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2018-19 Women's Swimming and Diving Roster

Columbia University Athletics/Mike McLaughlin

Mary Ashby

  • Position Free/Back
  • Class Senior
  • High School Campolindo
  • Hometown Moraga, Calif.
  • School Columbia College
  • Major Psychology

Biography

Top Times:
50 Freestyle: 22.80 (2017 Ivy League Championships, 02/16/17)
100 Freestyle: 49.36 (2019 Ivy League Championships, 02/23/17)
200 Freestyle: 1:49.07 (2017 Ivy League Championships, 02/15/17)
100 Backstroke: 54.42 (2019 Ivy League Championships, 02/22/19)
  • 2017 CSCAA Scholar All-American (HM)

2018-19 (Senior): Made the championship final in all three individual races at the 2019 Ivy League Championships ... Set a personal record in the 100-yard backstroke at Ivies, going 54.42 in the preliminary session ... Set a new school record in the 100 free, posting a time of 49.36 in prelims ... Top finish at Ivies came in the 50 free, matching her school-record time of 22.80 to win bronze ... Took fifth in the 100 free in 49.84 at conference and sixth in the 100 back with a time of 54.75 ... Won the 100 free four times through the dual season and two-time winner in 50 free ... Staple in Columbia's relay lineup ... Member of both winning relays against Penn and Princeton ... Won 200 free relay against Cornell and Dartmouth ... Team captain.

2017-18 (Junior): A member of the winning 200 freestyle relay squad (1:34.64) vs. Princeton (12/8) ... Member of the winning 200 freestyle relay squad (1:31.95 - a Rutgers pool record) at the Frank Elm Invitational (11/17) ... A member of the winning 200 freestyle relay squad (1:35.31) vs. Harvard (11/5) ... Won the 50 freestyle (24.01), the 100 freestyle (52.26) and a member of the winning 200 freestyle relay squad (1:35.56) vs. Penn (11/3) ... Placed fourth in the 100 free at the Ivy League Championships in 49.88 ... Placed sixth in the 50 free at the conference meet in 22.97.

2016-17 (Sophomore): Received honorable mention CSCAA Scholar All-America honors ... Set Columbia record in the 50 free with a fourth-place time of 22.80 at the Ivy League Championships ... Won the 50 free with a time of 24.35 and the 200 back with a time of 2:01.89 vs. Dartmouth (2/3) ... Set Uris Pool record in the 400 free relay with a winning time of 3:22.63 and won the 100 free with a time of 50.64 vs. Brown (1/20) ... Member of the winning 200 medley relay squad with a time of 1:44.72 vs. Cornell (1/14) ... Member of the winning 200 free relay squad with a time of 1:45.06, runner-up finish in the 100 free with a time of 52.48, third-place finish in the 50 free with a time of 24.07 vs. Harvard (1/3) ... Two victories vs. Princeton in the 50 free (23.94) and the 100 free (51.77) on Dec. 16 ... A member of the winning 200 medley relay squad who set a Rutgers Pool-Record time of 1:41.26, member of the winning 200 free relay squad with a time of 1:32.58, member of the 400 free relay squad who posted a runner-up time of 3:23.07, member of the 800 free relay squad who posted a runner-up time of 7:29.21, grabbed a runner-up finish in the 50 freestyle with a time of 23.24 at Frank Elm Invite (11/18-20) ... Runner-up finish in the 50 freestyle with a time of 24.04 vs. Yale (11/11) ... A member of both runner-up relay squads  in the 200 medley (1:44.60) and 400 freestyle (3:29.92) in a tri-meet against Penn and Army (11/5).

2015-16 (First-Year): A member of both the 200 freestyle (1:37.29) and medley (1:44.35) relay teams that finished in first-place against Penn ... Raced on the winning 200 medley relay team versus Harvard ... Raced on the winning 200 medley relay team and won the 100 freestyle (50.95) at the MIT Winter Invitational ... Was a member of the 200 medley relay team that beat Cornell ... Also won the 100 backstroke (56.51) against Cornell...Won both the 200 free (1:50.62) and the 200 backstroke (2:02.79) ... Posted a new pool record time with a win in the 50 free (23.04) and also won the 100 free (50.61) against Dartmouth ... Top eight in all three individual events at the Ivy League Championships ... Placed sixth in the 50 free in 22.91 ... Finished eighth in the 100 free in 50.55 ... Took eighth in the 100 back in 55.91.

Personal: Enrolled in Columbia College ... Majors in Psychology

Historical Player Information

  • 2015-16Graduate Student

    Freestyle/Backstroke
  • 2016-17Sophomore

    Freestyle/Backstroke
  • 2017-18Junior

    Freestyle/Backstroke
  • 2018-19Senior

    Freestyle/Backstroke