Contact: Brock Reisler, Assistant Executive Director, breisler@midwestconference.org
OSHKOSH, Wisconsin – The Midwest Conference (MWC) announced its Performers of the Week award recipients for games played November 17-23, 2025, on Tuesday.
MWC sports information directors nominate student-athletes for the Performer of the Week honor by sport and vote as a committee to select the winners.
For the winter season, Performers of the Week will be recognized every week on Monday (basketball) and Tuesday (swimming and diving, indoor track and field) once their seasons have been triggered (three MWC institutions competing) and will conclude the week prior to the sport-specific Conference tournament/championship.
The Performer of the Week award winners are as follows:
Men’s Swim and Dive Performer of the Week
Aidan Donovan, Grinnell College
Donovan shattered three MWC and school records at the highly competitive University of Chicago Phoenix Fall Classic over the weekend. New marks were set in the 50-yard freestyle (20.41 seconds), 100 freestyle (44.89) and 200 freestyle relay with Spencer Pfaff ’29, Evan Feilmeyer ’28 and Rommin Adl ’26 (1:21.38). Donovan’s time in the 100 free was an NCAA “B” cut. He also swam on the 400 freestyle relay team that went 3:00.95, second-best in GC history, as well as the 200 and 400 medley relays that finished in 1:31.93 and 3:22.22. Those times are each fourth on GC’s record board. He swam the 200 freestyle, as well, going 1:44.11 to rank 17th all-time at Grinnell. All of Donovan’s individual performances, other than the 200 freestyle, and all the relays are tops in the MWC this season.
Women’s Swim and Dive Performer of the Week
Sarah Lopez, Grinnell College
Lopez posted MWC-leading times in three individual events and three more in relays as the Pioneers took part in the highly competitive University of Chicago Phoenix Fall Classic over the weekend. Her times of 58.09 seconds in the 100-yard butterfly, 2:08.51 in the 200 butterfly and 2:09.55 in the 200 individual medley all lead the league. She also swam on the MWC-leading 400 freestyle (3:37.70), 800 freestyle (8:04.72) and 400 medley relays (3:58.99). Additionally, Lopez’s clocking of 59.98 in the 100 backstroke is second in the league.