Maira Carreau Places Second at 2026 Triathlon National Championships

Sunday, November 8

Tempe, Ariz. / Tempe Town Lake

10:30 a.m. & 12:30 p.m. MT

University of Denver

Collegiate National Championships

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Pioneers finish seventh among Division I squads

By: Ron Knabenbauer

TEMPE, Ariz. – Senior Maira Carreau led the Denver Pioneers women's triathlon team on Sunday with a second-place finish at the 2026 Collegiate National Championships at Tempe Town Lake.

Carreau earned her second career podium at the national championships and fourth first-team All-American selection with a total time of 1:01:08.0. The 2023 individual national champion finished 25 seconds behind this year's winner Kelly Wetteland of Arizona and was 11 seconds ahead of third-place Julia Visgueiro of Texas Christian University.

This year's championship races unfortunately had to be switched to a duathlon as recent rainfall in the area and water release into Tempe Town Lake didn't allow for a safe swim, as the water quality of the reservoir didn't meet the standard needed.

That change didn't seem to affect Carreau, as she continued her usual position among the leaders after the first leg and was in the lead pack on the bike portion.

The La Prairie, Quebec, native had among the fastest transitions of the day, as she was the first out of transition for both the 20K bike and the final 5K run. Her T1 time of 17 seconds was three seconds faster than the next quickest while her mark of 17.5 seconds in T2 was just one-tenth of a second slower than Wetteland (17.4).

Carreau was leading the race out of the second transition, but Wetteland was close behind and eventually caught up to DU's captain and took the lead on the first of two laps on the 5K run course. Wetteland, who ran a sub-17-minute 5K at 16:57.3, is now a two-time national champion after winning last season. She is just the second-ever triathlete to repeat at the college level, joining the late Hannah Henry of Arizona State, who won in 2017 and 2018.

This year's national championship and Sun Devil Classic race was competed in Henry's memory, as she died on Feb. 8 after being struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver while doing a training bike ride in Phoenix.

Carreau posted the seventh-fastest first 2.5K run split at 8:24 before climbing her way through the lead peloton with a 20K bike time of 34:46. She finished the 5K run with a time of 17:22.8—the third-fastest mark of both her collegiate career and in the DU record book.

Denver had three athletes in the initial A wave for the championships, with sophomores Mia Stanley-Hunt and Jenna Topott joining Carreau. Stanley-Hunt posted a time of 1:05:31.7 to place 41st while Topott clocked in at 1:06:18.2 for a 49th-place result.

The Pioneers' other four athletes competed in the B wave about an hour after A wave finished, with junior Rebecca Nolan coming in 74th at 1:09:06.6 and freshman Lucy Eggleston rounding out the team's five scorers in 81st with a mark of 1:09:44.1. Graduate student Coco Reed was 94th (1:11:05.1) and sophomore Lucrezia Gowdy came in 104th (1:12:37.4).

Denver finished seventh among Division I programs and eighth overall in the team standings with 883 points, falling just three points behind next-up Navy (886).

Arizona won its third consecutive national championship after totaling 1,101 points and having all five of its scorers place in the top 11. Host Arizona State was second (1,073) while TCU came in third (1,025).

WHAT'S NEXT: Denver's 2026 main campaign is over. The team has one more week of school in the fall academic quarter before going on holiday break. The Pioneers will resume group practices and training in January will have several races in February and March as part of its spring series.

THE COURSE: The 20K bike and main 5K run courses remained the same as past years, but the first run went the opposite direction. The first 2.5K run followed the bike course up East Lake View Drive to Curry Road while the competitors did an out-and-back for about three quarters of a mile before turning around. The bike route featured three laps around the proximity of the lake and included several long straightaways, L-turns and three tight U-turns. The racers crossed the Mill Avenue Bridge toward downtown Tempe and also went down Curry Road to College Avenue and traveled north on 44th Street on the north side of the lake. The second run of five kilometers was a straight, two-loop, out-and-back course that went west out of transition and followed the pedestrian run and bike path on the north bank of the lake.

WEATHER: The air temperature for the A wave at 10:30 a.m. MT start was 72 degrees Fahrenheit while the B wave at 12:30 p.m. MT was 80 degrees. There were sunny conditions with no cloud cover. The only shade available came in brief spurts for the races from the adjacent overpasses.

RESULTS:
Denver Triathletes
2. Maira Carreau, 1:01:08.0 (8:25/0:17/34:46/0:18/17:23) – 224 points*
41. Mia Stanley-Hunt, 1:05:31.7 (8:51/0:25/36:14/0:21/19:41) – 185 points*
49. Jenna Topott, 1:06:18.2 (9:17/0:22/35:47/0:23/20:30) – 177 points*
74. Rebecca Nolan, 1:09:06.6 (9:20/0:23/37:43/0:27/21:13) – 152 points*
81. Lucy Eggleston, 1:09:44.1 (9:46/0:23/37:15/0:35/21:45) – 145 points*
94. Coco Reed, 1:11:05.1 (9:03/0:22/39:18/0:30/21:53) – 132 points
104. Lucrezia Gowdy, 1:12:37.4 (9:16/0:20/36:21/0:22/26:19) – 122 points
* - Denotes scorer

Women's Individual Finishers (225 Entries, 10 DNFs)
1. Kelly Wetteland, Arizona, 1:00:43.7 – 225 points
2. Maira Carreau, Denver, 1:01:08.0 – 224 points
3. Julia Visgueiro, TCU, 1:01:19.3 – 223 points
4. Amit Ben Adiva, Arizona, 1:01:24.4 – 222 points
5. Sidney Clement, Arizona State, 1:01:28.7 – 221 points
6. Molly Lakustiak, Arizona, 1:01:34.6 – 220 points
7. Regina Michel Camacho, Arizona, 1:01:38.4 – 219 points
8. Zoe Adam Mari, Arizona State, 1:01:39.6 – 218 points
9. Daria Ermolova, Duquesne, 1:01:43.7 – 217 points
10. Brooke Rousselle, Arizona State, 1:01:58.5 – 216 points

Women's Division I Team Results
1. Arizona – 1101 points
2. Arizona State – 1073 points
3. TCU – 1025 points
4. San Francisco – 985 points
5. Queens – 914 points
6. Navy – 886 points
7. Denver – 883 points
8. Duquesne – 814 points
9. South Dakota – 809 points
10. East Tennessee State – 775 points

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