GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.— Colorado Mesa University backstroke and individual medley specialists Ben Sampson, Benedict Nagy and Agata Naskret posted some incredible times to highlight what was, without a doubt, the fastest night of swimming in the history of the El Pomar Natatorium on Friday night during the TYR/CMU Invitational, a 4-day event that will wrap-up on Saturday.
 
The three aforementioned Mavericks combined for four individual NCAA Division II leading times, all of which were pool, school and meet-record smashing marks.
 
Sampson and Naskret also led off the Maverick 400 medley relay teams to the same accomplishments as the Mavericks won eight more events throughout the night, which also included three other pool and meet-record setting performances from the other teams in the swimming pool and a school, pool and meet-record diving score from Maverick standout Isaiah Cheeks on the 3-meter board.
 
In total, 12 new pool records were set in the 14 events contested throughout the day, which in the end saw both Maverick squads extend their team-scoring leads.
 
The Maverick men now have 1,130 ½ points and are outscoring the second and third place teams combined.  Wyoming has 497 points while the Colorado School of Mines has 490 to stand third in the 5-team field.  The Maverick women also extended their lead to 149 points (821-672) over Wyoming.  Northern Arizona is third with 538 in the 7-team field.
 
Nagy started a run of five consecutive pool records as the graduate transfer from Division I Nevada, where she won the last three Mountain West Conference titles in the 400-yard individual medley, cruised to a time of four minutes, 16.96 seconds to win that event by 7.71 seconds over Wyoming's Heidi Billings.  Nagy's mark went well under the 12-year old pool record of 4:20.02, set during the 2011 RMAC Championships by Incarnate Word's Casey Hurrell-Zitleman.
 
Nagy, who had also set a meet-record time of 4:20.83 in the prelims, also set a new Maverick standard of 4:11.96 with the altitude conversion, breaking the former mark of 4:15.57, previously held by Lily Borgenheimer by a wide margin while taking the national performance led by 12 seconds, pending other results from around the country not yet posted.
 
Sampson was even more impressive in the men's 400 IM, posting a time of 3:45.20, breaking his own, school, pool and meet records by more than five seconds.  Even without the altitude adjustment, his time is the third fastest in NCAA Division II history and is 2.29 seconds quicker than the national record when taking the 5-second altitude conversion into account.  His converted time of 3:40.20 extended his Division II seasonal performers lead to more than 16 seconds and ranks him second in all of collegiate swimming, according to Swimcloud.
 
The Mavs also had four other NCAA "B" cut performers in the 100 back.
 
Wyoming's Tara Joyce then set a pool record time of 1:48.21 in the women's 200 free before her Cowboy teammate Quinn Cynor took the men's event in a El Pomar Natatorium record time 1:35.60, ahead of CMU's Aziz Ghaffari, who led four Maverick NCAA Division II championship provisional qualifiers in the discipline.
 
Wyoming's Carly Palmer then continued the record-setting run, taking the 100 breaststroke in 1:00.87 as the Cowgirls took the top four spots in the event.
 
The Mavericks then returned to winning ways as Mauricio Posadas claimed the men's 100 breast in 54.97 seconds while freshman teammate Max Ayres was third in 55.33.  Both set NCAA "B" cut times as Posados improved his No. 4 position in CMU history while Ayres moved into the fifth spot in Maverick lore.  Aron Jonsson and Marcos Otero also qualified for the finals and took over the sixth and eighth spots in CMU history.
 
Naskret then led a Maverick 1-2-3 sweep in the women's 100 backstroke as she broke the Maverick school-record while taking down Cal Baptist's Mary Hanson's pool record time of 54.26 by a considerable margin with a time of 53.59 seconds, only to go even faster during the medley relay.  Lauren White, the former Maverick record holder, was second in 54.14 seconds as she and Katerina Matoskova both set NCAA "B" cut times.
 
Maverick junior Andrew Scoggin then won the men's 100 back in 47.60 seconds after going slightly faster (47.53/47.43-converted) during the morning preliminary session to move into second place on the Mavs' all-time chart behind Sampson while setting a highly-ranked NCAA "B" cut time.
 
The swimmers then took a break as Cheeks broke Ammar Hassan's meet and pool records with a score of 608.80 points in the 3-meter diving event.  Both men have combined to win four previous NCAA Division II National Championships in that discipline.
 
All six Maverick men set NCAA Pre-Championship qualifying scores on the day while Kenya Meyer (455.95) led five Maverick women who set similar marks in the women's 1-meter competition, which included finals earlier in the afternoon.
 
Action then returned to the pool as the Maverick women's quartet of Naskret, Maddi Moran, Kiara Borchardt and Ada Qunell combined for a pool record-smashing time of 3:39.83 (3:39.43-altitude adjusted), breaking last year's meet-record mark of 3:42.09 and the Maverick record of 3:42.52.
 
Naskret also posted a 100 back lead-off split of 53.06 seconds, lowering her own hour-old records while moving into the No. 7 spot of NCAA Division II history while taking over this year's national lead by nearly two seconds with her converted time of 52.96.
 
Meanwhile, Sampson went on to post a school, pool and meet record time of 45.90 (45.80-converted) as the lead-off leg on the men's relay team that touched in 3:11.23 (3:10.83-converted) to lead Division II by 3.41 seconds.  Posadas, Dejan Urbanek and Ghaffari also swam impressive legs while Sampson moved into a tie for fourth on the NCAA Division II all-time performers list, which would rank him second if the altitude conversion was factored in.