GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.— The Colorado Mesa University swimming & diving teams swept the four 200-yard medley relay races and took the top four spots in the women's 200-yard individual medley, helping to allow the Mavericks to extend their team-scoring leads after the second of five days of competition in the 2025 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Championships, which continued Wednesday here at the El Pomar Natatorium.
 
The Maverick women also went 1-2 in the 1-meter diving event, 2-3 in the 1000 free and 2-4 in the 50 free to top the current team standings with 555 points, 228 clear of second place Simon Fraser, who in turn leads third-place Colorado School of Mines by 8 ½ more.
 
Meanwhile, the CMU men also collected a medal sweep in the 50 free and end Wednesday's action with 279 ½ points, 36 ahead of Mines.
 
In addition to their three individual wins and eight other medal-winning efforts throughout the evening, the Maverick men and women swept the "A" and the "B" 200 medley relay races to cap another strong day of efforts.
 
The evening's action began in the women's 1000 free as Simon Fraser's Tori Meklensek, posted a NCAA Division II Championship automatic qualifying time of ten minutes, five seconds (9:53.60-altitude adjusted) to take the win ahead of CMU junior Olivia Hansson, who finished in 10:07.45, just 1.24 seconds off her own school record.
 
Meanwhile, CMU sophomore Hanna Sasivarevic moved all the way to the No. 3 spot in program history with a bronze-medal winning time of 10:12.98 (10:01.58-converted).  Fellow sophomore Sydnee O'Neil also set a personal-best and NCAA provisional qualifying mark of 10:19.71 (10:08.31-converted) to place sixth.
 
The CMU women then dominated the 200 IM as senior Sophia Bains won her first career RMAC title in 2:03.49 as the Mavs took each of the top four spots with Tori Bartusiak (2:06.06), Kate Speerschneider (2:06.40) claiming medals while Taylar Hooton (2:06.46) was in fourth.   Bartusiak and Hooton's times were both new personal bests as well as Hooton, a freshman, moved into the No. 10 spot of CMU history with her other three teams standing higher on the list in the No. 3, 8 and 9 spots, respectively.
 
In the 50 free, Agata Naskret claimed the silver medal in 22.95 seconds while Elli Williams took fourth in 23.43.  Oklahoma Christian's Tammy Greenwood claimed the win in 22.90 seconds.
 
On the diving boards, junior Kenya Meyer won her third career RMAC title with 459.50 points, edging teammate Jenna Hurley, who scored 457.30 to take the silver.  Meyer had set the MRAC Championship record of 470.70 points in 2024.
 
Meanwhile, CMU's Mimi Licht finished fourth with 425.40 points while Talia Datilio, who was competing as an exhibition diver, tallied the highest preliminary round score of 460.50 points but was not eligible to move on to the final. 
 
Fellow exhibition divers Emma Lence (419.85) and Juli Holt (396.85) also eclipsed the NCAA Division II Pre-Championship qualifying standard of 390 points in the preliminary round.
 
The Maverick women then dominated the 200 medley relay as Naskret, Maddi Moran, Kiara Borchardt and Elli Williams took the title by more than four seconds in 1:41.29.
 
Hooton, Speerschneider, Anna Beck and Bartusiak also won the "B" final to place tenth overall in 1:42.86, a time that was 2.6 seconds quicker than the Mines "A" squad, which won the silver medal.
 
The Maverick men were also to control the relays as Andrew Scoggin, Forrest Frazier, Dejan Urbanek and Jameson McEnaney won the gold in 1:27.55, 1.33 seconds quicker than Mines' time.
 
The CMU secondary unit of Luka Samsonov, Max Ayres, Austin Patterson and Braden Felio asl won the earlier "B" heat in 1:28.84.
 
Earlier, the Mavericks claimed three medals in the 50 free as German freshman Richard Schmiedefeld won the gold in 19.98 seconds, matching his season-best.   Patterson took the silver in 20.32 seconds while Kuba Kiszczak tied Mines' Michael Keitzman for third in 20.40 seconds.
 
Jackson Moe, who finished fifth in 20.45 seconds, and McEnaney, who touched just behind in 20.46 to take sixth, were also in the championship race.
 
Elsewhere, Jacob Troescher took fifth in the 1000 free with a time of 9:33.23 while Gavyn Tatge finished seventh in 9:34.52.
 
Jason McMechan then finished sixth in the 200 IM with a time of 1:51.86 after the Mavs took the top three spots in the "B" final with Ayres touching first in that race with a time of 1:51.68.
 
The Mavs also fared well in time trials at the end of the night as Mauricio Posadas, John Walgast and Lucas Viana all set NCAA "B" cut times in the 200 IM while Reagan Horn blazed to a time of 22.95 seconds in the 50 free, moving into second place on the CMU all-time charts behind only Naskret.
 
Holden Convertino also set a NCAA provisional time of 20.28 in the men's 50 free time trial while Kate Leary (55.89) and Amber Siverts (2:03.57) did the same in the women's 100 back and 200 fly, respectively.
 
After winning the RMAC title in the main sessions, Schmiedefeld also moved up two spots to third in program history in the 200 back with a time of 1:46.33 (1:46.13-converted).
 
Canadian freshman Brodie Khajuria also put down an impressive 200 breast time trial time of 1:59.71 (1:58.51-converted) to move into fourth in program history while likely qualifying for the national championships.
 
Thursday's portion of the meet will begin at 10 a.m. with preliminary heats in three events.  Men's 3-meter diving preliminaries will begin at 2 p.m. while the night's finals will get underway at 5:30 p.m.