Chargers girls’s swimming provides 4 freshmen to roster for 2026-27 season

The Hillsdale College girls’s swimming and diving group continues its ahead momentum getting into the 2026-27 season, with one other robust signing class of incoming freshman for the brand new marketing campaign this fall.

The Chargers had a powerful season in 2025-26 behind stellar freshman and sophomore lessons, setting a number of information and enhancing their level whole on the season-ending G-MAC/MEC Championships. With the addition of 4 extra gifted athletes, Hillsdale is hoping the 2026-27 season will mark a return to the highest of the convention podium, and extra athletes competing on the 2027 NCAA DII Championships in March.

The class consists of: Haven Ferguson (Dublin, NH/Homeschooled), Cali Kissel (Lowell, IN/Lowell), Isavella Stergiou (Veria, Greece/3o Geniko Lykeio Verias), and Campbell Witte (Columbia, SC/Covenant Classical Christian).

Ferguson is a standout competitor from southern New Hampshire specializing within the butterfly and backstroke, who helped her membership, the Nashua YMCA Storm, to the 2025 New England Championship in each girls’s and general classes. She received the 100 butterfly at that occasion, qualifying for the YMCA nationwide meet, and likewise set the Granite State Swim Association document within the 100 again. Along along with her success for the Storm, Ferguson additionally swam for the Kodiak Kingfishers, Peterborough Wave Swim Club, and the Keene YMCA Dolphins all through her youth profession, and is a superb pupil and gifted artist, successful the Dublin Community Foundation Scholarship and serving because the Featured Emerging Artist for the 2024 Monadnock Art Tour.

Kissel is a prime highschool swimmer for Lowell High School in Northwest Indiana, on the sides of Chicagoland. A backstroker and dash freestyle, Kissel earned six All-Northwest Crossroads Conference titles and certified twice for the IHSAA state finals. She broke eight faculty information throughout her time at Lowell and holds this system information for the 50 and 200 freestyle, in addition to the 100 backstroke. Kissel additionally excelled for Munster Swim Club exterior of her highschool season, and is a superb pupil, graduating with excessive honors this previous spring and incomes membership in her faculty’s National Honor Society.

Stergiou is a global swimmer from Greece, within the northwest a part of the nation west of Thessaloniki, and a powerful competitor within the backstroke. Swimming for the Aris Thessalonikis Swmming group, Stergiou excelled in Greece’s 2025 Junior Nationals meet, with three prime six finishes individually and a prime six end in a relay as properly. Those robust finishes are a part of a powerful youth profession for Stergiou in Greece, with a number of titles and runner-up finishes to her identify. Stergiou is a powerful pupil who has acquired educational excellence awards for her work within the classroom and graduated with honors this previous spring.

Witte is one other gifted backstroker and dash freestyler from the capital of South Carolina who excelled for Gamecock Aquatic and AC Flora this previous 12 months. An All-Region swimmer in South Carolina, Witte positioned within the prime three in each the 100 freestyle and 100 backstroke on the Palmetto State Championships in March, amongst different robust performances. A gifted pupil, Witte received the Scholar Athlete Award and the Eagle Award for Academic Excellence and Leadership, graduating with honors this previous spring. 

Hillsdale’s 4 incoming freshmen will add to a gifted and younger squad the Chargers are constructing for the 2026-27 season, which kicks off with the group’s annual Blue-White meet on September 26, 2026.