INDIANAPOLIS— The Colorado Mesa University 800-yard freestyle teams both recorded top five finishes while the men smashed their school record on Tuesday, the opening night of the NCAA Division II National Championships which got underway here at the Indiana University Natatorium.
 
The Maverick women's quartet of freshman Ada Qunell, redshirt junior Lauren White, redshirt sophomore Katerina Matoskova and freshman Olivia Hansson finished fourth in seven minutes, 18.46 seconds before the men's unit of redshirt sophomore Ben Sampson, redshirt sophomore Kuba Kiszczak, true sophomore Dejan Urbanek and redshirt junior Matheus Laperriere placed fifth with a school-record smashing time of 6:25.73, well under the Mavs' month-old altitude-adjusted school record time of 6:28.81 that the same four men posted in a different order to take second at the RMAC Championships.
 
All eight Maverick swimmers from Tuesday's earn CSCAA (College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America) First Team All-America honors with the efforts, accolades that go to the top eight finishing teams or individuals in each event.  Second team honors go to the ninth through 16^th place finishers.
 
Qunell and Hansson picked up their first honors in what was their first national championship swim.  White added to her CMU all-sports record tally and now has 17 total all-America honors to her credit while Matoskova earned her seventh.
 
Sampson now has eight career honors while Urbanek has five.  Laperriere has four while Kiszczak now has three.
 
The CMU women have now finished inside the top eight in the 800 free relay in each of the last three years.  They and the CMU men both finished third in that event last year.
 
The Maverick women are also in fourth place of the team standings through one event with 30 points while the men are in fifth with 28.
 
Nova Southeastern won the women's race with a meet-record time of 7:13.65 while McKendree's men edged Tampa by six one-hundredths of a second to take the men's title in 6:22.46.
 
Wednesday's portion of the meet will begin at 10 a.m. Eastern (8 a.m. Mountain) with preliminary heats in the 200 individual medley and 50 freestyle events as well as the slower sections of the 1,000 free.  The women's 1-meter diving preliminaries will begin at 1 p.m. Eastern (11 a.m. Mountain) while the finals in all of those events plus the 200 medley relay will begin at 6 p.m. Eastern (4 p.m. Mountain).
 
The Mavs will have representation in all nine of the Day 2 events.