Swimming & Diving Sweeps Silver at RMAC Championships

By: Sam Boender

Results
 
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. – Saturday introduced a sweep of workforce silver for the Colorado School of Mines males’s and ladies’s swimming & diving groups because the Orediggers closed out the 2026 RMAC Swimming & Diving Championships on the campus of Colorado Mesa.
 
The Oredigger girls scored 1,304.5 factors throughout 5 days and 13 periods. Mines’ males tallied 762.5 throughout the identical span. Colorado Mesa swept the lads’s and ladies’s title for an eighth straight 12 months. The Maverick males totaled 1,234 factors whereas CMU’s girls scored 1,870.5 factors. Colorado Mesa did sweep all the person excessive level awards. However, Mines’ personal Anna Bream, a real freshmen, was second in complete factors on the ladies’s facet with 116 in comparison with Olivia Hansson’s 123.
 
Saturday’s racing finale introduced loads of highlights for the Orediggers. Julie Gill led Mines’ girls within the 1650-free with a ninth-place end and a NCAA “B” minimize. Lucas Hoke was Second-Team All-RMAC within the males’s mile after taking second. He, together with Nathan Moss, Joseph Lev-Tov, and Jake Sherman accounted for 4 of the eight quickest instances within the occasion, all underneath the NCAA “B” customary. Action continued within the 100-free the place Jennifer Pierson registered a NCAA time and took seventh. The males’s 100-free featured Jack Fulham in fifth, Jakson Winn in seventh, and Brenden Cook in eighth. That trio touted NCAA tempo as properly.
 
After the primary two freestyle occasions got here the 200-back and 200-breast. On the ladies’s facet, Mary Flikkema represented Mines within the A closing, ending eighth. Emi Jedryka was proper behind her and received the B closing with the fifth-fastest time of the evening. Reid Wilkerson churned out an eighth-place end for the Orediggers within the males’s 200-back. Then, it was silver for Bream within the girls’s 200-breast due to a program-record time of two:15.35. Cameryn Schmidt joined Bream within the A closing and took eighth. The males’s 200-breast noticed Fausto Angelone Lopez, Joe Hutchinson, and Evan Angeline go 6-7-8. Finally, within the 400-freestyle relays, Kaya Flaherty, Ava LaBrose, Michelle Murphy, and Pierson raced to bronze for the ladies. Cook, Winn, Dan Berke, and Fulham broke the lads’s program file and earned a silver medal.
 
The subsequent motion for Mines would be the CMU Last Chance Meet again in Grand Junction, Colo., subsequent Saturday.
 
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