GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.— The Colorado Mesa University Maverick swimming and diving teams combined for eight more event wins while setting a multitude of pool, school and Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Championship records as they extended already massive team-scoring leads after Friday, the third of four days of the meet, which CMU is hosting through Saturday here in the El Pomar Natatorium.
 
The Maverick women won five of the six events contested on Friday, going 1-2-3 in three of them, surging past the 1,000-point mark in total.  With 1,020 ½ points through 16 events, the Mavs are well on pace to obliterate the RMAC team-scoring record of 1,171 ½, that they had set in 2020.
 
The Maverick women have won 14 events thus far and led by 431 points over the Colorado School of Mines with just five to go towards a likely fourth straight title.  They Mavs have now eclipsed the 1,000 point mark for the fourth straight year and are now the first RMAC team to ever reach quadruple digits with a day of the meet still remaining.
 
The Maverick men, who are also gunning for a fourth straight and sixth overall team title, also claimed three more wins on Friday, their seventh, eighth and ninth out of the 15 contested thus far.  They have scored 891 points and lead by 232 ½ over Mines.
 
In addition to the gold medal haul, the records were coming off the board fast and furious during an intense and thrilling day and night of racing and diving.
 
In the morning preliminary session, Maverick swimmers Amelia Kinnard, Lauren White and Ben Sampson all set records.
 
Kinnard wasted little time as she took down the CMU record in the day-starting 500-yard free becoming the first Maverick to ever complete a race in under five minutes (4:59.42).  However, Kinnard's record would stand for just a matter of hours as teammate Katerina Matoskova out-dueled her in the finals, cruising to a time of 4:56.77 (4:51.77-converted).  Kinnard touched second in 4:59.78 while Kelsea Wright completed the Mavs' first 1-2-3 sweep of the night in 5:02.67.
 
Robyn Naze also finished fifth in 5:10.06 while Ruby Bottai claimed the first race win of the evening, winning the consolation final in 5:11.16.
 
The Maverick men also had four in the championship final as freshman Kuba Kiszczak led the charge with a third place time of 4:33.15 to move into fourth place on CMU's all-time charts.  Gavin Anderson finished fourth in 4:34.15 and now ranks sixth in CMU history while freshman Jacob Troescher finished fifth in 4:37.76.  All three also set NCAA Division II Championship provisional qualifying times as did Kinnard, Matoskova, Wright and Naze in the women's final.
 
Matheus Laperriere also finished eighth for the Mavs in 4:46.57.
 
The Maverick women then continued their domination in the 100 back as they went 1-2-3-5.  Lauren White took the title in 55.08 seconds after shaving a hundredth of a second off her own school-record in the preliminaries with a time of 55.01. 
 
Meanwhile, Matoskova (55.92) came back just minutes later after her 500 free record swim, to take second in 55.92 while Davy Brown (56.17) finished third.  They now rank fifth and sixth in program history with the NCAA provisional qualifying times.  Sarah Fillerup, who ranks fourth, also made the final, touching fifth in 57.39 seconds after finishing the preliminaries in 56.65.
 
The Maverick men then got into the podium-sweeping action as Sampson claimed his tenth career RMAC title in 47.44 seconds after setting a new RMAC Championship record of 47.31 in the morning preliminaries.  Lane Austin was second in 48.14 while freshman Andrew Scoggin joined the sweep with another NCAA qualifying time of 48.21.  Fellow freshman John Walgast (49.95) and Jeremy Koch (50.18) were also in the final and finished fifth and seventh, respectively.
 
The Mavericks continued to roll in the women's 100 breast as Lily Borgenheimer had yet another record-setting swim.  She broke the RMAC Championship and El Pomar Natatorium records while bettering her own Maverick mark in 1:01.75 (1:01.65-converted), while winning by 2.19 seconds.
 
Teammate Emily Moreland, honored before the evening session as the RMAC's Summit Award Winner, claimed the bronze medal, the first of her career, in 1:05.37.  Julie Day (1:05.84) and Ellie Wilke (1:05.99) also had solid efforts to finish fifth and sixth, respectively.
 
Day had finished the morning prelims in 1:05.69 and moved up a spot to eighth in program history while Wilke cracked the Mavs' all-time top 10 with a morning time of 1:05.90.
 
Borgenheimer had set a RMAC Championship, pool and school-record of 2:00.40 in Wednesday's 200 IM and then obliterated the Mavs' 400 IM standard, winning that discipline in 4:20.57 on Thursday.
 
Her 100 breast time on Friday was 0.32 seconds faster than her own Maverick record and bettered the 8-year old pool record of Utah's Stina Colleou by a quarter of a second.  Borgeneheimer also broke the former RMAC record of 1:02.20, that was owned by Cal Baptist's Alena Rumiantceva for five years.
 
The Maverick men also had three of the top five finishers in the 100 breast as Mahmoud Elgayar took second in 54.50 while seeing his pool record go down thanks to Oklahoma Christian's JT Amrein, who won the event in 53.14 seconds, also a new RMAC Championship record.
 
Elgayar than turned in an even better NCAA provisional qualifying time of 54.33 (54.23-converted) in a time trial at the end of the night.
 
Meanwhile, teammate Matt Barrett finished fourth in 54.86 seconds, also good for an NCAA "B" cut, while George Durin tied for fifth after finishing in a career-best 55.95 seconds.
 
Action then moved to the 200 fly as Bella Walters claimed third in 2:09.10 while Naze was fifth in 2:10.76. 
 
Maverick freshman Dejan Urbanek then claimed his second individual butterfly win of the week, leading wire-to-wire to take the men's title in a career-best and improved NCAA provisional qualifying time of 1:47.21 (1:47.11-converted).  He had also claimed the 100 fly win on Thursday. 
 
Meanwhile, Jake Simmons finished third in another NCAA "B" cut and career-best 1:50.28 while Treven Wertz finished seventh in 1:55.02.
 
Attention then turned to the diving well as the Mavericks took the top four and five of the top six places in the women's 1-meter competition.  Ali Lange led the charge setting a RMAC Championship record of 466.95 points, bettering the 2019 mark of 461.55, which had been set by her former teammate Brittany Dixon.  Wednesday's 3-meter champion Jolynn Harris was second with 454.05 points while Kyra Apodaca finished third with 441.25 points to grab her second bronze medal of the week.
 
Freshman Marissa Stahl also had the best day of her career, scoring 435.45 points to finish fourth while joining her three aforementioned teammates as national qualifiers.  Fellow freshman Carrie Mayer finished sixth with 373.95 points.
 
The Maverick women then posted yet another record-setting time as they dominated the 800 free relay, touching in 7:28.37 to break the former pool record of 7:29.22, set at the A3 Performance Invitational in November.  White, Wright, Matoskova and Borgenheimer also broke the CMU record, set just three months ago, with a converted time of 7:23.57.
 
The Mavs' "B" team had also won their section of the event at the end of the morning session in 7:47.10.
 
Meanwhile, the Maverick men joined the women as NCAA qualifiers, taking second in the final scored race of the night.  Kiszczak, Sampson, Walgast and Laperriere combined for a time of 6:40.07.  The Mavs also won the "B" heat in 6:54.93.
 
Saturday's fourth and final day begins with preliminary swimming heats in the 100 free, 200 back, 200 breast and 1,650 free at 9 a.m.  Men's 3-meter diving preliminaries begin at 1 p.m. while the finals session will commence at 5 p.m.