2026 Season Recap · Northpark Riptide

Catherine Ertel

Girls · age 16 · age group 15-18 · Northpark Riptide

Events raced: 3
Personal bests: 3
Top-8 finishes: 0
Titles: 0

Dropped a total of 1.57 seconds across all events vs prior lifetime bests.

Biggest moments

Highest placement

Women 15-18 50 Butterfly

19th place

29.57★ new lifetime PB

Biggest drop

Women 15-18 100 IM

−1.42s

1:08.74★ new lifetime PB

Every event from 2026

One row per event. Time shows the season-best at 2026 Champs; drop column compares to the swimmer's prior lifetime best in that event.

Event	Time	Place	vs prior best
Women 15-18 50 Butterfly ★ Lifetime PB	29.57	19th	first time
Women 15-18 100 IM ★ Lifetime PB	1:08.74	22nd	−1.42s
Women 15-18 50 Freestyle ★ Lifetime PB	27.13	22nd	−0.15s

First-time events

Events the swimmer raced for the first time in 2026 — no prior comparison, just a new line on the swimmer card.

Women 15-18 50 Butterfly
29.57 · 19th place

Sourced from 2026 ISL Championships results. Times stored as integer centiseconds, formatted via the canonical formatTime helper. Drop column compares this season's best to the swimmer's lifetime PB from any earlier season — a first-time event has no comparison and shows —.