Princeton University Athletics
Bortz, Clair, Kiernan, Plummer Share Art Lane Award
June 01, 2010 | Field Hockey, General, Men's Track and Field, Women's Track and Field, Men's Rowing - Lightweight
The Art Lane Award, has been given to honor selfless contribution to sport and society by an undergraduate. Art Lane, the very embodiment of the award that now bears his name, won the Pyne Prize and captained the 1933 Princeton football team to the national championship as an undergraduate before going on to a career as a Naval officer, a federal judge and a corporate general counsel.
Tina Bortz, a member of the field hockey team, has greatly
enhanced the vibrancy of the Princeton community. She was a key student leader
on the organizing committee of the Princeton Sports Symposium in 2006 and 2007
and served in an advisory capacity in 2008.
She has served as a
Residential College Advisor, a Class Senator within the undergraduate student
government, a member of both Athletes in Action and Students in Free Enterprise
as well as being the President of Princeton Chapter of the National Society of
Collegiate Scholars.
She is a politics major from Kutztown, Pennsylvania.
Aran Clair of the men's
lightweight rowing team has been recognized for his outstanding contributions
to the youth of Princeton Borough and Princeton Township, setting an
outstanding example of leadership and teaching students that you can have fun
in college without the use of alcohol or drugs.
He has been a leader of the
ICC, contributed many service hours to Corner House serving as part of its high
school student leadership program as well as working tirelessly with the PADA -
Princeton Alcohol and Drug Alliance.
Clair is a politics major from Cincinnati, Ohio.
Reilly Kiernan of the cross country and track and field
teams has undertaken extensive service work at Princeton: She was the service
chair of Forbes College, Tower Club and the Undergraduate Student Government,
and she leads the Prospect Alliance for Community Action and the Varsity
Athletes Charity initiative. As co-chair of the Pace Council for Civic Values,
she worked with the Undergraduate Student Government to allocate funding to the
Inter-Action program, which took more than 100 students to Trenton for
volunteer projects. She also is the associate editor for news for The Daily
Princetonian and serves on the executive board of the Orange Key Guide Service
and is a member of the Alcohol Coalition Committee.
Reilly spent the summer of
2009 working for Isles, Inc, an awarding winning non-profit community and
environmental organization and the summer of 2008 working for the Center for
Constitutional Rights.
In April of this year, she
was selected as a recipient of the Sprit of Princeton Award, which honors
undergraduates for their positive contributions to campus life.
She is a sociology major from Pelham, N.Y.
Eric Plummer of the track and field team has served as a
role model not only as a residential college adviser in Butler College, but
also as an intern for the Fields Center, co-president of the Black Men's
Awareness Group and treasurer of the Black Student Union and the Princeton
chapter of the NAACP. He has volunteered as an intern and project coordinator
for Community House, served as a family group leader of the Princeton
University Mentoring Program and as the co-president of the Ivy Athletic
Charity Team. He also has served on the Campus Club Advisory Board and as a
trustee of the Hallelujah Worship Service.
In April of this year, he
was also selected as a recipient of the Sprit of Princeton Award, which honors
undergraduates for their positive contributions to campus life.
He is an economics major from Plainfield, New Jersey.