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Princeton University Athletics
Top Female Athletes Of The Decade: No. 10 Meagan Cowher
December 15, 2009 | Women's Basketball
Between Jan. 1, 2000, and the end of the 2009 fall season, Princeton teams combined to win 117 Ivy League titles, 42 more than the next-highest school.
Princeton teams won 13 national championships, and 13 athletes won individual national championships.
Goprincetontigers.com will be counting down the Top 10 male and female athletes of the decade, with the following schedule:
No. 10 - today
No. 9 - tomorrow
No. 8 - Thursday
No. 7 - Friday
No. 6 - Dec. 21
No. 5 - Dec. 22
No. 4 - Dec. 23
No. 3 - Dec. 28
No. 2 - Dec. 29
No. 1 - Dec. 30
To be considered, an athlete had to have competed at least two years of his or her career in this decade. Current athletes needed to have completed three years.
Basketball player Meagan Cowher is the No. 10 female athlete.
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.
As a senior in 2008, 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 thep her senior year.