2024-25 Women's Swimming & Diving Roster

Margaux McDonald

  • Position Individual Medley/Backstroke/Breaststroke
  • Height 5-8
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Last School(s) Miramonte
  • Hometown Orinda, Calif.

Biography

Princeton
  • Qualified for the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials in the 100-meter breaststroke and placed 48th (1:10.70)
  • Qualified for the 2024 NCAA Championships in the 200 breaststroke (42nd. 2:11.66), 100 breaststroke (43rd, 1:00.47) and 200 individual medley (51st, 1:58.66)
  • Two-time Ivy League champion in the 100 breaststroke
  • Two-time Ivy League champion in the 200 medley relay
  • 2024 CSC Academic All-District selection
  • 2024 Academic All-Ivy League pick
  • Two-time CSCAA Scholar All-American
  • Qualified for the 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials in the 100 backstroke
Personal
  • Enrolled in the UC Berkeley Business Administration certificate program
  • Earned her AB degree in Public and International Affairs at Princeton
  • Parents are Trent and Catja McDonald
  • Mother, Catja, graduated from Cal in 1991
  • Grandfather, Gerd Hillen, was chair of the German department at Cal for over 10 years