Sunday was the fourth and final day of the 2026 Midwest Conference Swimming and Diving Championship at Grinnell College and the Lake Forest College men and women each finished in third place.

Forester swimmers started and ended Sunday's finals session with victories and claimed titles in four different events on the evening.

Lake Forest sophomore Matthew Strada and junior Gavin Biccum gave their team a 1-2 finish in the men's 1650-freestyle. Strada led early in the race, Biccum overtook him at the 450-yard mark, and then Strada seized the lead for good with 300 to go. His second win of the weekend featured a time of 16:20.31 while Biccum was at 16:21.91. Biccum was the two-time defending champion and Forester men have now won the event in each of the last seven MWC Championship Meets.

The next victory for the team came in the women's 200-backstroke, which junior Audrey Kilmer took in 2:05.49. Kilmer trailed the leader by nearly a second-and-a-half at the halfway mark and was still a full second behind with just 50 yards left. The final margin of victory was .28 seconds as she won her third individual event championship of the meet.

Touching the wall first in the 200-butterfly gave sophomore Isabella Rozenbergas her third individual event win of the weekend as well. She was ahead by just .15 seconds before out-swimming the second-place finisher by nearly four-and-a-half seconds in the final 50 yards and posting a school and conference record time of 2:13.13. That clocking is also an NCAA B-cut qualifying mark and eight-tenths of a second faster than the last time invited to the 2025 NCAA Division III Championship Meet.

Rozenbergas also anchored Lake Forest's 400-freestyle relay that closed out the meet with another victory and program record time of 3:32.85. Kilmer led off the relay and her split was the fastest 100-freestyle time in team history at 52.62 seconds. Sophomore Joss Hoffman and senior Valeria Welk kept the lead and Rozenbergas pulled away and finished nearly two-and-a-half seconds before the runners-up. The same four swimmers captured titles in the 800-freestyle relay Thursday night and the 200-freestyle relay on Friday.

Several other Foresters were among the leaders in an event on Sunday. Freshman Lucy Bolling (18:30.60) and sophomore Abigail Atwell (18:45.95) were fifth and sixth in the women's 1650-freestyle and the A-final in the men's 200-backstroke included junior Ben Scott in fourth place (1:57.62), senior Noah Garza in sixth (1:59.72), and junior Cameron Schlosser in seventh (2:03.70). Lake Forest swimmers were sixth in both 100-freestyles with senior Alexander Wilson finishing the men's race in 47.06 seconds and Welk the women's in 54.51. Andrew Lee, another senior, placed eighth in the men's 200-breaststroke with a time of 2:12.56 and freshman Megan O'Neill was fifth on the women's side in 2:31.85. The final top-nine finish in an individual event came from freshman Katie Sutton in the 200-butterfly, which she finished in 2:16.57.

The Forester men placed third in their last event, the 400-freestyle relay, in 3:10.77. Wilson led off and was followed by Strada, Scott, and senior Demetri Zemenides as the team finished in the top three in all five relays at the meet.

Lake Forest swimmers won 11 events, set three school records, two meet records, and a conference record over the weekend. They also made a total of seven updates to the program's list of the top five performers in every event. The majority of those performances came from the Forester women and head coach Zoe Rebol was voted MWC Women's Coach of the Year after the meet.

The team's awards continued as, after winning three individual events and three relays and posting three NCAA B-cuts, Rozenbergas was named MWC Women's Swimmer of the Year for the second straight season. She will continue training in hopes of qualifying for the 2026 NCAA Division III Championships.