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MINNEAPOLIS -- The Augsburg College women's swimming team finished with 72 points and an 11th-place finish at the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Championships this weekend at the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center.

Saturday, Feb. 18
Elizabeth Hilgendorf (FY, Tomahawk, Wis.) led the Auggies with two milestone times in the 100-yard freestyle on Saturday. As the opening leg of the 400-yard freestyle relay, her 58.12-second effort marked the second-fastest time in the 100 in school history, just behind the 57.98-second effort put forth by her coach, Kasi Clauson Lange '08, at the 2005 MIAC Championships.

Earlier on Saturday, Hilgendorf swam a 58.27-second time in the preliminaries of the 100-yard freestyle, a time that is now third-best in school history in the event. Also in the preliminaries, Maggie Royce (FY, Watertown, Minn./Watertown-Mayer HS) swam a 58.81-second time, the sixth-fastest time in school history in the event. Abby Novak (JR, Aurora, Minn./Mesabi East HS) swam a 1:03.73 time in the event.

In the 200-yard backstroke, Elianna Bier (FY, St. Paul, Minn./Highland Park HS) swam the fourth-fastest time in school history in the event, a 2:32.71 time that marked a one-second improvement over her previous season-best time. Teammate Samantha Hebzynski (SR, Maple Grove, Minn.) finished in 2:35.22 in the event.

Hlavac swam the eighth-fastest time in school history in the 1,650-yard freestyle in 20:32.81. Hlavac now holds five of the top-10 times in school history in the event.

Augsburg's 400-yard freestyle relay, of Hilgendorf, Novak, Hlavac and Royce finished in 3:59.46, a five-second improvement over the relay's previous best time this season.

As a team, Augsburg finished in 11th place with 72 points in the meet.

Friday, Feb. 17
Another school record fell by the wayside for Augsburg, as the Auggies' 800-yard freestyle relay squad of Maggie Royce (FY, Watertown, Minn./Watertown-Mayer HS), Abby Novak (JR, Aurora, Minn./Mesabi East HS), Kelsey Hlavac (SO, Carlisle, Pa./Cumberland Valley HS) and Elizabeth Hilgendorf (FY, Tomahawk, Wis.) set a new mark with an 8:50.89, ninth-place time on Friday. The 8:50.89 time shattered the old school record of 8:58.96, set at the 2007 MIAC Championships, and represented more than a 17-second improvement from the team's previous best time this season.

Royce also claimed three other milestone times on Thursday. Two of her split times in the 800-yard freestyle relay finished among the top 10 times in school history in their distances -- a 100-yard split of 59.73 seconds is the eighth-fastest time, and her 2:06.98 split over 200 meters is the second-fastest time. Her prelim time of 2:07.87 in the 200-yard freestyle competition is the third-fastest time in the event in school history.

Hilgendorf also set a milestone time in the 200-yard freestyle, as her 2:10.84 time is the eighth-fastest time in the event in school history. Hlavac swam a 2:15.41 time for the Auggies in the event on Friday.

A day after a new school record in the 100-yard backstroke (1:09.04) was set by Elianna Bier (FY, St. Paul, Minn./Highland Park HS) in a relay split, two more milestone times were set in the event on Friday. In the preliminaries, Bier swam the second-fastest time in school history in the event at 1:09.44, and Novak swam the third-fastest time in school history in 1:09.76.

Augsburg's 200-yard medley relay of Novak, Samantha Hebzynski (SR, Maple Grove, Minn.), Kayla Mitchell (FY, St. Paul, Minn./Insight School of Minnesota) and Hlavac finished in a season-best time of 2:08.55, cutting nearly three seconds off the previous season-best effort.

Through two days of the MIAC Championships, Augsburg stands in 10th place with 60 points.

Thursday, Feb. 16
Thursday's action for the Auggies was highlighted by a new school record set by Elianna Bier (FY, St. Paul, Minn./Highland Park HS) in the 100-yard backstroke. Her first leg of Thursday's 400-yard medley relay was in 1:09.04, breaking the old record of 1:09.98, set by Liz Wiggen in the 2006 MIAC Championships.

Elizabeth Hilgendorf (FY, Tomahawk, Wis.) produced the second-fastest time in school history in the 50-yard freestyle, a 26.25-second effort, in the preliminaries. Her time fell just short of the school record, a 25.98-second effort set by Stefanie Sanders in the 2007 MIAC Championships. The time also reflected nearly a full second improvement off Hilgendorf's previous personal-best 27.12 second time. Abby Novak (JR, Aurora, Minn./Mesabi East HS) also swam a season-best time of 27.92 seconds in the event.

Augsburg's Kelsey Hlavac (SO, Carlisle, Pa./Cumberland Valley HS) and Maggie Royce (FY, Watertown, Minn./Watertown-Mayer HS) produced the ninth- and 10th-fastest times in school history in the 500-yard freestyle -- a season-best 5:55.27 time for Hlavac and a 5:55.61 time for Royce.

Augsburg's two relays also produced school milestone times. The 200-yard freestyle relay of Royce, Novak, Hlavac and Hilgendorf finished in 1:49.96, a more than two-second improvement off their previous season-best time and the third-fastest time in the event in school history.

The 400-yard medley relay of Bier, Hilgendorf, Kayla Mitchell (FY, St. Paul, Minn./Insight School of Minnesota) and Royce produced the second-fastest time in school history with a 4:35.05, ninth-place finish. The time was a more-than 10-second improvement over their previous season-best time. The time fell short of the school record, a 4:32.58 time set at the 2005 MIAC Championships.

As a team, Augsburg stands in 10th place with 30 points through the first day of competition.