By: Cody Bush, Associate Commissioner / Strategic Communications

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. – A pair of record-breaking performances highlighted Colorado Mesa University’s four-win Saturday en route to clinching its eighth consecutive Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Men’s Swimming & Diving Championship at El Pomar Natatorium.

Colorado Mesa scored 1,234 points to win the team title ahead of Colorado School of Mines, which scored 762.50 points. Oklahoma Christian University finished third with 493 points, narrowly edging out Simon Fraser University’s 487-point total.

Aron Jonsson used his win in the 200 breaststroke – the championship’s final individual event – to secure the Swimmer of the Meet title with 72 points. He won the 100 breaststroke, finished third in both the 200 and 400 individual medleys, and earned points with the Mavericks’ 200 medley relay team, which won the B final in that event.

Colorado Mesa divers Ryan Campbell and David Roethlisberger shared the Diver of the Meet title. Campbell won the 1-meter event and finished second in the 3-meter competition. Roethlisberger won the 3-meter and finished second in the 1-meter.

In Saturday’s action, Simon Fraser’s Owen Nicholson opened the night session with a win in the 1,650 freestyle. Colorado Mesa’s Guillaume Guth followed up a championship record in the 100 freestyle preliminary by shaving nearly half a second off the record in the final, winning in 42.97 seconds.

Luka Samsonov followed with a win in the 200 backstroke, and Jonsson closed the individual events with his win. The Colorado Mesa 400 freestyle relay team put an exclamation mark on its championship with a record-breaking 2:54.31 mark.

Saturday’s Champions

1650 Freestyle: Owen Nicholson, Simon Fraser (15:51.53)
100 Freestyle: Guillaume Guth, Colorado Mesa (42.97, Championship Record)
200 Backstroke: Luka Samsonov, Colorado Mesa (1:46.61)
200 Breaststroke: Aron Jonsson, Colorado Mesa (1:58.90)
400 Freestyle Relay: Colorado Mesa (2:54.31, Championship Record)

About the RMAC

The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, headquartered in Colorado Springs, is a premier NCAA Division II conference with 15 institutions located in Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Utah. The RMAC currently competes in 22 NCAA Division II sports and has earned 71 national championships and 53 national runners-up since 1992. Founded in 1909, the RMAC is the most historic athletic conference in the western United States and Division II.

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