GENEVA, Ohio— Going out on top. 

Colorado Mesa University fifth-year senior Lauren White will do just that as she and 400-yard freestyle relay teammates Agata Naskret, Ada Qunell and Elli Williams gave the Mavs their third national relay title in as many nights, capping an extra-ordinary meet for the Maverick women's swimming & diving team on Saturday here at the SPIRE Institute.

The relay quartet set a school-record time of 3:20.00 to do so after Naskret won her second individual and fifth national title over the last three nights, taking the 200-yard backstroke title ahead of Katerina Matoskova and White, who joined her in the 8-woman championship final.

The Maverick women won a meet-leading seven titles throughout the week, including the three relays and four individual titles on the last four nights from 2-event winners Benedict Nagy (200 & 400 IM) and Naskret (100 & 200 Backstroke).  In the process, the Mavs finished and impressive second as a team in the final standings with 461 ½ points.  Only the Nova Southeastern University Sharks tallied more (487) en-route to a successful team title defense.

CMU had finished what was a program-best fourth in 2023 and blew that finish and their program-record point total of 325 out of the water in 2024.

White, who earned the maximum possible seven all-America honors throughout the week, finishes her career with 30 such honors, a CMU all-sports record that can never be broken— at least under current eligibility rules, which would limit a swimmer to 28 such honors if they reached the maximum in all four years.  The Golden, Colorado native, who walked-on to the program in 2019-20, took full advantage of a fifth year of NCAA eligibility this season granted under the NCAA's COVID waiver.

Meanwhile, Naskret, a sophomore from Poland completed the backstroking double with a time of 1:55.30 in the 200 final on Saturday.  That time ranks her seventh in NCAA Division II history and lowered her month-old school record 1:56.07 (altitude-adjusted) by nearly a full second.

Naskret, who also helped the Mavs win the 400 medley and 200 free relays on the preceding two nights won five national titles throughout the week, making her the most decorated Maverick woman in any sport in terms of national title.  She only trails men's teammate Ben Sampson, who matched Ammar Hassan's record of six on Saturday night by winning the men's 200 back in NCAA-record setting time half on Saturday night.

Matoskova, a 3-event all-American in 2024, took seventh in the same women's race with a time of 1:58.68 while White finished eighth in 1:59.90.  Matoskova now has 14 all-America honors and is eligible to return for a fifth year in 2024-25.

Scoring 43 team points in the 200 back, the Mavericks remained at least on the periphery of a team title, just 50 ½ points behind the Sharks at that point.

The Mavs then got slightly closer to within 40 ½ as Nagy turned in her fourth top-4 finish of the championship in the 200 breast, finishing fourth in 2:14.97, a career-best time which ranks her second in CMU history behind only Lily Borgenheimer, who until this year had been the only Maverick woman to win a national swimming or diving title.

The Mavs now have eight such crowns.

Sophomore teammate Maddi Moran also had a stellar and emotional finish, winning the consolation final of the 200 breast in a personal-best 2:16.52.  The Salt Lake City, Utah native finished 17^th in the preliminary round, which would have normally meant the end of her meet.  However, she was given a lane in the consolation final after one of the other swimmers scratched and took full advantage of the opportunity to win a fourth all-America honor of the week while winning her final race of 2024.  Moran also helped the Mavs win the 400 medley relay on Thursday.

The Mavericks then officially received five more team points in the 1-meter diving event as freshman Ally Hrncir earned her initial all-America certificate thanks to a 12^th place finish.  She scored 394.50 points in the consolation final, which was contested at the end of the morning/afternoon session.

That effort put the Mavs within 35 ½ points of the Sharks heading into the relay, which they needed to win while having Nova Southeastern either finish lower than 14^th or be disqualified.

The Mavs did their part although the Sharks took fourth in 3:21.21 as Emily Trieschmann fittingly brought the Sharks the title as the anchor leg after winning four individual titles for the second straight year.

In the relay, Williams won her second national title in as many nights, turning in a phenomenal 49.38-second split on the third leg of the relay bringing the Mavericks into the lead ahead of Drury, which took second in the race at 3:20.55.  White then finished off the win by splitting 49.71 seconds after Qunell won her third national title in as many nights with a second leg split of 50.75 seconds.  Naskret opened the relay win in 50.16.

The Mavs opened the night in strong form as well as sophomore Olivia Hansson took fifth in the 1,650 freestyle with a time of 16:42.98, just off her altitude-adjusted school-record and seed time of 16:40.22.  The Swedish sophomore had three top-8 finishes this week.

Qunell also contributed individually, taking 14^th in the 100 free with a time of 50.74 seconds after qualifying out of the preliminary session 50.72.

Williams tied for 20^th in the event with a time of 50.93 seconds missing out on the finals before more than making up for it in the relay.

Sophia Bains was also in action during the morning, placing 20^th in the 200 back prelims with a personal-best time of 2:01.54 to move up a spot to ninth in program history.

Meanwhile, Mimi Licht placed 21^st in the 1-meter diving preliminaries with 323.05 points over 11 dives.