Stanford Wins Fourth-Straight MPSF Artistic Title
Photo by: Keith Nordstrom
2025 MPSF Artistic Swimming Championships
(Fourth Edition)
Saturday-Sunday, February 15-16, 2025
Host: Wheaton College
Balfour Natatorium; Norton, Mass.
2025 MPSF ARTISTIC CHAMPIONSHIP
FINAL TEAM SCORES
MPSF CHAMPIONS: Stanford--102
2nd-Place: Incarnate Word---87
3rd-Place: Texas Woman's---75
4th-Place: Wheaton---65
MPSF Championship Central:
https://mpsports.org/tournaments/?id=39
2025 MPSF Artistic Swim Event Champions:
Tech A: Megumi Field---Stanford
Tech B: Aliya Perras---Incarnate Word
Solo: Marloes Steenbeek---Incarnate Word
Trio: Megumi Field, Dalia Ovadia, Audrey Kwon---Stanford
Duet: Megumi Field, Dalia Ovadia---Stanford
Team: Stanford
2025 MPSF Artistic Championship Complete Results
2025 MPSF Artistic Championship Tech A Results
2025 MPSF Artistic Championship Tech B Results
2025 MPSF Artistic Championship Tech C Results
2025 MPSF Artistic Championship Tech D Results
2025 MPSF Artistic Championship Trio Results
2025 MPSF Artistic Championship Solo Results
2025 MPSF Artistic Championship Duet Results
2025 MPSF Artistic Championship Team Results
Story by: Wheaton Athletics
NORTON, Mass. – The Stanford University artistic swimming team placed first in both the duet and the team competitions and finished the two-day meet with 102 points to capture its fourth straight Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Championship today at Balfour Natatorium on the campus of host Wheaton College (Mass.) in Norton, Mass.
University of the Incarnate Word placed second behind the Cardinal with 87 points, while Texas Woman’s University finished third with 75 points. Wheaton placed fourth as a team with 65 points.
Stanford took three of the top five spots in the Collegiate Duet. The combination of first year Megumi Field (Wilmington, Del.) and classmate Dalia Ovadia (Danville, Calif.) tallied 226.2729 points to place first for the Cardinal. The next three places were separated by less than one point. The Stanford pair of senior Lindi Schroeder (Andover, Mass.) and first year Calista Liu (Fullerton, Calif.) tallied 212.5225 points to finish second and edge out the Incarnate Word duo of sophomore Maria Bofill Strub (Calgary, Alberta) and first year Marloes Steenbeek’s count of 211.9950 points. UIW claimed fourth place as well with 211.7529 points from sophomore Aliya Perras (Calgary, Alberta) and senior Paige Areizaga (Orlando, Fla.).
Stanford’s sophomore pairing of Elisa Brunel (Austin, Texas) and Ella Rau (Chandler, Ariz.) tallied 199.9050 points to finish fifth, while TWU placed sixth with 144.1979 points posted by junior Candela Fidalgo Garcia (Vigo, Spain) and first year Jennah Hafsi (Rabat, Morocco). Wheaton’s sophomore pairing of Renée Goldfinger (Hoboken, N.J.) and Olivia Macdonald (Toronto, Ont.) combined for a score of 139.3313 points to finish seventh.
The Cardinal continued their grip among the top competitors, claiming two of the top three finishes in the Collegiate Team Final. Juniors Miko Begossi (Alamo, Calif.), Ivy Davis (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Yara Elian (Walnut Creek, Calif.) joined first year Audrey Kwon (Seattle, Wash.), Liu, Ovadia and Schroeder for a joint score of 242.2663 to top the field and edge out Incarnate Word by just over four tenths of a point. Incarnate Word registered a mark of 241.8413 behind sophomore Claire Brett (Calgary, Alberta), first year Katelin Echols (Houston, Texas), sophomore Marieve Gagnon (Westmount, Québec), first year Macarena Lagos (Santiago, Chile), Ana Clara Machado, Perras, senior Madeline Phillippe (Hyères Les Palmiers, France) and sophomore Valentina Urriola (Yucatan, Mexico).
Stanford placed third as well with a contingent comprised of Brunel, junior Yujin Chang (San Jose, Calif.), junior Emily Ding (Cupertino, Calif.), sophomore Cambell McMillan (Portland, Ore.), junior Atira O’Neil (Pleasant Hill, Calif.), sophomore Manu Pindi (Flower Mound, Texas), Rau and Haley Chu that scored 231.9438 points. Incarnate Word followed Stanford again in the Team competition finals with a fourth-place effort of 226.6275 points courtesy of Areizaga, junior Elizabeth Battista (Calgary, Alberta), junior Lauren Bell (Calgary, Alberta), Bofill Strub, senior Camryn Hooey (Calgary, Alberta), senior Abby Remmers (Atlantic Beach, Fla.), Steenbeek and senior Mikaelle Gauthier Gatineau, Québec.
Texas Woman’s and Wheaton placed fifth and sixth, respectively in the Team Competition. TWU scored 197.3131 points with Fidalgo Garcia, Hafsi, first year Angelina Hamoen (Oranjestad, Aruba), first year Lisa Kizis, first year Eva Lafontan (Toulouse, France), sophomore Maya Schwickert (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and first year Melanie Tromp. Wheaton’s group of junior Josephine Basco (Painesville, Ohio), first year Sierra Bausemer (Plainville, Mass.), Goldfinger, senior Marina Greenwood (Santa Cruz, Calif.), senior Hannah Halberg (New York City, N.Y.), Macdonald, first year Julie Mahoney (Andover, Mass.) and first year Paige Warda (Auburn, Calif.) came together to tally 150.9075 points.
TWU’s second showing included first years Anastasia Bell (Birch Island, B.C.) and Kendyl Egert (Calgary, Alberta), senior Maribella Falconer (Houston, Texas), Schwickert, junior Kimberly Poitras (Edmonton, Alb.) and senior Anaya Kashikar (Austin, Texas), who totaled 145.1250 points to place seventh.
Stanford finished the meet scoring 12 points in the “A” Technicals, 30 in the Trio, 28 in the Duet and 32 in the Team finals, while UIW picked up 10 points in the “A” Techs, 23 in the Trio, 14 in the Solo, 11 in the Duet and 29 in the Team. TWU collected 11 points in the “A” Techs, 10 in the Trio, 22 in the Solo, 10 in the Duet and 22 in the Team. Wheaton scored nine points in the “A” Technicals, 10 in the “B” Technicals, 17 in the Trio, nine in the Solo, Nine in the Duet and 11 in the Team competition.