2026: Season In Overview – Stanford Cardinal

STANFORD, Calif. – Fueled by two occasion victories on the ultimate day of competitors, Stanford claimed the 2026 USA Artistic Swimming Collegiate National Championship title to repeat as nationwide champions.

Capturing occasion crowns in trio and group throughout a second-day surge, Stanford secured back-to-back nationwide championships for the primary time since a four-peat stretch from 2005-08 and received its eleventh title in class historical past. Stanford totaled 98 factors, main the sphere forward of runner-up Incarnate Word (83) and third-place Ohio State (82).

This 12 months’s victory was particularly memorable, because the Cardinal prevailed in its dwelling pool at Avery Aquatic Center. It’s the fifth time Stanford has received the nationwide championship whereas internet hosting, having additionally achieved the feat in 2021, 2013, 2006 and 1999.

Yara Elian, Audrey Kwon and Calista Liu mixed to win the trio occasion crown, posting a rating of 239.7192. In the group occasion, Stanford’s prime squad of Miko Begossi, Ivy Davis, Elian, Megumi Field, Kwon, Liu, Dalia Ovadia and Karen Xue led the sphere with a rating of 234.920. Field was named the meet’s High Point Athlete whereas Elvira Khasyanova was honored as the Coach of the Year in her first season on the helm.

Artistic Swimming is certainly one of seven applications on The Farm to have received no less than 10 nationwide championships, becoming a member of ladies’s tennis (21), males’s tennis (18), males’s water polo (12), ladies’s swimming and diving (12), males’s gymnastics (11) and ladies’s water polo (10).

Stanford swept all 5 occasion titles on the Western Regionals meet, which served as Senior Day for Miko Begossi, Yujin Chang, Ivy Davis, Emily Ding, Yara Elian and Atira O’Neil.

Stanford claimed its fifth straight MPSF Championship title on Feb. 14-15, remaining the solely group champion for the reason that MPSF began sponsoring the game in 2022, totaling 101 factors. Audrey Kwon and Calista Liu received the duet title with a rating of 241.0250. Megumi Field, Dalia Ovadia and Karen Xue received the trio with a rating of 224.8996. Taking first-place honors within the group competitors had been Elisa Brunel, Yujin Chang, Emily Ding, Atira O’Neil, Manu Pindi, Simone Radom, Ella Rau and Yanna Hauck, reaching a rating of 206.5058.

The Cardinal was additionally well-represented among the many convention’s particular person awards. Dalia Ovadia was named MPSF Swimmer of the Meet, Karen Xue was tabbed the MPSF Freshman of the Meet and Elvira Khasyanova was awarded the MPSF Coach of the Meet. Stanford additionally positioned an MPSF-best 9 student-athletes on the 20-member all-conference group.

Head coach Elvira Khasyanova accomplished her first season after serving as assistant coach for the earlier seven seasons since her arrival in September 2018. A 2021 International Swimming Hall of Fame inductee, Khasyanova’s adorned skilled profession contains her time as a member of the Russian Senior National Team (1999-2012) and a three-time Olympic gold medalist within the group competitors (2004, 2008, 2012).