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2022-23 Women's Swimming Roster

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Lauren Montez
Serena Ileleji
Chris Day
Chris Day
Dave Jahnke
Spencer Douglas
Spencer Douglas

Lily Borgenheimer

  • Yr. Redshirt Senior
  • Height 5-6
  • Events Freestyle/Breaststroke/Individual Medley
  • Hometown Chippewa Falls, Wisc.
  • High School Chippewa Falls
  • Prev School Minnesota State

Biography

Overall Career Honors
  • NCAA Division II National Champion - 2022 (200 Breast)
  • 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials Participant
  • 21x CSCAA Overall All-American (18x @ Colorado Mesa)
    • 14x First Team (13x @ Colorado Mesa)
      • 2023 - 100 & 200 Breast (National Runner-Up); 400 IM; 200 & 400 Medley Relay
      • 2022 - 100 & 200 Breast; 200 & 400 IM; 800 Free Relay
      • 2021 - 100 & 200 Breast; 800 Free Relay
      • 2019 - 200 Breast (National Runner-Up) @ Minnesota State
    • 7x Second Team/Honorable Mention (5x @ Colorado Mesa)
      • 2023 - 200 IM
      • 2022 - 400 Medley Relay
      • 2021 - 200 IM; 200 & 400 Medley Relays
      • 2019 - 100 Breast @ Minnesota State
      • 2018 - 200 Medley Relay @ Minnesota State
  • RMAC Championship Record Holder in 3 individual and 6 total events
    • 100 Breast (1:01.75)
    • 200 Breast (2:10.87)
    • 200 IM (2:00.40)
    • 200 Medley Relay (1:41.74)
    • 400 Medley Relay (3:42.92)
    • 800 Free Relay (7:21.77)
  • RMAC Co-Swimmer of the Year (2021-22)
  • 2x RMAC Championship Swimmer of the Meet (2022 & 2023)
  • 20x RMAC Champion
    • 2023 - 100 & 200 Breast, 200 & 400 IM, 200 Medley Relay, 400 Medley Relay, 800 Free Relay
    • 2022 - 100 & 200 Breast, 200 & 400 IM, 200 Medley Relay, 400 Medley Relay, 800 Free Relay
    • 2021 - 200 Breast, 200 IM & Four Relays (200 Free, 200 Medley, 400 Medley, 800 Free)
  • 20x First Team All-RMAC
  • CMU School Record Holder in 7 Events
    • 100 Breast - 1:01.65
    • 200 Breast- 2:09.67
    • 200 IM- 1:59.20
    • 400 IM- 4:15.57
    • 200 Medley Relay- 1:41.54
    • 400 Medley Relay- 3:42.52
    • 50 Breast- 29.16
  • El Pomar Natatorium Pool Record Holder in 4 events
    • 100 Breast - 1:01.75
    • 200 Breast- 2:10.87
    • 200 IM- 2:00.40
    • 800 Free Relay- 7:20.96
  • 9x RMAC Swimmer of the Week
  • 2x Sportswoman of Colorado Award Winner (2021 & 2022 Calendar Years)
  • 4x CSCAA First Team Scholar All-American (2x @ Colorado Mesa)
  • RMAC Swimming & Diving Academic Athlete of the Year (2021-22)
  • RMAC Female Scholar Athlete of the Year Honorable Mention (All Sports) - 2021-22
  • 2x CSC/CoSIDA Academic All-American
    • First Team- Women's Swimming & Diving (2022-23)
    • Second Team- Women's At-Large Sports (2021-22
  • 2x CSC/CoSIDA Academic All-District 6
  • 2x RMAC All-Academic First Team (2021-22 & 2022-23)
Other Career Honors (@ Minnesota State)
  • 11x All-NSIC
  • 5x NSIC Champion
    • 100 Breast - 2019
      • Current NSIC Championship Record Holder (1:02.07)
    • 200 Breast - 2018 & 2019
      • Current NSIC Championship Record Holder (2:12.78)
    • 200 Medley Relay - 2018
      • Former NSIC Championship Record Holder (1:43.33)
    • 400 Medley Relay - 2019
  • 2018-19 NSIC All-Academic Team/Team of Excellence Award
  • Jan. 29, 2019 NSIC Swimmer of the Week
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2022-23 (Redshirt Senior): Capped her record-setting career by winning six more CSCAA All-America honors and seven more RMAC titles while leading the Maverick team to a fifth straight RMAC title and a NCAA Division II Championship trophy-winning (4th place) finish, CMU’s highest ever finish… Ended her career with 20 RMAC titles and 21 all-America honors, 18 of which came in three years at CMU… Also ended career as the school-record holder in seven events, as the RMAC Championship record holder in six events and as the El Pomar Natatorium record holder in four… Took second in the 200-yard breaststroke at the NCAA Championships to record her third career top-2 finish in her career in what was her last career race… Also placed fourth in the 400 IM, seventh in the 100 breast and ninth in the 200 IM as the consolation final winner… Was the breaststroke leg on CMU’s third and sixth place relay teams in the 200 and 400 medley relays at the NCAA Championships… Had been named as the RMAC Swimmer of the Meet for the second straight year after winning RMAC titles in the 100 and 200 breast, the 200 and 400 IM as well as the 200 medley, 400 medley and 800 free relays… Helped the Mavs set new RMAC Championship records in all three relay events and completed her career as the RMAC Championship record holder in six events (100 & 200 Breast, 200 IM, 200 & 400 Medley Relays and 800 Free Relay)… Set the school and RMAC Championship record in the 400 medley relay with an time of 3:42.92 (3:42.52-altitude adjusted)… Helped the Mavs set a school-record time of 1:41.54 in the 200 medley relay at the NCAA Championships… Helped the Mavs set a pool-record time of 1:41.73 in that event during the TYR/CMU Invitational, which was her best meet of the season… Had season-best and NCAA “A” cut times of 1:01.87 (100 Breast), 2:10.57 (200 Breast), 2:00.96 (200 IM) and 4:17.23 (400 IM) en-route to victory in each event… Led the season-long NCAA Division II Top Times list in the 200 IM while ranking third in the 400 IM, fourth in the 100 breast and eighth in the 200 IM… Was the TYR/CMU Invitational high-point award winner… Was also the high-point winner of the Intermountain Shootout after winning three of her four individual events…. Won a league-high four RMAC Swimmer of the Week honors throughout the season as well (Oct. 5, Oct. 26, Nov. 22, Jan. 25)… Won all four of her individual events during the Air Force Winter Invite and all three of her events in an Oct. 22 dual against Wyoming as she shined against NCAA Division I competitions… Was selected to the ten-woman CSC (College Sports Communicators) Academic All-America@ First Team alongside teammate Lauren White and was selected to the RMAC All-Academic First Team… Was also selected as a Sportswoman of Colorado Award winner for the second consecutive calendar year (2022) and was recognized at the organization’s annual banquet in March, 2023.

