GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.— Led by a school-record setting and NCAA Division II Championship provisional qualifying time from Lily Borgenheimer, the Colorado Mesa University Women's Swimming & Diving team touched both first and second in every race and first, second and third in all but one, during a dominating season-opening dual meet win over visiting Western Colorado University on Saturday here at the El Pomar Natatorium.
 
The Mavericks, who exhibitioned the final four swimming events, extended their Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference dual-meet winning streak to 23 with the convincing 190-90 victory over the previously unbeaten Mountaineers, who fell to 2-1 on the season.
 
Borgenheimer, a transfer from Minnesota State, where she was the 2019 NCAA Division Championship runner-up in the 200-yard breaststroke, touched first in all three of her events during her Maverick debut, posting a time of two minutes, 16.77 seconds (2:15.57-altitude adjusted) in her specialty to win by nearly 14 seconds while easily breaking Miranda Reetz's 5-plus year CMU's altitude-adjusted record of 2:17.19, which had been posted at the 2015 RMAC Championships.  Borgenheimer also easily went under the NCAA "B" cut standard of 2:19.71 (2:20.91-altitude adjusted) and leads the early-season Division II performance list by more than 10 seconds.  The U.S. Olympic Trials qualifier out of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, also won the 50 free in 24.95 and touched first in the 200 individual medley with a mark of 2:09.34 (2:08.14-altitude adjusted) to move take over the No. 10 spot in Maverick history for that discipline.
 
Her efforts were far from the only highlights for the Mavericks, who had 1-2-3 sweeps in all but one of the first 12 events before easing on the team score domination.
 
The Mavs got off to a quick start as each of their three squads finished ahead of WCU's top quartet in the 200 medley relay.  The all senior "A" team of Grace Payton, Kennedy Bright, Maddie Pressler and Natalie Saul finished in 1:48.23 while the "B" team of Elsa Huebsch, Emily Moreland, Anna Barjenbruch and Bret Congdon finished in 1:48.80.
 
In the 1000 freestyle, which was the first individual event, junior Robyn Naze won in 10:53.20 while Abbey Selin finished second in 11:04.51.  Western's Sydney Skiles was third in 11:07.11.
 
The domination continued in the 200 free as Pressler won in 1:57.21 while Logan Anderson (1:58.28) and Kathryn Schwartz (2:04.26) completed the sweep.
 
Lauren White took the 100 back win in 57.57, edging Huebsch (57.86) and Payton (58.05).
 
The Mavs also swept the 100 breast with Emily Moreland claiming her first collegiate win with a time of 1:07.27.  Sydney Dolloff-Holt was second in 1:08.04 while 2020 RMAC Freshman of the Year Davy Brown was third in 1:10.75.
 
Senior Isabelle Hansson then won the 200 butterfly in 2:11.09, edging Czech freshman Katerina Matoskova, who was second in 2:11.51 to take over the No. 10 spot in program history.  Naze completed the sweep in 2:17.13.
 
Congdon (25.35) and Anderson (25.52) then complimented the 50 free sweep before the first intermission.
 
After the break, Lauren White became CMU's first double winner of the day as she took the 100 free win in 53.77 while Barjenbruch (52.49) and Bright (54.60) were just behind.  Sarah Fillerup was then a convincing winner in the 200 back as she touched first, with a clocking of 2:04.85.  Pressler (2:10.05) and Brown (2:10.95) took second and third, respectively.
 
Borgenheimer's record-setting swim was next as Dolloff-Holt (2:30.64) and Moreland (2:35.14) finished second and third, respectively.
 
Selin (500 free, 5:22.52), Payton (100 fly, 58.90) and the 400 free relay squad joined Borgenheimer as the unofficial victors of the events that CMU exhibitioned.  Anderson, Selin, Kelsea Wright and Congdon were on the "A" relay squad that posted a time of 3:36.21.
 
Payton, whose 100 fly time was a personal-best, then capped the day with a 200 fly time trial mark of 2:16.02 in her first competitive effort at that discipline.
 
Meanwhile, the Mavericks also scored maximum points in both diving events.  Returning all-American Ali Lange won the 1-meter with a 6-dive score of 248.18 points while Jolynn Harris (231.00) and freshman Marissa Stahl (218.70) finished second and third.
 
Harris then claimed the 3-meter win with a score of 258.98 points while Lange was second at 231.68.  Stahl finished third with 223.65 points.
 
The Mavericks will be in action again in just five days as they travel to Greeley for a Thursday matinee (2 p.m.) at Division I Northern Colorado.