GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - On the second-to-last day of the 2026 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Swimming and Diving Championships, the Oklahoma Christian women picked up their second conference title of the week with the 200 yard freestyle relay taking first to highlight the evening's events.
The quartet of
Neyali Matos,
Andi Jeanes,
Callie Edmonds and
Vanessa Weatherford closed the night with a first-place and school record time of 1:33.97. Weatherford, who anchored the relay, started out a second a half behind first place and out-touched her competition by two hundredths of a second with her 22.27 final leg.
Individually,
Samantha Mongillo bested her preliminary time in the 500 free by nearly five whole seconds to win the B Final with a time of 5:06.10. The two events garnered the OC women 64 points to help them remain in fifth place with 481 points while holding a 94-point lead on sixth-place CSU-Pueblo.
On the men's side,
Cash Strickland claimed his second individual top-8 finish in his conference championships debut with a sixth-place finish in the 500 free with a time of 4:33.99. In the same event,
Nathan Bell (4:39.94) placed eighth.
Noah Rabb claimed seventh place in the 100 backstroke, touching at 50.41, with Quinn Mack (51.08) taking third in the B Final and 11th overall, while
Javan Titus (55.18) earned an NCAA B cut in the 100 breaststroke for fourth place before
Dallas Jones (56.56) took eighth.
In the final individual event of the night,
Gui Martins earned another B cut for the men after taking silver in the 200 butterfly with a finishing time of 1:49.44, followed by
Garrison Fenton (1:53.05) coming in at seventh. The duo added 29 points to OC's night to help them remain in third with 383 points while holding a 28-point edge on fourth place heading into the final day.
Oklahoma Christian will look to keep its third and fifth-place standing with one day remaining in the 2026 RMAC Swimming and Diving Championships, with day five's prelims starting at 10 a.m. MT / 11 a.m. CT.