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Thursday, Feb. 5
6 p.m.- Men's Wrestling- vs. CSU Pueblo (Bank of Colorado Battle in Brownson)
 
Saturday, Feb. 7
4 p.m.- Men's Wrestling- vs. Chadron State (Senior Day; Pajama Day)
6 p.m.- Women's Wrestling- vs. Chadron State (Senior Night; Pajama Night)
 
Full Composite Calendar: https://cmumavericks.com/calendar?date=2/2/2026&vtype=list
 
General

• Eleven different Maverick teams will be in action this week, including nine on Saturday alone.
• Eight different Maverick teams are nationally-ranked in various coaching organization or media polls.

Men's Wrestling

• After being off last week, the nation's 22^nd-ranked Mavericks will return to the mat this week with their final two home duals of the season.
• CMU will enter the week with a 4-3 overall and 1-2 RMAC dual record.
• They will take on CSU Pueblo (4-6, 0-3 RMAC) on Thursday at 6 p.m. in the team's annual Bank of Colorado Battle in Brownson promotion.
• They will then take on 17^th ranked Chadron State (5-2, 3-1 RMAC) on Saturday at 4 p.m. in the first half of a men's and women's doubleheader against the Eagles.
• Prior to the dual, the Mavericks will honor six seniors.
• The Mavs are tied for 22^nd in the latest National Wrestling Coaches Association's Rankings, which were released on Jan. 22.
• The Mavs also have a pair of nationally-ranked individuals in Owen Cline, ranked seventh at 157 pounds, and Gabriel Carranza, tabbed eighth at 197 pounds.

Women's Wrestling

• The Mavs crowned three individual champions and 13 top-6 finishers at Saturday's RMAC Championships.
• Adrianna Gomez (110 lbs.), Sophia Cornish (117) and Jayleen Sekona (207) all won their weight classes as the Mavericks placed second as a team.
• Cornish beat teammate Jojo McDaniel in the finals while Celina Preston (160) also reached the finals.
• Lorianna Piestewa (124) and Keyla Ajoleza (138) both placed third.
• Sekona's two wins pushed her career total to 96 as she became CMU's all-time winningest women's wrestler.
• The Mavs continue to sit seventh in the NWCA's NCAA Coaches' Rankings as a team and have five individually ranked wrestlers.
• That list includes Mia Zuniga (3^rd, 103 lbs.), Lorianna Piestewa (4^th, 124) Sophia Cornish (10^th, 117), Gretchen Donally (9^th, 145) and Jayleen Sekona (6^th, 207).
• The Mavs will hold their first home contest since November on Saturday when they host Chadron State in their Senior Night dual at 6 p.m. as part of a men's and women's doubleheader against the Eagles.

Women's Basketball

• The Mavericks, ranked seventh in last week's WBCA Division II Coaches Poll, extended their winning streak to 19 games with home wins over CSU Pueblo and UCCS last week.
• CMU is now 22-1 overall and 12-0 in RMAC play.
• The Mavs have now won 29 consecutive RMAC games over the past two seasons.
• Their 19-game winning streak is the program's longest since starting the 2013-14 season, 25-0 en route to a NCAA Sweet 16 appearance.
• The Mavs won by 25 points (71-46) on Thursday night against CSU Pueblo as Mason Rowland led all scorers with 23 points and added seven assists, six rebounds and four steals.
• Olivia Reed Thyne also added 22 points and grabbed ten rebounds to record a double-double, her tenth of the season and the 50^th of her career.
• In Saturday's 79-61 win over UCCS, the Mavs had five players finish in double figures.
• Rowland led the way with 19 points, while making 13 of 14 free throws, the most for any CMU player in more than four years.
• Brooke Eyre scored a career-high 13 points off the bench, making all five of her shots, including a trio of 3-pointers.
• The Mavs rank third in the nation for field goal percentage defense (43.2), fourth for scoring margin (+22.4) and fifth for scoring defense (51.8).
• The Mavs are now 9-0 at home this season.
• They will be on the road in Denver this week, playing at MSU Denver (9-11, 7-5 RMAC) on Thursday at 5:30 p.m. and Regis (0-12, 0-7 RMAC) on Saturday at 1 p.m.

