Tess Boyer concludes her participation within the 2026 NCAA DIII Swimming Championships

Indianapolis, Ind. — After amassing a First Team All-America award within the girls’s 400-yard particular person medley on Thursday, Wheaton’s Tess Boyer returned to the Indiana University Natatorium for her last occasion on the NCAA DIII Championships this morning. Boyer was invited to compete within the girls’s 200-yard butterfly race, and the junior closed out her three-day keep at this yr’s nationwide meet by participating within the occasion’s 44-swimmer prelim. The All-American positioned thirty fourth in at this time’s discipline to spherical out her embellished junior marketing campaign.

Boyer entered the 200 fly competitors because the CCIW champion within the occasion with a seed time of two:06.29 that was achieved on the Wheaton Invitational in December. The Kansas native posted a 2:07.07 prelim mark on Friday morning and completed in thirty fourth place, with solely the highest 16 swimmers within the occasion advancing to this night’s finals.

Boyer has concluded a powerful third yr at Wheaton that noticed her garner quite a few accolades, together with changing into this system’s first First Team All-American since 2019. She will now be part of her Thunder teammates of their offseason routine, as Boyer and the Wheaton squad stay up for one other promising marketing campaign in 2026-27.

Thursday Recap

 

Indianapolis, Ind. — On Wednesday morning, Wheaton junior Tess Boyer achieved a noteworthy milestone when she grew to become the primary Thunder girls’s swimmer since 2017 to earn All-America awards in multiple season. 24 hours later, Boyer went one step additional within the second of her three occasions at this yr’s NCAA Division III Championships by claiming her first profession First Team All-America honor within the girls’s 400-yard particular person medley. The achieved swimmer certified for this night’s 400 IM Championship last as one of many high eight opponents within the nation, and her ensuing nationwide recognition adopted her Second Team All-America nod in the identical occasion final yr, making Boyer a three-time All-American in her profession thus far. 

The two-time CCIW Women’s Swimming Student-Athlete of the Year got here into her strongest occasion on Thursday proudly owning the fourth-fastest seed time within the 400 IM in all of Division III this season. While Boyer didn’t handle to match the convention file mark of 4:21.41 that she set eventually month’s CCIW Championships at this time, she was nonetheless in a position to safe a spot within the race’s Championship last because of her eighth-placed exhibiting on this morning’s 32-swimmer competitors.

This Top 8 end ensured her of a CSCAA First Team All-America prize, confirming Boyer’s standing as the primary girls’s swimmer from Wheaton to be named a First Team All-American in any occasion since 2019. 

In tonight’s 400-yard IM last, Boyer improved upon her prelim time mark by practically a full second, registering a 4:22.26 depend to complete fifth within the gifted discipline. Her fifth-place standing marks the best end by a Thunder girls’s swimmer in an NCAA Championship last since fellow All-American Brooke Barnes got here in fifth within the 100-yard freestyle competitors seven years in the past.

After reaching new heights on the nationwide stage and including one other trophy to her increasing assortment, Boyer will wrap up her three-day schedule on the Division III meet on Friday by participating within the girls’s 200-yard butterfly race. Prelims start at 9:00 AM Central Time, with the ladies’s 200 fly the fourth occasion on tomorrow’s itinerary after the 200-yard medley relay competitions and the lads’s butterfly swim.

Wednesday Recap

Indianapolis, Ind. — One month after serving to lead the Wheaton girls’s swimming & diving group to the convention title, CCIW Women’s Swimming Student-Athlete of the Year Tess Boyer returned to motion, this time on the nationwide stage. The junior traveled to Indianapolis on Wednesday for the primary of three-straight days of competitors on the 2026 NCAA Division III Swimming Championships and started her occasion schedule by participating within the girls’s 200-yard particular person medley. The embellished student-athlete added one other accolade to her assortment in at this time’s 200 IM prelim with the second Second Team All-America honor of her profession, earlier than breaking her personal convention and program file within the occasion’s comfort last this night.

Just as she was final yr, Boyer is as soon as once more the one girls’s swimmer from the CCIW to take part within the nationwide meet. The two-time convention champion within the girls’s 200 IM positioned 14th on this morning’s 64-swimmer prelim with a time of two:04.39 to safe a spot in Wednesday’s comfort last as a Top 16 finisher. This standing was additionally sufficient to see her garner a Second Team All-America nod within the occasion from the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA), marking her second profession All-America accolade after incomes the identical recognition in final yr’s 400 IM competitors.

With Wednesday’s award, Boyer turns into the twenty fifth girls’s swimmer in Wheaton historical past to assert particular person All-America accolades throughout a number of years and the primary to attain this feat since 2017.

Boyer got here into the 200 IM competitors with the Thirteenth-fastest seed time in Division III, however the Kansas native saved her greatest efficiency within the occasion for final, finally posting the meet’s ninth-fastest finals time with a record-breaking 2:03.47 line. The up to date mark gave her a third-place end on this night’s comfort last and eclipsed her personal earlier CCIW and faculty file time within the 200 IM from this yr’s Wheaton Invite by .25 seconds.

After a powerful opening to her NCAA Championships run, Boyer’s subsequent competitors will come within the type of her specialty occasion, the 400-yard IM. The All-American heads into tomorrow’s discipline proudly owning the fourth-fastest time within the nation within the 400 IM this season. The race can be sixth on Thursday’s schedule following the lads’s and ladies’s 200-yard freestyle and 100-yard butterfly occasions. The prelims start at 9:00 AM Central Time every morning with competitors finals beginning at 6:00 PM CT.