Summer 2022: Won three events while taking second in another at the Speedo Sectionals in Santa Clarita, California… Won the 200 breast (2:31.82), 200 IM (2:20.11) and 400 IM (5:02.14)… Set new long-course personal-bests in the 200 IM, 200 breast and 100 breast (1:10.97), finishing second in the 100 breast.

2021-22 (Senior): Became the first CMU swimmer to ever win a national title, taking the 200-yard breaststroke crown (2:11.56) to cap an impressive NCAA Division II Championship meet and season as a whole… Competed in ten meets… Advanced to the championship final in all four of her events at the national meet, while winning five first team and six overall CSCAA All-America honors… Placed fifth in the 200 IM and eighth in both the 400 IM and 100 breast… Scored 56 team points in her four individual events, a new CMU national meet record, while helping the Mavs to their best ever national finish and team score… Also helped the Mavs set a school-record time of 7:21.12 en-route to a third place finish in the 800 free relay, CMU’s highest ever NCAA relay finish… Also swam the breaststroke leg on the school-record setting 400 medley relay team which finished ninth in 3:43.31… Went on to be named as the RMAC Co-Swimmer of the Year… Dominated at the RMAC Championships, winning all seven of her events while begin named as the RMAC Championship Swimmer of the Meet as the high-point scorer (80 points)… Broke the RMAC Championship, El Pomar Natatorium and her own school-record in he 100 breast with a time of 1:01.75 (1:00.65-altitude adjusted), winning by more than two seconds… Also set the same three records in the 200 IM, posting a time of 2:00.40 (1:59.20-converted) to win by 1.97 seconds over teammate Davy Brown… Also won the 200 breast by more than nine seconds over teammate Ellie Wilke in a season-best time of 2:11.74 and the 400 IM by nearly eight seconds over Brown with a school-record time of 4:15.57 (altitude-adjusted)… Led the season-long Division II performance list with her altitude-adjusted 200 breast time of 2:10.54… Was ranked second nationally in both the 200 IM and 400 IM… Was an NCAA “A” cut qualifier in the 200 breast, 200 IM and 400 IM… Ranked sixth on the season-long Division II performers list in the 100 breast… Also helped the Mavs win three relay titles at the RMAC meet… Swam the breaststroke leg on the 200 and 400 medley relay teams before anchoring the Mavs to a pool-record time of 7:28.37 while winning the 800 free relay... Had a nearly as impressive A3 Performance Invitational, winning all three of her individual events with meet record times… Also helped the Mavs set a school-record time of 1:42.47 in a 200 medley relay winning effort… Was also recognized academically many times over… Was named as the RMAC Academic Athlete of the Year for Swimming & Diving before later being named as CMU’s RMAC Honor Student Athlete for all conference-sponsored women’s sports… Was also selected as a Second Team CoSIDA Academic All-American for Women’s At-Large Sports… Had been named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District team to earn a spot on the national ballot… Was a First Time CSCAA Scholar All-American for the fourth time in her collegiate career… Earned a conference-leading three RMAC Swimmer of the Week awards throughout the season… Won nine events during the dual-meet portion of the season… Five of those wins came against Division I opponents… Received a Sportswoman of the Year award in March for her 2021 calendar year efforts.

