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Friday, November 7
6 p.m. – Volleyball vs. Chadron State (Parent's Night)
 
Saturday, November 8
2 p.m.- Football vs. South Dakota Mines (Senior Day)
5 pm.- Volleyball vs. Regis (Senior Night)
 
Sunday, November 9
TBA- Women's Soccer – Possible RMAC Tournament Quarterfinal
TBA- Men's Soccer – Possible RMAC Tournament Quarterfinal

Full Composite Calendar: https://cmumavericks.com/calendar?date=11/3/2025&vtype=list
 
Women's Soccer

• The Mavericks, ranked 20^th  in last week's national poll, remained unbeaten in RMAC play and posted their ninth and tenth straight shutouts, tying 14^th-ranked UCCS 0-0 on Thursday night before dominating Regis, 2-0 on Sunday afternoon.
• Both opponents were amongst the South Central Region's top eight, according to last week's official NCAA Regional Rankings, which also included the Mavs.
• The top eight teams were ranked in alphabetical order in the initial set of rankings, that will be released on numerical order again on Wednesday.
• The Mavericks are now 12-2-2 overall and continue to lead the RMAC standings with a 8-0-2 conference mark, good for 26 points and a 2.60 per point match average.
• They are assured of first or second place in the RMAC standings and would win the regular season title if they are able to match the Colorado School of Mines' result on Wednesday.
• The Mavs are at sixth place Westminster (7-2-6, 4-2-5) in what will be a battle of the conference's two top defenses, which have allowed just nine combined goals throughout the season.  That game will kick-off at 6:30 p.m. and the Mavs will know what they need to do after Mines (12-2-2, 9-1-1 RMAC), ranked seventh nationally, will play at seventh place CSU Pueblo (4-8-5, 3-5-3 RMAC) at 4 p.m. that afternoon.
• The Mavs finished with a 17-9 advantage in total shots in Thursday night's tie against UCCS.
• They then dominated Regis in shots, 21-3 on Sunday.
• Mari Ige and Ellie Duncan scored in the 18^th and 69^th minutes of Sunday's win, respectively.
• Junior goalkeeper Keely Wieczorek extended her school-record for shutouts in a season, recording her 12^th and 13^th of the season.  She made five saves on Thursday and two more against Regis on Sunday.
• She now leads the RMAC while ranking second in the country for shutouts, third for goals against average (0.25) and second for save percentage (.925).
• The Mavs have not conceded a goal in RMAC play and have held opponents scoreless for a combined 927 minutes and 49 seconds of total game time.
• The Mavs have also not conceded a goal in nine home games, going 8-0-1 at home this season.
• The Mavs rank third in the country for goals against average as a team (0.25)
• They are unbeaten at home in 17 games (15-0-2) over the past two seasons and are assured of hosting at least one more game during the RMAC Tournament.
• If they win the regular season title, they would receive a bye all the way to the semifinals and would then host the semifinal and championship rounds on Nov. 12 and Nov. 15, respectively.
• If they end up as the No. 2 seed, they would host an RMAC Tournament quarterfinal this Sunday (Nov. 9) against the winner of the No. 7/8 first round game seed.

Football

• The Mavs (5-4, 4-3 RMAC) won their second straight game while moving above .500 for the first time this season, after claiming a 45-38 road win over Black Hills State on Saturday in Spearfish, South Dakota.
• Quarterback Cole Hansen was 20-for-24 for 291 yards and two touchdowns, all of which were season-high numbers.
• He also ran seven times for 49 yards and a touchdown.
• The Mavs recorded a season-high 516 yards of total offense.
• Brandon Belgrave had ten carries for 117 yards and two touchdowns, including a 75-yard score.
• George Soope had a game-high 13 tackles.
• The Mavericks never trailed in the game.
• The Mavs will try to clinch their third straight winning season on Saturday when the Mavs host South Dakota Mines (2-7, 2-5 RMAC) in the Senior Day contest at 2 p.m. at Stocker Stadium.
• The Mavs will recognize 20 departing players prior to the game at approximately 1:45 p.m.

