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Wednesday, November 12
4 p.m. – Women's Soccer vs. Fort Lewis (RMAC Tournament Semifinal)
7 p.m. Second Semifinal (Colorado School of Mines vs. UCCS)
 
Saturday, November 15
5 p.m.- Women' Soccer – RMAC Tournament Championship Game
5 p.m.- Women's Wrestling – Fall Brawl Tri-Dual (vs. Univ. of Providence (Mont.) & Vanguard (Calif.)

Full Composite Calendar: https://cmumavericks.com/calendar?date=11/10/2025&vtype=list
 
Women's Soccer

• The Mavericks claimed their fifth RMAC Regular Season Championship in program history last week, clinching the title with a 1-0 away win at Westminster on Wednesday (Nov. 5).
• The Mavs had last won the RMAC title in 2021 when they shared it and won their first outright title since 2000 this year.
• The Mavs, ranked 23^rd in last week's United Soccer Coaches National Poll, improved to 13-2-2 overall and finished RMAC play with an unbeaten 9-0-2 RMAC record, good for 29 points and a 2.64 point per match average.
• As the RMAC Champions, the Mavs are the top seed in the RMAC Tournament and will host the semifinal and championship rounds of the RMAC Tournament at Community Hospital Unity Field.
• The Mavs received a first round and quarterfinal bye and will take on No. 4 seed Fort Lewis in the first semifinal at 4 p.m. on Wednesday.  No. 2 seed Colorado School of Mines, ranked seventh nationally, and No. 3 seed UCCS, ranked 14^th in the last United Soccer Coaches Poll, will then play in the other semifinal at 7 p.m.
• The championship match will be played at 5 p.m. on Saturday.
• Mines, UCCS and Fort Lewis all posted home quarterfinal wins on Sunday.
• A new national coaches poll will be announced on Tuesday.
• The Mavericks, unbeaten in 11 games, were also ranked third in the latest edition of the NCAA Division II South Central Regional Rankings, which will eventually determine the selections and seeding for the NCAA Tournament that begins next week.
• Mines was ranked second while UCCS was ranked fourth.  Fort Lewis was not ranked but beat sixth-ranked Regis on Sunday.
• New rankings will be announced this Wednesday prior to the tournament semifinal games.
• Six teams, including the champions of the Lone Star and RMAC Tournaments, will be selected and begin play next Thursday (Nov. 20).
• The top two seeds will host first and second round games.
• The NCAA selection show will be aired on NCAA.com next Monday (Nov. 17) at 4:30 p.m. MST.
• Kylie Wells scored her team-leading ninth goal of the season in the 50^th minute of Wednesday's title clinching victory and has scored five game-winning goals this season.
• Keely Wieczorek and the Maverick defense extended their shutout streak as Wieczorek stopped Westminster's only shot on goal to post her RMAC-leading and school-record extending 14^th shutout of the season.
• She and the Maverick defense did not allow a single goal in RMAC games this year, a first in conference history.
• The Mavs have also not conceded a home goal this season, going 8-0-1 at home.  They are unbeaten in 17 straight home games (15-0-2) over the last two years.
• Wieczorek was named as the RMAC Goalkeeper of the Week for the second time this season and the eighth in her career on Thursday after shutouts in the last three games.
• Mari Ige was named as the RMAC Defensive Player of the Week for the first time in her CMU career.
• Wieczorek and the Maverick defense have not conceded a goal for a combined 1,017 minutes and 49 seconds of total game time, an RMAC record and the ninth longest stretch in Division II history.
• Wieczorek leads the country with her 0.235 goals against average while the Mavericks as a team are tied for the national statistical lead with that same mark.
• Wieczorek also ranks second in the country with her .926 save percentage.
• The All-RMAC and Academic All-RMAC honors will be announced this week following votes of the coaches (All-RMAC) and athletic communications directors (Academic All-RMAC).

