2009 Auggie Awards -- Female Most Improved Team Finalists

2009 AUGGIE AWARDS PAGE

Women's Golf-09 Auggie Awards
GOLF
(In 2007-08, 10th/10 at MIAC championships, In 2008-09, 10th/10 at MIAC championships) -- Under fourth-year head coach Laura Patrick, the Augsburg women's golf team finished 10th at the MIAC championships, finishing the fall half of the 2008-09 season with a 396.1 team stroke average. Through the fall half of the 2008-09 campaign, this year's squad has improved its stroke average by 6.6 strokes from last season's average, with three of the four returning golfers improving their averages from last year.
Softball-09 Auggie Awards
2008 SOFTBALL
(In 2007, 4-34 overall, 3-19 MIAC--12th/12; In 2008, 20-23 overall, 15-7 MIAC--4th/12, MIAC playoff qualifier) -- Under Tim Gormley, in his second year as Augsburg's head coach, the Auggies finished 20-23 overall and 15-7 in MIAC play in 2008, one of the program's most dramatic comeback seasons in school history. After finishing 4-34 last season and starting 4-14 this season, Augsburg won 16 of its final 25 games to reach the 20-win mark for the first time since the 1995 season (20-18) and just the ninth time in the last 30 years (since the 1979 season). Augsburg reached the MIAC postseason playoffs for the first time in the event's five-year history this year, while also reaching the postseason for the first time since 1984. Gormley was named the conference's Coach of the Year in 2008.
Volleyball-09 Auggie Awards
VOLLEYBALL
(In 2007, 13-16 overall, 4-7 MIAC--9th/12; In 2008, 17-12 overall, 5-6 MIAC--t6th/12) -- The Augsburg volleyball team, under fourth-year head coach Jessica Rinehart, finished the 2008 season with a record of 17-12 overall (5-6 MIAC), tying the most victories for an Augsburg volleyball team since 1998 (17-11 overall, 6-5 MIAC). With just two seniors on the roster, the Auggies finished in a tie for sixth place in the MIAC standings with Carleton and St. Mary's, but lost out on a conference playoff berth due to tiebreaker criteria. Augsburg won nine of its final 13 matches, including a stretch of four straight conference victories in the five-set limit. Among those wins was a dramatic home triumph over St. Olaf on Oct. 15, breaking a 31-match losing streak to the Oles dating to the 1989 season.