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Glenn Nelson SetsPrinceton Win Record

The magical 2007 Princeton women’s volleyball season earned more than just an NCAA bid and the league’s first 14-0 Ivy record. Head coach Glenn Nelson passed legendary softball coach Cindy Cohen to become Princeton’s all-time wins leader for any head coach of a single team.

Nelson, who is also the only coach in history to lead both a men’s and women’s team to the NCAA tournament in the same academic year, won his 560th match when Princeton defeated Brown 3-1 in Providence. That win clinched the Ivy League title and a berth to the NCAA tournament. Nelson has led Princeton to 11 of the program’s 14 Ivy League championships.

Nelson, who ended the season with his 562nd victory, will be back on the sidelines in the last week of January when the men’s volleyball team kicks off its 2008 season. Princeton was picked to finish third in the preseason EIVA poll, behind defending champion Penn State and George Mason.

Swimmers Open Season With NCAA, Olympic

Qualifications

The Princeton men’s and women’s swimming & diving teams, both of which are the two-time defending league champions, were unbeaten in dual meets in the 2007 portion of the season. Both also had exciting individual accomplishments at the annual Big Al Open, a December competition that brings elite programs to DeNunzio Pool.

On the men’s side, junior Doug Lennox

qualified for the Puerto Rican Olympic squad by finishing the 100 fly in 54.69. Lennox, who won the same event in the 2007 EISL championships, has been one of Princeton’s top scorers since his debut three years ago.

On the women’s side, sophomores Alicia Aemisegger and Courtney Kilkuts have both punched tickets to the 2008 NCAA championships. Aemisegger, whose name is scattered all over the Princeton record book, won all three of her individual events at the Big Al Open and qualified for the NCAAs in two of them, including the 400 IM. Aemisegger finished second in the 2007 NCAA final in that event, the highest finish ever for a Princeton women’s swimmer.

Kilkuts will be making her first NCAA appearance after a brilliant swim in the 200 IM final at the Big Al Open. She beat the qualifying mark by more than a second in an event she won at the 2007 Ivy League Championships.

Sherry Represents U.S.at U-18 Championships

Sasha Sherry, a freshman defenseman on the women’s hockey team, represented the United States at the inaugural IIHF World Women’s Under-18 Championship in Calgary, Alberta, in early January. Sherry currently leads all ECAC Hockey defensemen in scoring during her freshman campaign.

Sherry is the lone collegiate player on the U.S. roster. In her first season of college hockey, the Lehighton, Pa., native has scored two goals and added 13 assists for 15 points, which ranks second on the Princeton roster in scoring. Her 15 points ranked fourth in the nation among defensemen and she ranked 11th among all freshmen in the nation in scoring on Jan. 10.

Men’s Lacrosse Ranked In Top 10 In Preseason Poll

Princeton was voted eighth in the Inside Lacrosse men’s preseason coaches’ poll, one spot behind No. 7 Cornell. In the magazine’s Ivy

League selections, however, Princeton was the preseason pick to win the league, followed by Cornell.

Alex Hewit and Dan Cocoziello, high school teammates at the Delbarton School, were both named preseason first-team All-Americas by the magazine. Neither selection is much of a surprise, as the two seniors had earlier been named the best players in the country at their positions by Inside Lacrosse.

Glenn Nelson

Doug Lennox

Courtney Kilkuts

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PVC Student-Athlete Feature

In fall 2007, there was no better example of athletic excellence

in the Ivy League than Princeton.Of the seven Ivy League fall sports,

five Player of the Year honors went to Princeton, four more than any other league school. Four of those Tiger honorees helped guide their teams to league championships, while three played in NCAA championship events and another was within a goal of joining them.

The month-long parade of recognition started Oct. 26 in the Bronx, N.Y., when the Princeton cross country teams both won Ivy League Heptagonal titles for the second straight year.

Princeton’s women raced first and won the title by 44 points over Columbia, placing all of its top five runners in the top nine. Sophomore Liz Costello became the first of the five Tigers to win her sport’s top individual honor as she was first across the line in 17 minutes, 14 seconds. That put her nine seconds ahead of fellow ’10 Christy Johnson and 16 seconds ahead of anyone not wearing the Orange and Black.

