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2022-23 Women's Swimming & Diving Roster

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Aviva Muñoz

  • Position Back
  • Height 5-6
  • Class Senior
  • High School Peddie School (N.J.)
  • Hometown Weston, Mass.

Biography

2022-23 l SENIOR SEASON
Made an appearance in eight regular season meets as well as the Ivy League Championship ... started the season with a win by finishing first in the 100-Yard Backstroke against Binghamton ... recorded a third-place finish against SBU in the 200-Yard Backstroke ... secured third in the 100- and 200-Yard Backstroke against Dartmouth and Harvard ... took home two wins against Penn and Princeton, first in the 100-Yard Backstroke and next in the 200-Yard Backstroke ... finished third against Columbia in the 200-Yard Backstroke, finishing first for the team ... at the Ivy League Championship, secured a 16th place finish in the 100 Yard Backstroke ... helped her 200 Yard Medley Relay team to five podium finishes including a first-place finish against Penn and Princeton.

2021-22 l JUNIOR SEASON
Competed in all eight swimming meets, including the Zippy Invitational and Ivy Championship ... garnered five top-3 individual finishes over the course of the season in freestyle and backstroke races ... finished in second place in the 200-yard freestyle and fourth in the 200-yard backstroke vs. St. Bonaventure ... had a pair of fifth place finishes in the 100-yard backstroke and 500-yard freestyle at Dartmouth meet ... tied for third in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 58.39 and came in second in the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 2:07.14 at Yale ... continued Ivy success coming in third in the 200-yard backstroke and winning the 200-yard freestyle relay at Columbia ... qualified for the B Final in the 200-yard backstroke at the Ivy Championship, finishing 14th in 2:00.43, which ranks third all-time at Cornell.

2020-21 l SOPHOMORE SEASON
Season canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2019-20 l FRESHMAN SEASON
Competed at all nine meets for the Big Red as a freshman, including the Ivy League Championships ... raced in the 100-backstroke and 200-backstroke at Ivies, scoring points for Cornell in both events ... her 100-backstroke mark of 56.58 in prelims at the conference meet marked a collegiate personal-best and ranks 10th all-time in Cornell history ... made the A Final of the 100-backstroke at Akron’s Zippy Invitational, finishing eighth in 57.69 ... made the B Final of the 200-freestyle and 200-backstroke at the Zippy Invitational, finishing 11th in the 200-backstroke in a collegiate personal-best 2:03.43 ... her preliminary 200-freestyle time (1:52.95) at the Zippy Invite marked a lifetime personal-best ... tallied eight individual top-three finishes at dual meets over the course of the season ... recorded her first collegiate victory against Binghamton, winning the 200-IM and adding a second-place finish in the 500-freestyle with a lifetime personal-best (5:11.17) ... finished third in the 100-backstroke and fifth in the 200-IM in Cornell’s Ivy League victory over Brown, securing a lifetime personal-record (2:10.30) in the 200-IM ... notched a pair of top-three finishes in the 200-backstroke against Columbia, placing second in the 200-backstroke and third in the 100-backstroke ... finished third in the 200-backstroke at Cornell’s Ivy League tri-meet against Dartmouth and Harvard ... totaled five personal-bests (two collegiate, three lifetime) over the season.
PRIOR TO CORNELL
Member of the 2017 USA Maccabiah Swim Team ... named team captain of her high school swim team ... competed for the Gator Swim Club in Waltham, Mass.

PERSONAL
Aviva Jill Muñoz is the daughter of Donald and Dara Muñoz and has two younger siblings (one sister and one brother) ... she is enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Historical Player Information

  • 2019-20Freshman

    Back
    5'6"
  • 2020-21Sophomore

    Back
    5'6"
  • 2021-22Junior

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    5'6"
  • 2022-23Senior

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    5'6"