Men's Basketball

• The Mavericks (13-7, 9-3 RMAC) recorded a pair of home wins, defeating CSU Pueblo and UCCS.
• The Mavs trailed by as many as 11 in the second half but used a 17-4 run to rally and claim a 70-66 win on Thursday night over CSU Pueblo, which had come into the game tied for the Mavs for third place in the RMAC.
• Ty Allred finished the game with 20 points and eight rebounds while Havey White had 17 points and seven assists.
• Allred then scored a career-high 33 points in Saturday's 95-83 win over UCCS.
• Clayton Jewell (18 points, 11 rebounds) and Ben Henderson (16 points, 11 rebounds) both had double-doubles as well, marking the first time this season that the Mavs have had two players record double-doubles in the same game.
• The Mavs have now won three straight, five of their last six and went 7-2 in the month of January.
• They are now 8-1 at home this season.
• Allred has been named to the Trevor Hudgins Top 25 Watch List as one of the top senior players in Small College Basketball.
• Allred ranks second in the RMAC for both scoring (18.8) and rebounding (8.2) average.
• CMU is in third place in the RMAC standings, a game behind Black Hills State, and two games ahead of four teams at 7-5.
• CMU will be on the road this week, playing at MSU Denver (7-13, 5-7 RMAC) on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. and Regis (1-17, 0-12 RMAC) on Saturday at 3 p.m.

Track & Field

• The Mavericks shined in two meets over the weekend, sending a contingent of mostly sprinters and hurdlers to the New Mexico Team Open in Albuquerque and a group of mostly field eventers to the Mines Winter Classic & Multi in Golden, Colorado.
• The Maverick athletes combined for 17 new marks on the program's top-10 lists.
• Joseph Randolph set the Mavs' 200-meter record of 20.92 seconds at the New Mexico meet on Friday as he and teammate Teo Casados (21.03) both went well under Casados' former mark of 21.21 in the same heat.
• Both times were NCAA Division II Championship provisional qualifying marks and rank them third and fifth on the national performance lists.
• Randolph then came back to post a time of 6.82 seconds in the 60 meters while the women's 4x400-meter relay team set the program's fifth fastest indoor time in program history on Saturday as that group of Mavs wrapped up the weekend with 11 (5 men's, 6 women's) new marks on the program's all-time top 10 performers' charts.
• The Mavs also finished with six (3 men's, 3 women's) marks from the contingent at Mines.
• On Friday, freshman Taiya Carl and Weston Domich made impressive Maverick debuts as Carl cleared 3.62 meters (11-10.5) in the pole vault to move into the No. 2 spot of program history while Domich placed second in the long jump with the eighth best mark in program history.
• The Mavs then racked up five more top-3 finishes and three more top-10 marks in Saturday's portion of the meet as Kaelea Gibson shared the high jump win.
• The Mavs will continue the indoor season this weekend and the Colorado Classic in Boulder on Friday and Saturday.

Swimming & Diving

• The Mavericks were in action at Northern Arizona's Lumberjack Diving Invitational on Thursday and Friday.
• Ryan Campbell led the Mavericks, taking fifth in Friday's 1-meter event, while surpassing the NCAA Pre-Championship qualification standard in both the preliminaries and finals.
• Freshman Giani Benoit had placed seventh in the men's 3-meter event on Thursday.
• Kenya Meyer led the Maverick women on both days, reaching the finals in both events.
• She, Jenna Hurley and Mimi Licht also combined to place sixth in the team event on Thursday.
• The Maverick swimmers were off last week.
• The Mavs claimed three of the four RMAC's weekly awards last week, which were announced on Thursday following the Mavs' efforts at the Jan. 23-24 double dual at Air Force and BYU.
• Guillaume Guth was named as the RMAC Men's Swimmer of the Week for the fourth straight and fifth time this season while Olivia Hansson claimed her third women's honor of the season.
• Campbell was named as the RMAC Men's Diver of the Year for the second time this season.
• CMU will next compete at next week's RMAC Championships (Feb. 10-14), where they will be looking for an eighth straight RMAC team title sweep.
• The Mavericks continue to sit third (women's) and fourth (men's), in the January edition of the CSCAA NCAA Division II Top 25 Dual Meet Poll, which was released on Jan. 23.
• The Maverick diving squad is ranked second in the US Professional Diving Coaches Association's Division II rankings.

