INDIANAPOLIS— Runner-up finishes from Lily Borgenheimer and the 400-yard freestyle relay team of Ada Qunell, Ruby Bottai, Logan Anderson and Lauren White helped propel the Colorado Mesa University women's swimming and diving team to a program-best fourth place team finish and their first NCAA Division II National Championship team trophy on Saturday here at the Indiana University Natatorium.
 
The Mavericks also set a new program-record for points (325) as they bettered last year's fifth-place squad that had scored 241.
 
The CMU men also set a new program-record for national championship points (274 ½) and best finish (5^th) as Ben Sampson won his second individual national title of the week in the 200 backstroke.
 
Nova Southeastern won the women's title, the Sharks' first, with 536 ½ points while hometown Indianapolis took second with 488 ½.  Drury was third with 352 ½ while the Mavs were 88 ahead of fifth-place West Chester (237).
 
Borgenheimer, the defending champion in the 200-yard breaststroke, posted a time of two minutes, 11.83 seconds in that event on Saturday, but was out-touched by just four one-hundredths of a second in her title defense and what was the final swim of her legendary career.  However, Borgenheimer did earn her sixth overall CSCAA (College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America) All-America honor of the week. 
 
It was also the 21^st of her illustrious career, 18 of which have come at CMU over the last three years.  The Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin native and 2020/2021 U.S. Olympic Trials participant had won three at Minnesota State in the first two years of her collegiate career before transferring to CMU.
 
Meanwhile, the Maverick relay team matched Friday's 200 free relay squad for the best relay finish in program history as the quartet set a school-record time of 3:21.18 to cap the meet in fine form.  Qunell, a freshman from Whitefish, Montana, matched Sierra Forbord's 100 free school-record with a lead-off split of 50.25 seconds and earned her third First Team CSCAA All-America honor, which go to the top eight finishers in each event.
 
Qunell had also picked up a second team plaudit with a 11^th place finish in the 100 free earlier in the night.
 
Meanwhile, Bottai picked up her sixth career honor while Anderson, a fifth-year senior recorded her seventh with an impressive 50.07 flying start split in what was her final career swim.  White brought the Mavs home after placing 16^th in the 200 backstroke earlier in the evening.   The Golden, Colorado native recorded top-16  and all-America finishes in all seven of her events this week and now has 23 total all-America certificates to her credit, the most of any CMU student-athlete in all sport. 
 
The redshirt junior has a year of eligibility remaining.
 
Qunell had finished third in the 100 free consolation final with a time of 50.34 seconds while Bottai tied for 13^th in 50.72 seconds, matching White for third best time in school-history.  In the process, Bottai picked up her first career individual all-America honor in what could be her final meet .  The Tucson, Arizona product had also posted the same time in the morning preliminaries and like White, has a fifth year of eligibility remaining, but has previously indicated that she plans to graduate and forego that opportunity.
 
The Mavs also had two consolation finalists and point-scorers in the 200 back as Katerina Matoskova tied for 11^th in the 200 back with a time of 1:59.43, just off her morning time of 1:59.16.  The Czech earned five all-America honors this week and now has 11 in her career.
 
Meanwhile, White finished in 2:0198 after swimming to a time of 1:59.43 in the morning.
 
During the morning session, Amelia Kinnard capped her 3-time all-America career with a time of 17:15.51 in the 1650 freestyle, finishing 21^st overall.

Anderson also competed in the 100 free preliminaries, tying for 22^nd with a time of 51.16 seconds.  Olivia Hansson was also in that event and placed 37^th in 51.75 seconds.
 
In her NCAA Championship, debut sophomore Ellie Wilke took 28^th in the 200 breaststroke (2:21.88) while freshman Maddi Moran, a first team all-American in the 100 breast on Friday, took 30^th with a time of 2:22.84.
 
The Maverick women had earlier set a Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Championship team-scoring record of 1,325 points and won their fifth straight conference title.  They are the first RMAC team since former conference affiliate member Incarnate Word, now at the Division I ranks, to earn a NCAA Championship team trophy.  The Cardinals had finished fourth in 2013.