2011 Auggie Awards - Women's Most Improved Team of the Year Finalists

GOLF (7th/10 at MIAC championships in 2010 … 7th/10 at MIAC championships in 2009) -- Under head coach Ted Vickerman, Augsburg had one of its most successful fall seasons in school history, finishing in seventh place at the MIAC championships with 1,089 strokes, a school record for a 54-hole event. Augsburg repeated its best-ever team placing in the conference meet, and senior Stefani Zappa became the first Auggie women’s golfer to ever earn multiple All-MIAC honors, finishing in seventh place as an individual (the best-ever individual finish for an Auggie at the MIAC meet). Johanna Frykmark joined Zappa in becoming two of only three Auggies in school history to record top-25 finishes in three MIAC championships. Augsburg has a 376.8 stroke average this season, and its .345 winning percentage (20-38) currently betters last season’s .230 (17-57) mark.

2010 SOFTBALL (21-19 overall, 11-11 MIAC--7th/12 in 2010 … 12-28 overall, 10-12 MIAC--7th/12 in 2009) -- Under fourth-year coach Tim Gormley, Augsburg reached the 20-win plateau for the second time in his coaching tenure, and the team's 21 wins are its most since the 1992 season, when it finished 24-12. Augsburg hit .276 as a team with 73 extra-base hits (50 doubles, six triples, 17 home runs), while recording a 3.66 team earned-run average. Augsburg swept Macalester, St. Catherine, Carleton and Hamline in league play, went 5-5 at the Tucson (Ariz.) Invitational, and had a nine-game winning streak midway through the season. Augsburg’s 21 wins marked a nine-win improvement over the team’s 12-28 mark in 2009.

SWIMMING (10th/11 at MIAC championships in 2011 … 11th/11 at MIAC championships in 2010) -- Under first-year head coach Kasi Clauson Lange, a 2008 Augsburg alumnae who holds 24 school records, Augsburg placed 10th at the MIAC championships -- the team’s best finish since starting the program in the 2003-04 season. At the league championships, first-year competitor Kelsey Hlavac swam the second-fastest times in school history in three events -- the 500-yard freestyle (5:43.30), 200-yard backstroke (2:31.510 and 1,650-yard freestyle (19:28.45). Six Auggies -- including four first-year competitors -- swam during the 2010-11 season, setting many personal-best times through the year.

TRACK AND FIELD (2010 Outdoor: 8th/12 at MIAC championships … 2009 Outdoor: 11th/12 at MIAC championships; 2011 Indoor: 7th/12 at MIAC championships … 2010 Indoor: 10th/12 at MIAC championships) -- Under 16th-year head coach Dennis Barker, the Auggies have produced two of the top seasons in recent history. Augsburg’s 2010 outdoor squad claimed its best finish in a league meet since 2005 with an eighth-place finish, netting two league champions, five All-MIAC and two All-MIAC honorable-mention placings. Augsburg set three school records in the outdoor season, including a conference-championship 47.88-second time by the 400-meter relay, which became the first Augsburg entrant in the event ever at the NCAA national championships. Shanek Telphia won the conference title in the 100-meter dash and was a part of the league-winning relay. In the 2011 indoor season, Augsburg placed seventh in the MIAC championships, its best finish in the league meet since 2005. Augsburg scored four All-MIAC and three All-MIAC honorable-mention honors, including a championship by the 800-meter relay squad -- Augsburg’s first-ever conference title in the event. Augsburg set two relay school records in the 2011 indoor season.