Lumberjacks Chase First MPSF Championship

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (February 24, 2026) – The Northern Arizona girls’s swimming and diving staff will look to seize its first Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Conference Championship this week in Pharr, Texas. The competitors runs from Feb. 25 by way of Feb. 28 and shall be hosted by UTRGV on the City of Pharr-PSJA Natatorium.

Last 12 months, Pepperdine received the ladies’s title, whereas Pacific claimed the boys’s championship.

Northern Arizona beforehand received 12 straight Western Athletic Conference Championships earlier than transferring to the MPSF. In the ultimate WAC Championship, the Lumberjacks scored 694.5 factors, ending 160.5 factors forward of New Mexico State.

The ‘Jacks will reunite with some acquainted faces, as a number of groups from the WAC additionally moved to the MPSF. Participants embrace Air Force (M), California Baptist (M/W), Idaho (W), Incarnate Word (M/W), New Mexico State (W), Northern Colorado (W), Pacific (M/W), Pepperdine (W), UTRGV (W), UNLV (M), Utah Tech (W) and Wyoming (M).

Game On Live Studio (GOLS) will stream the MPSF Championships stay.

Wednesday will start with diving preliminaries at 9:30 a.m. MST within the girls’s one-meter occasion. At 5 p.m. MST, the session will function the ladies’s 200-yard medley relay, adopted by the one-meter diving championship and the 800-yard freestyle relay closing.

On Thursday, preliminaries for the 500-yard freestyle, 200-yard IM, 50-yard freestyle and 200-yard freestyle relay will start at 9 a.m. MST. The three-meter diving preliminaries will begin at 9:30 a.m. MST. Finals start at 5 p.m. MST and embrace the 200-yard freestyle relay, 500-yard freestyle, 200-yard IM, 50-yard freestyle and the three-meter diving championship.

Friday morning preliminaries embrace the 100-yard butterfly, 400-yard IM, 200-yard freestyle, 100-yard breaststroke, 100-yard backstroke and the 400-yard medley relay exhibition. Divers will compete in an exhibition occasion. Finals for these occasions will happen within the afternoon.

Saturday morning will start with preliminaries within the 200-yard backstroke, 100-yard freestyle, 200-yard breaststroke and 200-yard butterfly, together with the 400-yard freestyle relay exhibition. Divers will then compete in platform preliminaries. In the night, the 1,650-yard freestyle shall be swum as timed finals (high eight seeded swimmers), adopted by finals for the morning’s preliminary occasions. The platform diving finals will precede the 400-yard freestyle relay, which concludes the competitors.

A senior recognition ceremony will happen firstly of the Saturday night session.

The Lumberjacks are coming off a robust residence win towards Utah Tech, defeating the Trailblazers 183-69. They received 11 of 14 occasions and swept all 4 relay races. Cydnie Perkins set the 200-yard breaststroke pool file with a time of two:15.39, surpassing the earlier mark of two:16.82 set in 2018. Perkins already owns the pool file within the 100-yard breaststroke.

NAU additionally shattered the pool file within the 800-yard freestyle relay. Isahbel Krasht swam the primary leg, turning it over to Evalotta Aabrams, who recorded the quickest break up at 1:50.77. Kaci Kelaher and Abbie Miller closed out the relay as NAU posted a profitable time of seven:30.46 – practically three seconds sooner than Boise State’s earlier file set six years in the past.

Tickets for the MPSF Championship will be bought on-line, with single-day tickets obtainable here, and all-session passes here. Live diving scores shall be obtainable by way of DiveMeets, and extra data will be discovered on the official MPSF Championship website.

Following convention motion, choose divers will return residence to host the NCAA Zone E Diving Championships on the Wall Aquatic Center from March 9-1. Qualifying swimmers will conclude the postseason on the NCAA Championships, scheduled to start March 18 in Atlanta, Georgia.

 

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