General 11/24/2025 7:32:00 AM Chris Day - CMU Sports Information

What to Watch For (Week of Nov. 24)

A weekly rundown and look ahead at the happenings of CMU Athletics

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Friday, November 28
Men's & Women's Basketball host Maverick Thanksgiving Classic

Noon- Fort Lewis vs. Sul Ross State (Women)
2 pm.- Western Colorado vs. Montana State Billings (Men)
5 p.m.- Colorado Mesa vs. Simon Fraser (Women)
7 p.m.- Colorado Mesa vs. Texas A&M International (Men)

Saturday, November 29
Men's & Women's Basketball host Maverick Thanksgiving Classic

Noon- Fort Lewis vs. Simon Fraser (Women)
2 pm.- Western Colorado vs. Texas A&M-International (Men)
5 p.m.- Colorado Mesa vs. Sul Ross State (Women)
7 p.m.- Colorado Mesa vs. Montana State Billings (Men)

Full Composite Calendar: https://cmumavericks.com/calendar?date=11/24/2025&vtype=list

Women's Basketball

Maverick 14^th Year Head Coach Taylor Wagner matched and then surpassed the CMU basketball record (men's & women's) for coaching victories while reaching the 300 milestone as the Mavericks won a pair of neutral-site games at the Westminster Classic in Salt Lake City over the Utah.
The wins were the 299^th and 300^th of his career and came over Texas A&M-Kingsville (68-39) and Alaska-Fairbanks (102-53) on Friday and Saturday.
Wagner surpassed Steve Kirkham's CMU women's coaching record as well as the Mavs' overall basketball coaching record of 299 wins, jointly held by Kirkham, Doug Schackel and Jim Heaps.
Maverick all-American Olivia Reed Thyne also set a CMU record for career rebounds in Friday's 29-point win over Javelinas. She had 12 points and nine rebounds in that game, passing Tonya Stites' former record of 1,032.
Reed Thyne then had 17 points and seven rebounds in Saturday's win and now has 1,043 career rebounds.
Freshman Brooke Harding made her debut in Friday's win and finished with a game-high 16 points on 6-for-9 shooting, including a 3-for-5 effort from 3-point territory.
Mason Rowland and Hallie Clark tied for the game-high with 18 points in Saturday's win over the Alaska Nanooks as the Mavs eclipsed the 100-point mark for the first time since Jan. 14, 2017.
Rowland also had a double-double with ten rebounds while adding five assists and three steals.
Fourteen different Mavericks scored while 16 played in Saturday's blowout win.
The Mavericks retained their No. 21 spot in the WBCA's NCAA Division II Preseason Coaches' Poll and are now 5-1 this season.
They will be at home this week hosting Simon Fraser and Sul Ross State in the Maverick Thanksgiving Classic on Friday and Saturday respectively. The Mavs will play at 5 p.m. each evening.
The Fort Lewis women are also in the tournament and will play at Noon each day against the same two opponents in opposite order.
The complete tournament schedule can be seen here.

Men's Basketball

The Mavericks dropped two tight games at the Skyhawks Hardwood Classic in Durango over the weekend, falling to 1-3 on the season.
They lost 77-75 to No. 25 Lubbock Christian in Friday's game despite a career-high 29 points from Mason Honeyman, who had 21 at halftime.
Ty Allred and Cohenj Gonzales both added 14 points while Allred recorded a double-double with 10 rebounds.
Allred then had another double-double with 23 points and a career-high 17 rebounds, the highest rebounding total for any Maverick since 2016 in Saturday's 78-70 loss to Western New Mexico.
Allred, Honeyman and Gonzales are all averaging 15.0 points per game to share the team scoring lead while Allred is also averaging 9.8 rebounds per game to rank second in the early season RMAC statistics.
Gonzales leads the RMAC in 3-point field goal percentage (.556).

