INDIANAPOLIS— The Colorado Mesa University swimming and diving teams racked up 19 more all-America honors as Isaiah Cheeks and Ben Sampson placed third while Lily Borgenheimer added a fourth place finish to lead the Mavericks in Day 3 action at the NCAA Division II Championships here at the Indiana University Natatorium.
 
Those finished helped the Mavericks maintain their fourth place (women's) and fifth place (men's) positions in the team standings as the meet nears the mid-way point in terms of events.
 
The Maverick men now have 156 ½ points through ten events while the women have 150 with 11 more events for each gender to be decided over the next two days.
 
On Thursday evening, Sampson posted a time of three minutes, 45.98 seconds to place the third in the 400-yard individual medley.  That time was the fastest actual time in program history but just off his altitude-adjusted school-record of 3:45.23.  Sampson was trying to duplicate his Wednesday night win in the 200-yard version of the discipline and later added to his now 12 career all-America honor tally as the lead-off leg on the Mavs' 400 medley relay team that set a season-best time of 3:12.60 to place ninth.
 
Sampson has already racked up five honors this week and is the top overall seed in his two remaining events, the 100 and 200 back.
 
Meanwhile, Cheeks was trying to duplicate his 2022 national title in the 3-meter diving event.  He led the field after the preliminary rounds with a score of 555.35 points but slipped to third as the University of Indianapolis' Julio Osuna Kelly and Jason Lenzo turned in phenomenal final round scores to pass Cheeks.  Osuna Kelly took the win with 579.50 points while Lenzo was second with 548.00.  Cheeks took third with 527.10 and is now a 5-time all-American.
 
Teammate Dawson Wilson also earned his first all-America honor after reaching the championship final and placing eight with 428.10 points.  He had scored 436.80 points in the preliminaries.  Fellow freshman Wyatt Hermanson also picked up a second team all-America honor with a tenth place finish.  He scored 451.25 points in the consolation final, 24.25 more than in the preliminary round. 
 
Josh Thomas finished 17^th with 395 points, just missing the consolation final.
 
The Maverick men also received a 12^th place finish from now 3-time second team all-American Kyle Benjamin in the 400-yard IM.  He turned in a time of 3:53.68.
 
Matheus Laperriere then added a tenth place finish in the 200 free as he touched in 1:36.96.  He is now a 5-time all-American.
 
Sampson, Mahmoud Elgayar, Dejan Urbanek and Mado Elkady then capped the night in the medley relay and were swimming in the middle of three heats.  They were also seeded ninth as each relay member earned Second Team CSCAA All-America honors for the effort.  Elgayar now has 15 in his career while Urbanek has seven.  Elkady picked up his second.
 
Meanwhile, the Maverick women got their first team point of the evening from freshman Kiara Borchardt, who placed 16^th in the 100 fly with a time of 55.61 seconds, the same exact mark she set in the morning preliminaries.  She also added her third all-America honor of the week in the 400 medley relay as the Mavs placed sixth in 3:43.31.
 
The Mavs' best event of the night was the 400 IM as Borgenheimer placed fourth in 4:19.48, also the fastest actual time in school-history but off her altitude-adjusted school-record time of 4:15.57. 
 
Sophomore Sophia Baines was also in the championship final and posted a time of 4:20.83, just off her altitude-adjusted career-best of 4:20.67, to place sixth.
 
Borgenheimer, who was also on the medley relay team, now has four all-America honors this week and 16 in the CMU portion of her career and 19 overall.  Baines nabbed her first career honor.
 
The Mavs also had two women in the consolation final of the 200 free.  Katerina Matoskova won the heat to place ninth in 1:48.74, just off her altitude-adjusted school-record of 1:48.67.  Lauren White finished 16^th in 1:52.12 but added to her CMU record total of overall all-America honors with her 19th, before adding her 20th as the lead-off backstroke leg on the medley relay.  Matoskova picked up her eighth.
 
The relay squad of White, Borgenheimer, Borchardt and fifth-year senior Logan Anderson then capped the night as Anderson picked up her fifth career overall relay All-America honor.  Thursday's effort was her initial first team accolade.
 
Action continues on Friday at 10 a.m. Eastern (8 a.m. Mountain) with preliminary round action in the 500 free, 100 back, 100 breast and 200 fly swimming events as well as the women's 3-meter diving discipline, held three hours later at 1 p.m. Eastern (11 a.m. Mountain).  The finals session will once again begin at 6 p.m. Eastern (4 p.m. Mountain) and will be capped by the 200 free relay.
 
The Mavericks will be represented in ten of the 11 total events on Friday.