The 2026 Midwest Conference Swimming and Diving Championship Meet is being held at Grinnell College this weekend and Lake Forest College is third in both the men's and women's team standings going into the final day of competition.

Saturday night's finals session began with Foresters winning three of the first four events.

Sophomore Matthew Strada and junior Audrey Kilmer made it a Lake Forest sweep in the 400-IM. Strada's margin of victory was nearly four seconds and he now ranks third in program history in the event with a time of 4:04.78. Kilmer finished more than 10 seconds ahead of the runner-up in the women's race, which she completed in 4:33.62.

Joining Kilmer in the A-Final of the 400-IM were freshman Megan O'Neill and Katie Sutton. They placed fifth and eighth, respectively.

The next Forester victory came from sophomore Isabella Rozenbergas in the 100-butterfly. She successfully defended her conference title from a year ago and her time of 55.83 seconds was just .02 off the meet record she set at the 2025 MWC Championships.

Sophomore Joss Hoffman finished fifth in the women's 100-butterfly after junior Clayton Berg had taken the same place in the men's race and junior Cameron Schlosser was right behind him in seventh place. Berg already ranks third in team history in the event and he was joined on that list by Schlosser, who is now fourth at 51.22 seconds.

The 200-freestyle was next with senior Alexander Wilson representing Lake Forest in the men's A-Final and classmate Valeria Welk in the women's. Wilson was seventh in 1:44.05 and Welk third with a time of 1:58.51.

The Foresters also had one swimmer in the both the men's and women's A-Final of the 100-backstroke on Saturday. Junior Ben Scott placed sixth in the men's field with a time of 52.80 seconds and Hoffman was fourth in 59.44 in her second individual event of the evening.

Saturday's final event was the 400-medley relay. Wilson, Strada, Scott, and senior Demetri Zemenides were third in the men's race in 3:28.14 and the Forester women were fifth with a team made up of senior Kate Ryan, freshman Roxanne Lazanyi, and juniors Katie Downey and Izabella Harju.

The Lake Forest women enter the final day of the meet with 426 points and are well ahead of fourth-place Milwaukee School of Engineering (254) but trailing Grinnell College 752) and St. Norbert College (522). With 389 points, the Forester men are also third with Grinnell (705.5) and MSOE (614) ahead of them and St. Norbert (363.5) close behind.

Sunday's prelims will begin at 9:00 a.m. and the finals will start at 4:00 in the afternoon. Kilmer and Rozenbergas will each be looking for their third victory in as many individual events at the meet while Strada is after his second.