Football

• The Mavs (6-4, 5-3 RMAC) clinched their third straight winning season with a 38-12 win over South Dakota Mines on Saturday.
• The Mavs' victory also went 4-1 at home this season.
• They have now won three straight games for the first time this season.
• Quarterback Cole Hansen was 19-for-29 for 233 yards and a season-high four touchdowns.
• He had been named as the National Football Foundation Colorado Chapter's Player of the Week last week for his efforts in the Mavs' win at Black Hills State.
• Alex Turpin had three catches for 30 yards and caught two of Hansen's touchdown passes.
• Aiden Taylor ran 29 times for 109 yards and now has 960 rushing yards on the season.  He will need just 40 in the Mavs' season finale at Western to become the Mavs' first 1,000 yard rusher since David Tamm in 2016.
• Kash Bradley made a team-high seven tackles and picked off a pass in Saturday's win.  He now leads the team with three interceptions this season.
• Braiden Vaughn also had an interception in Saturday's win.
• Sullivan Moon averaged 61.7 yards on three punts, including a long of 72, and made his only field goal (29 yards) and all five of his extra point attempts.
• The Mavs will wrap up their season at Western Colorado this Saturday at 1 p.m. in Gunnison.  The Mountaineers are 8-2 overall and 6-2 in RMAC play after losing on game-ending field goals in each of the last two weeks to CSU Pueblo and Chadron State, which will battle each other for the RMAC title in Pueblo this week.
• Western's last game was in overtime.
• The Mountaineers are ranked 18th in the AFCA Division II Poll and 22nd in the D2Football.com Poll.
• The were sixth in last week's NCAA Division II Super Region 4 rankings and expect to still be in playoff contention heading into this week when they new rankings come out Monday afternoon.

Triathlon

• The Mavericks finished fourth in Division II and 14^th overall in Saturday's Women's Collegiate Triathlon National Championships in Tempe, Arizona.
• The Mavericks have now finished in the top four of the division in each of the last seven championship seasons since 2018.
• Sophomore Shantelle Tupaz and senior Nadine Klive both earned honorable mention all-America honors from the Collegiate Triathlon Coaches Association after finishing 17^th and 20^th, respectively, amongst Division II athletes.
• Tupaz finished 71^st overall in 1:10:38.1 to earn her first all-America honor.
• Klive earned her third career honor with a 74^th place time of 1:11:08.6 to wrap up her career.
• The Mavs finished with 546 team points as senior Josie Williams (84^th), sophomore Mackenzie Mayer (87^th) and freshman Sylvia Aardema Gagnon (93^rd) rounded out the team score.
• Senior Fiona Graves also cracked the top 100.
• Freshman Alexanra Schipai, who had led the Mavs in the last three races while joining Tupaz and Klive as all-region performers, was forced to race in a separate heat away from the rest of her teammates in the draft-legal race and finished 106^th overall.
• The Mavs have now had multiple all-Americans in each of the last five years.

Women's Cross Country

• The Maverick women took a strong seventh place at Saturday's NCAA South Central Regional Championships, their best finish in 11 years.
• Megan Hodges finished 11^th individually to garner a U.S. Track and Field & Cross Country Coaches Association All-Region honor, which went to the top 25 individual finishers.
• She is the seventh different Maverick woman in program history to earn what are now 10 combined all-region honors.
• The Mavs had four runners inside the top 50 and another in 52^nd to score 209 points in the 26-team field.  The Mavs' No. 2-5 runners all finished within six places and 12.3 seconds of one another between 47^th and 52^nd.
• The effort put the nation's 15^th-ranked Mavs in strong position for a possible at-large bid to the national championships for the second straight year.
• Those selections will be announced on Monday afternoon no later than 3 p.m. on NCAA.com.
• If the Mavericks are left out of the national meet as a team, Hodges has an even better chance of qualifying as an individual.
• CMU has qualified a full team for the NCAA Championships twice before (2014, 2024) and has been represented by at least one athlete in each of the last three years.
• Megan Hodges (21:12.7) and her twin sister Lauren (22:32.2), who was the Mavs' fifth runner both set personal-best 8K times.
• Hodges' 11^th place finish is the Mavs' best regional championship effort since Alexia Chapman finished in the same spot in 2016.

