Princeton University Athletics
Yik, Beaver Head Academic All-Ivy
April 12, 2000 | Women's Basketball
April 12, 2000
Peter Yik and Julia Beaver, who each won a second straight national individual squash championship this season, head Princeton's 10 Academic All-Ivy League selections for the winter of 1999-2000.
Each of the eight Ivy League schools has 10 honorees for the award, which recognize athletic excellence among athletes with a minimum 3.2 grade-point average.
Yik, a senior from North Vancouver, B.C., is a psychology major while Beaver, a junior from Brooklyn, is a molecular biology major.
Princeton's other women's winners were Blair Irwin, a senior squash player and chemistry major, Yen Tay, a senior swimmer and molecular biology major, Lisa Leslie, a junior swimmer and psychology major, and Kate Thirolf, a senior basketball player and history major.
On the men's side, Yik was joined by Mason Rocca, an electrical engineering major whose senior basketball season was almost completely wiped out by injuries, and Andy Shyong, a senior diver and molecular biology major. Those three were joined by two hockey players, senior Darren Yopyk, a psychology major, a junior Kirk Lamb, an economics major.