GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.— For the fourth straight time, the Colorado Mesa University swimming & diving teams, swept the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference titles.
 
They did it in record-setting fashion as the Mavericks completed their coronation as 2022 conference champions on Saturday night here in the El Pomar Natatorium.
 
The Maverick women won all five events contested on the final day and won all but two of the 21 throughout the 4-day meet, taking all five relays.  In the process, the Mavericks scored 1,323 ½ team points to shatter their own championship record of 1,171 ½ that they had scored in 2020.
 
They won by 548 over the Colorado School of Mines (775 ½) while Western Colorado and Oklahoma Christian tied for third with 508 points.  CSU Pueblo (277), Nebraska-Kearney (223) and Adams State (80) rounded out the field.
 
The CMU men, who have now won each of the last four and six overall RMAC titles since 2014, finished with 1,225 points to win by 350 ½ over Mines (874 ½).  Oklahoma Christian was third with 795 ½ while Adams State rounded out the 4-team standings with 166.
 
The Maverick men won 11 gold medals and racked up 35 top-3 finishes, seven more than the other three teams combined.  They won three of the six events on Saturday while OC claimed the other three.
 
The Mavericks also dominated the post-meet awards as Lily Borgenheimer was named as the RMAC Women's Swimmer of the Meet after winning her fourth individual and seventh overall conference title of the meet in the 200-yard breaststroke, doing so with a NCAA Division II lead-extending time.
 
Isaiah Cheeks was tabbed as the RMAC Men's Diver of the Meet after completing the diving sweep with a 3-meter victory on Saturday evening.  Meanwhile, CMU's Jolynn Harris and Ali Lange were named as the Co-Women's Divers of the Meet after splitting the two diving event wins during the meet.
 
The Mavericks also set five new school-record times during Saturday's action.
 
The first came in the opening race of the night as Amelia Kinnard destroyed the Maverick mark in the women's 1,650 free.  She posted a time of 17:10.16, nearly 20 seconds faster than the previous record of 17:29.99, held by Robyn Naze, who finished third in 17:37.65.
 
The Mavs then claimed the silver and bronze medals in the men's portion of the discipline as Gavin Anderson finished in 15:54.62 while Jacob Troescher was second in 15:58.71.  They were first and second in the evening heat but were just behind OC's Victor Rosado, the RMAC Men's Swimmer of the Meet.  Rosado had come in without a seed time but won the morning heat of the timed final event in 15:45.58.
 
Anderson moved up a spot to third in Maverick history with his time while Troescher, a true freshman, now ranks fifth in CMU history.
 
The Maverick women then dominated the 100 free as they claimed each of the top five places.  All five set NCAA Division II Championship provisional qualifying times.  Davy Brown led the way in 51.00 seconds to move into second on the Mavs' all-time performers chart.  Logan Anderson claimed the silver medal in 51.46 seconds and continues to sit sixth in CMU history.  Ruby Bottai earned the bronze in 51.77 seconds and cracked the top-10 of CMU history.  Kelsea Wright (51.87) and Izzy Powers (51.90) completed the sweep while Julie Day (52.58) also competed in the final, taking seventh.
 
The Maverick men also had a strong effort in the 100 free, putting four in the top six.  Mado Elkady led that group, setting a new school-record of 44.32 seconds (44.22-converted) to win the silver medal.  Kuba Kiszczak was fourth in 45.27 while Felipe D'Orsi (45.56) and Matheus Laperriere (45.55) finished fifth and sixth, respectively.
 
The Maverick women then claimed three of the top four places in the 200 back as Katerina Matoskova claimed her second individual and third overall title of the week in 2:00.67, moving up a spot to third in program-history.  Sarah Fillerup also set a career-best of 2:02.02 to claim the bronze medal while Lauren White finished fourth in 2:02.71.
 
The Maverick men then turned in a 1-2-3-4-5 sweep in the men's 200 back as Ben Sampson set a new RMAC Championship, pool and school-record time of 1:43.88.  The time was just under his own pool an school-record time of 1:43.91 (1:42.71-converted) that he had set at the A3 Performance Invitational and extended his NCAA Division II lead.  His time on Saturday was also nearly a second quicker than the 2015 RMAC meet record of 1:44.75, which had been held by Lindenwood's Krzysztof Jankiewicz.
 
Freshmen Jeremy Koch (1:49.28) and Andrew Scoggin (1:49.33) also set NCAA provisional qualifying times as did fourth place Lane Austin (1:50.40).  John Walgast, another freshman, was fifth in 1:51.65.
 
Borgenheimer then won the 200 breast in 2:11.74 (2:10.54-conveted), extending her national lead to 2.86 seconds.  Freshman teammate Ellie Wilke was second in an NCAA "B" cut time of 2:20.89 while Emily Moreland took seventh in 2:29.04.  Wilke moved up three spots to fifth in program history with the time.
 
The Maverick men also claimed two medals in the 200 breast as Mahmoud Elgayar finished second in 2:01.25 while Matt Barrett took third in 2:01.38.  OC's JT Amrein won in a RMAC Championship and pool record time of 1:56.42.
 
In diving, Cheeks won the 3-meter title with a national-leading 554.40 points while Noah Luna (503.20) and Tanner Belliston (493.00) earned the silver and bronze medals.  Cheeks and Belliston also hold down the first and second spots on the national performance lists in the 1-meter event, according to Swimcloud.
 
The Mavericks then capped the meet with a 400 free relay record-setting sweep.
 
The CMU women's contingent of  Anderson, White, Bottai and Brown finished in 3:23.92, edging the November, 2021 school and pool record of 3:23.93 by a single hundreth of a second.  The Maverick quartet won by 8.45 seconds and also sent well under the former RMAC Championship record of 3:24.37, set in 2018 by Oklahoma Baptist.
 
The Mavs' "B" team of Wright, Powers, Matoksova and Kinnard won the first section in 3:29.24 and finished night officially although they had the second fastest time.
 
The Maverick men then completed the record-setting action, taking the event in 2:57.62 (2:57.22-converted), well under their former school record of 2:58.24, set at last year's RMAC Championships.  Elkady, Kiszczak, D'Orsi and Austin were the swimmers.