LAS VEGAS— Guillaume Guth and
Aron Jonsson both won events as the Colorado Mesa University men's swimming and diving team capped a convincing victory at the UNLV Finis Invitational, which wrapped up Wednesday night here in the Rebels' Buchanan Natatorium.
The Maverick men scored 996 ½ team points and won the meet by 207 points over host UNLV (789 ½) and three other NCAA Division I opponents in Wyoming (611), Cal Baptist (610) and the University of the Pacific (504).
CMU's women also defeated three Division I squads and finished third out of seven teams with 688 ½ points with only UNLV (980) and Tulane (781 ½) finishing ahead of the Mavs.
Guth claimed his second individual and sixth total win of the meet, taking the 100-yard freestyle in 43.57 seconds as he out-touched UNLV's Ambrus Barcsak by a single hundredth of a second.
Meanwhile, Jonsson claimed the 200 breaststroke in 1:57.31.
Marcos Otero also reached the final, cruising to eight place.
Miles Moran also won the consolation final in 2:00.99.
The Maverick women picked up a second place finish from
Hanna Sasivarevic, who posted a time of 16:59.26 in the 1,650 freestyle, the first event of the evening and a discipline win that the Maverick men did not compete in.
Abby Uhl then led the Maverick women in the 200 backstroke as she finished fifth in 2:00.06 after
Taylar Hooton won the "B" final in 2:03.27.
Luka Samsonov also took fifth in the men's half of the event, finishing in 1:48.86 after swimming to a time of 1:48.23 in the morning preliminaries.
Ethan Viescas (1:49.78) and
Jackson Moe (1:49.83) also broke 1:50 and took the top two spots in the consolation final.
Ada Qunell then took eighth in the women's 100 free after qualifying for it in 50.22 seconds minutes before Guth's victory.
Maya Clise then took eighth in the women's 200 breast in 2:21.13 after qualifying in 2:20.71, less than a second off her season-best.
The Maverick women also had two finalists in the 200 butterfly final as
Amber Siverts placed seventh while
Kiara Borchardt took eighth. They had qualified in 2:04.65 and 2:04.74, respectively.
Freshman
Micah Moore then turned in a solid third place time of 1:47.19 in the men's half of the event.
The Mavs then finished the meet in the 400 free relay with the men's quartet of Guth, Otero,
Oskar Sawicki and Marcus Pineiro combining for a season-best time of 2:54.31, which moved the Mavs up to fourth in the nation this season.
The women's group of Hooton,
Reagan Horn, Sasivarevic and Hooton took sixth in 3:25.55.
In the afternoon, the Maverick divers contested the "A" finals of the men's 3-meter and women's 1-meter that had held preliminary and consolation finals on Tuesday.
David Roethlisberger led four men scoring 315.15 points to take second on the taller springboard.
Ryan Campbell also easily surpassed the NCAA qualifying standard, placing third with 308.80 points.
Giani Benoit finished sixth with 269.05 points while
Ty Mitton took eighth (219.30).
Kenya Meyer (246.15),
Jenna Hurley (242.40) and
Emma Lence (237.85) finished sixth through eight for the Maverick women.
The Mavericks will now scatter for the holiday break before returning to competition on Jan. 17, 2026 when the Mavs will take on Denver and Wyoming at the University of Denver.
