Mustangs prepared for 2026 NSIC Swimming & Diving Championships

MARSHALL, Minn. – The Southwest Minnesota State University girls’s swimming & diving workforce will head to West Fargo, N.D., this week for the four-day, 10-team Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Championships going down Wednesday by way of Saturday on the Hulbert Aquatic Center.
 
The four-day championship will characteristic swimming prelims going down every day at 10 a.m. with the finals at 5 p.m. Diving will happen on Thursday and Saturday with prelims at 10 a.m. and finals within the night with swimming occasions.
 
SMSU will probably be competing in its seventh NSIC Championship since reinstating this system in May of 2018. The Mustangs completed seventh for the third straight 12 months finally season’s championship closing with 261 factors. SMSU had positioned eighth in every of its first three NSIC Championship meet appearances.  
 
Current Mustang senior Carla Nevi earned All-NSIC honors in two occasions through the 2024 NSIC Championships ending third in each the 100-yard backstroke and the 200-yard backstroke. 
 
Natalie Bohnert is the one different Mustang to earn All-NSIC honors in workforce historical past incomes all-conference honors 5 instances in her profession, together with the 200-yard backstroke in 2020, 2021 and 2022 and the 100-yard backstroke in 2020 and 2021.
 
Schools competing for the 2026 NSIC championship together with SMSU embody defending champion Augustana; Concordia-St. Paul; Jamestown; UMary; Minnesota State; MSU Moorhead; Northern State; St. Cloud State and Sioux Falls.
 
All-conference performers shall encompass the highest three place finishers in every occasion and the members of the highest two relay groups.
 
SMSU All-NSIC Honorees
2020 – Natalie Bohnert, 200-yard backstroke, 2nd; 100-yard backstroke, third
2021 – Natalie Bohnert, 100-yard backstroke, 2nd; 200-yard backstroke, third
2022 – Natalie Bohnert, 200-yard backstroke, third
2024 – Carla Nevi, 100-yard backstroke, third; 200-yard backstroke, third

2026 NSIC Championship Schedule

Wednesday

10 a.m. Prelims: 200 IM, 50 Free, 1000 Free

5 p.m. Finals: 200 Medley Relay, 1000 Free, 200 IM, 50 Free, 800 Free Relay

 

Thursday

10 a.m. Prelims: 3-Meter Dive, 100 Fly, 400 IM, 200 Free

5 p.m. Finals: 100 Fly, 400 IM, 200 Free, 3-Meter Dive, 400 Medley Relay

 

Friday

10 a.m. Prelims: 500 Free, 100 Back, 100 Breast, 200 Fly

5 p.m. Finals: 500 Free, 100 Back, 100 Breast, 200 Fly, 200 Free Relay

 

Saturday

10 a.m. Prelims: 1-Meter Dive, 100 IM, 100 Free, 200 Back, 200 Breast, 1650 Free

5 p.m. Finals: 1650 Free, 100 IM, 100 Free, 200 Back, 200 Breast, 1-Meter Dive, 400 Free Relay