Vikings go 7-1 in dual meets; finish fourth at CCIW Championships; capture conference titles in two events; 11 school records broken
 
Coach Dan Lloyd's 2019-20 Augustana women posted a 7-1 record in dual meets—the program's best in 24 years—and repeated last year's fourth-place finish at the CCIW Championships. The Vikings claimed one individual and one relay title at the conference meet and set a total of 11 new school records on the season.
 
Augustana captured five straight dual meets to start the season. The Vikings won 127-109 at St. Ambrose on October 4, defeated Knox (165-41) and Millikin (128-84) at home on October 26 and Loras (155-54) and Knox (172-53) in Dubuque, Iowa on November 9. They ran their record to 5-0 with a 150-55 win at Monmouth on November 22.
 
Aviana Zahara (Pleasant Valley HS, Moline, Ill.) won the 50 freestyle and 100 backstroke as Augustana place third of four teams at the Illinois Wesleyan Invitational on November 23.
 
On December 6-7, Lloyd's crew competed at the Wheaton Invitational, finishing seventh in a strong field, which included Division I Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
 
Sophomore Lauren Raike (Alamo Heights HS, San Antonio, Texas) took down Julie Konchan's 1988 school record in the 100 individual medley at the Grinnell Invitational on January 17. Raike's fourth-place 1:03.40 bettered Konchan's previous standard by 34 one-hundredths of a second. Zahara won the 100 backstroke at Grinnell and sophomore Madelynn Marunde (Belvidere North HS, Belvidere, Ill.), freshman Dominique Valentine (Walnut Hills HS, Cincinnati, Ohio), sophomore Alicia Garcia (Seminole HS, Lake Mary, Fla.) and freshman Maddie McFarland (Barrington HS, Tower Lakes, Ill.) claimed the 800 freestyle relay. The Vikings placed third in a nine-team field.
 
Wheaton handed Augustana its lone loss of the season in a double dual with the Thunder and North Central on February 8. The Vikings fell 176-91 to the hosts, but defeated the Cardinals 194-27 to go to 7-1 on the year—the program's best dual-meet record since a 7-1 ledger in 1995-96. The last time Augustana posted a better mark was in 1993-94 (10-1).
 
At the CCIW Championships in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin on February 20-22, the Vikings equaled their fourth-place finish from 2019 and set 10 school records. Marunde swam a 17:48.00 to repeat as 1650 freestyle champion and Lloyd's 200 medley relay won for the second straight year as well. Zahara, Marunde, senior Gabrielle Ainsworth (Hononegah HS, South Beloit, Ill.) and sophomore Isabelle Seten (Centennial HS, Champaign, Ill.) swam a school-record 1:45.97.
 
The oldest record to fall was Konchan's 1987 50 breaststroke time of :31.78. Marunde broke it with a :31.27 on the first leg of the 100 breaststroke final, where her time of 1:06.31 also set a school mark. She placed third to earn all-conference honors. For good measure, Marunde took down Raike's school record in the 200 breaststroke as well, swimming a 2:25.52 in the prelims.
 
Zahara set individual school records in the 100 freestyle (:52.30), 50 backstroke (:26.20) and 100 backstroke (:56.94) and earned all-conference recognition in the 100 back (2nd) and 50 and 100 freestyles (3rd in both).
 
Ainsworth swam a sixth-place :58.71 to break her own mark in the 100 butterfly.
 
The Vikings also set new school records in the 400 freestyle and medley relays, both of which placed second. The freestyle quartet of Zahara, Ainsworth, Raike and Seten swam a 3:32.06 and the medley unit of Zahara, Marunde, Ainsworth and Seten finished in 3:54.45.
  
2020 CCIW Swimming & Diving Championships
February 15, 2020—Bloomington, Ill. (Diving)
February 20-22, 20209—Pleasant Prairie, Wis. (Swimming)
 
Team Results: 1. Carthage 772; 2. Wheaton 717.5; 3. Illinois Wesleyan 528; 4. Augustana 509; 5. Carroll 399; 6. Millikin 326.5; 7. North Central 85
 