Softball

• The Mavs will open their 2026 season this week, playing eight games in California.
• That stretch begins Wednesday with a 5 p.m. (MST) doubleheader at Azusa Pacific.
• The Mavs will then play six times during the D2 West Coast Challenge over the weekend (Friday-Sunday) in Lake Elsinore.
• They will play Biola and Cal State San Bernardino on Friday, Western Washington and host Cal State San Marcos on Saturday and Cal State East Bay and Vanguard on Sunday.
• Three of the Mavs opponents this weekend in No. 3 Western Washington, No. 14 Cal State San Marcos and No. 17 Cal State East Bay are ranked in the NFCA Division II Top 25 Preseason Coaches' Poll.
• The Mavericks were picked second in the RMAC Preseason Coaches' Poll, which was announced last Thursday.
• The Mavs are coming off the 2025 season, when they went 40-17 overall and 35-9 in RMAC to take second.
• The Mavs received three first place votes and tallied 109 points.  Colorado Christian received seven first place votes to top the poll with 117 points while MSU Denver picked up two third place votes to finish third in the poll with 102 points.
• Redshirt sophomore pitcher Jessalyn Gallegos and senior outfielder Makayla Westmoreland were both named to the Preseason All-RMAC team, which was announced in conjunction with the poll.
• The Mavs first home games will be on Feb. 28 and Mar. 1 against MSU Denver.
• The team's full schedule can be seen here.

Baseball

• The Mavs will open the season this weekend,  playing a 4-game series at Cal Poly Pomona, starting Friday night at 7 p.m. MST.
• The Mavs and Broncos will then play a doubleheader on Saturday at 2 p.m. MST and wrap up the series on Sunday at 11 a.m. MST.
• The Mavs have been picked ninth in NCBWA (National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association) Division II Preseason Poll.
• Cameron Cartwright (First Team) and Kolby Felix (Second Team) were named as NCBWA Preseason All-Americans.
• The Mavs have also been picked 7^th in the ABCA (American Baseball Coaches Association) Preseason Poll.
• The Mavs have also been picked 12^th in the D2 Baseball Preseason Rankings.
• On a conference level, the Mavericks were unanimously picked to win a 14^th straight RMAC title in the conference's preseason coaches' poll.
• They received all eight possible first place votes to top the poll with 64 points, ahead of CSU Pueblo and MSU Denver, who were tied for second with 53.
• The Mavs, who went 42-14 overall while winning the RMAC title with a 26-4 conference mark, also had five selections to the Preseason All-RMAC team, which was announced in conjunction with the poll and made up of the top returning players from last year's All-RMAC voting.
• The Mavs' selections were outfielders Cameron Camwright and Kolby Felix, shortstop Kennedy Hara and pitchers Liam Hohensteain and Sage Ferguson.
• Following this weekend, the Mavs will return home for four straight weekends and 16 games, starting Feb. 13 against Quincy.
• They will begin the RMAC slate on Mar. 6 against New Mexico Highlands.
• The team's full schedule can be seen here.

Men's Lacrosse

• The Mavericks were picked first in the RMAC Preseason Coaches' Poll, which was released on Wednesday.
• The Mavs also had five Preseason All-RMAC Team picks, which were announced in conjunction with the poll.
• The last includes attackman Connor Jensen, midfielder Dillon Pless, defender Brady Porter, goalkeeper Shaden Shields and short stick defensive midfielder Deuce Kirschke.
• Kirschke was also named as a Third Team Preseason All-American by the USILA.
• The Mavs were picked 14^th in the USILA's Preseason Poll.
• The Mavericks were picked 15^th in the USA Lacrosse Magazine's Division II Preseason Top 20.
• The Mavs open their season (Full Schedule) on Sunday, Feb. 8 with a neutral-site contest against No. 20 Rockhurst at Adams State in Alamosa.
• CMU went 13-4 in 2025 and won the Rocky Mountain Division Regular Season and Tournament titles before going on to win the Peach Belt Conference Tournament title to secure what was the Mavs' second appearance in the NCAA Tournament.
• The Mavs' first home game will be on Mar. 5 against Florida Southern.

