NCAA Swimming & Diving: Thursday Preliminary Session Report

EVANSVILLE, Ind.— The Colorado Mesa University Mavericks superior 5 swimmers and two divers into championship finals and one other 5 swimmers and three divers into the comfort finals  after Thursday morning’s preliminary spherical session on the 2026 NCAA Division II Swimming & Diving Championships right here within the Deaconess Aquatics Center.
 
The Mavericks might be represented in all 9 of the night’s occasions, together with the lads’s and girls’s 400 medley relays which can cap the evening.
 
The night session will start at 5:30 p.m. CDT (4:30 p.m. Mountain).
 
Here’s a rundown of the morning session by occasion.
 
100 Fly
 
Kiara Borchardt completed in 54.94 seconds to tie for 12^th within the preliminary session and can swim within the ladies’s comfort ultimate.  Tori Bartusiak additionally swam to a time of 56.36 seconds and completed 29^th, slightly below her No. 27 pre-meet seed.
 
Meanwhile, Oskar Sawicki set a season-best time of 46.73 seconds to qualify sixth for the lads’s championship ultimate as the one Maverick entrant.
 
400 Individual Medley
 
Melina Giraudeau posted a time of 4:23.51 to complete tenth within the preliminary spherical and can contest a comfort ultimate for the second straight evening after taking 13^th within the 200 IM on Wednesday.  She was seeded 13^th within the 400 IM on the pre-meet psych sheets.
 
On the lads’s facet, Ben Vester smashed his career-best by greater than three seconds to win his warmth and place second total within the morning prelims.  He posted a time of three:46.70 after coming into the meet with a former career-best of three:49.81, which had him seeded ninth.  He now ranks second in CMU historical past behind nationwide document holder Ben Sampson and is coming off an eighth place end within the 200 IM on Wednesday evening.
 
Freshman teammate Micah Moore additionally posed a time of three:52.80 to position 15^th and earn a lane in his first NCAA comfort ultimate. 
 
Meanwhile, Aron Jonsson completed 18^th in 3:55.50 and would be the second alternate for the finals.
 
The Mavs additionally had 4 different entrants in Luka Samsonov (20^th, 3:57.04), Gavyn Tatge (25^th, 3:59.74), Miles Moran (28^th, 4:02.46) and Ethan Gluck (29^th, 4:02.88).
 
200 Free
 
The Maverick ladies certified two swimmers for the championship ultimate and one other for the comfort ultimate.  Ada Qunell completed second in her warmth and third total with a time of 1:48.16 whereas Hanna Sasivarevic touched in a career-best time of 1:48.64 to position sixth.  The Utah junior additionally moved up one spot to fourth in CMU historical past.
 
Meanwhile, Olivia Hansson reached the comfort ultimate, tying for 14^th within the preliminaries with a time of 1:50.12.
 
Kendyll Wilkinson completed 22^nd in 1:51.19 whereas Abby Uhl positioned 30^th in 1:52.38.
 
On the lads’s facet, Guillaume Guth completed the preliminaries in fifth with a time of 1:35.03 to securely attain the championship ultimate.  Jonass Friess completed 11^th in 1:36.15 to earn a spot within the comfort ultimate.
 
Fellow German Richard Schmiedefeld took 28^th, touching in 1:38.31.
 
Women’s 3-Meter Diving
 
Seniors Kenya Meyer and Amelia Licht each completed amongst the highest eight within the preliminary spherical to earn a spot within the night’s championship finals.  Meyer took second out of the 22 divers with 462.20 factors on 11 dives whereas Licht completed with 420.80 factors to position eighth.
 
Three different Mavericks will dive within the comfort ultimate, slated to start shortly.  Emma Lence completed ninth with 415.25 factors whereas Talia Datilio was tenth with 414.75 factors.  Jenna Hurley was 12^th with 401.75 factors.  She and Lence will earn their first profession Second Team CSCAA All-America honors supplied they end the occasion.
 
Datilio earned such an honor with at 13^th place end final 12 months.
 
Licht was a primary crew all-American on the 1-meter board in 2025 whereas Meyer gained her first award with a seventh place end on the 3-meter board final 12 months.