Individual Champions and Augustana finishers
50 freestyle: 1. Becca Rutkowski, Carthage :23.76; 3. Aviana Zahara, AUGUSTANA :24.16; 4. Isabelle Seten, AUGUSTANA :24.18
100 freestyle: 1. Becca Rutkowski, Carthage :51.64; 3. Aviana Zahara, AUGUSTANA :52.42; 4. Isabelle Seten, AUGUSTANA :52.83
200 freestyle: 1. Becca Rutkowski, Carthage 1:54.69; 7. Maddie McFarland, AUGUSTANA 1:58.42; 9. Alicia Garcia, AUGUSTANA 1:59.87
500 freestyle: 1. Ellen Gilbert, Illinois Wesleyan 5:03.42; 9. Alicia Garcia, AUGUSTANA 5:20.96; 13. Dominique Valentine, AUGUSTANA 5:25.18  
1650 freestyle: 1. Madelynn Marunde, AUGUSTANA 17:48.00; 7. Alicia Garcia, AUGUSTANA 18:41.55
100 backstroke: 1. Lindsey Coons, Carroll :57.25; 2. Aviana Zahara, AUGUSTANA :57.33; 14. Maddie McFarland, AUGUSTANA 1:01.69
200 backstroke: 1. Abby Partridge, Wheaton 2:03.91; 7. Maddie McFarland, AUGUSTANA 2:11.09  
100 breaststroke: 1. Michaela Sandeno, Wheaton 1:05.73; 3. Madelynn Marunde, AUGUSTANA 1:06.31; 9. Lauren Raike, AUGUSTANA 1:09.35
200 breaststroke: 1. Lauren Fedderson, Illinois Wesleyan 2:20.48; 6. Madelynn Marunde, AUGUSTANA 2:26.86; 7. Lauren Raike, AUGUSTANA 2:30.18
100 butterfly: 1. Ellen Gilbert, Illinois Wesleyan :55.77; 6. Gabrielle Ainsworth, AUGUSTANA :58.71; 10. Patti Grod, AUGUSTANA :59.73; 12. Dominique Valentine, AUGUSTANA 1:00.18; 16. Mykenzie James, AUGUSTANA 1:02.85
200 butterfly: 1. Ellen Gilbert, Illinois Wesleyan 2:02.71; 15. Grace O'Shea, AUGUSTANA 2:32.35
200 IM: 1. Abby Partridge, Wheaton 2:05.20; 9. Lauren Raike, AUGUSTANA 2:11.91; 10. Gabrielle Ainsworth, AUGUSTANA 2:13.74
400 IM: 1. Priscilla Min, Wheaton 4:38.59
200 freestyle relay: 1. Carthage 1:35.10; 2. AUGUSTANA (Aviana Zahara, Dominique Valentine, Megan Frost, Isabelle Seten) 1:36.48
400 freestyle relay: 1. Carthage 3:30.38; 2. AUGUSTANA (Aviana Zahara, Gabrielle Ainsworth,Lauren Raike, Isabell Seten) 3:32.06
800 freestyle relay: 1. Illinois Wesleyan 7:41.53; 4. AUGUSTANA (Madelynn Marunde, Alicia Garcia, Dominique Valentine, Maddie McFarland) 7:57.51
200 medley relay: 1. AUGUSTANA (Aviana Zahara, Madelynn Marunde, Gabrielle Ainsworth, Isabelle Seten) 1:45.97
400 medley relay: 1. Wheaton 3:53.15; 2. AUGUSTANA (Aviana Zahara, Madelynn Marunde, Gabrielle Ainsworth, Isabelle Seten) 3:54.45
One-meter diving: 1. Trisha Garcia, Carthage 424.35; 4. Amy Nicholson, AUGUSTANA 186.25; 5. Emma Hydorn, AUGUSTANA 157.60
Three-meter diving: 1. Trisha Garcia, Carthage 433.30
 
2019-20 AUGUSTANA SUPERLATIVES
DUAL MEET RECORD: 7-1
COLLEGE CONFERENCE OF ILLINOIS & WISCONSIN FINISH: 4th with 509 points
SCHOOL RECORDS: 100 freestyle—Aviana Zahara :52.30; 50 backstroke—Aviana Zahara :26.20; 100 backstroke—Aviana Zahara :56.94; 50 breaststroke—Madelynn Marunde :31.27; 100 breaststroke—Madelynn Marunde 1:06.31; 200 breaststroke—Madelynn Marunde 2:25.52; 100 butterfly—Gabrielle Ainsworth :58.71; 100 individual medley—Lauren Raike 1:03.40; 200 medley relay—Aviana Zahara, Madelynn Marunde, Gabrielle Ainsworth, Isabelle Seten 1:45.97; 400 medley relay—Aviana Zahara, Madelynn Marunde, Gabrielle Ainsworth, Isabelle Seten 3:54.45; 400 freestyle relay—Aviana Zahara, Gabrielle Ainsworth, Lauren Raike, Isabelle Seten 3:32.06
CCIW ALL-CONFERENCE: Madelynn Marunde, Aviana Zahara, Gabrielle Ainsworth and Isabelle Seten
CCIW ACADEMIC ALL-CONFERENCE: Gabrielle Ainsworth, Carissa Boerboom, Chelsea Brandt, Sara Clark, Cameran Frank, Alicia Garcia, Patti Grod, Emma Hydorn, Marissa Jaskae, Madelynn Marunde
TEAM FINISHES IN INVITATIONALS: Illinois Wesleyan Invitational on 11/23/19—3rd of 4; Wheaton Invitational on 12/6-7/19—7th of 7; Grinnell Invitational on 1/17-18/20—3rd of 9
INVITATIONAL INDIVIDUAL & RELAY CHAMPIONS: Illinois Wesleyan Invitational—Aviana Zahara, 100 backstroke (:58.76); Aviana Zahara, 50 freestyle (:25.00)... Grinnell Invitational—Aviana Zahara, 100 backstroke (:59.45); Madelynn Marunde, Dominique Valentine, Alicia Garcia and Maddie McFarland, 800 freestyle relay (8:22.61)
 
ALL-TIME TOP 10 LISTS
Madelynn Marunde: 100 breaststroke (1st—1:06.31); 200 breaststroke (1st—2:25.52); 200 freestyle (2nd—1:57.11); 200 individual medley (10th—2:17.33)
Garbrielle Ainsworth: 100 butterfly (1st—:58.71); 100 freestyle (5th—:53.68); 200 individual medley (5th—2:13.74)
Aviana Zahara: 100 freestyle (1st—:52.30)
Isabelle Seten: 50 freestyle 100 freestyle (3rd—:52.83); (4th—:24.17)
Maddie McFarland: 200 backstroke (3rd—2:10.02); 100 backstroke (6th—1:01.69); 200 freestyle (7th—1:58.42)
Dominique Valentine: 100 butterfly (4th—1:00.18); 200 butterfly (7th—2:18.14); 500 freestyle (9th—5:25.08)
Alicia Garcia: 500 freestyle (5th—5:20.96); 1650 freestyle (5th—18:41.55); 1000 freestyle (6th—11:17.84)
Lauren Raike: 100 breaststroke (6th—1:09.35); 1000 freestyle (9th—11:23.68);
Mykenzie James: 100 butterfly (7th—1:01.36); 200 backstroke (10th—2:18.10)