Swim & Dive Diving into RMAC Meet

WESTERN COLORADO at RMAC CHAMPIONSHIP MEET
Tue.-Sat., Feb. 10-14 | El Pomar Natatorium | Grand Junction, Colo.
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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.  The 2026 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Swimming & Diving Championships begins Tuesday night at El Pomar Natatorium and runs by way of Saturday night when the Mountaineers hope to attain comparable outcomes of their previous few years on the meet.

Western completed in fourth place on the 2025 and 2023 championship meet, following a third-place end in 2022.

Hinting that these outcomes, or larger, may be completed is the Mountaineers’ profitable 2025-26 schedule when it is solely twin meet loss was towards host and Twelfth-ranked Colorado School of Mines, in addition to Western’s sweep of the back-to-back duals of the Coaches Classic, its back-to-back wins at Nebraska-Kearney’s Distance Meet and Sprint Meet, and a second place end on the Rochester Invite behind solely host and then-Twenty first-ranked St. Cloud State.

The distance occasions and the lengthy stroke occasions proceed to be the Mountaineers’ energy.

Morgan Nielsen – the college report holder within the 500-, 1,000- and the 1,650-yard freestyle occasions – leads a powerful group of Mountaineers into those self same occasions on the RMAC meet.

Adding factors in these lengthy freestyle races will doubtless come from teammates Agnieszka Rudomina, Brionna Thomas, Sophia Del Rosario, AvaMarie Hopewell, and Sidney-Ann Morris.

Adessa Talbot enters the championship meet with Western’s highest seeds. The college recordholder within the 200 butterfly is seeded eighth within the occasion whereas additionally holding the No 8 seed within the 200 backstroke.

Just shy of Talbot’s seed within the 200 fly is teammate Joanna Swiderska who’s seeded ninth. Swiderska will even compete within the 100 fly, coming into the meet with the thirteenth quickest seed time.

Western has excessive expectations from its pair of senior breaststrokers as Leah Wagner and Ella Fries have been level scorers for the Mountaineers in not solely the 100 and 200 breaststroke races, but in addition within the particular person medley occasions, the place Del Rosario additionally appears to be like so as to add factors to the workforce whole.

The dash group appears to be like to get its pop from newcomer Anna Jorstad, who’s seeded inside the prime 24 of each the 50 and 100 freestyle occasions, and might be tabbed to anchor Western’s 200 freestyle and medley relays. She and Talbot are additionally the Mountaineers’ prime seeds within the 100 backstroke.

Team factors from the 2 diving occasions will most assuredly come from senior Alexandra Wallis, who has already posted the required scores to compete on the 1-meter and 3-meter boards on the NCAA Division II Diving Qualification Meet on Feb. 10 on the web site of the nationwide championship meet in Evansville, Indiana.

Wallis shall be making her third look on the qualification meet, having competed within the 2023 and 2025 meets.

The 2026 RMAC meet begins Tue., Feb. 10 with one occasion, the timed finals of the 800 freestyle relay.

The following 4 days open at 10 a.m. with preliminary heats adopted by the championship session at 5:30 p.m. every night time when the highest 24 opponents from the morning prelims compete once more within the championship ‘A’ ultimate (prime 8), comfort ‘B’ ultimate (9-16), and comfort ‘C’ ultimate (17-24).

At stake, along with RMAC factors and placings, shall be swimmers attempting to publish automated or provisional occasions for the NCAA DII championship meet. Nielsen has competed at each the 2024 and 2025 nationwide meets, setting workforce data I the five hundred, 1,000 and 1,650 on the 2025 championships.