EVANSVILLE, Ind.— The Colorado Mesa University swimming and diving teams combined for nine podium finishes, 23 total all-America performances, a pair of school records and scored in all nine events during a solid third day at the 2026 NCAA Division II Championships on Thursday here at the Deaconess Aquatics Center.
 
The Maverick women picked up 43 team points in the 3-meter diving event, 28 more in the 200 freestyle and capped the night with 26 points and a sixth place finish in the 400-yard medley relay as they surged into third place of the team standings with 160 ½ team points after sitting in ninth placed on Wednesday night.
 
Meanwhile, Oskar Sawicki set a pair of school records to book-end the evening as he and Guillaume Guth led the Maverick men, who now sit fourth with 214 team points
 
Sawicki claimed the first of the Mavs' total podium finishes in the 100-yard butterfly as he took fifth in a school-record time of 46.52 seconds, breaking Guth's mark of 46.65.
 
Ben Vester then followed that up with a sixth place finish in the 400 individual medley.  He touched in 3:48.74 after finishing eighth in the 200 IM on Wednesday.  Meanwhile, freshman Micah Moore snagged his first career CSCAA All-America honor in the consolation final, after finishing 14^th overall in 3:53.11.
 
Guth then recorded the Mavs' best finish of the night, taking third in the 200 freestyle with a time of 1:33.48, just 0.02 seconds off his 2-day school record time of 1:33.46 from Tuesday night's 800 free relay that the Mavs took third in.
 
Meanwhile, Jonas Friess swam to a time of 1:36.69 in the 200 free consolation final, placing 16^th overall.
 
Luka Samsonov, Aron Jonsson, Sawicki and Guth them combined for a school-record time of 3:08.93 in the 400 medley relay that saw the Mavs finish fifth.  The same quartet had set the former record of 3:09.17 in November.
 
Meanwhile, the Maverick women were able to score in all five events of the night as Kiara Borchardt started the run, tying for 13^th with a time of 55.06 seconds in the 100 fly.
 
Melina Giraudeau then placed tenth in the 400 IM with a career-best time of 4:21.68 as she moved up a spot to fourth in Maverick history for that discipline.
 
The Mavs then scored well in the 200 free as Ada Qunell finished sixth in 1:48.46 while Hanna Sasivarevic took eighth in 1:48.75.  Olivia Hansson also reached the consolation final, placing fifth in that heat and 13^th overall with a time of 1:50.20.
 
In diving, the Mavs had five all-America and team-scoring performances.  Kenya Meyer led the way with a fourth place score of 494.80 points.  Mimi Licht was also in the championship final and placed eighth with 420.90 points to join Meyer on the podium as first team all-Americans.
 
Meanwhile, Talia Datilio, Jenna Hurley and Emma Lence all registered second team CSCAA All-America efforts in the afternoon consolation final.  Datlio took tenth overall with 422.35 points while Hurley was right behind with 415.35 points.  Lence finished 13^th with 410.15 points after finishing the preliminary round in ninth place.
 
Lence and Hurley earned their first career all-America certificates with their efforts.
 
Taylar Hooton, Giraudeau, Borchardt and Qunell then combined for a season-best time of 3:39.21 in the women's 400 medley relay.
 
Eleven more events will be contested on Friday with preliminary round swimming action getting underway at 10 a.m. CDT (9 a.m. Mountain) before the men's 3-meter diving preliminaries at 1 p.m. CDT (Noon Mountain).  The finals will begin at 5:30 p.m. CDT (4:30 p.m. Mountain).