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Princeton University Athletics
Women's Lacrosse Earns Academic Squad Distinction From IWLCA
June 26, 2003 | Women's Lacrosse
June 26, 2003
Princeton, N.J. - The Princeton women's lacrosse team was named a 2003 IWLCA Academic Squad after achieving a team grade-point average of over 3.0 for the 2002-03 academic year. The Tigers, who won a second straight national title in 2003, join three other Ivy institutions on the squad list.
Hannah Foster '03, a history major at Princeton, earned a spot on the IWLCA honor roll after studying in South Africa for her thesis last summer. She compared land policies regarding indigenous people of South Africa compared to that in the United States. She primarily focused on a U.S. policy called the 1887 general allotment act (also known as the Dawes Act) and a comparable allotment act in South Africa in 1894 called the Glen Gray act. Both acts imposed individual land tenure on the indigenous people forcing them to give up communal tenure and take on individual plots of land.
Foster and the Tigers have been to each of the last four NCAA Final Fours (the only team to do so), they have won the last two NCAA Championships and have a 35-5 record over the past two seasons.