INDIANAPOLIS— For the third straight night, Colorado Mesa University junior Agata Naskret set a NCAA Division II all-time and championship meet record while winning a national title.
 
On Saturday, the Polish junior won her eighth career title as she successfully defended her national title in the 200-yard backstroke with a time of one minute, 53.25 seconds, good for a massive 2.31-second win.
 
Her time also bettered the former national and NCAA Division II Championship record of 1:54.48, which was set eight years ago at the 2017 championships by Queens' Hannah Peiffer.
 
The title was the eighth of her 2-year Maverick career and helped the Maverick secure a third place overall finish for the Mavs, who fell just short of defending their 400 free relay national title while also getting strong finishes from Olivia Hansson in the 1,650 freestyle and Katerina Matoskova next to Naskret in the 200 Back during the final session here in the IU Natatorium.
 
CMU has now finished amongst the nation's top four in each of the last three years after taking second in 2024 and fourth in 2023.  They were fifth in 2022.
 
The Maverick men ended up ninth and have been in the top 10 in each of the last four years.
 
Naskret, set the NCAA Division II  record in the 100-yard backstroke as the leadoff on the Mavs' winning 400 medley relay team on Thursday and then lowered her record by another hundredth of a second to 51.52 seconds in Friday's 100 back win.
 
On Saturday, she showed her dominance going wire-to-wire while putting 1.33 seconds worth of distance between herself and Oklahoma Christian's Tammy Greenwood in the final 50 yards of what was a re-match of last month's Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference championship race.
 
In that race just four weeks ago at home in Grand Junction, Colorado, Naskret had posted a time of 1:55.17, which lowered her NCAA Championship seed time to 1:53.97 with the altitude conversion, which was better than the former national record, but not an official divisional record as altitude conversions are not figured into that record book.
 
Naskret, now a 14-time all-American in her two years with the Mavs, also went on to smash the Mavs' 100 freestyle record as she recorded a 49.37 second lead-off split on the Mavs' 400 Free Relay team that took the silver plaques with a school-record smashing time of 3:19.27.
 
Elli Williams, Kendyll Wilkinson and Ada Qunell swam the remaining legs in an average of below 50 seconds each as the Mavs led through 300 yards before the Nova Southeastern Sharks came back to win the race and the event title.  That victory in the meet's final race also gave the Sharks the overall team victory as they won their third straight title with 475 points, 12 more than Drury, which took sixth in the final event.
 
The Mavericks finished with 376, their second highest total in program history (425, 2024), 30 more than Indianapolis (346).  Lynn was well back in fifth with 233 while Simon Fraser, the RMAC runners-up, finished seventh with 211 as Tori Meklensek won the 1,650 freestyle to garner her second individual title of the week.
 
That was the first race of the evening session as Hansson finished sixth in 16:38.56 to claim her fifth CSCAA All-America honor of the week and the tenth of her 3-year Maverick career while scoring 46 team points in her four individual events, second only to Naskret's 49 in three individual events.
 
Sydnee O'Neil and Hanna Sasivarevic also hung on to all-America honors in the event as O'Neil ended up 13^th with her time of 17:02.58 near the end of the morning session.  Sasivarevic finished in 17:06.82 to claim 16^th place and her first career all-America honor.  O'Neil garnered two, having also placed 12 in the 200 Fly on Friday.
 
Two events after the 1650 Free, the Mavs had three representatives in the 200 Back finals as Sophia Bains again lowered her personal-best to 1:59.74 to place fourth in the consolation final and 12^th overall.  The senior from Colorado Springs finishes her career with seven all-America honors in her three years as a Mav, four of which came this week alone.
 
She also moved up a spot to fifth in program history in what was the final swim of her Maverick career.
 
Meanwhile, Matoskova pulled back two spots in the final 50 yards of her career to place fifth in the championship final in the lane next to Naskret.  Matoskova ended the week with five all-America honors and her career with 19 after finishing the race in 1:59.10.  She was in eighth place at the half-way point and in seventh at the 150-yard mark before turning in the second fastest split only to Naskret in the final 50.
 
In the meet-capping 400 Free Relay, Williams earned her seventh career all-America honor as the second leg before Wilkinson, a freshman, snagged her third honor of the week on the third leg.  Qunell, who saw her individual school-record of 49.96 seconds go down thanks to Naskret's split, then anchored the Mavs to the relay school-record time, which was 0.73 seconds faster than the 3:20.00 mark that they used to win the 2024 national title. 
 
Naskret, Qunell and Williams were a part of that team as well.

Qunell earned four First Team CSCAA All-America honors on the relays this year and won her fourth national title over the last two years.  She is now a 13-time all-American.
 
Men's Recap
 
The Maverick men also received five point-scoring efforts throughout the evening and seven in total on Saturday as they tallied 47 of their 156 total points on the last of the five days of the meet.  The final day total was CMU's best of the meet.
 
Team captain Andrew Scoggin led the way, placing eighth in the 200 Back before anchoring the Mavs' 12^th place 400 Free Relay team.
 
In the 200 Back, Scoggin turned in a time of 1:45.43.
 
Kuba Kiszczak, Austin Patterson, Max Ayres and Scoggin then combined for a time of 2:56.68 in the relay, which was the final career swim for three of the four.
 
Kiszczak, who like Naskret hails from Poland, picked up three relay all-America honors throughout the week and finishes his career with 15 total honors. 
 
Patterson, a senior from Houston, Texas, claimed three honors as the Mavs' relay only swimmer this week after winning one on the Mavs' 200 Free Relay team in 2024 as well.
 
Scoggin, who hails from Greeley, Colorado, finishes his final week as a Maverick with a team-leading six All-America honors and tallied 11 in his career.
 
Ayres, a sophomore from Cary, North Carolina, finished the week with three honors and now has five through the first two years of his career.
 
Jacob Troescher also wrapped up his career on Saturday night, finishing the 1,650 Free in 15:38.84 to place 18^th overall.  He picked up his first two all-America honors in his fourth national championship meet in the 500 and 1,000 freestyle events earlier in the week.
 
The Mavs also had two consolation finalists in the 200 Back as freshman Richard Schmiedefeld continued his strong meet, posting a personal-best of 1:45.08 to take third in the race and 11^th place in the event.  The German finished the week with five all-America honors.
 
Junior Luka Samsonov also claimed his third of the week and his career, placing 14^th in 1:45.71.
 
Sophomore Marcos Otero also claimed a Second Team CSCAA All-America honor in the 200 Breast, placing 16^th in 2:00.06.  The school-record holder had placed tenth last year.
 
Divers Ryan Campbell and David Roethlisberger also earned their second all-America certificates of the week after placing 12^th and 16^th in the 1-meter competition.  They competed in the preliminaries and consolation final in the afternoon before the championship finals were contested in the evening session before the relays.
 
Both Maverick teams swept the RMAC team titles for the seventh straight year last month.