The men then took the longer course at Van Cortlandt Park, with junior Michael Maag finishing first in 24:37, four seconds ahead of his closest competitor. Princeton put its

top five runners in the top 17, and its top three in the first six slots, to thwart Cornell by 29 points.

Senior Paige Schmidt continued the run of excellence Nov. 7 when she was named the Ivy League Player of the Year for field hockey for the third straight year. Schmidt paced the Tigers with nine goals and five assists as Princeton won its third straight Ivy League championship and its unprecedented 13th in 14 seasons.

Though the league title would usually give Princeton an automatic berth into the NCAA tournament, where it took Duke to overtime in the first round in 2005 and shocked Old Dominion with an overtime win in the first game of the 2006 tournament, the 2007 Ivy champion was pre-determined to meet the Atlantic 10 champion in an NCAA play-in game. Schmidt came up big when her team needed her with a tying goal early in the second half, but Massachusetts scored with less than nine minutes to go and denied Princeton a chance to play in the NCAAs.

Princeton’s next Ivy Player of the Year took an unconventional route to recognition, but her statistics in an abbreviated women’s soccer season were too outstanding to ignore. Senior Diana Matheson was half a

world away in China for most of the pre-conference schedule, helping Team Canada compete in the Women’s World Cup. She returned to the field for Princeton’s Ivy League opener against Dartmouth, a win, and embarked on a two-game run that peaked the Orange and Black’s season.

Against Rutgers on Oct. 2, Matheson had four assists, setting a single-game record and giving her enough to pass the late Kathy Kobler ’91 for the career assists title. Matheson ended her career with 26 helpers and stands as the only Princeton soccer player, male or female, to score 20 goals and have 20 assists in a career. Matheson then scored twice in a 4-1 win over Brown as Princeton started its Ivy season 3-0, taking the Ivy title race into the season’s waning weeks.

Matheson’s recognition seemed to be her turn in a career appropriate for someone who holds the program’s assist record. After helping

E s m e r a l d a Negron ’05 and Emily Behncke ’06 to Ivy Player of the Year honors, 2007 was Matheson’s year. She led the league in assists per game, getting seven in 10 matches while the co-leaders in overall assists had nine in 17 and 18 games. Matheson also finished a close second in goals per game with six in 10 contests.

Gimme Five!Five Tigers earned the Ivy League’s top honor during another magical fall season at Old Nassau.

The final league honor came Nov. 20 after the Princeton volleyball team had completed the Ivy’s first-ever 14-0 season.

With a league-best 456 kills and 65 service aces — 24 more than the next-closest Ivy Leaguer — junior Parker Henritze became Princeton’s first Ivy League Player of the Year in women’s volleyball since 1999 while helping the Tigers to their first NCAA tournament since 2001.

Henritze also became the first Princeton volleyball player ever to earn Ivy League Rookie and Player of the Year honors in a career.

Princeton’s perfect Ivy League record — an unprecedented mark since the league adopted the double-round robin format — came as part of a 20-match winning streak during which the Tigers didn’t lose for more than two months. Henritze was the driving force during that streak, leading Princeton in kills while serving as one of the top defensive players in the league with more than 3.4 digs per game.

Yes, it was quite an autumn for the Orange and Black. Five Ivy Players of the Year already, and two seasons still to come.

by Andrew Borders

Paige Schmidt

Diana Matheson

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PVC Performance, Values, Community

Landis Stankievech first saw the Princeton campus in the fall of 2002. In his first year of

junior hockey, Stankievech was attracting attention from several of the Ivy League schools. The first one he came to visit was Princeton, when he spent a weekend on campus that changed his life. Stankievech spent the weekend with Dustin Sproat, a native of Red Deer, Alberta, just an hour away from Stankievech’s hometown of Trochu, a farming community two hours northeast of Calgary.

