Milwaukee School of Engineering garnered the other first-place vote and was fourth with 43 points.
Lake Forest placed third at each of the last two MWC Championships.
The Foresters open their second season with Andrew Lind as head coach with a double dual meet against league foes Ripon College and host Beloit College on Saturday, October 11. After competing in three additional double duals, three traditional dual meets, a pair of invitationals, and a quadrangular, the team will travel to Grinnell for the 2026 MWC Championship Meet February 19-22.
Junior Gavin Biccum, the two-time defending conference champion in the 1650-freestyle, is one of 99 men in program history to win an event at the MWC Championships. That was just one of the team's 21 top-eight finishes in individual events and all five Forester relays were runners-up
Lake Forest has finished among the top three in the league at each of the last 15 championship meets. The team's last league titles came in 2014 and 2015.
| PLACE |
TEAM (First Place Votes) |
POINTS |
| 1 |
Grinnell College (8) |
64 |
| 2 |
St. Norbert College (1) |
53 |
| 3 |
Lake Forest College |
50 |
| 4 |
Milwaukee School of Engineering (1) |
43 |
| 5 |
Illinois College |
38 |
| 6 |
Lawrence University |
28 |
| 7 |
Monmouth College |
23 |
| 8 |
Beloit College |
14 |
| 9 |
Ripon College |
11 |
