GENEVA, Ohio— The Colorado Mesa University Mavericks continued to enjoy the sweet melodic sounds of victory as they swept the men's and women's individual medley events for the second straight evening.  They then went one better, also claiming the women's medley relay on a stellar Thursday night of action at the NCAA Division II Swimming & Diving Championships here at the SPIRE Institute.
 
After sweeping the national 200-yard individual medley titles on Wednesday night, Benedict Nagy and Ben Sampson were able to repeat their success over 400 yards before the all-sophomore squad of Agata Naskret, Maddi Moran, Kiara Borchardt and Ada Qunell harmonized to a 400-yard medley relay win as the Mavericks were able to win three titles on the same evening for the first time in program history.
 
The relay win is also the Mavs' first in program history while Nagy and Sampson set new program-records, both in terms of titles and times.
 
Nagy, a graduate transfer from Nevada, where she qualified for the NCAA Division I Championships in 2023, broke her own month-long school-record as she dominated the field in the women's 400-yard individual medley, touching in four minutes, 10.40 seconds to win by 4.65 while becoming the second fastest Division II swimmer of all-time.  In the process, she also broke her own altitude-adjusted school-record time of 4:11.00 from last month's RMAC Championships.
 
Sampson then broke the NCAA Championship and all-time Division II record in the men's portion of the event, touching in 3:40.22.  He needed every inch of his 6-foot-1 frame, out-touching the University of Indianapolis' Cedric Buessing by a single one-hundredth of a second.
 
Nagy is now the first Maverick woman in any sport to win two NCAA individual titles while Sampson has now claimed four as the most decorated Maverick swimmer of all-time.  Only former CMU diver Ammar Hassan has won more crowns in any sport, winning six straight from 2018-21.
 
After Thursday's diving break, Naskret, Moran, Borchardt and Qunell combined to win the medley relay in 3:38.52 as the Mavericks dethroned 2-time defending champion Nova Southeastern by just 0.46 seconds while also going well under their former CMU record time of 3:39.43 (altitude-adjusted).
 
That win, worth 40 team points, also kept the Mavericks within striking distance of the Sharks, who lead the team standings in search of a repeat team title with 278 points.  Drury is second with 227 ½ while the Mavs now have 211 ½.
 
Sampson then later came back to help the Maverick men's 400 medley relay team to a seventh place finish and school-record time of 3:10.31 as CMU now sits fifth in the men's team standings with 135 points.
 
The Mavs got Thursday evening's session off to a hot start as Borchardt won the consolation final of the 100-yard butterfly in 54.54 seconds to place ninth overall while contributing nine team points.
 
Nagy, and Sophia Bains, who took seventh in 4:21.20, then contributed 32 more points in the 400 IM.  Bains is now a 2-time first team all-American in the event after taking sixth last year.
 
Nagy was the top seed coming into the meet and qualified first in the morning session while Bains smashed her personal-best to qualify third in 4:18.67 after coming into the meet ranked ninth.
 
Nagy then had the fastest split on each of the first three strokes of the individual medley, turning in a 100 fly split of 56.73 seconds to take the early lead before extending her lead with a 1:01.34 backstroke split.  The Reno, Nevada native then continued to extend her lead with a 1:11.82 breaststroke leg before brining home the title with a 29.84 and 29.64-second freestyle laps.

Sampson, the top seed coming into the meet by 3.58 seconds, saw Buessing, the 2023 1,000 freestyle champion and 3-event runner-up qualify first in the morning prelims.
 
Sampson then had a battle with the Greyhound throughout the final.  He got out to a two tenth lead over Tampa's Santiago Corredor, the 2023 national  400 IM champion, with a 50.65 butterfly split before Buessing moved into second, just 0.70 seconds behind after the backstroke, which is Sampson's best stroke. 
 
Sampson then extended the lead to just more than a second (1.01) over the breaststroke laps and maintaining nearly all of that lead over the first lap of the freestyle leg.  However, Buessing, who has now finished third in the 400 IM in each of the last three years, came roaring back turning in a 24.37 second split while Sampson posted a time of 25.34 seconds in his final lap, just enough for the Maverick legend to win the title while smashing the former national record of 3:42.49 by more than two seconds.  Buessing's time of 3:40.23 was also well under Collyn Gagne's 2022 championship time and is the second fastest in Division II history.
 
Corredor finished third in 3:46.26.
 
The Mavs then picked up points in the 200 free as Lauren White claimed her third all-America honor of the week and the 26^th of her record-extending career with a 11^th place finish and time of 1:49.89.
 
Meanwhile, Aziz Ghaffari took fourth in the men's half of the event, touching in 1:35.62, just ahead of Oklahoma Christian's Victor Rosado, who had edged Ghaffari for last month's Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference title.  He now has two all-America honors this week after transferring from Florida State, where he was an 800 free relay all-American for the Seminoles.
 
The Mavericks did not have a representative in the women's 3-meter diving final although Mimi Licht (362.75 points) and Ally Hrncir (356.80) placed 20^th and 21^st in the afternoon preliminary rounds.
 
However, the Mavs more than made up for it in the medley relay as Naskret gave the Mavs a big early lead with a 53.08-second backstroke leg, just off her own month-old altitude-adjusted school-record time of 52.92 seconds.  Moran then turned in a solid breaststroke split of 1:01.51 before Borchardt splited at 54.04 seconds as the Mavs' butterflyer although Lynn's Luna Mertins, who won the 100 fly at the start of the night, moved the Knights from third to first ahead of CMU and UIndy.

Ada Qunell then brought the Mavs home in 49.89 seconds on the freestyle leg, giving the Mavs the lead at the 350 mark before holding off Nova Southeastern's multiple-event national champion Emily Trieschmann's for the history-making relay win.
 
Sampson then turned in a 46.07 backstroke leg to give the Mavs the men's relay lead before freshman Max Ayres did his part to earn a second career all-America honor as the Mavs' breaststroker, splitting at 53.48 seconds.  Kuba Kiszczak then earned his eighth all-America relay honor of his career with a 47.43-second butterfly split before Ghaffari closed out the evening with a 43.33 freestyle leg.