Men's Cross Country

• The Maverick men also had their best day of the season, taking a strong ninth at the regional championships.
• CMU was not ranked in the region's top 10 coming into the meet.
• The Mavs scored 325 points and had four runners finish in the top 75.
• Freshman Colton White lead the Mavericks with a 46^th place time of 31:59.3 as he and five other Mavericks made their 10K and regional championship debuts.
• Four of the Mavericks' seven runners were true freshman.
• Fellow freshman Clayton Wilson was 52^nd in 32:07.6 while redshirt junior Chase Brown, the lone Maverick with regional experience finished 60^th with a time of 32:19.1, his fastest career 10K time by 41 seconds.
• Barring a surprise at-large selection to the NCAA Championships, the men's season is now concluded.

Volleyball

• The Mavericks (14-9, 8-4 RMAC) put up two markers in the win column while improving their home-court record to 7-2 this season.
• They swept Chadron State in three sets on Friday before claiming a 4-set win over Regis on Senior Night on Saturday.
• The wins snapped what was CMU's longest losing streak (4) in eight years.
• The Mavs were amongst the top 10 teams in the South Central Region, according to last week's official regional rankings, which were released for the first time in alphabetical order for the first time last Wednesday.
• The latest rankings will be announced in numerical order this Wednesday and will eventually determine the at-large selections and seedings for the upcoming regional portion of the NCAA Tournament.  Eight total teams will be selected, including the champions of the Lone Star and Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Tournaments, who receive automatic bids.
• Senior outside hitter Sadie Scoville put up a career-high smashing 29 kills on .410 hitting in Saturday's win after recording a team-high 12 in Friday's victory over Chadron State.
• She averaged 5.86 kills and hit .351 over the weekend.
• Fellow senior Allison Waller had 20 digs, her second highest total of the season, in Friday's win and added a team-high 18 in Saturday's victory over Regis, going over the 1,200 mark for her career.  She now has 1,201 and is just two away from matching former teammate Sabrina VanDeList for seventh on the Mavs' rally-scoring era (2001-Present) charts.
• Karsen Breeding also added 14 kills on .314 hitting in Saturday's win while freshman setter Ashlyn Tafoya recorded her ninth double-double of the season with 33 assists and 15 digs.
• Aesha Alrashed had eight blocks over the weekend and now has 92 on the season while moving to within eight of 100 for the year.
• The Mavs are now part of a 3-way tie for fourth place in the RMAC standings at 8-4 alongside Colorado School of Mines and Fort Lewis.
• They are all within a half-match of third place CSU Pueblo (8-3) and just a half-match ahead of seventh place Adams State (7-4) in the very tight standings.
• Westminster (7-5) and South Dakota Mines (6-5) are also very much in the mix for the 8-team RMAC Tournament, which begins next Tuesday.
• The Mavs will close out the regular season in South Dakota playing at Black Hills State (6-17, 2-9 RMAC) on Friday at 6 p.m. in Spearfish before going to Rapid City to play South Dakota Mines (9-14, 6-5 RMAC).
• One win would allow the Mavericks to clinch an RMAC Tournament spot although they will likely need to win both matches and possibly get additional help to obtain a top four seed and the right to host a RMAC Tournament quarterfinal match at home.

Women's Basketball

• The Mavericks, ranked 21^st in the WBCA's NCAA Division II Preseason Coaches' Poll, are off to a 3-0 start and will resume their season with a pair of key South Central Regional match-ups in the D2 Conference Challenge this weekend.
• The Mavs will play #RV West Texas A&M on Friday at 1 p.m. MST (2 p.m. CST) in Canyon, Texas before heading to Odessa to play Texas Permian Basin on Sunday at 11 a.m. MST (Noon Central).
• Senior Olivia Reed Thyne averaged 18.0 points and 14.0 rebounds per game throughout the opening weekend of the season at the D2CCA Canadian Tip-Off Classic in Langley, British Columbia and went over the 1,000 career rebounding milestone in the last of those three games.
• She now has 1,016 career rebounds and enters this weekend just 16 rebounds away from matching Tonya Stites (1,032) for the CMU record.
• Reed Thyne also recorded two double-doubles throughout the opening weekend, the 41^st and 42^nd of her career.
• Mason Rowland also returned to the lineup after missing nearly all of 2024-25 due to injury.  She averaged 15.0 points, 6.7 rebounds and 3.7 assists per game
• The Mavs have been picked first in the RMAC Preseason Coaches' Poll, topping the poll with 191 points.  They received nine first place votes.
• West Texas A&M is 1-1 so far this season with their loss coming to top-ranked Grand Valley State.  The Lady Buffs also claimed an exhibition win over Big 12 Conference foe Arizona during the preseason.  They went 19-13 last year and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
• UT Permian Basin has not yet played this season after going 13-16 last season and was picked eighth in the Lone Star Conference's Preseason Poll.
• West Texas A&M was picked fourth but received six first place votes.