“Dustin sat me down during my visit,” recalls Stankievech. “He just told me straight up that school’s hard, there are no easy questions, and there is a lot of competition, but Princeton will hold you accountable

and you’ll have every chance to be successful.”

Stankievech liked that attitude and Princeton was the place for him. Growing up he had always excelled in the classroom and on the ice and his decision would allow him to continue doing so.

When he arrived on campus for his freshman year in the fall of 2004, Stankievech began a regimen that he still uses today when both school and hockey are in season. He estimates that during the school year, he has had stretches of more than 100 days in which he hasn’t had two hours in a row of free time.

“During the season, I’m either eating, sleeping, working or skating,” says Stankievech. “If I have time, I’ll skim the newspaper or surf the internet, but there’s always work to be done. Some people call me an extremist, but I have extreme goals.”

Stankievech has set his goals high since he was a young boy in Trochu. After realizing that he had the ability to excel both academically and athletically, he made the decision to push both and not allow any of those abilities go to waste.

At Princeton, Stankievech has lived by that decision. In the classroom, he has never received a grade below an A-minus and has received several awards, including the Shapiro Prize for Academic

There are seven Ivy League championships up for grabs in the fall season, and

Princeton won four of those titles for the second year in a row. But Princeton’s four-spot in the fall of 2007 was different because of the dominating way in which it was accomplished.

Combined, the Ivy champions from women’s volleyball and field hockey lost just one match in 21 tries. Combined, the men’s and women’s cross country teams took a second step toward setting Ivy League history with impressive winning performances at the 2007 Heptagonal championship meet.

Those four Ivy champions also featured Ivy Players of the Year in field hockey’s Paige Schmidt and volleyball’s Parker Henritze and Heptagonal individual champions Liz Costello and Michael Maag.

Princeton’s 2007 volleyball championship was, by the numbers, the most dominating in league history. The Tigers, who finished an impressive 21-4, became the first team to finish a perfect 14-0 in league matches. The clinching match for Princeton, a 3-1 win at Brown Nov. 9, also made Princeton history. Veteran head coach Glenn Nelson won his 560th career match that day, making him the school’s all-time leader in coaching wins.

Henritze, a junior, won league player of the year honors after leading the conference in both kills and aces. She was joined as a first-team All-Ivy choice by Bailey Robinson, who led the NCAA in assists, and Lindsey Ensign, who led the Ivies with an impressive .429 hitting percentage.

The Tigers, who won 20 straight matches to end the regular season, fell to Delaware in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

Princeton’s Heptagonal championship in women’s cross country was just one of the highlights in a season that saw the Tigers reach elite national company, ranking as high as No. 4 nationally during the year.

The Tigers’ winning score of 25 was the fourth-best in meet history, and all five Princeton scorers finished in the top 10 individually in a 90-runner field. Costello, just a sophomore, pulled away at the end to become Princeton’s fourth individual Heps champion.

The Tigers won their first six meets in 2007 before finishing 14th at the NCAA championship meet, their fifth straight appearance in the event. Those victories included an impressive win at the Pre-Nationals meet in October.

The Heptagonal victory for the Tiger men, also their second straight, was a satisfying result after a season filled with adversity. Princeton’s depth, which carried it throughout the season, did the trick again for the Tigers at Heps.

Junior Michael Maag was the individual winner, becoming Princeton’s first Heps champion since Paul Morrison in 1999, and he also became the third Princeton runner to be his team’s leading finisher in a race in 2007. Both Ben Sitler and Frank Tinney also had strong performances throughout the year to make up for the early loss of All-America David Nightingale, who returned to finish in sixth place at Heps.

That foursome all finished in the top 11 at Heps as Princeton finished with a low score of 38, 29 places better than second-place Cornell. Maag, Nightingale (for the third straight year) and Sitler all qualified individually for the NCAA championship meet, and Maag earned All-America honors with a 59th-place finish.

Princeton’s field hockey Ivy championship was its 13th in the last 14 seasons and the fourth in five seasons under head coach Kristen Holmes-Winn. The Tigers became the first Princeton team to clinch at least a share of a 2007 league title after winning at Harvard in overtime Oct. 20.

