EVANSVILLE, Ind.— The Colorado Mesa University Mavericks will have seven individual swimmers, a diver and both of their 400-yard freestyle relay teams involved in the championship finals and will once again be represented in all 11 events of the evening session after another strong preliminary round session during the NCAA Division II Swimming & Diving Championships on Saturday here at the Deaconess Aquatics Center.
 
The Mavericks also clinched team points in both the men's and women's 1,650-yard freestyle as the slower sections of the timed finals event were swum at the end of the preliminary session.
 
Here's an event-by-event breakdown of the Mavs' preliminary rounds performances.
 
100 Freestyle
 
Ada Qunell qualified fourth for the championship final and won her heat with a time of 49.99 seconds.  She was seeded sixth coming into the meet.
 
Teammate Kendyll Wilkinson finished 26^th with a season-best time of 51.06 seconds, improving upon her No. 34 pre-meet seed.
 
On the men's side Guillaume Guth also won his heat with a time of 42.79 seconds and will be the No. 3 seed in the championship final.
 
Elsewhere, Ben Vester finished 36^th in 44.54 seconds while Oskar Sawicki (44.70) and Jonas Friess (44.73) finished 39^th and 40^th, respectively.
 
200 Backstroke
 
Freshman Abby Uhl earned her first NCAA Championship scoring opportunity, taking 13^th in the preliminary heats with a time of 2:00.79.  She will swim in the consolation final.
 
Taylar Hooton was 29^th in 2:06.34.
 
On the men's side, Richard Schmiedefeld continued his strong week, posting a career-best time of 1:44.32 to snag the last spot in the championship final with an eighth place finish.  He moved up to third in CMU history ahead of teammate Luka Samsonov with the effort after coming into the meet seeded 24^th and not expected to score.
 
Samsonov finished 18^th in 1:45.89 and is the second alternate for Saturday's consolation finals.
 
200 Breaststroke
 
Coming off a school-record and consolation final win in the 100 breast on Friday night, CMU's Melina Giraudeau was the top qualifier in the 200, finishing her preliminary heat in 2:13.10.
 
Antonia Leese tied for 32^nd with a time of 2:20.92 while Maya Clise was 39^th with a time of 2:23.84.
 
Meanwhile, Aron Jonsson, who also won the 100 breast consolation final on Friday, snagged a spot in the men's championship final, winning his heat while qualifying fourth overall in 1:56.52.  Marcos Otero also turned in a solid time of 1:58.56 to finish tenth and grab a lane for the consolation final.
 
Both did much better than their pre-meet seeds of 14^th and 18^th, respectively.
 
CMU's third entrant Brodie Khajuria finished 21^st in 2:00.87, also finishing four spots higher than his pre-meet seeding.
 
Miles Moran finished 27^th in 2:03.71 to round out the Mavs' performances.
 
1650 Freestyle
 
Sydnee O'Neil clinched a Second Team CSCAA All-America honor and at least one team point as she posted a season-best time of 17:08.78 to win her section.  She stands in eighth place out of the 20 women who swam in three sections of the timed finals event, held at the end of the preliminary session.
 
O'Neil was seeded 25^th coming in to the meet and will finish no lower than 16^th.
 
The top eight seeds, including CMU's Olivia Hansson and Hanna Sasivarevic will swim at the start at the finals session at 5:30 p.m. CDT (4:30 p.m. Mountain).  Hansson is seeded second at 16:31.46 while Sasivarevic is seeded eighth at 16:56.04.
 
Melaina Howard also competed in the morning and is in 14^th place with her time of 17:16.64.
 
Gavyn Tatge also fared well in the men's races, setting a personal-best of 15:24.61.  He is currently in sixth place and is guaranteed of at least 14^th and a new career-best NCAA Championship finish.
 
Top eight men's seeds will also swim following Hansson and Sasivarevic' s race.
 
Women's 1-Meter Diving
 
Kenya Meyer led five Maverick women, finishing fourth in the preliminaries with an 11-dive score of 435.50 points.   She will dive in the championship final.
 
Three more Mavs in Talia Datilio, Emma Lence and Jenna Hurley advanced to the consolation final, which will begin shortly.
 
Datilio scored 406.45 points in the preliminaries to finish 11^th.  Lence scored 399.60 and was 14^th while Hurley was last in the diving order and scored 394.10 points.  She knocked out teammate Mimi Licht from the consolation final on the final dive as Licht ended up 17^th with 387.95 points.