2021 Summer: Competed in Wave I of the U.S. Olympic Trials in Omaha, Nebraska while representing her youth club of Chippewa Valley YMCA… Finished 12th in the 200 (LCM) breast with a time of 2:34.40 while swimming a time trial time of 1:14.66 in the 100 breast… Set a 100 breast personal best time of 1:11.69 in the lead-up to the trials to win that event at the Arizona YWSF Long Course Summer Opener.

2020-21 (Junior): Competed in eight meets in her first season at CMU, including the NCAA Division II and RMAC Championships… Earned six CSCAA All-America honors while setting school-records in six different events in what is arguably the best individual season in program history… Also won six conference titles and the same number of First Team All-RMAC certificates… Earned three first team all-America honors placing fifth in both the 100 and 200 breast finals and in the 800 free relay at the national meet in Birmingham, Alabama… Was a second team all-America honoree in the 200 IM and as the breaststroke leg on the 200 and 400 medley relay teams… Finished 13th in the 200 IM while helping the Mavs place tenth in the 200 medley relay with a former school-record time of 1:43.07… CMU also finished 11th in the 400 medley relay… Won RMAC titles in the 200 IM and 200 breast individually while also swimming on four winning Maverick relay teams… Set the RMAC Championship and pool record in the 200 breast preliminaries before going even quicker (2:10.87) in the finals… Her altitude-adjusted time of 2:09.67 was also a former school-record mark and led all Division II swimmers going into the national meet… Lowered the school-record in the 200 IM to 2:03.05 (altitude-adjusted) at the RMAC meet… Helped the Mavs set former pool (7:31.02) and altitude-adjusted school-records of 7:26.22 in the 800 free relay… Also swam the second leg on the Mavs’ winning 200 medley, 200 free and 400 medley relays… Accounted for 80 team points at the conference meet, including her share of the relay points… Was undefeated in 11 official dual-meet individual swims in six meets throughout the season… Named as the RMAC Swimmer of the Week on Nov. 2 and Jan. 12... Named as CSCAA First Team Scholar All-American.

Summer 2019: Set a U.S. Olympic Trials qualifying time of 2:31.91 in the 200-meter (long course) breaststroke during a time trial at the Speedo Champions Series in Minneapolis… Had won that event and placed sixth in the 100 breast during that meet… Represented the Chippewa Falls YMCA… Was enrolled at Minnesota State in the fall semester but not the spring. 

As a Sophomore (2018-19) @ Minnesota State: Was the NCAA Division II runner-up in the 200 breast with a school-record time of 2:10.35… Also won the consolation final (9th place) in 100 breast (1:02.13) and finished 35th in the 200 IM… Earned CSCAA First Team All-America honors in the 200 breast and her second career honorable mention accolade in the 100 breast… Earned All-NSIC honors in seven events… Swept the conference titles in the breaststroke events with times of 1:02.07 (100) and 2:12.78 (200)… Set a NSIC and school-record in the 100 breast with that time… Also took second in both the 200 and 400 individual medleys with personal-best times of 2:03.55 and 4:27.81… Helped the Mavs win the 200 medley relay in a championship-record time of 1:43.33… Helped the team to second place finishes in both the 400 medley and 800 free relays as well as the overall team standings… Named to the CSCAA Scholar All-America team for the second straight year… Selected to the NSIC All-Academic Team/Team of Excellence squad… Selected as the NSIC Swimmer of the Week on Jan. 29… Claimed 14 dual meet event wins and four invitational wins throughout the season.
 
As a Freshman (2017-18) @ Minnesota State: NCAA Division II Championship qualifier in both breaststroke events… Also swam on the Mavericks’ 200 and 400 medley relay teams at the national meet… Earned CSCAA Honorable Mention All-America honors in the 200 medley as part of the Mavericks’ 12th place team… Had won the 200 breast at the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Championships with a championship and pool record time of 2:17.68, which was also her season-best… Helped the team win the team title… Also helped the Mavericks win the 400 medley relay with a pool record time of 3:48.05… Also took second in the 100 breast, fifth in the 400 IM and seventh in the 200 IM… Had season-bests of 2:09.74 and 4:38.77 in the IM events during the meet… Helped the Mavs finish second in the 200 medley relay and earned all-conference honors in four events… Finished 27th in the 100 breast at the NCAA Championships with a season-best time of 1:03.93… Was 22nd in the 200… Was a CSCAA Scholar All-American… Claimed eight dual meet and four invitational wins during the season.
 
Prep: Was a 4-time state qualifier at Chippewa Falls HS.
 
Club: Won both the 100 and 200 breast at the Wisconsin YMCA State Championships in 2017… Finished second in the 400 IM… Qualified for the 2016 and 2017 YMCA Short Course National Championships… Swam for the Chippewa Falls YMCA.
 
Personal: Liberal arts major.

Historical Player Information

  • 2020-21Junior

    Freestyle/Breaststroke
    5'6"
  • 2021-22Redshirt Junior

    Freestyle/Breaststroke/Individual Medley
    5'6"
  • 2022-23Redshirt Senior

    Freestyle/Breaststroke/Individual Medley
    5'6"