Margaux McDonald

Princeton Women’s Swimming and Diving hosts the Ivy League Tournament on February 15, 2023.

Photo by: Shelley M. Szwast

Photo by: Shelley M. Szwast

Photo by: Beverly Schaefer

Position:
Back/IM
Class:
Freshman
High School:
Miramonte
Hometown:
Orinda, Calif.

Honors
4x Ivy League Champion (First Team All-Ivy)
2024: 100 breaststroke, 200 medley relay
2023: 200 breaststroke, 200 medley relay

5x Ivy League Runner Up (Second Team All-Ivy)
2024: 200 IM, 200 backstroke, 400 medley relay
2023: 400 medley relay
2022: 400 medley relay

NCAA Championships Qualifier, 200 IM (2024)
CSC Academic All-District (2024)
Academic All-Ivy League (2024)
2x CSCAA Scholar All-American (2024, 2023)
Friends of Princeton Swimming & Diving Award Recipient (2022)
U.S. Olympic Trials Qualifier 100 backstroke (2021)

Lifetime Bests
50 Back – 26.05
100 Back – 53.73
200 Back – 1:54.58
50 Breast – 28.20
100 Breast – 1:00.20
200 Breast – 2:11.38
200 IM – 1:56.96
400 IM – 4:17.81
200 Free – 1:57.18

2023-24: Finished 42nd in the 100 breaststroke, 43rd in the 100 breaststroke and 51st in the 200 IM at the NCAA Championships ... won the 100 breaststroke and was part of the team that won the 200 medley relay at the Ivy League Championships … finished as runner-up in the 200 IM and 200 backstroke and was part of the second-place finishing team in the 400 medley relay at the Ivy League Championships … won the 100 breaststroke and the 200 IM at the Notre Dame/Navy tri-meet … won the 200 breaststroke and finished second in the 100 breaststroke at the H-Y-P meet … won the 100 breaststroke and the 200 breaststroke at the Cornell/Penn tri-meet

2022-23: Finished first in the 200 breaststroke, first in the 200 medley relay, second in the 200 IM, second in the 400 medley relay and third in the 100 breaststroke at the Ivy League Championships … finished third in the 200 IM, third in the 100 breaststroke, fifth in the 100 breaststroke and sixth in the 200 backstroke at the Ivy League Championships … competed in nine regular season meets.

2021-22: Second team All-Ivy League in the 400 medley relay...Finished third in the 200 breaststroke, fourth in the 100 breaststroke and ninth in the 200 IM at the Ivy League Championships...Set top times in the 100 backstroke (1:58.63) at the Rutgers dual, 50 freestyle (24.54) and 100 IM (57.64) at the Columbia dual, and the 100 breaststroke (1:02.21), 200 breaststroke (2:14.88) and 200 IM (2:01.31) at the Ivy League Championships...Recipient of the Friends of Princeton Swimming and Diving Award, presented to a member of the women's team whose perseverance in practice and effort in competition have led to the greatest improvement in performance overall.

2020-21: Season canceled due to COVID-19.

Before Princeton: Academic-All American...Scholastic All American...High School Team Captain...Summer Junior National Qualifier

Personal: Daughter of Trent & Catja McDonald....has one sibling, Maren McDonald...major is undecided