GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.— The Colorado Mesa University women won three events while
Kiara Borchardt and
Oskar Sawicki both set school-records in the non-championship 50-yard butterfly events to lead the Maverick swimming and diving teams to another solid day on Saturday at the El Pomar Natatorium in the second of two Intermountain Shootout weekend meets.
The Mavericks also set eight more NCAA Division II Championship provisional qualifying times in the swimming disciplines while
Kenya Meyer won the 1-meter diving competition with an NCAA qualifying mark.
In the process, both Maverick squads finished second in the invitational-style scoring system behind NCAA Division I BYU but comfortably ahead of Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference rival Adams State.
CMU's women's battled to the end and scored 203 ½ points, just 23 shy of BYU's winning total of 226 ½. Adams State was third with 34.
On the men's side, BYU scored 266 points while the Mavs took second with 160 after recording four second and four third place finishes. Adams State was third with 34.
Olivia Hansson, who won both the 200 and 1,000-yard freestyle events in the first Intermountain Shootout meet on Friday evening, claimed her third victory of the weekend in the 500 free while setting NCAA "B" cut times in both that and the 400 individual medley, an event in which she tied for second place. Teammates
Maya Clise and
Hanna Sasivarevic also set NCAA provisional qualifying times in the 500 free.
Hansson finished in 4:54.95 (4:45.95-altitude adjusted), just 1.5 seconds off her own school record to take the win by nearly five seconds while Clise finished fifth in 5:08.01 (5:03.01-converted), just ahead of Sasivarevic's sixth place time of 5:08.83 (5:03.83-converted).
In the 400 IM, Hansson tied for second in 4:31.94 (4:26.94-converted), getting under the NCAA "B" cut standard by more than two seconds.
Clise also had a solid overall day and took second in the 200 breaststroke with a time of 2:21.05 (2:19.85-converted) to move into the No. 10 position in program history.
Antonia Leese finished third at 2:21.11 after winning the 50 free to lead the Mavericks to a sweep of the first four places in that event as CMU temporarily surged ahead in the team standings.
Elsewhere,
Taylar Hooton, Leese, Borchardt and
Ada Qunell took second in the 200 medley relay in 1:42.25 before Qunell came back just two disciplines later to finish second in the 100 free with a NCAA "B" cut time of 50.65 (50.55-converted).
Leese (29.04), Clise (30.55),
Ava Bains (30.77) and
Georgia Hatzenbeller (30.90) then swept the top four places in the 50 breast before Borchardt broke her own school-record in the 50 fly with a third place time of 25.18, well under her former Maverick standard of 25.39 set as an intermediate split in the 100 fly at last season's RMAC Championships.
Freshman
Abby Uhl then put herself on the national meet consideration list in the 200 backstroke with a second place time of 2:03.62 (2:02.42-converted) before Borchardt added an NCAA "B" cut mark of 55.88 (55.78-converted) in the 50 fly to finish third.
After Clise and Leese's efforts in the 200 breast, the Maverick's 400 free relay team of Qunell, Borchardt, Wilkinson and Hansson finished in 3:25.44 to finish third. Qunell went under the NCAA 100 free standard for the second time today on the lead-off leg.
Meanwhile, in the diving well, Meyer won the 11-dive, women's 3-meter competition with 440.25, easily going over the NCAA qualification standard of 420 points.
Jenna Hurley finished second with 417.00 points.
The Maverick men did not when any events but had some quality performances, most notably from 2024 Paris Olympian
Guillaume Guth, Sawicki and the diving group.
Guth set a 100 free leadoff split of 43.30 seconds (43.20-converted) seconds to help the Mavs' 400 medley relay team finish second in 2:58.01. Guth's time was more than two seconds under the NCAA "B" standard and just 0.12 seconds off the "A" standard. He also moved into the No. 2 spot of program history only behind fellow Paris Olympian
Harry Stacey from last year.
Meanwhile, Sawicki, a Warsaw Poland native who transferred from Indianapolis, where he was a multiple-time all-American, took second in the 50 butterfly with a time of 21.76 seconds, eclipsing Stacey's former Maverick record of 21.81 in that event, a non-championship discipline.
In diving, the Mavericks took five of the top six spots in the men's 1-meter event with
Jax Juarros leading the way with a score of 425.85 points on 11 dives.
Ryan Campbell, who won Friday's 3-meter event, was third with 420.08 points ahead of
David Roethlisberger (419.40),
Wyatt Hermanson (407.10) and
Giani Benoit (376.50).
The Mavs also picked up a second place finish from
Marcos Otero in the 50 breaststroke, who touched in 25.20 seconds and had other third place finishes from the 200-yard medley relay team of
Luka Samsonov, Otero, Sawicki and Guth, who finished in 1:28.30 as well
Richard Schmiedefeld in the 200 back (1:49.99) and
Aron Jonsson in the 200 breast (2:03.22).
The CMU squads will take the next two weekends off from competition but continue their training. They will race again when they women will take on Colorado State and Denver on Friday, Oct. 24 in Fort Collins before the men head to Golden for a RMAC dual against the Colorado School of Mines on Saturday, Oct. 25.