The Tigers, who finished 13-5 overall and 6-1 in the Ivy League as well as ranked No. 17 nationally, fell to UMass in an NCAA play-in.

Meanwhile, Schmidt became the first player in Ivy field hockey history to win league player of the year honors three times. She had nine goals and five assists, and she led seven Tigers onto All-Ivy teams. Tina Bortz, Princeton’s leading scorer with 12 goals and eight assists, as well as do-everything midfielder Sarah Reinprecht joined Schmidt on the first team.

Princeton, which was just 4-4 in late September after its lone Ivy loss to Cornell, won its final nine games of the regular season, including a victory against third-ranked Connecticut.

by David Rosenfeld

Standing Tall In The FallFour teams claimed Ivy championships during another strong fall season.

Performance Values

Taking The Higher Rhodes

Princeton’s pair of cross country champions.

Landis Stankievech

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ValuesTop-10 Tigers Return

For 10th Anniversary CelebrationTen years already? How is that possible? Has it really been 10 years since they packed Jadwin

Gym night after night, since they put together the best record in Division I basketball, since they generated enough publicity that you could have started reading one story a week about them

back when they played and still not be done with all of them?

While 10 years may indeed have come and gone since the 1997-98 Princeton men’s basketball team put together its epic season, the events of this past Dec. 16 at Jadwin showed that it will be a lot longer than that before those Tigers are forgotten.

The 1997-98 Tigers returned to Princeton for a reunion weekend that included a halftime ceremony during the Princeton-Manhattan game and a post-game dinner reception at Jadwin. It was a love affair

for the 1998 team from start to finish, from the Jadwin fans to the current players to the local media to all of the people who saw them play 10 years ago and will never forget how glorious a winter it was.

By the time the 1997-98 season ended, Princeton had set school records for wins, fewest losses, highest winning percentage, longest winning streak, most assists and most three-pointers. Its 27-2 record was the best in Division I basketball, and Princeton ended the season ranked seventh in the final Associated Press poll.

In addition to its on-court success, Princeton became a local and national phenomenon, with seven crowds of at least 6,000 fans at Jadwin Gym and national publicity from outlets such as Newsweek Magazine, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times Magazine, ABC News, CNN and the Wall Street Journal, as well as almost every one of the country’s major daily newspaper sports sections.

Princeton began the season with a preseason trip to Italy and used that as a springboard to win its first seven games, including wins over Texas and North Carolina State to win the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic. Princeton then led North Carolina, the No. 1 team in the nation, with eight minutes to go before suffering its first loss, but Princeton would win its next 20 games, finishing the regular season at 26-1 and then defeating UNLV in the opening round of the NCAA tournament.

Along the way the Tigers defeated Wake Forest in the Jimmy V. Classic and then won the prestigious ECAC Holiday Festival, defeating Niagara in the championship game while having 21 assists on 21 baskets.

Princeton was a perfect 14-0 in the Ivy League, with 13 of the wins by double figures and eight by at least 20 points. The average margin of victory for Princeton in the league that season was 23 points.

The season finally ended with a loss in the second round of the NCAA tournament to Michigan State in a game that was tied with 54 seconds to go. That Michigan State team featured four players who would start together two years later when the Spartans won the NCAA championship, and two of those players still play in the NBA.

Princeton was led by head coach Bill Carmody, and his staff included Joe Scott and John Thompson, Princeton alumni who would later take their own programs to the NCAA tournament.

Princeton had five players start all 29 games, and those five — center Steve Goodrich, forward Gabe Lewullis, forward James Mastaglio, guard Brian Earl and guard Mitch Henderson — combined to play 88% of the minutes and score 91% of the points. Four of the five were in Jadwin for the reunion, with only Goodrich unable to make the trip in from California when his red-eye flight the night before was cancelled by terrible weather. Henderson took time out from his job as an assistant coach at Northwestern, while Lewullis came despite the constraints of being a third-year orthopedic surgery resident.