Men's Basketball

• The Mavs will begin the season this weekend at the D2 Conference Challenge in Dallas, Texas.
• The Mavs will open the campaign against national poll No. 3 Dallas Baptist on Friday at 4 p.m. MST (5 p.m. Central) before taking on St. Edward's at the same time on Saturday.
• The Mavs received two votes in the NABC Preseason Poll.
• The Mavericks were picked third in the RMAC Preseason Coaches' Poll that was released last month.
• They received 158 total points in the polling, picking up one first place vote, three second place and six third place votes.
• Redshirt senior Ty Allred and sophomore guard Harvey White were both named to the Preseason All-RMAC team.
• Allred earned first team all-conference honors last season averaging 14.7 points and 6.4 rebounds per game
  White averaged 9.6 points and 3.0 assists per game in his freshman campaign last year.
• DBU is 0-2 so far this season with losses to No. 13 Michigan Tech (75-70) and No. 2 Washburn (89-77) at the Small College Basketball Hall of Fame Classic in Lakeland, Florida. 
• The Patriots went 34-5 last year and made the semifinals of the NCAA Tournament.
• The St. Edward's Hilltoppers went 21-13 last year and also played in the NCAA Tournament last year.  They are off to a 3-0 start at the D2CCA Canadian Tip-Off Classic and beat 18^th-ranked Central Washington by 21 points (69-48) in their last official game on Nov. 2.
• They also won a pair of home exhibition games last week.
• DBU and St. Edward's were picked first and fourth, respectively in the Lone Star Conference's Preseason Poll.

Women's Wrestling

• The Mavericks (1-0, 1-0 RMAC) in duals will hosting the Fall Brawl in Brownson Arena.
• The tri-dual event will begin at 5 p.m. with NAIA power University of Providence (Mont.) taking on Vanguard (Calif.).
• The Mavs will then face Providence at approximately 6 p.m. before taking on Vanguard at approximately 7 p.m.
• The Mavs were off last weekend after opening their weekend with 40-5 and 38-6 wins over Snow (exhibition) and Texas Woman's on the previous Saturday (Nov. 1).
• CMU also had four championships and 20 top six placers at the Maverick Open on Nov. 2.
• Jaylee Sekona was one of the champions and was named as the initial RMAC Women's Wrestler of the season last week.
• Sekona is ranked fourth in the 207 pound weight class in the preseason edition of the National Wrestling Coaches Association's NCAA Women's Coaches Poll and is one of six ranked Mavericks inside the top 10, giving CMU 42 points in the Tournament Power Index, which has the Mavs ranked sixth as a team.
• That list also includes Piestewa (2^nd, 124 lbs.), Mia Zuniga (4^th, 103 lbs.), Bella Morales (5^th, 110 lbs.), Gretchen Donally (7^th, 145 lbs.) and JoJo McDaniel (10^th, 117 lbs.).

