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Top Male Athletes Of The Decade: No. 10 Doug Lennox
December 15, 2009 | Men's Swimming and Diving
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.
The No. 10 male athlete is swimmer Doug Lennox.
Prior to the arrival of Lennox, Princeton had won three Ivy League men' swimming and diving titles in the previous 10 years. During his four-year career, Lennox guided the Tigers to three titles and earned a multitude of individual honors. He led the Tigers to the team championship in 2006 and 2007, and after falling short his junior year, he came back as a senior tri-captain and pushed Princeton to the 2009 title and a Top 20 national ranking.
Lennox won four Ivy League individual championships during his career in his top stroke, the butterfly. He swept the 100 and 200 in 2009 and helped Princeton to four relay titles, including all three freestyle relays. He earned first-team All-America honors after reaching an NCAA final in each of the last two years. He was also part of a trio of All America relays, giving Princeton its best NCAA weekend in years.
Lennox' finest achievement may have come far away from the Princeton campus, though; he was part of the Puerto Rican squad at the 2008 Summer Olympics.