COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.— The Colorado Mesa University men's swimming & diving team was a unanimous choice to win a seventh straight Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Championship, according to the conference's preaseason coaches poll which was released on Tuesday.
 
The Mavericks, who have won each of the last six titles, claimed all five possible first place votes and topped the poll with 25 points.
 
The Colorado School of Mines, which finished second at the 2024 RMAC Championships, and Oklahoma Christian, which finished third in 2024 after taking second in 2023, were tied for second in the poll with 18 points.  Mines received the other first place vote as the league's six head coaches ranked their opposition 1-5 without voting for their own team.
 
Simon Fraser was fourth in the poll with 15 points with UT Permian Basin coming in fifth with eight.  Adams State rounded out the poll with six points.
 
The RMAC will announce the results of the women's swimming and diving poll on Wednesday.
 
The Mavericks and sixth-year head coach Mickey Wender have 11 men on their 2024-25 roster, who have earned CSCAA All-America honors in previous years and are coming off a 2023-24 season that saw them finish fifth at the NCAA Division II National Championships for the second straight year.
 
The Mavs began their season on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 hosting the Intermountain Shootout where they faced off with NCAA Division I and Big 12 Conference foes BYU and Utah.  They will host another Division I foe in Wyoming next Saturday (Oct. 26) and will once again play host to the RMAC Championships in the El Pomar Natatorium from Feb. 11-15.