Men's Wrestling

• The nation's 18^th-ranked Mavericks sent a contingent of 20 younger wrestlers plus some redshirts to Sunday's Mines Rookie Open in Golden.
• The Mavericks had seven of those wrestlers place amongst the top six of their respective weight classes.
• Redshirt freshman Adonias Cantu led the way with a 4-1 record and second place finish at 125 pounds.
• Brady Samuelson also finished third at 197 pounds.
• The Mavs had three placers at 184 pounds as Logan Noble took fourth ahead of Noah O'Dougherty (5^th) and Joe Trygstad (6^th).
• AJ Hague won all three of his 141-pound matches by fall before medically forfeiting his last two to take fourth place.
• Tommy Thomas also went 2-2 to place fourth at 157 pounds.
• The Mavericks will begin Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference action this Sunday when they travel to Las Vegas, New Mexico for a noon dual with New Mexico Highlands.
• That will be the first time that many of the more experienced Mavericks will compete this season.
• CMU was picked to win the RMAC title in the Preseason Coaches' Poll, released on Oct. 14.
• The Mavs also had three wrestlers named to the Preseason All-RMAC team in Alex Castenda (149 lbs.), Gabriel Carranza (197 lbs.) and Tyler Doyle (285 lbs.).  That team was made up by the highest returning wrestler from last year's All-RMAC voting process.
• The Mavericks also have four wrestlers included in the National Wrestling Coaches Association's Preseason Rankings, released last Thursday (Oct. 24).
• Those four men gave the Mavs 26 ½ points in the team rankings, good for No. 18.
• The Mavs' four ranked wrestlers are Dayson Torgerson (4^th at 125 pounds), Owen Cline (5^th, 157.), Gabriel Carranza (10th, 197) and Alex Casteneda (13^th, 149).

Men's Soccer

• The Mavs (8-7-3) saw their season come to an end on Sunday afternoon as the Mavs fell 3-1 to No. 3 seed and National Poll vote recipients Regis in the quarterfinal round of the RMAC Tournament.
• Nathan Hernandez scored the match's first goal in the ninth minute as CMU had a 1-0 halftime lead before the Rangers scored three goals in the second half to claim the win.
• Hernandez finished the season with eight goals, just behind Manuel Ponce Casas' team-leading total of nine.
• The Mavs had lost their regular season finale 4-1 on Wednesday at Westminster, which dropped the Mavs from a tie for third to a tie for sixth in the final conference standings, forcing them to go on the road for the RMAC Tournament.
• Stefanos Christodoulakis scored the Mavs' goal in that game and assisted on Herandez's goal in the RMAC Tournament.
• Ponce Casas finishes his career with 27 goals and 66 offensive points to rank third (goals) and tied for third (points) in program history.
• The Mavs finished the season with 43 total goals, tenth most in the country, and currently sit 11^th in the national statistics for scoring average (2.39).
• Fourteen different players scored during the season, including seven who bagged two or more goals.
• The All-RMAC and Academic All-RMAC honors will be announced this week following votes of the coaches (All-RMAC) and athletic communications directors (Academic All-RMAC).

Swimming & Diving

• The second (women's) and fifth (men's) ranked Maverick squads did not compete this past weekend.  They are preparing for next week's (Nov. 19-22) TYR /CMU Invitational, which has been a bonanza of NCAA Championship qualifying performances in past years.
• The Colorado School of Mines men and women and NCAA Division I Northern Arizona women will comprise the Mavs' competition.
• The Mavericks did sweep last week's RMAC Swimmer and Diver of the Week honors, announced last Thursday.  Jax Juarros and Kenya Meyer swept the diving honors while Aron Jonsson and Olivia Hansson claimed the swimming accolades,

New AD

• New Director of Athletics Rob Courtney was formally introduced to Maverick fans and the media on Friday afternoon prior to the Mavs' volleyball match against Chadron State.
• He began official duties this morning.

Rodeo Gala

• The CMU Rodeo Team will host their fourth annual Rodeo Gala this Saturday (Nov. 15) evening.
• The night will feature dinner and drinks, prize drawings and both silent and live auctions and a chance to spend time with people supporting the team.
• For more information, please visit https://cmumavericks.com/news/2025/10/14/2025-rodeo-gala.aspx

 Colorado Mesa turns 100

• The CMU Century Celebration stands as the cornerstone of Colorado Mesa University's year-long centennial celebration. This ambitious initiative unites our community in honoring a rich heritage while boldly envisioning the next hundred years of academic excellence.
• Led by the Steering Committee and six specialized sub-committees, we're orchestrating a transformative experience that will resonate through generations. Each committee brings unique expertise to create an unforgettable commemoration of our past, present and future.
• To learn more about Colorado Mesa's 100-year celebration, visit cmucentury.com