INDIANAPOLIS— Agata Naskret smashed her own NCAA Division II record in the 100-yard backstroke as the lead-off leg on the Colorado Mesa University women's 400-yard medley relay team that successfully defended the national title in school-record time on Thursday night here at the IU Natatorium.
 
Naskret posted a time of 51.53 seconds as the Mavs opened up a huge lead before Antonia Leese, Kiara Borchardt and Ada Qunell brought the Mavs home to a time of 3:37.54, nearly a half-second quicker than runner-up Drury and nearly a full second below their title-winning and school-record time of 3:58.52 from a year ago.
 
Naskret, Borchardt and Qunell were all on that team last year while Leese has become the Mavs' top breaststroker this season after transferring from NCAA Division III Southwestern (Texas) this year.
 
Naskret, a junior from Poland, has now won six NCAA Division II titles over the past two years, matching the all-time CMU all-sports record held by former swimming great Ben Sampson and diver extraordinaire Ammar Hassan.  Leese, who swam the breaststroke leg in 1:01.62 is a first time national champion while Borchardt won her second title as the Mavs' butterflyer.  She completed her leg in 54.88 seconds before Qunell, a junior from Whitefish, Montana, won her fourth career national relay title, busting out a fine 49.51 second split on the freestyle leg, the second fastest in the heat and third fastest overall.
 
Although relay splits from the second, third and fourth legs are not counted for record purposes because they start with a relay exchange rather than a flat start, it is worth noting that Qunell's split is lower than her school-record mark of 49.96 seconds.
 
Naskret's lead-off leg time was more than four tenths of a second faster than her former national-record time of 51.93 seconds, that she posted at altitude during the Mavs' mid-season invitational in November.  She will be the top seed in both the 100 and 200 backstroke events, which will be contested on Friday and Saturday.
 
The Mav women also received a first team all-America effort from Sophia Bains in the 400 individual medley and three second team efforts in the 200 freestyle and another from Borchardt in the 100 fly as they moved back into third place in the team standings through the third of five days of the meet.
 
The CMU women now have 174 points.  Drury holds a narrow 8-point lead with 262 while Nova Southeastern, which won last year's title by 25 ½ half over the Mavs, is in second with 254.  Indianapolis is fourth with 169.
 
Meanwhile, the CMU men are tied for ninth place and now have 75 team points after the Mavs had five scoring efforts in the consolation finals of individual events before taking tenth in the 400 medley relay to cap the night.
 
Borchardt started the night, taking sixth in the consolation final and 14^th overall in the 100 Fly, posting a time of 55.23 seconds, slightly quicker than her morning preliminary round time of 55.26.  The Alaskan junior is now a 9-time all-American.

Bains then claimed her fifth CSCAA All-America honor, placing sixth in the 400 IM, an event that she has qualified for the championship final in each of the last three years.  The senior from Colorado Springs touched in 4:18.68, less than a second off her altitude-adjusted career best of 4:17.81.
 
The Mavs picked up 13 team points with that effort and then scored 14 more in the 200 Free as Olivia Hansson, Katerina Matoskova and Kendyll Wilkinson all swam in the consolation final.
 
Hansson took second in the heat and tenth overall with a career-best time of 1:49.06 and has now won three all-America certificates this week and eight in her career.
 
Matoskova, now a 16-time all-American was just one place back in 1:49.64 while Wilkinson, the Mavs' school-record holder in the discipline finished in 1:50.18 to take 16^th.  The Grand Junction freshman now has two all-America honors this week.
 
Leese, who helped the Mavs to a fourth place finish in Wednesday's 200 medley relay, also has two All-America honors this week while Qunell now has 11 over the last three years.  Naskret now has ten.
 
The Maverick men scored in three of the day's five events as eight different men claimed Second Team CSCAA All-America honors.
 
In the afternoon, divers Ryan Campbell and David Roethlisberger picked up their first career honors at the Division II level.  Campbell finished third in the consolation final of the 3-meter event, taking tenth place points.  He scored 492.10 points in the consolation final after qualifying with a score of 451.40.  The Delmar, New York native had won the event at the National Junior College Athletic Association level last year for Monroe Community College.
 
Roethlisberger, a junior from Blacksburg, Viriginia, took 14^th with a consolation final score of 462.95 points.
 
The Mavs also picked up team points in the 400 IM as freshman Ben Vester garnered his first all-America certificate, placing fourth in the consolation final to record a 12^th place finish overall.  He touched in 3:53.74.  Luka Samsonov also picked up his first all-America honor, placing 15^th in 3:57.19.
 
The Mavs' medley relay squad of Andrew Scoggin, Max Ayres, Dejan Urbanek and Austin Patterson then claimed a tenth place finish in a time of 3:11.12. 
 
Scoggin, now a 7-time all-American finished the backstroke leg in 46.64 seconds before Ayres claimed his fourth honor, turning in a 53.15 split in the breaststroke.  Urbanek now has 14 all-America honors.  He posted a split of 47.76 seconds in the butterfly leg before Patterson turned in a 43.57-second split to garner his second career honor.
 
The meet continues on Friday morning with preliminary heats in 500 Free, 100 Back, 100 Breast and 200 Fly at 10 a.m. EDT (8 a.m. Mountain).  The women's 3-meter diving preliminaries will begin three hours later at 1 p.m. EDT (11 a.m. Mountain).