Princeton University Athletics
Gary Walters Honored By All-American Football Foundation
March 04, 2008 | General
Gary Walters, now in his 14th year as head of the Department of Athletics at Princeton University, was named co-recipient of the General Richard Neyland Athletic Director of the Year Award by the All-American Football Foundation. Walters was honored Monday night at the Foundation's banquet at the Princeton Hyatt Regency.
Walters became Director of Athletics at Princeton in 1994. Since then, he has overseen a department that has won 152 Ivy League championships, more than the next two highest league schools combined in that time. Since 1990, 32 of the 33 Princeton teams that compete in Ivy League-sponsored sports have won at least one Ivy championship.
Princeton teams have already combined to win eight Ivy League championships this academic year.
Princeton has also produced at least one team or individual national champion during each of Walters' years as AD, a streak that continues this year with the Howe Cup championship won by the women's squash team.
The Department of Athletics at Princeton features 38 varsity teams and 1,000 student-athletes.
Walters is a 1967 Princeton graduate. He was a point guard on two Ivy League championship basketball teams, including the 1965 team that advanced to the NCAA Final Four.
Joining Walters as honorees at the banquet were Princeton's Erin McDermott, who was named Senior Associate Athletic Director of the Year, and Ryan Coyle, the punter on the Tiger football team who won an All-America award.