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2025-26 Women's Swimming & Diving Roster

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Lauren Montez

Elli Williams

  • Yr. Senior
  • Height 6-0
  • Events Sprint Freestyle
  • Hometown Madras, Ore.
  • High School Mountain View

Biography

Overall Career Honors
  • 2x NCAA Division II National Champion - 2024 (200 & 400 Free Relays)
  • 7x First Team CSCAA All-American
    • 2024 (50 Free, 200 Free Relay, 400 Free Relay, 200 Medley Relay)
    • 2025 (200 Free, 400 Free Relay & 200 Medley Relays)
  • RMAC Championship Record Holder in three events
    • 200 Free Relay (1:31.64)
    • 400 Free Relay (3:21.41)
    • 200 Medley Relay (1:40.82)
  • 8x RMAC Champion
    • 2023- 200 Free Relay
    • 2024 - 50 Free, 200 Free Relay, 400 Free Relay, 200 Medley Relay
    • 2025 - 200 Free, 400 Free & 200 Medley Relays
  • 11x Overall All-RMAC
    • 8x First Team
      • 2023 - 200 Free Relay
      • 2024 - 50 Free, 200 Free Relay, 400 Free Relay, 200 Medley Relay
      • 2025 - 200 Free, 400 Free & 200 Medley Relays
    • 3x Second Team
      • 2023 - 50 Free
      • 2024 - 100 Free
      • 2025 - 50 Free
  • CMU Record Holder in three events
    • 200 Free Relay (1:30.93)
    • 400 Free Relay (3:19.27)
    • 200 Medley Relay (1:39.38)
  • El Pomar Natatorium Record Holder in two events
    • 200 Free Relay (1:31.62)
    • 200 Medley Relay (1:39.38)
  • Second Team CSCAA Scholar All-American First Team (2023)
Swimcloud Profile Link

2024-25 (As a Junior):
Swam in all 11 meets throughout the Mavs’ season… Earned a trio of First Team CSCAA All-America honors as a relay only swimmer at the NCAA Championships… Helped the Mavs to a second place finish in the 400 Free Relay and fourth place finishes in both the 200 Free and 200 Medley Relays… Helped set school-record times in all three of those events during the season, setting new Maverick standards of 1:30.93 and 3:19.27 in the 200 and 400 Free Relays during the national meet… Also anchored the Mavs to a 200 Medley school and pool record time of 1:39.38 at the TYR CMU Invitational…  Won thee RMAC titles and a trio of First Team All-RMAC honors in the same relays… Swam the second leg on the RMAC Championship record setting 200 (1:31.64) and 400 (3:21.41) Free Relay teams… Anchored the Mavs to victory in the 200 Medley Relay (1:41.29)… Earned another second team all-conference honor in the 50 Free, placing fourth with a time of 23.43 seconds… Also placed fifth in the 100 Free with a season-best altitude-adjusted time of 51.15 seconds… Scored another team point with a 24th place finish in the 200 Free at the RMAC meet, a new event to her normal repertoire… Had a personal-best of 1:54.51 (converted) in that discipline at the Air Force/BYU & Mesa  meet… Set her NCAA “B” cut and season-best time of 22.30 in the 50 Free at the TYR CMU Invitational… Posted a personal-best of 1:07.95 in the 100 Breast at that meet, another unusual event on her schedule.

2023-24 (As a Sophomore): Capped a solid year with championship meet successes… Won a pair of national titles at the NCAA Division II Championships as the third leg on the Mavs’ winning 200 and 400 Free Relay teams… Earned four First Team CSCAA All-America honors, having also anchoring the Mavs’ third place 200 Medley Relay team while taking sixth in the 50 Free, individually… Helped the Mavs post former school record marks of 1:31.26 (200 Free) and 3:20.00 (400 Free) in the national championship wins… Also set a then school-record of 23.01 in the 50 Free before teammate Agata Naskret broke it in the 200 Free Relay… Still ranks third in CMU history… Also competed in the 100 Free at the national meet, placing sixth… Also shined at the RMAC Championships, winning four titles and five total All-RMAC certificates… Helped CMU set RMAC Championship record times in the 200 Medley (1:40.82), 200 Free (1:31.83) and 400 Free (3:21.63) relays… The 200 Free Relay time was also a former El Pomar Natatorium record… Also sprinted her way to the RMAC title in the 50 Free with a time of 23.09… Took the bronze and a Second Team All-RMAC certificate in the 100 Free (50.88)… Rounded out her RMAC Championship slate with a consolation final win and season-best time of 57.50 (converted) in the 100 Back before anchoring the Mavs’ “B’ heat winning 400 Free Relay team… Accounted for 45 team points in her three individual events while scoring 38 more when counting her share of team points in the relays… Had Anchored the Mavs to a former 200 Medley Relay school and El Pomar Natatorium record time of 1:39.97 at the TYR/CMU Invitational… Set a personal best 100 Free time of 50.77 at the UNLV Invitational to win the consolation final… Ranks seventh in CMU history with that mark… Won the 50 Free in the Oct. 21 dual at the Colorado School of Mines… Raced in all 11 meets of the CMU season, concluding it with a 50-meter free personal best time of 27.28 at the D-II LCM Invitational held the day after the national championships.

Summer 2023: Set a personal long-course best of 1:08.78 in the 100-meter backstroke at the USA Swimming Futures Championship in San Antonio, Texas.

2022-23 (As a Freshman): Competed in ten meets, including the RMAC Championships… Earned a pair of All-RMAC honors, winning a first team certificate and a conference title on the Mavs’ 200 free relay team that set a former RMAC Championship and El Pomar Natatorium record of 1:32.74… Also earned an individual Second Team All-RMAC honor with a fourth place finish in the 50 free… Set a NCAA provisional qualifying and season-best time of 23.78 to do so… Also had new personal-best altitude-adjusted times of 56.84 (100 back) and 58.86 (100 fly) and a season-best of 51.82 (100 free) during the conference meet… Finished sixth in the 100 free with that NCAA “B” cut time… Scored in all four of her individual events, winning the consolation heat and placing ninth in the 100 back after taking tenth in the 100 fly… Accounted for 44 team points in her four individual events and 58 ½ when including her share of relay team points… Helped the Mavs win the “B” heat in 400 free relay… Named as a Second Team CSCAA Scholar All-American.

Prep: Is majoring in biology… Aspires to become a physician assistant.
 
Personal: 2022 graduate of Mountain View High School in Bend, Oregon… Placed sixth in the 50 free and tenth in the 100 free at the 2022 Oregon 6A State Championships… Had finished seventh in the 100 free and eighth in the 50 free as a sophomore in 2020.
 
Why I Chose CMU: “I chose Colorado Mesa University for their excellent academics and women's swim program. The beautiful state of Colorado has all the recreational outdoor activities I enjoy and I'm excited to make Grand Junction my new community.”
 

Historical Player Information

  • 2022-23Freshman

    Sprint Freestyle
    5'11"
  • 2023-24Sophomore

    Sprint Freestyle
    5'11"
  • 2024-25Junior

    Sprint Freestyle
    6'0"
  • 2025-26Senior

    Sprint Freestyle
    6'0"