Princeton University Athletics
Holmes, Rostal, Stover Share 2003 Art Lane Award
May 29, 2003 | Women's Ice Hockey
May 29, 2003
PRINCETON, N.J. -Annamarie Holmes (women's hockey), Mindy Rostal (fencing) and Dan Stover (heavyweight crew) are the three recipients of the 2003 Art Lane Award, given by the Princeton Varsity Club to honor selfless contribution to sport and society by an undergraduate.
The award is named for Art Lane '34, who captained the 1933 Princeton football team to the national championship before embarking on a career as a Naval officer, a federal judge and a corporate general council.
Holmes, a two-time member of the U.S. National Team and a three-time All-Ivy selection, worked with Princeton's own Ghana Education Program to travel to Ghana after her junior year. Holmes, an anthropology major, spent the summer promoting AIDS awareness through lectures and demonstrations. She dealt with both students and educators during her time abroad; she gave presentations to kids ranging from grade-school students to teenagers, and she coordinated a day-long seminar to work with local educators and assist them in reaching their own students about this crisis. Holmes plans on returning to Ghana following graduation to continue pursuing this work, especially in working with local educators. Rostal, a three-time first-team All-Ivy selection and a three-time competitor in the NCAA tournament, spent the summer of 2000 working as an intern at Wildlife Rescue, Inc., where she helped clean and feed recovering animals. The next summer, her work brought her to the Alaska Sealife Center, where she dealt mainly with seal and sea otter pups. While she had many of the same responsibilities there, she also had the opportunities to go on rescues and releases of the pups, and to help provide 24-hour care for a sea otter pup. During her final three years in college, Rostal volunteered to ride in an ambulance as an EMT for the West Windsor First Aid Squad, including every week of her junior and senior years. Rostal will be attending veterinary school next year.
Stover, the coxswain for the heavyweight crew, which will row this weekend at the IRA national championships, was a recipient of the ReachOut'56 Fellowship, which provides $25,000 grant for an undergraduate to pursue one year of public service work with a non-profit organization. Stover designed a project to assist Isles, Inc., a Trenton-bases organization, in many aspects of the community - from developing low-cost housing to environmental education to developing personal skills. He was the project coordinator for "Trenton Tots," where volunteers directly assisted understaffed classrooms of children at-risk or suspected of abuse or neglect. He has also been the co-coordinator of the SVC Governing Board and the Princeton Urban Action Program.