She has held Commonwealth, United States Open, National Collegiate Athletic Association and Canadian records in backstroke and butterfly, including the Canadian 100m backstroke record for 9 years. In so doing, she set an National Collegiate Athletic Association record. In 2009, Marylyn was inducted in Cal Berkeley"s Sports Hall of Fame.
In her collegiate career, she led a resurgence in University of California, Berkeley"s swimming program, when she won the first National Collegiate Athletic Association title for the school in the sport in eleven years. Further, won the first of five consecutive Pacific-10 Conference female swimmer of the year honors for the Golden Bears in 1999. Haley Cope would win in 2000, and Natalie Coughlin three times in a row, from 2001 to 2003.
