GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.—  The Colorado Mesa University swimming and diving teams recorded one of the best days in Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference history, claiming eight event wins while setting four new championship records on Friday, the penultimate day of competition at the 2025 RMAC Championships here inside the El Pomar Natatorium.
 
The history-making story lines were plentiful, both in the swimming pool and the diving well as the nation's top-ranked Maverick women claimed five wins and all four of the newest RMAC Championship records.  Agata Naskret, who set two individual and a relay record during the night, and Kenya Meyer also broke their own school records for the CMU women.
 
Meanwhile, Dejan Urbanek completed his fourth consecutive RMAC butterfly sweep while team captain Andrew Scoggin claimed his long-awaited first individual RMAC title.  Antonia Leese and Tori Bartusiak also won their first individual RMAC crowns while Scoggin anchored the Mavs to the 200-yard freestyle relay win as the Mavs continued their RMAC relay dominance.
 
Set up by a very strong morning preliminary session, the Maverick women scored 570 more points in the six women's events contested on Friday, raising their meet total to 1,493, which is already well above the former championship record of 1,325 team points with still a day to go.
 
The Mavs, gunning for a RMAC-record extending seventh straight team title, are now 612 ahead of Simon Fraser, who is clinging to an 8 ½-point edge on the Colorado School of Mines in what should be a quite a battle for second place throughout the final day of the meet on Saturday.
 
The CMU men also extended their lead to 194 points over Mines, getting wins in three of Thursday's five events and are also now just one day away from a likely seventh straight team title.
 
Beyond the records, the depth and tradition of the Maverick program was on full display throughout the night.

Naskret, a 5-event NCAA Division II National Champion, and the 2023-24 RMAC Swimmer of the Year, provided the first highlight, taking the 100 back in 52.27 seconds, just under her 1-day old RMAC Championship record of 52.28 that she used to propel CMU to a 400-yard medley relay conference championship record on Thursday.
 
The Mavs had four of the top six finishers and five in the finals of that event as freshman Taylar Hooton placed second in 54.51 seconds while Katerina Matoskova finished fourth in 55.56 ahead of Anna Beck (56.58) and Kendyll Wilkinson (57.17), who took sixth and eighth, respectively.
 
Minutes later, Scoggin claimed the men's event in 47.27 seconds, claiming his seventh of now eight overall RMAC titles, which until Friday and all been set in relays.  However, this was the senior's first individual title.
 
Luka Samsonov also claimed the bronze medal in 48.44 seconds while Kuba Kiszczak, Richard Schmiedefeld and Jackson Moe all swam in the championship final, placing fifth, seventh and eighth, respectively.
 
Leese, a transfer from Division III Southwestern University in her home state of Texas, then posted a wire-to-wire win in the 100 breaststroke, claiming the gold in 1:02.86.  Maddi Moran also reached the final, placing eight in 1:06.79.
 
The Maverick men also claimed a pair of medals in the breaststroke as Cal transfer Forrest Frazier took the silver in 54.39 seconds while Mav sophomore Max Ayres claimed the bronze in 54.51 seconds.
 
Riding the momentum, the Maverick women then swept the medals in the 200 butterfly as Bartusiak won her first RMAC title in 2:04.12, just ahead of 100 fly winner Kiara Borchardt (2:04.20) and CMU sophomore Sydnee O'Neil (2:04.28).
 
Urbanek, who now has 16 total RMAC titles to his credit, including five this week alone, the dominated the men's 200 fly, winning in 1:47.43, nearly two seconds ahead of silver medalist Jarod Arroyo of Oklahoma Christian.  Urbanek has now swept both the 100 and 200 fly events in all four years of his illustrious Maverick career, winning eight individual conference crowns and eight on the Mavs' talented relay squads.
 
The Mav women then went 1-2-3 in the women's 3-meter diving competition as Meyer zoomed past the former RMAC Championship, pool and her own school records in both the afternoon preliminary round and the evening finals.
 
In the finals, she scored 541.70 points, to best her preliminary round score of 522.70 points.  Teammates Jenna Hurley (529.90) and Mimi Licht (500.50) also bested the former RMAC Championship record of 490.10 points, which had stood for 12 years.  Meyer had also held the pool and school records of 522.20 points coming into the day.
 
Meyer also won the 1-meter diving title on Wednesday and is now assured of being named as the outright RMAC Championship Women's Diver of the Meet on Saturday night after sharing that honor with teammates in each of the past two years.  The Bozeman, Montana native now has four gold and two silver medals in six RMAC Championship events throughout her career.
 
Following the strong diving display, action returned to the relays as the Mavericks continued their nearly 2-year old RMAC Championship relay unbeaten streak, taking both the "A" and the "B" heats in both the men's and women's 200 free.
 
The women's "A" quartet of Naskret, Elli Williams, Bartusiak and Ada Qunell set a new RMAC Championship record time of 1:31.64, besting last year's winning time of 1:13.83.  Naskret also broke her own school and pool records with her 50 free lead-off split of 22.72, which was a single one hundredth of a second under the former RMAC Championship record of 22.73, set by Oklahoma Baptist's Victoria Fonville in 2019.
 
The CMU "B" squad of Hooton, Beck, Borchardt and Hanna Sasivarevic had won an earlier heat in 1:35.13.
 
The Maverick men also swept the relays with Kiszczak, Schmiedefeld, Jameson McEnaney and Scoggin winning the gold in 1:19.28, nearly two seconds ahead of Mines.  Marcos Otero, Frazier, Austin Patterson and Braden Felio won the "B" final in 1:20.71, which was also faster than Mines' top time.
 
At the start of the night, the Mavericks also claimed two medals in the women's 500 free as Olivia Hansson took second in 4:54.39, just behind Simon Fraser standout Tori Meklensek, who has now won three freestyle titles this week.  Matoskova also earned the bronze in 4:54.39 in the first half of her 500 free/200 back double.  Sasivarevic also finished fifth in 5:01.38 while O'Neil took eighth in 5:11.55 before winning the bronze in the 200 fly.

The CMU men also had three finalists in the 500 free as Jacob Troescher led the way, placing fifth in 4:35.10.