Mavs sweep RMAC Swimming & Diving Awards

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.— The Colorado Mesa University Mavericks have swept the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference’s Swimmer and Diver of the Week awards, introduced by the convention workplace on Thursday afternoon.
 
Junior Jax Juarros was named because the RMAC Men’s Diver of the Week for the second time this season and the fifth in his profession whereas senior Kenya Meyer claimed her second Women’s Diver of the award of the marketing campaign and the fourth of her profession.
 
Senior Olivia Hansson additionally claimed her second Women’s Swimmer of the Week honor this season and the third of her profession whereas redshirt senior Aron Jonsson gained his first Men’s Swimmer of the Week honor.
 
The males’s awards had been primarily based off the Mavs’ performances in final Friday’s Halloween twin at NCAA Division I Utah.  The ladies’s honors had been primarily based on these performances in addition to the workforce’s Oct. 24 double twin at Colorado State and in opposition to Denver.  The RMAC didn’t bestow ladies’s honors final week as lower than 50 % of the convention’s 9 groups had competed.  Thus, the accomplishments had been rolled into this week’s choice course of.
 
Juarros, who hails from Gilbert, Arizona, surpassed the NCAA Championship qualifying customary of 285 factors by putting second amongst 9 males within the 1-meter diving occasion ultimately Friday’s twin with a 6-dive rating of 290.18 factors.  He additionally positioned fifth on the 3-meter board with 260.33 factors.
 
Jonsson, a local of Kópavogur, Iceland, gained the 200-yard breaststroke for the second straight meet, setting a season-best altitude-adjusted time of two:01.54 in opposition to the Utes.  That time leads the RMAC by practically two seconds this season.  He additionally took second within the 100 breast with a time of 56.44 and led the Maverick males with 13 workforce factors within the twin.
 
Hansson, who hails from Kivik, Sweden, claimed three wins and three different second place finishes whereas posting occasions that eclipsed the NCAA “B” lower requirements 4 occasions over the 2 weeks.  In final Friday’s twin at Utah, Hansson gained each the five hundred and 1,000-yard freestyle and scored a meet-high 22 workforce factors whereas additionally including second place finishes within the 200 free and because the anchor on the Mavs’ 200 free relay workforce.
 
In the double-double in opposition to Colorado State and Denver, she gained the 1,000 free and positioned second within the 500 free.
 
Hansson continues to steer the NCAA Division II Top Times report in each the five hundred Free (4:49.95) and 1000 Free (9:57.07) and ranks third within the 200 Free at 1:48.53.
 
Meanwhile, Meyer led the Maverick ladies’s diving contingent in opposition to the Division I opponents.  The Bozeman, Montana native completed fourth within the 1-meter and sixth within the 3-meter out of a area of 16 divers within the Oct. 24 double twin in opposition to Colorado State and Utah, defeating 13 mixed Division I opponents whereas scoring six workforce factors within the twin in opposition to Denver and 4 in opposition to Colorado State.
 
She then took third within the 3-meter and fourth within the 1-meter occasion out of a area of ten in opposition to Utah.  She scored 5 workforce factors and led the Mavericks in each occasions whereas defeating three Ute opponents.
 
The Mavs will proceed their season with the Nov. 19-22 TYR/CMU Invitational.