Joining the starters were players Phil Belin, C.J. Chapman, Sean Gregory, Darren Hite, Chris Kilburn-Peterson and Terence Rozier-Byrd, managers Mike McDonnell and Corey Riley and assistant coach Howard Levy.

by Jerry Price

PVC Performance, Values, Community

Excellence twice and the Manfred Pyka Memorial Physics Prize in 2005.

On the ice, he has also excelled. He is considered one of the top defensive forwards in ECAC Hockey and is a tireless penalty killer. He is the team’s top face-off man and has had a knack for scoring big goals throughout his career, including the game-winning goal when Princeton knocked off two-time defending national champion Denver two seasons ago.

Stankievech’s achievements on and off the ice have drawn praise from his coaches, teammates and classmates.

“With him, he either is or he isn’t,” head coach Guy Gadowsky says. “If he’s going to do something, he does it absolutely 100 percent. If he’s committed to something, he’ll do everything, and I mean everything, to make himself better in that area.”

“Any one of us who was in any of his classes knows how hard he works in the classroom,” Princeton senior captain Mike Moore adds. “And he brings that same intensity to the ice, regardless of the situation.”

His pursuit of academics and athletics once again came together in November when he became the 20th Princeton athlete to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, joining an elite group of athletes that includes Mike Spence, a Nobel Prize for Economics winner, and former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley. Stankievech, a mechanical and aerospace engineering major at Princeton, hopes to study philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford, after which he hopes to work on environmental issues.

At first, Stankievech wasn’t sure about his prospects of being chosen as a winner.

“Going through the application, I felt that I fit the criteria, but I was worried that my resume would not show that, considering how much time and effort I devote to academics and hockey,” recalls Stankievech.

Stankievech proceeded with the application and took two trips to Canada for interviews that forced him to miss four hockey games early in the season. All that effort paid off when he got the call in November that he had been selected.

“Winning the scholarship was like a dream come true,” says Stankievech. “It is the perfect culmination of the two activities that I have spent my whole life doing. My time in the classroom has taught me important things that I take to the rink, just as lessons learned in the rink have helped me in the classroom.”

by Yariv Amir

Community

Taking The Higher Rhodes

Members of the 1998 men’s basketball team were honored Dec. 16 at Jadwin Gym.

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PVC Testimonial

Wendy Herm ’99A PVC Testimonial

During my playing career, I had a rather simple view of the student-athlete experience at Princeton. We worked hard, played hard and had a tremendous sense of pride in both our academic and athletic accomplishments.

Looking back, it wasn’t until I began my

softball career at Princeton that I had my first real introduction to management and leadership. Like many of my teammates, I had always been among the most dedicated, driven and talented

members of the high s c h o o l teams on

which I had played. I was able to be a natural leader relying solely on instinct. However, leading a group of bright minds, gifted athletes and diverse personalities like the ones I encountered at Princeton was an entirely new challenge that would require considerable growth. During my first year and the three that followed, I got a priceless education in managing myself and my peers (among other things) that served as the foundation for my subsequent experiences in the business world.

One of the most important lessons that I learned was that in order to be effective, one needs to be comfortable using a variety of leadership styles. Flexibility is critical to achieving desired results since each person’s skill set, motivation, commitment and psyche can be very different at any given time. That

couldn’t have been truer for our team, which had talented rookies trying to break into the lineup, disgruntled seniors sitting the bench, injured players rehabbing, superstars battling personal problems and a number of other players riding streaks, fighting slumps or otherwise contributing to the mix. The experience of leading and being led during those years helped me realize that each unique situation requires very different stimulus (e.g. support for teammates with personal problems, direction for talented rookies and coaching for those battling slumps). It taught me the importance of flexibility and prepared me for the challenges of managing a diverse team of people in the workplace. In fact, a description of my direct reports from the last few years would not be all that different from those above and, in many cases, the same exact lessons applied.