Men's Soccer

• The Mavs (8-5-3, 5-2-2 RMAC) split their two weekend games, winning 4-2 at Colorado Christian on Friday before dropping Sunday's home match to MSU Denver, 3-0.
• Daniel Paulsson scored two first half goals, just 4:42 apart, in Friday's win, which saw the Mavs take a 4-1 halftime lead.
• Connor Chilson (2^nd minute) and Riccardo Legnante (28^th) also scored in the first half.
• Paulsson also had an assist while Matteo Bonelli added two in that game.
• Bonelli now has a team-high six assists this season.
• Alejandro Jimenez made a season-high seven saves.
• The Mavericks are now a part of a 3-way tie for third place in the RMAC standings and have clinched a spot in the RMAC Tournament.  They can finish anywhere between the No. 2 and No. 6 seed for the 6-team affair that will begin on Sunday (Nov. 9).
• The Mavs will wrap up the regular season at Westminster (9-6-2, 5-2-2 RMAC), which is tied with the Mavs and Regis for third in the conference standings.  Kickoff in Salt Lake City is at 4 p.m.
• The top two seeds will have first round byes and will not play until Wednesday, Nov. 12.
• The No. 3 and 4 seeds will host quarterfinal games on Sunday against the No. 6 and 5 seeds, respectively.

Triathlon

• The Mavericks will gun for another high finish at the Women's Collegiate Triathlon National Championships on Saturday in Tempe, Arizona.
• The Mavericks have finished in the top four of Division II teams in each of the past six full seasons and were ranked fourth in the division (14^th overall) in the last regular season editions of the CTCA rankings.
• The Mavericks claimed their seventh straight top-two Division II finish at the West Regional Championships, finishing second in the division and sixth overall in the team standings at Sunday's race in Fort Worth, Texas.
• The Mavericks had three of the division's top seven finishers in freshman Alexandra Schipai, sophomore Shantelle Tupaz and senior Nadine Klive, who earned Collegiate Triathlon Coaches Association All-Region honors.
• Schipai was also named as the All-West Region Freshman.
• The Estonian has led the Mavericks in all three of her races and finished third amongst Division II triathletes at the regional and 30^th overall with a time of 1:09:10.32.

Cross Country

• The Mavs will compete at the NCAA South Central Regional Championships in Pueblo on Saturday morning.
• The Maverick women were ranked 15^th in last week's U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association's National Coaches Poll as the sixth of the eight teams from the region in the poll.
• The Maverick women were also ranked sixth in the USTFCCCA's regional rankings.
• The top three teams in each race will automatically earn spots in the NCAA Division II Championships with ten more at-large spots on offer from the eight regions.
• CMU's women recorded their best RMAC Championship finish in 11 years as they took sixth at the Oct. 25 conference meet in Colorado Springs.
• The Mavericks also had two all-conference performances in the same year for the first time since 2014 as Megan Hodges placed 13^th to earn first team honors while Jordan Staniszewski finished 28^th to garner second team honors.
• Hodges (21:31.7), Staniszewski (21:58.0) and Wehazit Kelati, who was CMU's third finisher in 49^th place and a time of 22:44.8, all had personal-best 6K times.
• The Maverick men finished 11^th and had four freshman in their top five, including Dominick Muller, who led the Mavs with a 55^th place finish.

Volleyball

• The Mavericks (12-9) dropped both of their RMAC Power Pod matches in Denver last Thursday and Friday.
• Henley Madsen and Sadie Scoville had eight kills apiece in Thursday's match at No. 12 MSU Denver.
• Aesha Alrashed had six blocks in that match and five in Friday's match against South Dakota Mines, finishing the weekend averaging 1.83 per set.
• Scoville and Emma Luce both had eight kills against South Dakota Mines.
• Neither match counted in the RMAC standings, that currently see the Mavericks sit in a tie for sixth place at 6-4.
• They will now begin their final push for a RMAC Tournament spot and seeding, playing four teams below them in the conference standings over the next two weeks.
• That stretch begins on Friday when the Mavs host Chadron State (5-17, 1-9 RMAC) on Friday in their Parent's Night match at 6 p.m.
• The Mavs will then play their final regular season home game and Senior Night match against Regis (3-19, 2-8 RMAC) on Saturday at 5 p.m.

Women's Wrestling

• The Mavericks opened up the season with a successful home weekend.
• The Mavs won 18 out of the 20 matches in a tri-meet sweep over Snow (Utah) College and Texas Woman's University on Saturday.
• The Mavs won over Snow 40-5 in an exhibition dual before defeating the TWU Pioneers, 38-6 in the first RMAC dual of the season.
• The Mavericks then had four champions and 20 top-6 placers in Sunday's Maverick Open.
• Lorianna Piestewa (124 pounds), Hania Halverson (131), Gretchen Donally (145) and Jayleen Sekona (207) were all victorious for the Mavs in Sunday's tournament that featured 161 wrestlers from ten teams, a count that also included several unattached or unaffiliated wrestlers.
• The Mavs are also sixth in the preseason edition of the National Wrestling Coaches Association's NCAA Women's Rankings.
• The Mavs have 42 points in the Tournament Power Index with six wrestlers ranked inside the top 10 of their respective weight classes.
• That list includes Piestewa (2^nd, 124 lbs.), Mia Zuniga (4^th, 103 lbs.), Sekona (4^th, 207 lbs.), Bella Morales (5^th, 110 lbs.), Donally (7^th, 145 lbs.) and JoJo McDaniel (10^th, 117 lbs.).