Men's & Women's Tennis

• The Mav men and women's tennis teams will begin their spring seasons this weekend as each will play a doubleheader at Division I Idaho State in Pocatello.
• The men will take on the Bengals on Saturday at 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. while the women will play them at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Sunday.
• Both teams' full spring schedules, subject to change, are posted here: MEN | WOMEN
• Devyn Rodriguez will bring the spring ranked 35^th nationally in the ITA's NCAA Division II rankings for women's singles.
• She and Jade Brilhante are fourth and 14^th in the West Regional rankings while the Mavs also have two regionally-ranked doubles teams in Catalina Ballon/Delia Maier (4^th) and Valentina Gonzalez/Sophie Hartman (7^th).
• Emil Hultman and Henry Scheck are ranked 19^th and 20^th in the region for men's singles while Scheck and William Leschig stand fifth in the doubles rankings.
• The Maverick women went 2-1, including a 2-0 record against Division II foes in fall duals while the Maverick men only competed in tournaments during the fall non-championship season.
• CMU will play team matches as an independent this year and will contend for NCAA Tournament spots out of the South Central Region after playing in the Pacific West Conference and the West Region in recent seasons.

Women's Lacrosse

• The Mavericks were picked as co-favorites in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference as they shared the top spot alongside Regis in the league's preseason coach's poll, which was released on Thursday.
• The Mavs also had four picks to the Preseason All-RMAC Team that was announced in conjunction with the poll.
• That list includes senior attackwomen Justine Anderson and Courtney Havel, sophomore defender Sadie Chappuis and sophomore goalie Heather Hawkins.
• The Mavericks were listed in the "also considered" section of the USA Lacrosse Magazine's Division II Preseason Top 20.
• The Mavs are coming off the 2025 season that saw them win a share of the RMAC title with a 9-1 conference record before advancing to the RMAC Tournament Championship game for the fourth straight year.
• They were 11-6 overall last year.
• The Mavs will open their season with a 3-game trip to Florida, where they will face a trio of teams ranked in the IWLCA Division II Preseason Coaches' Poll.
• That stretch begins next Tuesday (Feb. 10) at No. 10 Saint Leo.
• The Mavs will take on Missouri Western State on Feb. 22 in their home opener.
• The team's full schedule can be seen here.

Football

• Wide receiver Trek Keyworth and defensive back Kash Bradley were named as NCAA Division II Academic All-Americans as selected by College Sports Communicators last week.
• Keyworth was a first team honoree while Bradley was a second team pick while making CMU football history as the first 3-time Academic All-American in program history.
• The Mavericks will welcome new family members on Wednesday, which is National Signing Day, the first day current high school seniors can officially commit to their college program of choice.

Cross Country

• The Maverick men's and women's teams were both recognized as All-Academic Teams for the seventh straight year by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association last week.
• The Mavericks also had a program-record ten individuals as All-Academic Athletes, including repeat selections Chase Brown, Megan Hodges and Autumn McQuitty.

Colorado Mesa turns 100

• The CMU Century Celebration stands as the cornerstone of Colorado Mesa University's year-long centennial celebration. This ambitious initiative unites our community in honoring a rich heritage while boldly envisioning the next hundred years of academic excellence.
• Led by the Steering Committee and six specialized sub-committees, we're orchestrating a transformative experience that will resonate through generations. Each committee brings unique expertise to create an unforgettable commemoration of our past, present and future.
• To learn more about Colorado Mesa's 100-year celebration, visit cmucentury.com.