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Cowher and Matheson Share 2008 C. Otto von Kienbusch Award
May 30, 2008 | General, Women's Basketball, Women's Soccer
Meagan Cowher and Diana Matheson share the 2008 C. Otto von Kienbusch Award, the highest female student-athlete award at Princeton.
C. Otto von Kienbusch was a staunch opponent of the addition of women to Princeton University in the late 1960s. Once women were admitted to the University, several early women athletes made a trip to his home in upstate New York to try to win him over. They were so successful that he became such a supporter of women's athletics at Princeton that he endowed this award.
Meagan Cowher, who finished her career as Princeton's second-leading all-time scorer with 1,671 points, is the only three-time first-team All-Ivy League honoree in Princeton women's basketball history. Her point total ranks third all-time in basketball at Princeton, behind only Bill Bradley '65 and Sandi Bittler '90.
Cowher began her time at Princeton with an Ivy League Rookie of the Year honor in 2005 and added the first-team All-Ivy accolades in each of her final three seasons.
After helping the Tigers to a share of the Ivy League title in 2006, Cowher set the single-season scoring record with 496 points her junior year. That record was helped by a 66-point Ivy League weekend, making Cowher and Bradley the only Princeton basketball players, male or female, to score as many points in an Ivy League weekend.
This past season, she broke the single-season record again, scoring 532 points to become the 11th woman in the history of the Ivy League to reach that total.
She also was a three-year member of the Princeton Varsity Student Athletic Advisory Committee, serving as the President this past year.
Cowher is a religion major from Pittsburgh, Pa.
Diana Matheson helped Princeton become the first Ivy League team to reach the final four of a 64-team tournament in any sport when the Tigers were College Cup semifinalists in 2004.
Last fall, Matheson became the sixth player in Princeton women's soccer history to be named the Ivy League Player of the Year and fourth player to receive the honor this decade. Testament to her proficiency as a midfielder, Matheson provided the assists on many of the goals that helped Esmeralda Negron win the league's top honor in 2004 and Emily Behncke repeat for the program in 2005.
A first-team All-America selection, Matheson finished her career with 26 goals and a program-record 26 assists, becoming the only Princeton soccer player, male or female, to score at least 20 goals and have at least 20 assists in a career.
With the Ivy League Player of the Year honor last fall came Matheson's fourth first-team All-Ivy accolade. She is only the third Princeton women's soccer student-athlete in the program's history to be named to the league's first team four times.
Also an accomplished international player, Matheson helped the Canadian national team qualify for the 2008 Summer Olympics in China, the first time Canada has qualified a team in women's soccer.
Matheson is an economics major from Oakville, Ontario.
C. Otto von Kienbusch was a staunch opponent of the addition of women to Princeton University in the late 1960s. Once women were admitted to the University, several early women athletes made a trip to his home in upstate New York to try to win him over. They were so successful that he became such a supporter of women's athletics at Princeton that he endowed this award.
Meagan Cowher, who finished her career as Princeton's second-leading all-time scorer with 1,671 points, is the only three-time first-team All-Ivy League honoree in Princeton women's basketball history. Her point total ranks third all-time in basketball at Princeton, behind only Bill Bradley '65 and Sandi Bittler '90.
Cowher began her time at Princeton with an Ivy League Rookie of the Year honor in 2005 and added the first-team All-Ivy accolades in each of her final three seasons.
After helping the Tigers to a share of the Ivy League title in 2006, Cowher set the single-season scoring record with 496 points her junior year. That record was helped by a 66-point Ivy League weekend, making Cowher and Bradley the only Princeton basketball players, male or female, to score as many points in an Ivy League weekend.
This past season, she broke the single-season record again, scoring 532 points to become the 11th woman in the history of the Ivy League to reach that total.
She also was a three-year member of the Princeton Varsity Student Athletic Advisory Committee, serving as the President this past year.
Cowher is a religion major from Pittsburgh, Pa.
Diana Matheson helped Princeton become the first Ivy League team to reach the final four of a 64-team tournament in any sport when the Tigers were College Cup semifinalists in 2004.
Last fall, Matheson became the sixth player in Princeton women's soccer history to be named the Ivy League Player of the Year and fourth player to receive the honor this decade. Testament to her proficiency as a midfielder, Matheson provided the assists on many of the goals that helped Esmeralda Negron win the league's top honor in 2004 and Emily Behncke repeat for the program in 2005.
A first-team All-America selection, Matheson finished her career with 26 goals and a program-record 26 assists, becoming the only Princeton soccer player, male or female, to score at least 20 goals and have at least 20 assists in a career.
With the Ivy League Player of the Year honor last fall came Matheson's fourth first-team All-Ivy accolade. She is only the third Princeton women's soccer student-athlete in the program's history to be named to the league's first team four times.
Also an accomplished international player, Matheson helped the Canadian national team qualify for the 2008 Summer Olympics in China, the first time Canada has qualified a team in women's soccer.
Matheson is an economics major from Oakville, Ontario.
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