Indianapolis, Ind. -- One month after helping lead the Wheaton women's swimming & diving team to the conference title, CCIW Women's Swimming Student-Athlete of the Year Tess Boyer returned to action, this time on the national stage. The junior traveled to Indianapolis on Wednesday for the first of three-straight days of competition at the 2026 NCAA Division III Swimming Championships and began her event schedule by taking part in the women's 200-yard individual medley. The decorated student-athlete added another accolade to her collection in today's 200 IM prelim with the second Second Team All-America honor of her career, before breaking her own conference and program record in the event's consolation final this evening.

Just as she was last year, Boyer is once again the only women's swimmer from the CCIW to participate in the national meet. The two-time conference champion in the women's 200 IM placed 14th in this morning's 64-swimmer prelim with a time of 2:04.39 to secure a spot in Wednesday's consolation final as a Top 16 finisher. This standing was also enough to see her garner a Second Team All-America nod in the event from the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA), marking her second career All-America accolade after earning the same recognition in last year's 400 IM competition.

With Wednesday's award, Boyer becomes the 25th women's swimmer in Wheaton history to claim individual All-America accolades across multiple years and the first to achieve this feat since 2017.

Boyer came into the 200 IM competition with the 13th-fastest seed time in Division III, but the Kansas native saved her best performance in the event for last, eventually posting the meet's ninth-fastest finals time with a record-breaking 2:03.47 line. The updated mark gave her a third-place finish in this evening's consolation final and eclipsed her own previous CCIW and school record time in the 200 IM from this year's Wheaton Invite by .25 seconds.

After an impressive opening to her NCAA Championships run, Boyer's next competition will come in the form of her specialty event, the 400-yard IM. The All-American heads into tomorrow's field owning the fourth-fastest time in the country in the 400 IM this season. The race will be sixth on Thursday's schedule following the men's and women's 200-yard freestyle and 100-yard butterfly events. The prelims begin at 9:00 AM Central Time each morning with competition finals starting at 6:00 PM CT.