MALIBU, California – After 37 years in the Pacific Collegiate Swim Conference, the Pepperdine women's swim and dive program has been added as the 11th member of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation starting with the 2023-24 season.
 
"The MPSF is elated to have Pepperdine women's swimming and diving join the MPSF," MPSF Executive Director Foti Mellis said. "The Waves come in at an extremely exciting time, as 2024 will feature our second swim championship at Utah Tech's incredible facility. After three decades of partnership with Pepperdine and its men's volleyball program, plus the addition of its women's indoor track and field team this last season, we are thrilled that schools like Pepperdine continue to see the value for their teams as members of the MPSF."
 
Pepperdine joins BYU, Cal Poly, Cal State Bakersfield, Hawai'i, Pacific, San Diego, UC Davis, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara and Incarnate Word in the MPSF.
 
In the 37 years as a member of the PCSC, Pepperdine won a pair of team conference championships in 2021 and 2022. The Waves have posted top-five finishes in 30 of the 37 PCSC Championships ever contested, earning second-place finishes in 1989, 2008, 2019, 2020 and 2021. Pepperdine has been awarded PCSC Swimmer of the Year nine times and PCSC Diver of the Year 11 times. There have been 48 PCSC individual champions and 11 relay titles.
 
"We are incredibly grateful for the opportunity to join the MPSF," head coach Ellie Monobe said. "I am very familiar with the conference and have had a history of success amongst these competitors. I'd like to thank Dr. Steve Potts and Pepperdine athletics for helping our program get to this level of competition."
 
The MPSF was established in 1992-93 to serve the competitive needs of member institutions from the Big West, Pac-12 and the Western Athletic Conferences, as well as other selected universities in the western United States; and to provide championships competition for Division I intercollegiate Olympic sports in a conference setting. The founding principles on which the MPSF was originally formed were to provide enhanced competition and championship opportunities for sports without conference affiliation; to contain the costs of competition; and to ensure the survival of endangered sports.