The Lake Forest College swimming and diving teams are third in the standings after Friday's events at the 2026 Midwest Conference Championship Meet.

The Forester women earned three more victories on Friday and have now finished first in four of the seven events contested so far.

Junior Audrey Kilmer's triumph in the 500-freestyle was the team's first on Friday. She finished 20 lengths of the pool more nearly five seconds before the runner-up with a time of 5:08.93. Kilmer has now won six of seven individual events at the conference meet during her career.

The next event was the 200-IM and sophomore Isabella Rozenbergas made it back-to-back victories for the Forester women. After breaking her own meet record in the morning prelims with a clocking of 2:05.62, she did it again in the evening finals at 2:05.17. The time is an NCAA B-cut, although she posted a slightly faster time (2:04.66) at the Carthage Classic in December.

Kilmer (23.56) and Rozenbergas (23.63) also turned in the fastest splits in the field to lead Lake Forest to a comeback victory in the 200-freestyle relay to close out Friday night's finals session. Senior Valeria Welk and sophomore Joss Hoffman joined them and edged out host Grinnell College by three-tenths-of-a-second. Their time of 1:37.34 ranks them third in program history and the victory is the quartet's second of the meet after also prevailing in Thursday night's 800-freestyle relay.

The top performance for the Forester men's team came from junior Gavin Biccum in the 500-freestyle and sophomore Matthew Strada in the 200-IM. Biccum placed third in 4:42.55 and Strada finished fourth but climbed into second place in team history with a time of 1:53.87. Junior Clayton Berg joined Strada in the 200-IM A-Final and was sixth in 1:56.93.

In addition to their performance in the relay, Welk and Hoffman also finished sixth in the 500-freestyle (5:21.84) and 200-IM (2:15.14), respectively.

The Lake Forest men posted their best relay finish of the meet so far when juniors Ben Scott and Cameron Schlosser and seniors Alexander Wilson and Demetri Zemenides were second in the 200-freestyle. They finished in 1:25.05, missing out on a top-five performance in program history by just .03 seconds.

After seven of 20 events, Grinnell leads the women's team standings with 377 points and the men's with 346.5. St. Norbert College is second on the women's side at 273 and Lake Forest is third at 226. The Milwaukee School of Engineering men are currently in line for a runner-up finish with 292 points and the Foresters are just 7.5 ahead of fourth-place St. Norbert at 212.

Seven more events will take place on Saturday with the morning prelims beginning at 10:00 and the evening finals at 5:30. The final six events are slated for Sunday.