By: Cody Bush, Associate Commissioner / Strategic Communications

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Simon Fraser University’s Tori Meklensek is the 2024-25 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Women’s Swimming & Diving Swimmer of the Year of the Year, the league announced Thursday along with the league’s other major award winners and All-RMAC rosters.

Colorado Mesa University’s Kenya Meyer is the league’s Diver of the Year and the Mavericks’ Kendyll Wilkinson is the Freshman of the Year for women’s swimming and diving. Simon Fraser University head coach Demone Tissira is the RMAC Women’s Swimming & Diving Coach of the Year.

The RMAC awards are selected and voted on by the league’s nine women’s swimming and diving head coaches. Coaches are not permitted to vote for their players. The All-RMAC Teams are based on results at the RMAC Championships, with first and second-place finishers named First Team All-RMAC and third and fourth-place finishers earning Second Team All-RMAC recognition. Colorado Mesa led all women’s teams with 19 student-athletes, claiming 55 All-RMAC honors. Colorado School of Mines (11 student-athletes/19 All-RMAC honors), Colorado State University Pueblo (1/1), Oklahoma Christian University (8/25), Simon Fraser (10/33), and Western Colorado University (8/11) also placed individuals on the All-RMAC teams.

Meklensek, a Kitchener, Ontario product, claimed seven medals at the RMAC Championship and four more at the NCAA Division II Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships last weekend. She was the national champion in the 500 and 1,650 freestyle events in Indianapolis and finished second in the 1,000 freestyle and third in the 200 freestyle competitions – all with personal best times. Meklensek medaled in all the freestyle events at the RMAC Championships and won the 200, 500, 1,000, and 1,650 events while finishing second in the 50 and 100 events to win the Swimmer of the Meet honor.

After winning both diving competitions at the RMAC Championships, Meyer claimed First Team All-American honors in the 3-meter NCAA Division II Championships competition. The Bozeman, Montana product won the RMAC title in the 3-meter event with a championship record 541.70 points. In Indianapolis, she advanced out of the pre-championship qualifier and finished seventh in the 3-meter championship and 17th in the 1-meter event.

Wilkinson, a Grand Junction, Colorado native, won four medals at the RMAC Championships and earned two more at the NCAA Division II Championships last weekend. At the RMAC Championships, she was a member of the Mavericks’ 200 and 800 freestyle winning teams, finished second in the 100 freestyle and third in the 200 freestyle. Wilkinson then was part of Colorado Mesa’s 400 freestyle relay team that finished with the silver medal in Indianapolis and the third-place 800 freestyle relay unit. Individually, she placed 16th in the 200 freestyle, earning Second Team All-America honors.

Tissira claims his first RMAC Coach of the Year award after leading Simon Fraser to a second-place finish in the women’s competition at the RMAC Championships. The Red Leafs also made a splash at the NCAA Division II Championships, claiming four medals and 211 points to finish seventh in the team race. Seven Simon Fraser women’s student-athletes earned All-America recognition in 25 events during the NCAA Championships.

2024-25 All-Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference: Women’s Swimming & Diving

Colorado Mesa
Sophia Bains: (1st Team): 200 Individual Medley, 400 Individual Medley; (2nd Team): 200 Backstroke
Tori Bartusiak: (1st Team): 200 Individual Medley, 200 Butterfly, 200 Freestyle Relay; (2nd Team): 400 Individual Medley
Kiara Borchardt: (1st Team): 100 Butterfly, 200 Butterfly, 200 Medley Relay, 400 Medley Relay
Olivia Hansson: (1st Team): 1,000 Freestyle, 500 Freestyle, 1650 Freestyle, 800 Freestyle Relay
Haven Hinkle: (1st Team): 400 Individual Medley
Taylar Hooton: (1st Team): 100 Backstroke; (2nd Team): 200 Individual Medley
Jenna Hurley: (1st Team): 1-meter Dive, 3-meter Dive
Antonia Leese: (1st Team): 100 Breaststroke, 400 Medley Relay; (2nd Team): 200 Breaststroke
Mimi Licht: (2nd Team): 1-meter Dive, 3-meter Dive
Katerina Matoskova: (1st Team): 800 Freestyle Relay; (2nd Team): 200 Freestyle, 500 Freestyle, 100 Backstroke, 200 Backstroke
Kenya Meyer: (1st Team): 1-meter Dive, 3-meter Dive
Maddi Moran: (1st Team): 200 Medley Relay
Agata Naskret: (1st Team): 50 Freestyle, 100 Backstroke, 200 Backstroke, 200 Medley Relay, 200 Freestyle Relay, 400 Medley Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay
Sydnee O’Neil: (2nd Team): 200 Butterfly
Ada Qunell: (1st Team): 200 Freestyle Relay, 400 Medley Relay, 800 Freestyle Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay
Hanna Sasivarevic: (2nd Team): 1,000 Freestyle
Kate Speerschneider; (2nd Team): 200 Individual Medley
Kendyll Wilkinson: (1st Team): 100 Freestyle, 800 Freestyle Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay; (2nd Team): 200 Freestyle
Elli Williams: (1st Team): 200 Medley Relay, 200 Freestyle Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay; (2nd Team): 50 Freestyle
 
