GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.— The Colorado Mesa University Maverick swimming and diving teams successfully defended their Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference team titles on Saturday night here at the El Pomar Natatorium.
 
The Maverick women won their second straight and second overall title, their first at home, with a RMAC Championship record 1,171 ½ points while the men won their fourth title in program history, including their second straight and third in the last four years with 1,166.
 
The Mavericks led after each night of the 4-day meet, which began on Wednesday and extended their final margins of victory to 419 ½ points on the women's side and 311 ½ on the men's over runner-up Colorado School of Mines.
 
CMU claimed five more event wins on Saturday evening and took home 25 of 44 throughout the meet.
 
The Mavs also claimed many of the post-meet awards. 
 
Senior diver Ammar Hassan was named as the RMAC Diver of the Meet and Diver of the Year after he completed a weekend sweep on Saturday, taking Saturday's 3-meter title with 597.00 points as the Mavericks swept the top six places to help put an exclamation point on the men's title.
 
Meanwhile, Torsten Rau was named as the RMAC Swimmer of the Meet after scoring a week-high 72 team points.  He won the 1,650-yard freestyle on Saturday evening in 16 minutes, 3.02 seconds after taking the 500 and 1,000-yard events earlier in the week.  Mahmoud Elgayar was named as the RMAC Swimmer of the Year while Maverick head coach Mickey Wender was named as the Men's Co-Coach of the Year.
 
Meanwhile, Brittany Dixon was named as both RMAC Women's Diver of the Meet and the Year.
 
The future also looks bright for the Mavericks as Davy Brown was tabbed as the RMAC Women's Freshman of the Year after scoring 68 team points in her four individual events, tied for second most in the entire meet.  Felipe D'Orsi was the Men's Co-Freshman of the Year, aided by a strong third place finish in Saturday night's 100-yard freestyle, part of his 49-team point haul.
 
Saturday night's festivities began with the women's 1,650 free as Isabelle Hansson and Robyn Naze finished third and fourth less than a second apart with the two fastest (altitude-adjusted) times in program history.  Hansson set the school-record with a mark of 17:35.00 (17:15.00-altitude adjusted) while Naze, the former record holder, touched in 17:35.79.  Both were NCAA provisional qualifying times.
 
Rau then led three Maverick scorers in the men's event as he finished in 16:03.02.  Logan Ellis finished fourth in 16:25.74 while Jackson Wuthrich took ninth in 16:55.90.
 
The Mavericks then went 1-2-3 in the women's 100 freestyle as freshman Bret Congdon completed a sprint freestyle double in 51.33 seconds, a NCAA provisional qualifying time.   She had won the 50 free earlier in the week. 
 
Maddie Pressler also set a "B" cut time of 52.06 seconds to take the silver while Noel Scott earned the bronze with a time of 52.34 seconds.  Natalie Saul was also in the final and took seventh in 52.82.
 
D'Orsi then earned the bronze in the men's race with a time of 45.69 seconds while Justin Fell touched seventh in 46.09.  The Mavericks also had four consolation finalists.
 
The Maverick women then had another strong 1-3-6 finish in the 200 backstroke as freshman Lauren White touched first in 2:00.64 while Brown took third in 2:02.37, which was also a NCAA provisional qualifying time.  Grace Payton took sixth in 2:07.37.
 
The Mavericks men also scored big points as Jake Simmons (1:49.87), Lane Austin (1:49.98) and Nico Tscherner (1:50.50) all set NCAA marks to finish second, third and fourth, respectively.  Rau also took seventh in 1:53.16, less than an hour after his freestyle victory.
 
The Maverick women then clinched their team-scoring record as senior Samantha White finished second in 2:18.86.  Those 18 points put the Mavericks over the former mark of 1,092, which had been set by Cal Baptist in 2014.  Meanwhile, Olivia DeRemer took eighth in 2:25.33 after three Mavericks scored in the consolation heat.
 
Meanwhile, Matthew Barrett also placed second in the men's 200-yard breaststroke, touching in 2:03.65.  Ethan Fox was fifth in 2:05.61.
 
In diving, Hassan broke his own pool record by nearly 14 points while Noah Macomber (553.70) and Isaiah Cheeks (495.55) earned the other medals.  Noah Luna (494.70) and Tanner Belliston (464.80) also set NCAA qualifying scores while Chandler Livingston completed the 1-6 sweep with 459.95 points.
 
The Maverick women then fittingly swept the 400 freestyle relay wins as Lauren White, Congdon, Noel Scott and Pressler won the "A" heat in 3:26.79 after Sam White, Brown, Saul and Kennedy Bright won the "B" heat with 3:31.94.
 
The Maverick men took second as Austin, Elgayar, D'Orsi and Fell combined for a time of 3:01.78 after Noah Beaver, Noah Vallee, George Durin and Simmons won the "B" heat in 3:04.04.