COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.— Led by now 3-time NCAA Division II Men's Diver of the Year Ammar Hassan, the Colorado Mesa University Mavericks had 13 athletes selected as all-Americans by the College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America this week.  Those athletes earned a combined 44 honors, including 15 first team and 29 second team plaudits.
 
Hassan swept both the 1 and 3-meter titles at last week's NCAA Division II National Championships in Birmingham, Alabama for the third time and became the first ever 6-time NCAA Division II national diving champion.  He is also now the CSCAA's first three-year national diver of the year for any division since Purdue's David Boudia who the Division I award in 2009, 2010 and 2011.
 
The various Coach, Swimmer and Diver of the year honors was bestowed after a nationwide vote of CSCAA member Division II head coached and head diving coaches.  One additional vote was determined by the public via online polling.
 
The CSCAA All-America honors were primarily based upon individual finishes at the national championships.  The top eight finishers in each event were named as first team all-Americans while ninth-16^th place finishers received second team honors.  Additionally, any swimmer who met the CSCAA's  high automatic time standards could receive first team honors.  See https://www.cscaa.org/news/20201123/all-america-criteria-adjusted-for-2021 for those details.
 
The Maverick women who finished 12^th as a team in last week's meet, their highest ever national finish, had seven athletes earn 32 total all-America honors.  Lily Borgenheimer, Elsa Huebsch and Lauren White all received six total honors while Kelsea Wright was a 5-event honoree as a member of all five Maverick relays.  Katerina Matoskova (4) and Robyn Naze (3) were also multiple award-winners as was diver Jolynn Harris, who received first team honors on the 1-meter after a national runner-up finish and a second team honoree on the 3-meter.
 
The Maverick men matched their program record with an 11^th place national finish and had six all-America honorees, including four divers, who received a dozen combined all-America certificates.  Hassan and Tanner Belliston were first team selections on both boards while Isaiah Cheeks and Chandler Livingston both nabbed a first team and second team plaudit.
 
Junior swimmer Mahmoud Elgayar also received honors in three events, including a first team recognition in the 100-yard breaststroke.  Matheus Laperreire was also a second team honoree in the 200 Freestyle.