Colorado School of Mines
Isabella Bono: (2nd Team): 400 Individual Medley
Sophia Cristal: (1st Team): 200 Medley Relay; (2nd Team): 200 Freestyle Relay
Kerrigan Hemp: (1st Team): 200 Medley Relay
Emilia Jedryka: (2nd Team): 400 Medley Relay
Olivia Kisow: (2nd Team): 800 Freestyle Relay
Ava Labrose: (2nd Team): 800 Freestyle Relay
Jennifer Pierson: (2nd Team): 200 Freestyle Relay, 400 Medley Relay, 800 Freestyle Relay
Jordan Tierney: (1st Team): 200 Breaststroke, 200 Medley Relay; (2nd Team): 100 Breaststroke, 200 Freestyle Relay, 400 Medley Relay
Kylie Vandermeer: (1st Team): 200 Medley Relay; (2nd Team): 200 Freestyle Relay, 400 Medley Relay
Maggie Wells: (2nd Team): 800 Freestyle Relay
 
CSU Pueblo
Paola C Wu: (2nd Team): 200 Butterfly
 
Oklahoma Christian
Jaiden Branstrom: (2nd Team): 200 Freestyle Relay, 800 Freestyle Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay
Laura Byars: (1st Team): 400 Medley Relay; (2nd Team): 200 Freestyle Relay, 800 Freestyle Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay
Callie Edmonds: (2nd Team): 200 Freestyle Relay
Tammy Greenwood: (1st Team): 50 Freestyle, 200 Freestyle, 200 Backstroke, 400 Medley Relay; (2nd Team): 100 Backstroke, 800 Freestyle Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay
Andrea Paradis: (2nd Team): 100 Breaststroke
Nayeli Matos Sanchez: (2nd Team): 200 Freestyle Relay
Hailey Uhrig: (1st Team): 100 Breaststroke, 200 Breaststroke, 400 Medley Relay
Vanessa Weatherford: (1st Team): 400 Medley Relay; (2nd Team): 100 Butterfly, 100 Freestyle, 800 Freestyle Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay
 
Simon Fraser
Melissa Adelman: (2nd Team): 200 Medley Relay, 400 Medley Relay
Abby Andrews: (2nd Team): 200 Medley Relay
Kaysha Bikadi: (2nd Team): 200 Medley Relay, 400 Medley Relay
Keira Kennedy: (2nd Team): 1650 Freestyle
Tori Meklensek: (1st Team): 1,000 Freestyle, 200 Freestyle, 500 Freestyle, 1650 Freestyle, 200 Freestyle Relay, 800 Freestyle Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay
Nicole Petrisor: (1st Team): 200 Freestyle Relay
Robynn Reid: (2nd Team): 200 Medley Relay
Delrae Vetter: (1st Team): 800 Freestyle Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay; (2nd Team): 1,000 Freestyle, 500 Freestyle, 1650 Freestyle, 400 Medley Relay
Alyssa Whitmore: (1st Team): 200 Freestyle Relay, 800 Freestyle Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay; (2nd Team): 100 Butterfly, 100 Freestyle, 400 Medley Relay
Abby Williams: (1st Team): 100 Butterfly, 100 Freestyle, 200 Freestyle Relay, 800 Freestyle Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay; (2nd Team): 50 Freestyle
 
Western Colorado
Chloe Brown: (2nd Team): 1-meter Dive, 3-meter Dive
Trinity Caudle: (2nd Team): 200 Medley Relay
Makenna Lambert: (2nd Team): 200 Medley Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay
Morgan Nielsen: (2nd Team): 400 Freestyle Relay
Asia Swiderska: (2nd Team): 200 Medley Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay
LynDea Turner: (2nd Team): 200 Medley Relay
Leah Wagner: (2nd Team): 200 Breaststroke
Madi Zach: (2nd Team): 400 Freestyle Relay