FORT WORTH, Texas— Freshman Rosa Schmidt-Moll was the top NCAA Division II finisher and led the Colorado Mesa University women's triathlon team to a second place finish in the Division II standings at the NCAA Women's Collegiate Triathlon West Regional Championships held here Sunday at Marine Creek Lake Park.
 
The Mavericks took eighth overall with 556 points and have now finished first or second amongst Division II teams at the regional in eight straight seasons, including in second place in each of the last three year after winning five straight crowns from 2018-23.
 
Drury won a third straight crown with 585 points and took sixth overall.
 
Cal Poly Humboldt was third in Division II and ninth overall with 543 points while Black Hills State rounded out the Division II contingent in 11^th place with 453 points.
 
Arizona, which scored 744 points, edged Arizona State by five points to take the Division I and overall win while meet host TCU finished third with 704 points.
 
North Central led four Division III teams in tenth place overall with 519 points.
 
Schmidt-Moll turned in a time of one hours, six minutes, 6.47 seconds and finished 22^nd overall while besting the rest of the Division II field by 96 seconds.  The Austrian scored 134 of the Mavs' team points and becomes just the fourth Maverick to top the podium at the regional championships.
 
Meanwhile, Maverick junior Shantelle Tupaz finished 43^rd overall and fifth amongst Division II triathletes in 1:09:08.13 and will join Schmidt-Moll on the College Triathlon Coaches Association's All-Region team, made up of the top seven individual finishers in each of the three divisions.  The Pleasanton, California native is now a 3-time all-region performer.
 
Schimidt-Moll will also claim CTCA All-Region Freshman honors and is the seventh different Maverick to earn those plaudits.  Tupaz (2024) and Schipai (2025) have also done so as the Mavericks have now won the award in all but one of the last eight seasons.
 
Alexandra Schipai was CMU's No. 3 finisher and took 55^th overall and 11^th in Division II with a time of 1:11.04.73 as she and Tupaz both had mechanical issues, Maverick coach Jen Mathe noted.
 
Macy Arch (68th) and Maddie Cox (69^th) were the Mavs' other two scorers and finished just over ten seconds apart while competing in the earlier "B" wave.  Arch finished in 1:13.59.33 while Cox clocked in at 1:14.09.89.
 
Sylvie Aardema Gagnon, who finished 74^th in 1:15:40.73 and Kaia Merrill, who placed 96^th in 1:23:44.32 also raced for the Mavs.
 
The top 75 seeded triathletes based on the CTCA rankings were given a spot in the "A" wave.
 
A total of 120 starters raced over a 750-meter swim, 20-kilometer bike and 5K run course.  New this year, 155 points team points were awarded to the top overall finisher.
 
CMU will wrap up the season at the national championships in three weeks (Nov. 8) in Tempe, Arizona.