EVANSTON, Ill. - Eleven members of the Northwestern swimming and diving team will compete at the upcoming 2026 USA Swimming Short Course World Trials, which will be held from Oct. 28 to 31 at the FMC Natatorium in Westmont, Ill. Participating Wildcats will begin racing with five events on Thursday, Oct. 29.
The competition, the first of its kind, serves as a USA Swimming selection meet for the World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25m) 2026, which will take place from Dec. 1 to 6 in Beijing, China. A full explanation of the U.S. team selection procedure can be found here.
Grey Davis, Aya Ferguson, Zoe Nordmann, Cade Duncan, Diego Nosack, Connor Schuster and Stuart Seymour are Northwestern’s American representatives at the meet, and will be eligible for selection to the U.S. Short Course World Championships team. International swimmers David Gerchik, Flawia Kamzol, Oli Kos and Josh Staples will also compete, but solely in the preliminary heats of the competition.
Northwestern has U.S. swimmers seeded in the top eight across five different events. Seymour is the sixth seed in the 100 IM, the fourth seed in the 50 Back and the eighth seed in the 100 Back. Nosack is seeded sixth in the 200 IM, while Nordmann is the third seed in the 800 Free — the highest seed amongst Wildcats eligible for Team USA selection.
The full entry list for Short Course World Trials can be found here.
Northwestern at Short Course World Trials schedule:
Thursday, Oct. 29
Men’s 100-meter Butterfly: Cade Duncan, Connor Schuster
Men’s 50-meter Freestyle: Cade Duncan, Stuart Seymour
Men’s 200-meter Backstroke: David Gerchik, Oli Kos
Men’s 100-meter Breaststroke: Josh Staples
Men’s 100-meter Individual Medley: Josh Staples, Stuart Seymour
Friday, Oct. 30
Men’s 100-meter Freestyle: Cade Duncan, Oli Kos
Men’s 200-meter Butterfly: Diego Nosack
Women’s 50-meter Butterfly: Flawia Kamzol, Grey Davis
Men’s 50-meter Backstroke: Oli Kos, Stuart Seymour
Saturday, Oct. 31
Women’s 100-meter Freestyle: Aya Ferguson, Flawia Kamzol
Men’s 50-meter Butterfly: Cade Duncan, Stuart Seymour
Men’s 100-meter Backstroke: David Gerchik, Oli Kos, Stuart Seymour
Men’s 200-meter Individual Medley: Diego Nosack, Josh Staples
Women’s 100-meter Butterfly: Flawia Kamzol
Women’s 100-meter Freestyle: Flawia Kamzol
Men’s 200-meter Breaststroke: Josh Staples
Men’s 200-meter Freestyle: Josh Staples
Women’s 800-meter Freestyle: Zoe Nordmann
Preliminary heats for the competition will take place at 10 a.m. CT, while finals will be at 6 p.m. CT. Races will be streamed on the USA Swimming Network and YouTube channel, as well as Peacock.