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Wednesday, November 19
6 p.m.- Swimming & Diving hosts TYR/CMU Invitational – Day 1
 
Thursday, November 20
10 a.m./Noon/5 p.m.- Swimming & Diving hosts TYR/CMU Invitational – Day 2
 
Friday, November 21
10 a.m./Noon/5 p.m.- Swimming & Diving hosts TYR/CMU Invitational – Day 3
 
Saturday, November 22
10 a.m./Noon/4 p.m.-  Swimming & Diving hosts TYR/CMU Invitational – Day 4 - Senior Day at 3:45 p.m.

Full Composite Calendar: https://cmumavericks.com/calendar?date=11/17/2025&vtype=list
 
Women's Soccer

• The Mavericks, ranked 22nd in the latest national poll, reached Saturday night's RMAC Tournament Championship game with a 1-0 home semifinal win over No. 4 seed Fort Lewis before falling by the same score to No. 2 seed Colorado School of Mines in Saturday's championship game.
• The Mavs are now 14-3-2 overall and still expect to hear their name called for the NCAA Tournament during this afternoon's selection show, which will air on NCAA.com at 4:30 p.m. MST.
• The Mavs will find out when, where and who they will play in the opening round of the touranment during the show.
• The NCAA Tournament bid will be the Mavs' third consecutive and seventh in program history.
• CMU's RMAC regular season championship was their fifth in program history and the first outright title in 25 years.  The Mavs had shared the crown in 2021.
• Olivia Bariao-Arce scored her fourth goal of the season in the 87^th minute of Wednesday's semifinal win over Fort Lewis while Keely Wieczorek made three saves while picking up her 12^th consecutive shutout.
• The Mavericks then dominated Saturday's game, out-shooting national poll No. 7 Mines, 31-3, but could not convert and lost the game 1-0 on a 52nd minute penalty kick.
• That goal was the only one the Mavs conceded in all 11 home games this year and allowed the Orediggers to end CMU's 18-game unbeaten streak at Community Hospital Unity Field.
• The goal also ended Wieczorek's shutout streak of 1,159 minutes and 27 seconds, a RMAC record and the sixth longest streak in NCAA Division II history.
• Wieczorek was earlier named as the RMAC Goalkeeper of the Year for the second straight year while leading four Mavs on the First Team All-RMAC squad.  Forward Kylie Wells and defenders Olivia Barrett and Ally Wachtel also earned first team accolades while defender Sarah Dunn was a second team selection.  Freshman Ellie Duncan also picked up honorable mention accolades.
• Jody Lingafeldt was also named as the RMAC Coach of the Year by a vote of her peers.
• Wieczorek was also named as the RMAC Academic Player of the Year and was joined on the First Team RMAC All-Academic squad by Wells.  Ten Mavs were named to the RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll.
• Wieczorek leads the country in goals against average (0.263), save percentage (.914) and shutouts (15)
• The Mavericks squad as a whole also leads the country in those categories.

Women's Cross Country

• The Maverick women received their second straight at-large berth to Saturday's NCAA Division II National Championships in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
• They are ranked 20^th in the latest U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association's NCAA Division II Coaches Poll.
• The Mavs will be running as a team at the national meet for the third time in program history and are looking to secure their best ever finish after taking 22^nd in 2014 and 23^rd last year.
• The Mavs will also be represented at the national meet for the fourth straight time after qualifying individuals in both 2022 and 2023.
• Megan Hodges has led the Mavs in all five meets this season and earned First Team All-RMAC and All-South Central Region honors this season.
• Saturday's 6K race is slated for a 10 a.m. CST (9 a.m. Mountain) start.
• The top 40 individual finishers will garner USTFCCCA All-America honors.

Swimming & Diving

• The Mavericks will return to competitive action this week, hosting the 15^th annual TYR/CMU Invitational, starting Wednesday evening at the El Pomar Natatorium.
• NCAA Division I Northern Arizona's women and RMAC rival Colorado School of Mines men and women will provide the opposition for the Mavericks in the 3 ½ day prelims/finals formatted invitational meet, which has typically been a bonanza of NCAA Championship qualifying performances in past years.
• The Maverick women are ranked fifth in the latest monthly edition of the CSCAA NCAA Division II Top 25 Dual Meet poll while the Maverick men are ranked sixth.
• The Maverick women have won 10 of the previous 14 editions of the CMU Invitational and took second behind Wyoming last year.
• The Maverick men have won the last eight  and 13 of the previous 14 invitational titles.
• Preliminary swimming sessions will begin at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
• Finals sessions are at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, 5 p.m. on both Thursday and Friday and at 4 p.m. on Saturday.  The Mavs' seniors will be recognized before Saturday's session at 3:45 p.m.
• A separate diving dual against Mines is also slated for Saturday at Noon.

