INDIANAPOLIS — Wheaton junior Tess Boyer completed competition at the 2026 NCAA Division III Swimming & Diving Championships this week with multiple All-America performances and additional program records at the Indiana University Natatorium.
Boyer opened the national meet on Wednesday in the 200-yard individual medley, earning Second Team All-America honors after placing 14th in the preliminary round. She followed with a ninth-place finish in the consolation final, recording a time of 2:03.47 to lower her own CCIW and school record by .25 seconds. With the result, Boyer became the 25th women’s swimmer in program history to collect individual All-America honors in multiple seasons.
Thursday brought Boyer’s top finish of the meet in the 400-yard individual medley. After qualifying for the championship final with the eighth-fastest time in the morning preliminaries, she improved by nearly a full second in the evening session and finished fifth nationally in 4:22.26. The performance earned Boyer First Team All-America recognition, the first of her career, and marked the highest NCAA finish by a Wheaton women’s swimmer in seven years.
She closed the championships on Friday in the 200-yard butterfly, placing 34th in the preliminary round with a time of 2:07.07.
A two-time CCIW Women’s Swimming Student-Athlete of the Year, Boyer was the lone women’s swimmer from the conference to compete at the national meet for the second straight season. Her junior campaign concluded with three All-America honors across the last two years.
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The College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) was founded in 1946 and currently services nine member institutions including Augustana College (Rock Island, Ill.), Carroll University (Waukesha, Wis.), Carthage College (Kenosha, Wis.), Elmhurst University (Elmhurst, Ill.), Illinois Wesleyan University (Bloomington, Ill.), Millikin University (Decatur, Ill.), North Central College (Naperville, Ill.), North Park University (Chicago, Ill.) and Wheaton College (Wheaton, Ill.).