Men's Wrestling

• The nation's 18^th-ranked Mavericks opened the season in strong form on Saturday as a relatively youthful lineup shutout Northeastern Junior College and Colorado Northwestern Community College in a pair of exhibition duals during Saturday's tri-dual.
• The Mavs showed their depth and won all 20 matches in the official duals, recording four pins in the 47-0 win over Northeastern before registering seven pins, a forfeit and two technical fall victories in the 58-0 win over Colorado Northwestern CC.
• The Mavs used just two upperclassmen in the duals as seven different Mavericks made their first dual meet starts of their career.
• 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.
• 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 Castaneda (13^th, 149).
• None of the nationally-ranked wrestlers competed on Saturday.
• CMU's youngsters will continue the season this Sunday at the Mines Rookie Open.

Women's Basketball

• The Mavericks, ranked 21^st in the WBCA's NCAA Division II Preseason Coaches Poll, got the season off to a fine start, going 3-0 at the D2CCA Canadian Tip-Off Classic in Langley, British Columbia, Canada.
• Senior Olivia Reed Thyne averaged 18.0 points and 14.0 rebounds per game throughout the weekend and went over the 1,000 career rebounding milestone in Sunday's 25-point (65-40) win over Saint Martin's.  She had 20 rebounds, including 11 on the offensive end, in that game alone.
• Her 20-rebound effort is one of just six in program history and her second.
• She now has 1,016 career rebounds as one of three Mavs over the 1K milestone.  Reed Thyne also passed Pam DeCosta (1,012) in Sunday's win and is now just 16 rebounds away from matching Tonya Stites (1,032) for the CMU record.
• Reed Thyne also recorded two double-doubles throughout the 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, scoring 19 in Sunday's win.
• On Friday, the Mavericks trailed by six with three minutes remaining but went on a 10-1 run to defeat Western Washington, 65-62.
• Reed Thyne then had 22 points on 9-for-12 shooting in Saturday's 61-54 win over Simon Fraser.  Mykaela Moore and Rowland also added 12 apiece.
• The Mavs are off this week but will return to action on Friday, Nov. 14 at West Texas A&M in the first of two weekend games at the D2 Conference Challenge.
• The Mavs have been picked first in the RMAC Preseason Coaches' Poll, topping the poll with 191 points.  They received nine first place votes.

Swimming & Diving

• The second (women's) and fifth (men's) ranked Maverick squads took on NCAA Division I and Big 12 Conference Utah in a Friday afternoon dual in Salt Lake City.
• Olivia Hansson won both the 500 and 1,000 Free to lead the Maverick women, who fell 192-108 to the Utes.  She was the meet's top point scorer.
• Kiara Borchardt won the 100 fly while Ada Qunnell took the 50 Free.
• Richard Schmeidefeld (50 Free) and Aron Jonsson (200 Breast) also claimed victories for the second straight meet to lead the CMU men in the 228-72 dual.
• Meanwhile, Jax Juarros also surpassed the NCAA Championship qualifying standard with a runner-up finish in the men's 1-meter diving event.
• Fellow diver David Roethlisberger was named as the RMAC Diver of the Week last Thursday for his efforts in the prceeding dual win over the Colorado School of Mines.
• The Mavs are now in preparations for the TYR/CMU Invitational (Nov. 19-22), which has been a bonanza of NCAA Championship qualifying performances in past years.

Men's Basketball

• 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.
• The Mavs will begin the season on Nov. 14 at the D2 Conference Challenge in Dallas.

New AD

• New Director of Athletics Rob Courtney will be formally introduced at a media conference and meet-and-greet at 4:30 p.m. on Friday in the Brownson Arena lobby.
• The event will be held prior to the Mavs' 6 p.m. volleyball match against Chadron State.

Rodeo Gala

• The CMU Rodeo Team will host their fourth annual Rodeo Gala on the evening of Saturday, Nov. 15
• 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