Volleyball

• The Mavericks (16-9, 10-4 RMAC) recorded a pair of 3-set road sweeps in the state of South Dakota over the weekend, winning at Black Hills State and South Dakota Mines on Friday and Saturday, respectively.
• The wins were the Mavs' third and fourth straight and have them heading into the RMAC Tournament on their longest winning streak of the season.
• The Mavericks ended up tied for fourth in the conference standings and will be the No. 5 seed in the RMAC Tournament.  They will play at No. 4 seed Colorado School of Mines in Golden on Tuesday at 7 p.m. as the Orediggers won the head-to-head tiebreaker to earn the higher seed and home court advantage for the quarterfinal round.
• The tournament will continue on Friday and Saturday with the highest remaining seed after Tuesday's quarterfinal hosting the final two rounds.
• CMU was also ranked ninth in last week's NCAA Division II South Central Regional rankings, which will eventually determine the at-large berths and seeding for the 8-team regional in early December.  Texas Woman's, ranked eighth and Texas A&M-Kingsville, ranked tenth, both went 0-2 last week.
• New rankings will come out on Wednesday but will not include Tuesday's result.
• The final NCAA selection show will air next Monday (Nov. 24) on NCAA.com.
• Senior outside hitter Sadie Scoville registered 28 kills and 22 digs and hit .520 throughout the weekend.
• She had two double-doubles, her 11th and 12th of the season, recording 11 kills and 10 digs while hitting .550 in Friday's win at Black Hills State.
• She then had 17 kills and 12 digs on .500 hitting in Saturday's win at South Dakota Mines.
• Emma Luce also had 12 kills in each match.
• Libero Allison Waller had 40 digs throughout the weekend, averaging 6.67 per set.  She had 19 against Black Hills State and 20 against South Dakota Mines.

Women's Wrestling

• The Mavericks (3-0, 1-0 RMAC) extended their home-dual meet winning streak to 16 as they defeated the University of Providence, 25-18, and Vanguard University, 45-4 in Saturday night's Fall Brawl tri-dual.
• University of Providence was ranked fourth in the NAA rankings.
• Redshirt senior Jayleen Sekona and redshirt sophomore Adriana Gomez both went 2-0 as the Mavericks used 17 different wrestlers throughout the tri-dual.
• The Mavs won 15 total bouts throughout the season.
• One of Gomez's wins came by fall over Paige Morales, ranked No. 1 in the NAIA rankings.
• The Mavericks moved up one spot to fifth in the latest National Wrestling Coaches Association's NCAA Women's Coaches Poll and have six individually ranked wrestlers.
• Lorianna Piestewa continues to lead the bunch and is ranked No. 2 at 124 pounds.  Gretchen Donally and Sekona both moved up to the No. 3 spot at 145 and 207 pounds, respectively.
• Bella Morales is now ranked seventh at 117 pounds while Gomez and Hania Halverson (131 pounds) are both ranked tenth.
• A significant chunk of the Maverick squad will compete this weekend at the prestigious Missouri Valley Open in Marshall, Missouri.  The 2-day (Friday & Saturday) tournament is regarded as one of the toughest and deepest on the collegiate women's wrestling calendar.

Men's Wrestling

• The nation's 18^th-ranked Mavericks opened up RMAC action with a 24-13 road win at New Mexico Highlands on Sunday in Las Vegas, New Mexico.
• The Mavericks won the first three matches to begin the dual and finished with seven victories in the ten total bouts.
• Four Maverick redshirt of true freshman were victorious in their RMAC dual debuts while three of the Mavs' four nationally-ranked wrestlers made their season debuts.
• Owen Cline, ranked fifth at 157 pounds, and Gabriel Carranza, ranked tenth at 197 pounds, were amongst that group and claimed victories.
• The Mavericks also have four wrestlers included in the National Wrestling Coaches Association's Preseason Rankings, released on Oct. 23.
• The Mavs' four ranked wrestlers are Dayson Torgerson (4^th at 125 pounds), Owen Cline (5^t, 157.), Gabriel Carranza (10th, 197) and Alex Casteneda (13^th, 149).
• The Mavs will head to Kearney, Nebraska for Saturday's Younes Hospitality Open, one of the largest collegiate tournaments of the season.  Defending national champion and preseason No. 1 Nebraska-Kearney hosts the event.

