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Colgan, Miller, Rein-Weston Share Von Kienbusch Award
June 01, 2007 | General, Women's Lacrosse, Women's Squash, Women's Water Polo
Elyse Colgan, Kathleen Miller and Claire Rein-Weston share the C. Otto von Kienbusch Award for 2007.
The C. Otto von Kienbusch Award is the highest female student-athlete award at Princeton.
Elyse Colgan completed her collegiate career this spring by leading her team in scoring for the fourth time in four seasons. Her 73 goals this past year lifted her to second all-time at Princeton with 272. She scored a career-high 82 goals in the 2006 season and owns three of Princeton's six highest single-season goal totals.
Colgan won her fourth-consecutive Southern Most Valuable Player Award at the completion of the 2007 season and was also an All-Southern and All-Eastern selection for the fourth time in her career.
Colgan is a two-time All-America with the 2007 teams not yet announced, and she has received academic honors from the Ivy League, the Collegiate Water Polo Association and the American Water Polo Coaches Association. During the 2006 season, she was featured in Sports Illustrated in the “Faces in the Crowd” section.
She is a native of Annapolis, Md., and is enrolled at the Woodrow Wilson School.
Kathleen Miller is one of just five players in Princeton women's lacrosse history to score more than 200 career points. She finished her career second in program history with 68 assists and seventh on the team's all-time list with 139 goals.
She was a four-time All-Ivy League selection, including unanimous first-team all-league honors in both 2006 and 2007. She earned All-America honors in both her junior and senior seasons and was also a first-team all-region choice in both of those seasons.
Miller was Princeton's leading scorer in both 2006 and 2007, when she had a career-best 47 goals, among the top 10 goal-scoring seasons in team history. She was also the Ivy League Rookie of the Year in 2004, helping the Tigers to an undefeated regular season and a third straight appearance in the NCAA championship game.
Claire Rein-Weston has been earning individual honors since her career began at Princeton. Rein-Weston jumped into the No. 1 position as a freshman and held that spot for the majority of her career. She earned All-Ivy and All-America honors in each of her four years in Orange and Black.
Rein-Weston saved her best season for last, as she led the Tigers to the 2007 Ivy League and national championship. Ranked fifth midway through the season, Princeton defeated the top three teams in the country in one six-day span to assume the No. 1 ranking and never looked back. Claire had one of the highlight victories during the stretch, beating eventual national finalist Kristen Lange of Penn in four tight games.
Rein-Weston captained the Tigers through the Howe Cup national championships, where Princeton swept Brown, Yale and Harvard to claim the national title. She is only the 11th Princeton women's squash player to earn four first-team All-Ivy selections.
Rein-Weston is an English major from Seattle.