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Sagehens Three-peat as Women’s Swimming & Diving Champions

The Pomona-Pitzer Colleges Sagehens won a third consecutive SCIAC women’s swimming & diving title, netting 1,050 points at the 2026 SCIAC Swimming & Diving Championships.

The Sagehens nearly matched their 2025 total of 1051.5 points, which proved necessary as Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges jumped from 886 to 966 points. Chapman University nabbed third place for a third straight season (409) while Caltech narrowly edged out California Lutheran University, 342 to 336, for fourth place which stands as the program’s best-ever finish. Occidental College totaled 246 points, followed by Whittier College (213), the University of Redlands (176) and the University of La Verne (107).

?Podium Finishes
1650 Free:       Katy Shaw, CMS
                        Corley Smith, CMS
                        Cassidy Schneider, PP
 
200 Back:        Amaia Sherman, PP
                        Izzy Yoon, PP
                        Charlotte Dixon, PP
 
100 Free:         Nina Aballea, PP
                        Madeleine Kan, CMS
                        Ellie Burkhardt, PP
 
200 Breast:      Elyse Newlands, CMS
                        Aira Takeuchi, WC
                        Tara Hendrickson, WC
 
200 Fly:           Sun Young Byun, CMS
                        Mackenzie Mayfield, CMS
                        Bennett Jones, PP
 
400 Free Relay: Pomona-Pitzer
                          Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
                          Chapman
 

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