Women's Soccer

The Mavericks saw their historic season come to an end with a 1-0 double overtime loss to Texas Woman's in the first round of the NCAA Tournament in Dallas, Texas on Friday.
The Mavs were making their third consecutive and seventh overall appearance in the NCAA Tournament.
They finished the season with a 14-3-3 record and allowed just six goals throughout the entire season to match the RMAC record.
They and junior goalkeeper Keely Wieczorek, who did not play on Friday due to injury, registered a school-record 15 shutouts, including a RMAC record 12 consecutive during conference play as the Mavs became the first RMAC team in conference history to not allow a single goal in conference play en route to the title and a 9-0-2 league mark.
The Mavs set school records for goals against average (0.297) and save percentage (.906) while Wieczorek set marks for goals against average (0.263) and save percentage (.914).
Wieczorek also set RMAC records for consecutive shutouts (12) and shutout streak (1159 minutes, 27 seconds), the sixth longest streak in Division II history.
Ally Wachtel set a new CMU record on Friday, making her 80^th career start. She also played in her 81^st game, a new CMU high for players in a 4-year career.
The Mavericks dominated possession in Friday's game and finished with an 18-10 advantage in total shots. Kylie Wells took five while Parker Mairs had four.
The Maverick defense allowed just three shots on goal.

Swimming & Diving

The Mavericks fared quite well in the 15^th annual TYR/CMU Invitational, held last Wednesday through Saturday in the El Pomar Natatorium.
The Mavericks set well more than 100 NCAA "B" cut times throughout the week and had 13 different divers surpass the NCAA qualifying standards on both boards.
The Mavs set 11 new school records during the meet.
Full recaps of each day can be seen here: Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday
CMU's men scored 1,744 team points, just ten shy of the meet record, to win the meet for the ninth straight and 14^th time. They won 18 of the 21 events.
CMU's women also won for the 11^th straight time, besting NCAA Division I Northern Arizona as well as Mines. The Mavs won 13 women's events.
The Maverick men also claimed a 16-3 diving dual win over Mines on Saturday.
Guillaume Guth set three individual school records and helped the Maverick men set new school marks in three different relays.
Ada Qunell broke two school records, taking down the Mavs' oldest former record in the 100 Fly that had stood since 2019. She also set another meet and pool record in the 100 Free, a mark that had been on the record board since 2018.
Olivia Hansson also broke her own school record in the 1650 Free while winning all four of her individual events to top the meet with 80 individual points.
Aron Jonsson (200 Breast), Oskar Sawicki (50 Butterfly) also set new CMU records.
Kenya Meyer broke the meet record in both diving events and the pool record in the 3-meter while sweeping victory in the women's diving disciplines.
Jax Juarros won both of the men's diving events during the invitational before taking second behind teammate Ryan Campbell on the 3-meter during Saturday's dual meet win over Mines.
Guth (100 Free) and Luka Samsonov (400 IM) now lead the nation in their respective events on the men's side.
Qunell (100 Free, 200 Free), Hansson (500 Free, 1000 Free), Taylar Hooton (100 Back), Abby Uhl (200 Back) and the 800 Free Relay team all lead the country on the women's.
CMU will next compete at the UNLV Invitational (Dec. 15-17)

Women's Cross Country

The Mavericks recorded their best ever national championship finish in program history, taking 20^th at Saturday's NCAA Division II National Championships in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
They finished matched their No. 20 ranking in the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association's NCAA Division II Coaches Poll.
Megan Hodges finished 37^th individually to earn USTFCCCA All-America honors, which go to the top 40 finishers at the national meet.
She is just the third CMU Women's Cross Country All-American joining 2-time honoree Alexis Skarda (2008, 2010) and current teammate Kira MacGill (2022).
Megan (21:02.8) and twin-sister Lauren Hodges (22:24.6), who was CMU's fifth runner in 159^th overall place, both set new 6K personal best times.

Volleyball

The Mavericks (17-10) advanced to their sixth straight RMAC Tournament semifinal but saw their conference tournament run come to an end in that round last week.
The Mavs claimed a 5-set road thriller last Tuesday at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden before falling to top-seeded and eventual champion MSU Denver at the Roadrunners' Auraria Event Center in Denver on Friday.
The Mavs are still hoping to continue the season in the NCAA Tournament and will learn their fate in Monday evening's NCAA Tournament selection show that will air on NCAA.com at 5:30 p.m. MST.
The Mavs were ranked eighth in last week's NCAA South Central Regional rankings and beat fourth-ranked Mines. MSU Denver was ranked first and is likely to be named as the regional tournament hosts and top seeds.
Maverick sophomore Karsen Breeding was named to the RMAC All-Tournament Team after recording a career-high 17 kills in the quarterfinal win over Mines before adding a team-high nine at MSU Denver.
Macy Wood also had a career-high 16 kills on .452 hitting in the win over Mines.
Sadie Scoville had 25 kills and a career-high 23 digs and became the first Maverick to surpass 20 in both categories in the same match since 2017.
Libero Allison Waller had 26 digs against Mines and 20 against MSU Denver to record her fourth and fifth 20+ plus efforts of the season. She has had three straight and four in the last six matches, reaching 18 and 19 in the other two.
Scoville led five Mavericks named to the All-RMAC units, picking up first team honors. She is now a 4-time overall and repeat first team pick after garnering 2024 first team and 2022 and 2023 second team honors at CSU Pueblo.
Waller as well as freshmen Henley Madsen and Ashlyn Tafoya were all second team picks while Aesha Alrashed earned honorable mention accolades.
Alrashed became the first Maverick to surpass the 100 block mark since 2018 in the Mines match and now has 106 this season.
Scoville and Waller had also been named as the RMAC Offensive & Defensive Players of the Week last Monday (Nov. 17).

