GUNNISON, Colo.— The Colorado Mesa University women's swimming team had another dominating day winning 13 of 14 events while setting a pair of new Paul Wright Natatorium pool records on Saturday morning in a 189-61 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference dual win over the host Western Colorado University Mountaineers.
The Mavericks, ranked eighth in the CSCAA Division II poll, have now won 14 straight RMAC duals over the last three years and improved to 3-4 overall and to 3-0 against conference foes this season. Their four losses have all come against NCAA Division I opposition.
On Saturday,
Grace Payton and
Samantha White and
Danielle Jefferies each won two individual events. They also combined with a record-setting
Sierra Forbord to win the 200-yard medley relay and set a new pool record of one minute, 50.19 seconds. Forbord would later break the pool record to win the 100 free before in 53.17 seconds bettering it once again by swimming a 53.05 lead-off split to cap the meet with a win in the 400 medley relay.
Earlier,
Isabelle Hansson, CMU's lone entry in the 1,650 freestyle, claimed victory in 19:17.18 before Forbord led a 2-5 finish in the 200 free, the lone Mountaineer victory of the day.
However, Maverick freshman
Sarah Fillerup claimed her first collegiate win, taking the 100 back in 59.66, just ahead of Payton (1:00.36).
White, who swept the breaststroke events then won the 100-yard distance in 1:08.55 while junior
Ginger Bryant, a transfer from Division I Arkansas-Little Rock, took second in 1:09.78.
Jefferies then led one of four 1-2-3 Maverick sweeps of the day as the senior won the 200 fly in 2:13.90 ahead of
Candice Rosen (2:17.46) and Hansson (2:17.86).
Freshman
Logan Anderson then won her first collegiate event taking the 50 free in 25.76 although
Natalie Saul took first place points with a time of 25.97.
Forbord then defeated Western's all-American Randi Yarnell, the 2018 RMAC Swimmer of the Year in the 100 free with a time of 53.17 seconds, which broke Yarnell's pool record of 53.38.
Kennedy Bright and
Maddie Pressler also fared well taking third and fourth in 55.21 and 55.97, respectively.
Payton then won the 200 back by 3.1 seconds with a time of 2:09.98 while Fillerup finished third in 2:13.16.
White would then claim the 200 breaststroke in 2:29.76 while Bryant was second in 2:33.97.
Bright then led a 1-2-3 Maverick sweep in the 500 free, touching in 5:30.19 ahead of
Robyn Naze (5:31.53) and
Maddie McClain (5:38.43).
Jefferies then won for the second time of the morning in the 100 fly with a time of 58.36.
Payton would then claim the 400 IM in 4:51.76 as the Mavericks claimed another 1-2-3 sweep with Bryant (4:54.91) and Hansson (4:58.18) finishing right behind.
Forbord then swam her opening leg of the relay in 53.05 as Bright, Pressler and McClain rounded out the Mavericks' 400 free relay win effort in 3:39.34. CMU's B and C teams finished second and third, respectively,
The Mavericks are now off until hosting the A3 Performance Invite from Nov. 16-18 in their El Pomar Natatorium.
