Tigers Eye Title Protection, College Information at 2026 MPSF Swimming & Diving Championships

PHARR, Texas – The Pacific males’s and ladies’s swimming and diving program is seeking to make some magic on the 2026 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Swimming & Diving Championships, hosted by the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley from Wednesday, February 25 to Saturday, February 28.

The Tigers purpose to defend final season’s convention title on the lads’s crew, and each applications have their sights set on rewriting the college file board when competitors begins tomorrow at UTRGV.

For the younger Pacific roster, the convention championship meet represents the end result of months of regular progress and refinement.

“We’ve built a lot of momentum going into this point. We have been fine-tuning things and getting ready to compete our hardest,” Pacific head coach Katelyne Herrington stated. “We have the opportunity to break three to four records and bring 12 or more athletes to National Invitational Championships, which for me, knowing the young team that we have, would be a big accomplishment.”

Among these chasing historical past is sophomore Nate Rasmussen, who has rapidly developed into one among Pacific’s high performers in the course of the 2025-26 season.

“I’m extremely confident in my abilities and the team’s abilities to perform at the championships,” Rasmussen stated. “I think we’re going to come in with a big swing on the first day, and we’re going to surprise everyone.”

Rasmussen enters the meet seeded second within the males’s 100 freestyle with a personal-best time of 43.46, simply three-tenths of a second off the Pacific file held by Olympic gold medalist Brad Schumacher.

On the ladies’s facet, sophomore Christina Agiomamitou is inside placing distance of a program milestone as she targets the college file within the 200 freestyle.

“I’m shocked from what I’ve accomplished so far,” Agiomamitou stated. “At first, it was a challenge for me to adjust and adapt, but I feel like everything has worked well.”

The 2025 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Women’s Freshman Swimmer of the Year is seeded second within the occasion and sits simply eight-tenths of a second shy of the college file.

“I know I’m super close and that’s what’s really boiling my blood right now,” Agiomamitou stated. “I want to race and see that record with my name. I’m excited to compete for it.”

Pacific might be one among 11 applications competing on the MPSF Swimming & Diving Championships. The convention options 10 ladies’s groups—California Baptist, Idaho, Incarnate Word, New Mexico State, Northern Arizona, Northern Colorado, Pacific, Pepperdine, Utah Tech and University of Texas Rio Grande Valley—and 6 males’s groups—Air Force, California Baptist, Incarnate Word, Pacific, University of Las Vegas and Wyoming.

Despite the expanded, aggressive discipline, confidence contained in the Tigers’ program stays excessive as they purpose to construct on a robust second half of the season.

“We are looking to carry over the momentum. We feel good about ourselves,” Herrington stated.

For all data concerning the 2026 MPSF Swimming & Diving Championships, go to the event central web page here.

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