Women's Wrestling

The Mavericks, ranked fifth nationally, competed at the Missouri Valley Open in Marshall, Missouri last weekend.
Two Mavericks placed in the prestigious tournament as Adrianna Gomez finished fifth at 110 pounds while Mia Zuniga placed eighth at 103 pounds.
Eight Mavs had advanced to the second day of the tournament.
The Mavs will be off for Thanksgiving before returning to mat on Sunday, Dec. 7 when they will travel to Iowa City, Iowa to dual the top-ranked Iowa Hawkeyes at the Carver-Hawkeye Arena. The Mavs will also face the Oklahoma State Club team that day.

Men's Wrestling

The nation's 18^th-ranked Mavericks were in tournament action on Saturday, competing in Nebraska-Kearney's Younes Hospitality Open.
Five Mavericks placed in the massive tournament.
Freshman Gunnar Neal led the way with a runner-up finish in the 174-pound amateur division bracket.
Fellow 174-pound freshman Levi DiCugno finished third in the elite division.
Tanner Stone, who was fourth in the 133-pound intermediate division, Patrick Preston (5^th, 149 pound intermediate division) and Gabriel Carranza (6^th, 197 pound elite division) also placed for the Mavs.
The Mavs will be off for Thanksgiving before returning to action on Thursday, Dec. 4 when the Mavs will host arch-rival Western Colorado in a non-conference dual.

Football

The Mavs had 12 selections to the All-RMAC units, announced on Friday.
Senior running back Aiden Taylor was a first team selection after garnering second team honors last year.
Fellow running back Brandon Belgrave, tight end Alex Turpin as well as linemen Calem Grimble and Cooper Munford were all second team selection on offense. Safety Gibson Leafgreen, punter Sullivan Moon and long snapper Austin Contreras also earned second team honors.
Kash Bradley, Trek Keyworth, Max Kibbee and George Soppe all claimed honorable mention accolades.

Bootleg Ball

CMU 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.

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Players Mentioned

#20 Parker Mairs: F; 5' 8"; Sophomore

#10 Ally Wachtel: D; 5' 6"; Senior

#11 Kylie Wells: F; 5' 5"; Senior

#30 Keely Wieczorek: G; 5' 3"; Junior

#4 Aesha Alrashed: MB; 6' 0"; Redshirt Junior; NORCO

#14 Allison Waller: L; 5' 6"; Senior; NORCO

#1 Ashlyn Tafoya: S; 5' 10"; Freshman; Colorado Juniors

#6 Sadie Scoville: OH; 6' 0"; Senior; Club V

#12 Macy Wood: MB; 5' 11"; Junior; Club V

#16 Henley Madsen: OPP; 6' 0"; Freshman; Club V

Players Mentioned

#20 Parker Mairs
: 5' 8"; Sophomore
: F

#10 Ally Wachtel
: 5' 6"; Senior
: D

#11 Kylie Wells
: 5' 5"; Senior
: F

#30 Keely Wieczorek
: 5' 3"; Junior
: G

#4 Aesha Alrashed
: 6' 0"; Redshirt Junior; NORCO
: MB

#14 Allison Waller
: 5' 6"; Senior; NORCO
: L

#1 Ashlyn Tafoya
: 5' 10"; Freshman; Colorado Juniors
: S

#6 Sadie Scoville
: 6' 0"; Senior; Club V
: OH

#12 Macy Wood
: 5' 11"; Junior; Club V
: MB

#16 Henley Madsen
: 6' 0"; Freshman; Club V
: OPP