Mav males prime RMAC Swim/Dive ballot

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.— The Colorado Mesa University males’s swimming & diving staff was a unanimous decide to win an eighth straight Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference title and positioned 4 staff members on the preseason all-conference staff that was introduced together with the league’s preseason coaches’ ballot, launched on Thursday.
 
The Mavericks obtained the primary place nod on all 5 potential ballots of the coaches, who ranked their opposition 1-5 with out voting for their very own staff.  Five factors have been awarded for every because the Mavs topped the ballot with 25 factors.
 
The Colorado School of Mines, which took second ultimately 12 months’s RMAC Championships obtained CMU Head Coach Mickey Wender‘s first place vote to take second within the ballot with 20 factors.  Associate RMAC members Simon Fraser, Oklahoma Christian and UT Permian Basin have been picked third by fifth with 17, 14 and eight factors, respectively.  Adams State rounded out the ballot with six factors.
 
The Preseason All-RMAC staff was made up of the best positioned returning student-athlete in every of the 16 particular person occasions from final 12 months’s RMAC Championships.
 
The Mavs had 4 of these picks in 2024-25 RMAC Diver of the Year Ryan Campbell, 2024-25 RMAC Freshman of the Year Richard Schmiedefeld in addition to Luka Samsonov and Wyatt Hermanson.
 
Campbell gained the RMAC title on the 3-meter board whereas Hermanson was the 1-meter champion.  Schmiedefeld gained the 50-yard freestyle ultimately 12 months’s RMAC Championships whereas Samsonov took second within the 200 Backstroke.
 
The CMU ladies have been additionally unanimous picks to win an eighth straight title.
 
The Mavs will start the season subsequent week internet hosting two days of meets throughout the annual Intermountain Shootout on Oct. 3 and 4.   NCAA Division I BYU and Adams State are slated to compete in opposition to the Mavs.

CMU will once more host the RMAC Championships from Feb. 10-14, 2026.