By Madeline Folsom on SwimSwam
Big West Conference – Men and Women
Dates: Wednesday, February 11–Saturday, February 14 Location: CRWC Natatorium, Houston, TX Defending Champions: UC Santa Barbara women (1x); UC Santa Barbara men (1x) Live Results Schedule of Events (PDF) Championship Central SwimSwam Fan Guide Teams: Cal State Bakersfield, Grand Canyon (men)*, Hawaii, San Diego (women)*, Seattle*, UC Davis (women), UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara Recaps: Night One Night Two Results Men WomenTeam Scores After Day 2
Women
UCSB — 225 UCSD — 207 Hawaii — 190 UC Davis — 160 San Diego — 117 Seattle U — 80 CSUB — 78Men
Grand Canyon — 319 Hawaii — 302 UCSD — 207 CSUB — 171.5 UCSB — 166 Seattle U — 113.5The second day of the 2026 Big West Championships saw the first four automatic NCAA qualifiers via conference championships in the men’s and women’s 200 IM and 50 free.
At the conclusion of the session, the Grand Canyon men were holding the lead over Hawaii, and the UCSB women retained their lead, though UCSD and Hawaii started closing the gap.
Women’s Recap
The highlights of the meet on the women’s side were the automatic NCAA qualifiers from UCSD and Hawaii.
In the 200 IM, Eva Boehlke got out to a quick lead, splitting 25.47 on the fly leg. She was 29.40 on the backstroke, 34.43 on the breaststroke to turn in 1:29.30 at the 150 mark, just seven hundredths ahead of Hawaii’s Zofia Tyminska who was 1:29.37.
The final 50 saw Boehlke swim the fastest split in the field by more than half-a-second at 28.13, earning the top time, Meet Record, and NCAA Automatic Bid, coming in under the cut of 1:57.88.
Tyminska was 26.01/29.62/33.74/28.72 to finish in 1:58.09 for the silver and UCSD’s Chloe Braun split 26.06/30.96/33.03/28.68 to finish in 3rd in 1:58.73 as the final sub-2:00 swimmer.
In the 50 free, Hawaii’s Holly Nelson exactly tied the NCAA qualifying time of 22.28 to win the event by four tenths over teammate Quincy Key’s 22.65. UCSB’s Mira Stevenson finished 3rd in 22.73.
The other individual events on Thursday were the 500 free and the 1-meter diving. In the 500 free, UCSD’s Asia Kozan swam 4:45.65, breaking the meet record time of 4:46.32 set by UCSB’s Samantha Banos last year. She missed the AQ time of 4:43.70 by about two seconds, but took about a second off her lifetime best 4:46.97 from November.
Banos finished 2nd in 4:46.88, and UCSD’s Sophia Bell was 3rd in 4:49.30.
Hawaii swept the top four spots in the women’s 1-meter event with Macie Wheeler earning the gold in 311.85. Lovisa Gusstavson was 2nd in 301.55, and Ruby Pickron finished 3rd in 279.10.
The final event of the session was the women’s 200 freestyle relay, which Hawaii won in 1:29.39. The team of Nelson (22.38), Key (22.25), Alexia Kovaluk (22.92), and Tyminska (21.84) set a new meet record, taking down UCSB’s 2009 mark of 1:30.52.
UCSB was 2nd in 1:29.44 with their team of Alexi Zuckerman (22.96), Gretta Callison (22.33), Eugenie Lanilis (22.16), and Miranda Stevenson (21.99).
Men’s Recap
Just like on the women’s side, the men’s meet had two Automatic Qualifiers, both of whom were from Hawaii.
Sophomore Tom Thalau won the 200 IM in 1:43.93, two tenths under the qualifying time of 1:44.13. Thalau was out in 22.95, grabbing the lead from the start. He only expanded it from there, splitting 25.28 on the backstroke, 30.51 on the breaststroke, and 25.19 on the freestyle. His backstroke and freestyle splits were the fastest in the field.
Grand Canyon took 2nd and 3rd. Jasu Ovaskainen was 1:46.69 for 2nd (23.07/26.00/31.49/26.13) and Carter Dooling finished 3rd in 1:47.75 (23.15/27.91/30.23/26.46).
The men’s 50 free saw Karol Ostrowski swim 19.13 to come in three tenths under the AQ time of 19.43.
Ostrowski has been 18.89, which he went in March of 2024 at the NCAA Championships.
Alex Volkov finished 2nd for Grand Canyon in 19.44 and Guillermo Carrey was 3rd in 19.58.
The men’s 500 freestyle went to UCSD’s Landon Egeland in 4:20.98, a new meet record time, taking two seconds off the 4:23.09 set by Carl Larsen from UCSB in 1999. Grand Canyon’s Jacob Pins finished 2nd in 4:21.08, and Luigi Franco was 3rd for UCSD in 4:24.39. The AQ time was 4:18.07.
Hawaii’s Tamayo Ramirez won the men’s 3-meter diving event in 393.45. Grand Canyon’s Omar Elsayed was 2nd in 389.90, and Hawaii’s Olly Wignall finished 3rd in 310.10.
Hawaii picked up their 4th straight win of the night in the men’s 200 freestyle relay to round out the session. Ostrowski led off in 19.15. Finn Brophy swam 19.28 in 2nd. Aleks Tomaszewski swam 19.71 in 3rd, and Regan Richardson split 19.10 to bring the team home in 1:17.24.
Grand Canyon had the fastest split in the field courtesy of Guillermo Carrey‘s 18.99 on the anchor leg. Mario Perez led off in 19.66. Alex Volkov was 19.08 in 2nd, and Eli Cohen swam 19.81 in 3rd. They finished 1:17.54, just three tenths behind the Hawaii team.
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