CCIW Swimming Championships Set to Open Wednesday at Pleasant Prairie RecPlex

PLEASANT PRAIRIE, Wis. — The 2026 College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) Swimming Championships start Wednesday on the Pleasant Prairie RecPlex in Pleasant Prairie, Wis. Augustana enters the four-day meet because the defending crew champion on each the boys’s and girls’s sides after a dual-title sweep in 2025.
 
The meet follows a four-day format with Wednesday’s opening session set for 7 p.m. From Thursday by way of Saturday, preliminary periods are scheduled for 10:30 a.m. and finals at 6 p.m. A senior recognition ceremony is scheduled for Saturday at 5 p.m. 
 
All-session passes are $50, single-day admission is $20 and one-session admission is $10. For youngsters ages 2-12, admission is $5 per session and kids beneath the age of two are free. For all periods, present CCIW college students will obtain free admission upon presentation of a CCIW pupil ID. Fan seating on the RecPlex shall be first-come, first-served. Spectators aren’t permitted to save lots of seats earlier than or between periods.
 
The 2026 meet schedule begins Wednesday night time with the 800-yard freestyle relays. Thursday’s occasions embrace the 200-yard freestyle relay, 500-yard freestyle, 200-yard particular person medley (IM) and 50-yard freestyle, concluding with the 400-yard medley relay. Friday options the 200-yard medley relay, 400-yard IM, 100-yard butterfly, 200-yard freestyle, 100-yard breaststroke, and 100-yard backstroke. The meet concludes Saturday with the 1650-yard freestyle, 200-yard backstroke, 100-yard freestyle, 200-yard breaststroke, 200-yard butterfly, and the 400-yard freestyle relay.
 
Men’s psych sheets present Augustana as the highest seed within the 800-yard freestyle relay following final 12 months’s meet-record efficiency, whereas Wheaton holds the quickest entries in each of Thursday’s relays. 
 
Thursday’s main particular person entries embrace Augustana senior Mark Addison within the 500-yard freestyle (4:38.67), Augustana’s Tyler Leslie within the 200-yard IM (1:52.83) and Augustana’s Bjorn Sievert atop the 50-yard freestyle. Friday’s prime seeds embrace Augustana within the 200-yard medley relay, Wheaton’s Jed Ritchie within the 400-yard IM and Wheaton’s Benjamin Coley main the 100-yard butterfly and 200-yard freestyle, with Leslie additionally among the many prime entries within the 200 free. 
 
For Saturday, Wheaton’s Isaac Eilmes enters as the highest seed within the 1650-yard freestyle (16:11.25), with further main entries from Wheaton’s Jac Cummings (200 again) and Coley (100 free), plus Carthage junior Tyson Politsch (100 breast, 55.76; 200 breast) and Ritchie (200 fly), earlier than Wheaton carries the highest seed into the 400-yard freestyle relay.
 
Women’s entries open with Wheaton as the highest seed within the 800-yard freestyle relay on Wednesday. Wheaton additionally leads the psych sheets for each of Thursday’s relays. 
 
Thursday’s prime seeds embrace Wheaton freshman Allison Henschel within the 500-yard freestyle, whereas Wheaton junior Tess Boyer leads the 200-yard IM after setting a CCIW open file throughout the common season (2:03.72). Friday’s slate consists of Wheaton seeded first within the 200-yard medley relay, with Boyer (400 IM, 4:23.23) and Wheaton’s Kara Grace Hess (100 fly, 59.68) additionally main their occasions; Carthage’s Emily Belcik (200 free, 1:55.58) and Jill Kane (100 breast, 1:08.26) prime the remaining psych sheets and Wheaton’s Savannah Jeffery holds the quickest entry within the 100 again. 
 
Saturday is paced by Wheaton’s Olivia Wiebe as the highest seed in each the 1650 free and 200 again. Wheaton’s Aubrey Swanson leads the 100 free, Boyer carries the highest seeds within the 200 breast and 200 fly and Wheaton closes as the highest seed within the 400-yard freestyle relay. 
 
The 2026 championships are already underway following the diving portion held final weekend in Kenosha, the place Carthage senior Taydin Murphy accomplished a sweep by efficiently defending his 1-meter (448.55) and 3-meter (458.75) convention titles and ending greater than 100 factors away from the sector on the 3-meter board. 
 
On the ladies’s aspect, Wheaton sophomore Lara Stamp additionally earned a two-event sweep, posting a 361.35 to repeat as 1-meter champion earlier than edging Carthage’s Kendall Leistico by 0.75 factors to safe the 3-meter title.