2026 Northwest Conference Swimming Championships Digital Meet Program

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 4 of 5 First Team All-Northwest Conference swimmers from final season, most notably the Co-Swimmers of the meet Sarah Arpag and Kirsti Keppo who mixed for 5 particular person titles on the 2024-25 championships. For Keppo, successful is the usual, the two-time NWC Swimmer of the Meet has claimed 5 Northwest Conference titles and 11 First Team All-NWC honors in her profession, trying to win the ladies’s 500-yard freestyle for a 3rd consecutive season. In the classroom, Keppo is a two-time College Sports Communicators Academic All-District honoree, getting into the weekend with 5 high instances within the NWC, all of which within the Freestyle occasions apart from the 50-yard Freestyle. Fellow senior Sarah Arpag is a six-time NWC champion and 12-time First Team All-NWC honoree, persistently posting her season-best instances on the convention championship meets in years previous. Arpag earned the convention’s Rookie of the Year honors again on the 2023 Northwest Conference Championships after claiming one particular person title, two particular person runner-up finishes, and three appearances on championship-winning relay groups as a freshman. Arpag enters the championships with two top-five instances within the NWC, main the convention within the ladies’s 100-yard Individual Medley (1:01.34). 

The ladies’s squad units their sights on successful a workforce convention championship for the primary time since 2022-23, whereas the lads’s workforce final received the NWC title in 1998-99. 

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

Freshman Kira Etheredge has proved herself as among the finest younger swimmers within the Northwest Conference this season, usually dominating within the breaststroke occasions. She ranks third within the 50-yard Breaststroke, fourth within the 100-yard Breaststroke, and second within the 100-yard Individual Medley; she trails solely her teammate Sarah Arpag amongst the NWC’s high instances within the 100-yard IM. Junior Chloe Lazaraton enters with two top-eight instances in each the 1,000-yard and 1,650-yard Freestyle. 

The Wildcat ladies’s workforce ranks third within the convention in two relay races, the 400-yard Freestyle Relay and the 200-yard Medley Relay. 

On the lads’s aspect, sophomore Kai Laitinen has had a powerful season within the males’s freestyle distance occasions, holding top-seven instances in every 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 each the 1,650-yard Freestyle and 400-yard IM final season.

Ivan Tontchev and Jack Sappington workforce up for the lads’s breaststroke occasions, each rating within the top-eight of every the 50-yard, 100-yard and 200-yard Breaststroke occasions. Tontchev ranks third in each the 50-yard and 100-yard races. Rocco Velie joins Sappington because the Wildcat’s greatest instances within the 100-yard Individual Medley. The males’s workforce has three top-four relay instances getting into the championships, most notably the third-fastest time within the 400-yard Medley Relay.