GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.— Olympian
Harry Stacey and team captain
Andrew Scoggin both claimed two individual wins as the Maverick men's swimming & diving team swept the relays and diving events while taking 11 event wins overall in a dominant 203-97 victory over NCAA Division I Wyoming in an inter-divisional dual meet on Saturday afternoon here in the El Pomar Natatorium.
The 106-point victory was the Mavs' first ever dual triumph over the Cowboys.
Meanwhile, Wyoming's women claimed a 185-115 win over the Mavericks, who claimed four event wins. The CMU women also combined to set five NCAA Division II Championship qualifying swimming times while two divers set NCAA Championship qualifying marks.
The Maverick men had four divers set such marks as
Ty Mitton and
Wyatt Hermanson were amongst event winners. The Mavs also posted six NCAA provisional qualifying times in swimming events throughout the afternoon.
Stacey, making his collegiate debut after competing for Ghana at the 2024 Paris Olympics, won both the 50 and 100-yard freestyle events, setting a NCAA "B" cut time of 44.99 seconds in the latter. He also anchored the Mavs' winning 200 medley relay team to victory in 1:29.20 and capped the meet as the lead-off leg on the Mavs' 400 freestyle relay team that touched first in 3:00.55. Stacey posted a lead-off split of 44.87 seconds in that relay and now ranks eighth in CMU history in the 100 free. He won the 50 free in 20.45 seconds.
Meanwhile, Scoggin swept the backstroke events while teaming with
Forrest Frazier,
Kuba Kiszczak and Stacey to take the meet's opening 200 medley relay as the Mavericks men won the dual in wire-to-wire fashion.
Scoggin won the 100 Back in 49.14 seconds as junior teammate
Luka Samsonov took second in 50.65. Those two also went 1-2 in the 200 Back as Scoggin touched in 1:49.97 while Samsonov finished in 1:50.86.
The Mavs also went 1-2-3 in the 1000 Free, the first individual event of the day. Senior
Jacob Troescher led that sweep with a time of 9:35.29 (9:23.89-altitude adjusted) while freshman
Braden Felio also set a NCAA "B" Cut time of 9:38.84 (9:27.44-converted).
Gavyn Tatge took third in 9:43.42.
The Mavs also picked up two NCAA provisional qualifying times in the 200 Free as
Jameson McEnaney took second in 1:41.02 (1:39.82-converted) while German freshman
Richard Schmiedefeld was third in 1:41.13 (1:39.93-converted).
Dejan Urbanek and Felio also claimed later wins as Urbanek won the 200 Fly in a NCAA "B" cut time of 1:51.00 (1:49.80-converted) while Felio came back to win the 500 Free by three seconds in 4:40.43.
Other CMU highlights included a 1-2-3 finish in the 50 Free as Schmiedefeld (20.82) and McEnaney (21.02) finished behind Stacey. The Mavs were even better in the 100 Free as McEnaney was second in 45.52 seconds while
Marcos Otero took third in 46.42. Schmiedefeld touched fourth in 46.64 seconds.
Otero also took second in the 200 Breast with a time of 2:06.52 after
Max Ayres had taken second in the 100 Breast with a time of 56.62, just ahead of Frazier's third place time of 56.70.
Xander Zappas was second in the 100 Fly in 49.89 seconds while Urbanek was third in 50.06.
Lucas Viana also claimed a second place finish in the 200 IM, posting a time of 1:52.79 while Ayres took third in 1:55.46.
Stacey, Kiszczak, Otero and McEnaney won the 400 Free Relay while the Mavs' "B" squad took second in 3:03.37, nearly two seconds ahead of Wyoming's top team.
In diving, which was going on concurrently, Mitton won the 1-meter event with a score of 301.65 points as he and runner-up
Jax Juarros (299.03) both surpassed the NCAA qualifying standard of 285.00 points. Meanwhile, Hermanson won the 3-meter event with a score of 331.95 points as the Mavs took each of the top four places in that event.
David Roethlisberger (324.15), Mitton (314.85) and
Ryan Campbell (306.68) all went over the NCAA mark of 295.00 points as well in that event.
Meanwhile, women's divers
Kenya Meyer and
Jenna Hurley set NCAA marks. Meyer took second in the 3-meter event with a 6-dive score of 275.03 points, 10 points higher than the NCAA standard of 265. Hurley also had an exhibition 11-dive score of 429.00 points in the 1-meter discipline. Meyer also had a score of 395.03 points in that contest, again going over the NCAA 11-dive standard of 390 points.
In the women's swimming events,
Agata Naskret,
Kiara Borchardt and
Sophia Bains won individual events while Naskret,
Maddi Moran, Borchardt and
Ada Qunell combined for a winning time of 1:43.08 in the 200 medley relay.
Olivia Hansson also set a trio of NCAA provisional qualifying times in the 200, 500 and 1000 Free events while Qunell set such a time in the 200 Free.
Naskret also claimed such a time of 56.07 seconds to win the 100 Back before taking third in the 200 Back with a time of 2:04.79, just behind teammate
Katerina Matoskova's second place mark of 2:04.47.
Borchardt's win came in the 100 Fly as she touched in 57.20 seconds while Bains won a thrilling 200 IM in the next women's event, touching the wall in 2:08.16.
Earlier, Hansson finished the 1000 Free in 10:29.10 (10:17.70-converted) to take second place and then came back to set another NCAA "B" Cut time of 1:53.80 (1:52.60-converted) in the 200 Free taking fourth, one place behind Qunell, who had a NCAA mark of 1:53.75 (1:52.55-converted).
Elsewhere, Moran finished second in the 100 Breast with a time of 1:05.09 before Qunell took second in the 100 Free with a time of 52.27 seconds. Moran also took second in the 200 Breast, finishing that event in 2:23.30 before Hansson claimed her third NCAA "B" cut mark of 5:06.20 (5:01.20-converted) in the 500 Free.
Qunell,
Elli Williams,
Kendyll Wilkinson and Hansson then capped the meet with a second place time of 3:28.07 in the 400 Free Relay.
The Mavericks will contest duals next Saturday as well splitting their squad for road trips to Colorado's front range against more Division I squads. The CMU men will compete at Denver while the women will head to Fort Collins to take on Colorado State.