EVANSVILLE, Ind.— The Colorado Mesa University swimming and diving teams combined for three more national runner-up finishes as well as two other third place efforts and finished third in both sets of the final team standings, capping an impressive week for the Mavericks here at the NCAA Division II Championships here in the Deaconess Aquatics Center.
 
The Mav men saw Guillaume Guth set the two fastest 100-yard freestyle times in program history and finished with 416 team points, a new program record for NCAA Championship points.  They also claimed their highest ever finish in program history and claimed a team trophy for the first time.
 
Meanwhile, the Maverick women picked up national runner-up efforts from Melina Giraudeau in the 200 breaststroke and Kenya Meyer in the 1-meter diving competition, helping them to finish the meet with 328 ½ points.
 
The CMU women now won a team trophy, given to the top four finishing teams, in each of the past four years under the direction of Head Coach Mickey Wender and Associate Head Coach Andy Parro, promoted to that role earlier this season.
 
After another strong preliminary session that set the stage, the Mavericks got out to a quick start in Saturday night's final session and put points on the scoreboard throughout the night, scoring in 11 of the evening's events.
 
Senior Olivia Hansson, who finishes her brilliant Maverick career with 16 All-America honors, was the first to score as she took third in the 1,650 freestyle with a time of 16:46.83.  Hanna Sasivarevic finished sixth in a season-best 16:51.93 to claim her fourth podium finish of the week, which saw her win six All-America honors to match Hansson.
 
Sydnee O'Neil also hung on to a 16^th place overall finish after swimming to a time of 17:08.78 in the preliminary session to garner a Second Team All-America honor for the second straight year.
 
Meanwhile, Gavyn Tatge scored 11^th place points for the Maverick men in the 1650 free as his career-best time of 15:24.61 from the morning session held up to be faster than three of the top eight seeds, who swam in the night session.

Senior Ada Qunell then turned in a fourth place time of 49.73 seconds in the 100 free in what was her final swim of her Maverick career.  The Whitefish, Montana native won 18 All-America certificates, including 15 first team honors, and four relay national titles in her career.
 
Guth then smashed his own school-record in the men's 100 free, touching in 42.19 seconds as he took second place on the night while moving in to the No. 4 spot of NCAA Division II history.

The 2024 French Olympian accounted for 81 team points and won seven All-America certificates in his first Division II Championship meet.  He also won the maximum seven possible RMAC titles last month.
 
Freshman Abby Uhl then earned her first career CSCAA All-America honor, finishing fourth in the consolation final and 12^th overall with a time of 2:01.10 in the women's 200 backstroke.
 
Meanwhile, German sophomore Richard Schmiedefeld capped his impressive week with one of the most pleasant surprises of the entire meet.  He took third in the men's 200 backstroke with a career-best mark of 1:43.25.  Schmiedefeld, who ended up on the podium five times during the week, was only seeded 24^th on the pre-meet psych sheets in the 200 back.
 
Giraudeau then tallied one of the Mavs' closest calls of the meet as she took second in the 200 breaststroke with a career-best time of 2:11.26 after going in to the final lap just 0.16 behind eventual winner Gwen Bergum of Drury.  Giraudeau now ranks eighth in Division II history as Bergum moved up five spots to fifth with her winning time of 2:10.78.
 
Indianapolis' Celina Schmidt, who was ranked fifth in Division II history coming into the meet, faded to third place in Saturday's final, touching in 2:11.97.
 
Meanwhile, Aron Jonsson claimed a solid fourth place finish in the men's half of the event, touching in 1:55.72, just off his altitude-adjusted school record of 1:55.56 that he set during the TYR/CMU Invitational in November.
 
Teammate Marcos Otero also had a fine time of 1:57.49 to win the preceding consolation final to finish ninth overall.
 
Meyer then recorded CMU's best ever finish in a women's diving event, taking second with  490.20 points in the 1-meter final.  She scored 54 or more points on each of her final three dives of her career, putting immense pressure on Clarion's Luna Vejarano, who edged out the win by 6.3 points in the end.
 
Meyer, a native of Bozeman, Montana native will depart CMU as the Mavs' school record holder in every diving discipline and as a 3-time First Team CSCAA All-American and 6-time Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Champion.
 
Diving teammates Emma Lence, Jenna Hurley and Talia Datilio also scored points as Lence took 12^th with 406.65 points in the afternoon's consolation final.  Hurley was 13^th with 395.65 while Datilio took 16^th with 378.40 points.

Five of CMU's female divers combined for 70 team points and nine All-America honors in the two diving events throughout the week.
 
Meanwhile, Ryan Campbell was the national runner-up on both the 1 and 3-meter boards earlier in the week for the Maverick men, who also racked up 92 team points for second year Diving Coach Julie Weddle.  The four men in the official championship also garnered seven total all-America honors.
 
Following the diving events, the Mavericks raced in the final heats of both 400 freestyle relays.
 
The women's quartet of Kendyll Wilkinson, Reagan Horn, Sasivarevic and Hansson took 12^th in 3:24.69 as each garnered a Second Team All-America honor.
 
Meanwhile, Guth put the Maverick men into the lead with his school-record setting 42.17-second leadoff split.  Otero, Oskar Sawicki and Holden Convertino then all put in sub-44 splits as the Mavs took seventh in a season-best 2:53.61.  Convertino, the team co-captain, was a relay only swimmer and was making his NCAA Championship debut, which ended with his initial First Team All-America honor and minutes later an historic spot on the overall team podium with his teammates.