TEMPE, Ariz.— Colorado Mesa University Rosa Schmidt-Moll finished fourth amongst Division II triathletes and was the top freshman in the division as one of three Mavericks who turned in all-America performances in Sunday's Women's Collegiate Triathlon National Championships here at and near the Tempe Town North Lake Park.
 
Schmidt-Moll, who hails from Kitzbühel, Austria, completed the modified race in a time of one hour, three minutes, 42.6 seconds to finish 26^th overall as she earned First Team Collegiate Triathlon Coaches Association All-America honors as one of the top seven finishers in each of the three NCAA divisions.  She was also named as the CTCA's Division II Freshman of the Year as the first Maverick to ever earn that honor as is the first Mav to earn first tam all-America plaudits since Shannon Feran in 2023.
 
Current teammates Alexandra Schipai and Shantelle Tupaz also picked up honorable mention accolades after finishing 20^th and 21^st, respectively, amongst Division II racers.  Schipai finished in 1:09:15.2 while Tupaz was clocked in 1:09:28.2
 
Led by those efforts, the Mavericks finished fifth out of 12 NCAA Division II teams and 15^th overall with 740 points.
 
The event was changed to a duathlon on Friday and was contested under a run-bike-run format and featured a 2.5-kilometer run, a 20-kilometer bike leg followed by another 5-kilometer run and was contested over three waves throughout the day.
 
Schmidt-Moll and Tupaz were in the "A" wave, which featured the top 75 seeds, while Schipai was one of four Mavs in the middle "B" wave along with Maddie Cox, Macy Arch and Sylvie Aardema Gagnon.  That wave also featured 75 athletes.  CMU's Kaia Merrill raced in the "C" wave.
 
Cox finished 95^th overall out of the 202 total starters, ten of whom did not finish, with a time of 1:11.13 and was the 27^th best Division II finisher.  Arch finished in 1:13:54 to place 116^th overall and 35^th in Division II while Aardema Gagnon was 136^th overall and 45^th in Division II with a time of 1:17:49.  Merrill finished 150^th overall and 53^rd in Division II with a time of 1:20.33.
 
Schmidt-Moll had an opening running leg time of 8:43.3 and emerged from the first transition as part of a large lead pack.  She then rode to a bike time of 34:21.6, the ninth fastest in the entire field throughout the day before posting a time of 19:42.5 in the longer 5K run.
 
Tupaz, a junior out of Pleasanton, California, had times of 9:48.6 and 21:47.7 on the run courses and had a 37:12.3 time in the bike segment.  She was in 20^th place out of Division II competitors after the "A" wave but was bumped one spot by Schipai, who was the top Division II finisher in the "B" wave.
 
However, Tupaz still managed to hold on to a second straight honorable mention all-America honor after taking 71^st overall and 17^th amongst Division II finishers in 2025.
 
Schipai, also a distance runner of the Maverick track & field team, posted a time of 9:26.2 in the opening run and closed the "B" wave in 21:41.7 after positing a time of 37:36.5 in the bike.  The Estonian finished 106^th at last year's national championships as a freshman while racing without teammates in the "A" wave.
 
Arizona's Kelly Wetteland won her second straight national title in a winning time of 1:00:43.7 as the Wildcats placed six in the top 12 to easily win a third straight Division I team crown ahead of Arizona State, which had won the previous seven crowns before the recent Wildcat dominance, and TCU. 
 
Denver's Maira Carreau was second in 1:01:08.0 while TCU's Julia Visguero took third in 1:01:19.3.
 
Lenoir Rhyne's Zoila Sicilia was 15^th overall to win the Division II individual title in 1:02:23.9 while Wingate won the team crown for the second time in three years.  Wingate finished fifth overall with 937 points while Lenoir Rhyne, the 2025 Division II champions, was ninth overall on Sunday with a score of 878.
 
Drury finished third in Division II and 12^th overall with 809 points while Cal Poly Humboldt took fourth in the Division with 793 points ahead of the Mavs.  CMU finished ahead of Division II teams UIndy, Black Hills State and Newberry and four others as 12 Division II schools participated.
 
North Central won a fifth straight Division III title with and had the division's individual champion in Whitney Estabrook, who raced out of the "B" wave to a time of 1:08.19.  The Cardinals scored 705 team points and were 16^th overall.
 
Colorado Mesa Results
Overall Place (Division II Place), TIme
 26 (4). Rosa Schmidt-Moll, 1:03:42.6
76 (20). Alexandra Schipai, 1:09:15.2
77 (21). Shantelle Tupaz, 1:09:28.2
95 (27). Maddie Cox, 1:11:13.2
116 (35), Macy Arch, 1:13:54.9
136 (45). Sylvie Aardema Gagnon, 1:17:49.1
150 (53). Kaia Merrill, 1:20:33.6