The Hamilton College Continentals travel to Waterville, Maine, for the 2026 New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Men's Swimming & Diving Championships at the Colby College Aquatics Center beginning on Thursday, Feb. 19.
 
Click HERE for the Championships Central page, which includes an event preview, ticket information, how to buy championship gear, a schedule, and information about how to watch the event. As the meet progresses, the page will be updated with the top three finishers in each race, final team scores and individual award winners. There are also links for live results, live video, detailed daily schedule of events, finals competition schedule, the psych sheet, heat sheets, directions to Colby, championship records and much more.
 
The championships get underway on Thursday at 7 p.m. with the 800-yard freestyle relay. Swimming preliminary heats start at 10 a.m. the next three days and diving trials begin at 1:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. The finals kick off at 6 p.m. on Friday, 5:45 on Saturday and 5:30 on Sunday.
 
Nathaniel Taft '27, who is a three-time event champion at the NESCAC meet, is in the top three in three events on the psych sheet. Taft is second in the 50-yard backstroke and 100 freestyle and third in the 50 free going into the weekend. He has competed in one event since mid-December – a 200 free relay at RPI on Jan. 31.
 
Loui Chambon '28 is second in the 200 free and fifth in the 500 free. Matthew Chang '28 and Calvin Meeker '29 are third and fifth, respectively, in the 200 back. Steven Roche '27 is eighth in the 200 individual medley and Josh Smith '26 is eighth in the 50 butterfly.