Beyond my introduction to leadership methods, my time as a Princeton student-athlete also provided me with an appreciation for relationship building, teamwork and compromise. It took a lot more than batting practice and fielding drills to achieve personal and team success in such a high pressure environment. It required familiarity, camaraderie, confidence and trust, which were all built during the countless hours spent together on and off the field. Those personal relationships were almost certainly a catalyst for our success whether we were communicating on the game-winning play or making decisions that would impact the well-being of the team. The

The mission of the Princeton Varsity Club is “To implement and support programs that perpetuate and enhance the Performance,

Values and Community of Princeton Athletics and the University.”

PerformanceEnhancing the educational, athletic and

postgraduate experiences of our current student-athletes.

ValuesActing as stewards who encourage,

perpetuate and demonstrate the educational values inherent in intercollegiate athletic

competition.Community

building a spirited collegiality among current and former Princeton varsity athletes and

other supporters as part of the long tradition of athletic excellence at Princeton.

The Princeton Varsity Club is operated by the Office of Athletic Relations & Marketing, and PVC funds help support the following initiatives: the PVC Website; the PVC Senior Student-Athlete Awards Banquet and presentation of PVC sweaters to senior student-athletes; support for Princeton Athletics Friends’ Groups; Career Night, which brings alumni to campus to assist current student-athletes in career planning; the Jake McCandless ’51 PVC Speakers Series; the PVC News, seasonal coaches luncheons, where coaches provide an in-depth analysis of their teams and student-athletes speak about their experiences; “PVC on the Road” events; and the “Tigers in the Community” program.

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same can be said in business where creating a positive and productive work environment is often determined by a willingness to consider diverse viewpoints and build positive relationships. The most successful groups I’ve been a part of in both sports and work have been the ones that had that an intangible connection between group members.

Spending four years at Princeton is a privilege

for so many reasons, not the least of which is the incredible education, wonderful friends and lasting memories. However, spending four years at Princeton as a student-athlete is another honor that affords an entirely different set of valuable lessons and amazing rewards.

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Student-Athletes In Action:Princeton Teams Make A Difference At Holidays

If you had walked into the Frist multipurpose room at 7 p.m. this past Dec. 12, you wouldn’t have seen much: a few tables stacked with food and some rolls of wrapping paper. However, a mere 45 minutes later, hundreds of Princeton student-athletes had filled the room with gifts, spirit, and the energy to make one of Princeton’s largest service projects take off.

Each year Athletes in Action, a Christian ministry group on Princeton’s campus, organizes Teams and Toys, a service project directed at student-athletes and capitalizing on their unique position in the community. Through coordination with Community House, this effort pairs local needy children with Princeton student athletes who sponsor them, buying and wrapping gifts for them to open this holiday season. Each team “adopts” several children, raises money from amongst its members and then goes out to buy the gifts in a team shopping spree.

This year, a total of 43 teams participated, including nearly all varsity teams and several club teams as well. The commitment of

these athletes to give back to their community enabled Teams and Toys to provide gifts for 152 children, meet the practical needs of the centers they spend time at and even help sponsor a ski trip for them to take this winter. The desire to help was enormous; multiple teams raised so much money that they were left with extra cash and a desire to put it to use for these kids. This type of outpouring was an amazing testament to the kind of people these student-athletes truly are.

At the wrapping party itself, Athletes in Action provided wrapping supplies, refreshments and free t-shirts to accompany the holiday spirit of the participating athletes. It was strikingly refreshing to watch so many take time out of their schedules to enjoy the simple pleasures of time spent with teammates, the joy of giving, and the value of giving back.

As student-athletes, we have a unique position in the community with unique opportunities to positively affect lives. This year, Princeton’s student-athletes once again took advantage of these opportunities and made an enormous positive impact on children living just outside our Princeton bubble. My hope is that Teams and Toys has had an impact not only on the children involved, but also on the participating athletes. Moving forward through the fast-paced holiday season and the rest of our crazy year, I hope that Teams and Toys will help all of us remember the value of giving and of pouring our gifts into those around us.

Johnny Clore ’08Athletes in Action

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the athletic department recognize that they have the resources

and identity which allow for a valuable and

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Tigers in the Community supports the student-athlete in his/her

broader educational goals to give back to the community.

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