CORALVILLE, Iowa— Sophomore Lorianna Piestewa and redshirt senior Jayleen Sekona combined for three wins and took fourth and fifth in their respective weight brackets while leading the Colorado Mesa University Mavericks to an eighth place finish at the inaugural NCAA Women's Wrestling Championships, which wrapped up on Saturday evening here at the Xtream Arena.
 
Mia Zuniga and Adriana Gomez also ended up with eighth place finishes at 103 and 110 pounds after all four of the Mavericks' national qualifiers ended up with all-America honors after making it through Friday's portion of the tournament, which cut the field to the eight placing wrestlers in each of the ten weight classes.
 
The Mavs finished with 41 ½ team points and moved up a spot in the final team standings as the highest placing Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference team.  They ended up a half-point ahead of Quincy.
 
McKendree and Iowa both had three national champions.  McKendree edged Iowa for the team title by five points, 171-166 and had seven different wrestlers place in the top three while all ten earned all-America honors.  Iowa had nine placers.
 
North Central and Grand Valley State also had a national champion and took third and fourth with 123 ½ and 110 ½ points, respectively.
 
Piestewa, a native of Gallup, New Mexico dropped her championship semifinal to eventual national champion Xochitl Mota-Pettis of Quincy but bounced back with a 12-3 decision over Aspen Blasko of Grand Valley State in the consolation semifinals.
 
Piestewa then dropped the third place match to top-seeded Sara Stemer of North Central and finished her sophomore campaign with a 27-8 record after taking third at the NCWWC Championships in 2025.
 
She was seeded seventh coming in to the tournament.
 
Sekona won two matches on Saturday, both by pin, to finish one place better than her tournament seed.  She took out Sacred Heart's Josephine Larson, the seventh seed, at the 5:14 mark of the consolation quarterfinal before falling 3-2 to Wartburg's Rewa Chababo, the No. 4 seed in the next round.
 
Sekona then capped her career with a pin over Caroline Ward of North Central, the same woman that beat her in Friday night's championship quarterfinal.   The Anchorage, Alaska native went 31-10 this season and 103-36 in her career as the first Maverick to surpass the 100-win mark and the third to earn four career all-America honors.
 
Zuniga and Gomez both went 0-2 on the day.  Zuniga finishes her season with a 23-9 record while Gomez went 32-12 to set the Mavs' new single-season record for wins that had been held by Claire DiCugno since 2021-22.  Sekona ended up tying DiCugno's former single-season record.