.png&width=24&type=webp)
Players Mentioned
Top Female Athletes Of The Decade: No. 1 Alicia Aemisegger ?10
December 30, 2009 | Women's Swimming and Diving
Perhaps that best sums up the career of Alicia Aemisegger, the No. 1 Princeton female athlete of the past decade.
If possible, Aemisegger has made extraordinary individual accomplishment sound somewhat routine during her Princeton career. The three All-America honors she earned last season ran her career total to 10 - and there is still the matter of her senior season to complete.
As far as the Ivy League goes, she has been the Outstanding Swimmer of the Meet at each of three league championships in which she has competed. She is 9 for 9 in winning Ivy League individual events, and she holds four league individual records while being part of four relay records as well.
She started her career by setting six school individual records and adding another relay record her freshman year. She also finished second in the 400 IM at the NCAA championships for the best finish ever by a Princeton woman swimmer. She was also third in the 500 free and a consolation finalist in the 200 breaststroke at the NCAA championships that year as well, earning three All-America honors, including the first for a Princeton women's relay since 1981.
Her sophomore year saw her earn four more All-America honors and then reach the finals in the Olympic Trials in the 400 IM. She had finished fourth in two events a year earlier in the World University Games.
Her junior year was more of the same, with her eighth, ninth and 10th All-America designations and two more top four individual finishes (third in the 1650 free, fourth in the 400 IM).
She also has led Princeton to two Ivy League championships in three years, as well as a consistent spot in the team national Top 25.
Aemisegger holds eight school individual records, seven DeNunzio Pool records and four relay school records.