BIRMINGHAM, Ala.— Colorado Mesa University senior Ammar Hassan remained unbeaten in NCAA Division II Championship competition as he won his fifth career national title while leading a 1-4-5-7 Maverick finish in the men's 3-meter competition on Thursday here at the Birmingham CrossPlex.
 
Meanwhile, Jolynn Harris finished second in the 1-meter women's competition as the CMU divers led a successful Maverick charge on a jam-packed second day of the NCAA Division II Swimming & Diving Championships.
 
Hassan, who won his third national 3-meter crown in as many opportunities after that and most events were canceled during last year's COVID-19 related effected championships, scored 560.95 points to win by nearly 40.  Isaiah Cheeks took fourth with 501.30 while Chandler Livingston finished fifth with 496.85.  Tanner Belliston rounded out the Mavericks' 61-team point haul in the event with 479.00 points to lead the Maverick men to tenth place in the team standings with 65 points at the mid-way point of the meet.
 
Meanwhile, Harris and fifth place 200-yard freestyle finisher Lauren White, paced the Mavericks women to a 12^th place standing with 76 points through ten women's events.
 
Thursday's action begin with a morning finals session of first day swimming events that were not able to be completed due to Wednesday tornado and severe weather warnings that forced the closure of the facility.
 
In that session, Lily Borgenheimer finished 13^th in the women's 200 IM with a time of 2:03.99 before Mahmoud Elgayar took 15th in the men's event, touching in 1:49.23.  Robyn Naze, who had set a school-record in earlier heats of the 1000 free on Wednesday morning, also held on to a 14^th place overall finish to join the team-scoring party after only six of the top eight seeds, who swam Thursday, beat her time of 10:13.91.
 
The Mavericks' women's 200 medley relay team of Elsa Huebsch, Borgenheimer, Kelsea Wright and White then finished tenth in 1:43.07 breaking the month-old school-record of 1:43.61 that Huebsch, Borgenheimer, Noel Scott and Logan Anderson had set to win the RMAC Championships.  Huebsch also set a 50 back record with a 25.87-second leadoff split.
 
In the afternoon, the divers then contested an 11-dive final without preliminaries.  Harris turned in the highest national championship women's diving finish in CMU history as she scored 448.30 points, falling just 0.05 shy of a national title of her own, which Grand Valley State's Graycn Segard did with a score of 448.35 points.
 
That set the stage for Hassan and the Maverick men on a 3-meter, which was also contested as an 11-dive final with all 16 qualifiers.
 
The normal second day swimming events of the 100 Fly, 400 IM, 200 Free were the held in an evening session, bookended by the 200 free and 400 medley relays.  All of those events were contested as timed finals.
 
In the women's 200 free relay, Huebsch, Wright, Katerina Matoskova and Robyn Naze finished 11^th in 1:37.03.
 
The Mavericks then had three women in the 200 free as White placed fifth in 1:49.72, just off her school-record qualifying time of 1:49.58.  Wright just missed out on the team points placing 18^th in 1:51.20 while Matoskova tied for 22^nd at 1:51.50, a slight improvement over her seed time of 1:51.59.
 
Meanwhile, Matheus Laperreire took 15^th in the men's half of the event in a time of 1:38.25.
 
The women's 400 medley relay team of Huebsch, Borgenheimer, Wright and White then closed out the day with a time of 3:44.88, just a second off the Maverick record, to place 11^th.  Huebsch turned in a personal-best 100 back leadoff split of 55.38 seconds to move up a spot to third in CMU history for that discipline.
 
Now back on schedule, Friday's portion of the meet will begin with a 10 a.m. CDT (9 a.m. Mountain) trials session in the 500 free, 100 Back, 100 Breast and 200 Fly.  The women's divers will also compete on the 3-meter preliminaries before the finals will be contested as part of the evening session, which will also feature the 800 Free Relay at 6 p.m. CDT (5 p.m. Mountain).