Women's Basketball

• The Mavericks, ranked 21^st in the WBCA's NCAA Division II Preseason Coaches' Poll, went 1-1 over the weekend at the D2 Conference Challenge in Texas and are now 4-1 on the season.
• Hallie Clark and Mason Rowland both scored 14 points in Friday's 85-70 loss at #RV West Texas A&M in Canyon, Texas.
• Rowland then scored 24 points and grabbed ten rebounds to register a double-double in Sunday's 57-49 overtime win over UT Permian Basin on Sunday in Odessa.
• Senior Olivia Reed Thyne recorded 11 rebounds over the weekend and now has 1,027 in her career, just five shy of the CMU school-record of 1,032, currently held by Tonya Stites.
• Maverick 14^th year Head Coach Taylor Wagner now has 298 career victories, just one shy of Steve Kirkham's CMU record of 299.
• Wagner will look to tie and break the record this weekend when the Mavs head to Salt Lake City for a pair of neutral-site match-ups at the Westminster Classic.  They will face Texas A&M-Kingsville on Friday at 4 p.m. and Alaska Fairbanks on Saturday at 3 p.m.
• The Kingsville Javelinas have not played an official game yet but did win 76-62 over McMurry in an exhibition game on Saturday.  They went 18-12 last year.
• The Alaska Nanooks went 0-2 last week falling 98-76 to Hawai'i Hilo and 104-72 to the Master's (Calif.) in a home tournament.

Men's Basketball

• The Mavericks opened the season going 1-1 at the D2 Conference Challenge in Dallas, Texas.
• They opened the season with 78-77 win over national poll No. 3 Dallas Baptist as Ty Allred hit a game-winning buzzer-beat 3-pointer.
• Newcomer Cohenj Gonzales scored 20 points in that win and had 15 more in Saturday's 72-62 loss to St. Edward's.
• Harvey White had 18 points in Friday's win over DBU while Allred had 15 points and eight rebounds.
• Mason Honeyman joined Gonzales with 15 points in Saturday's game against St. Edward's.
• Friday's win over DBU was the Mavs' first over a nationally-ranked opponent in second year head coach Mike Dunlap's tenure with the Mavs.
• CMU will continue tournament play this weekend heading to Durango to two more Lone Star Conference and South Central Regional foes in Lubbock Christian and Western New Mexico at Fort Lewis' Skyhawks Hardwood Classic.
• The Mavs will play at 5 p.m. each evening.
• Lubbock Christian is ranked 25^th in the NABC Preseason Poll and is off to a 4-0 start, including a 63-58 home win over No. 10 Colorado School of Miens this past Friday.
• Western New Mexico is 1-1 beat New Mexico Highlands before falling to Fort Lewis this past weekend at home in Silver City, New Mexico.
• The Mavs received two votes in the NABC Preseason Poll.

Football

• The Mavs (6-5, 5-4 RMAC) battled No. 18 Western Colorado before falling 42-28 to the playoff bound Mountaineers in their season finale on Saturday in Gunnison.
• Cole Hansen became the Mavs' first 300-yard passer since 2022 as he completed 29 of 46 passes for 332 yards and three touchdowns.
• Trek Keyworth caught 11 of those passes for 135 yards and two scores.
• Alex Turpin also caught a touchdown pass while Brandon Belgrave ran for a score.
• Aiden Taylor also ran for 61 yards to become CMU's first running back with more than 1,000 yards since David Tann in 2017.  Taylor finished with 1,021 yards and ten touchdowns while Belgrave scored eight times.
• Kash Bradley made ten tackles to lead the Maverick defense in Saturday's game while George Soppe finished the season with a team-high 95.
• The Mavs recorded their third straight winning season and finished tied for fourth in the RMAC standings.
• Three RMAC teams were selected for the NCAA Division II Playoffs.
• All-RMAC honors will be announced on Friday.

Men's Soccer

• All-RMAC honors were announced last week and saw Manuel Ponce Casas and Nathan Hernandez land on the first team unit.
• Mattteo Bonelli, George Jones and Kensho Negi all picked up Honorable Mention accolades.
• Ponce Casas was also named to the RMAC All-Academic First Team and led 12 Mavericks on the RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll.
• He finished the year with a team-leading nine goals this season and ends his career with 27 goals and 66 offensive points to rank third (goals) and tie for third (points) in program history.
• Hernandez had eight goals this season.
• 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.

Bootleg Ball

• CMU Athletics will host a Bootleg Ball fundraising event from 6-10 p.m. on Friday, December 12 in Brownson Arena.
• It is a "Roaring 20's" themed event
• Tickets are $75 for general admission and $100 for VIP Speakeasy access and can be purchased at https://engage.supportingcmu.org/event/bootleg-ball-in-brownson-or-athletics-fundraiser/e741744.

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.