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Players Mentioned
Aemisegger, Costello Share Von Kienbusch Award
June 01, 2010 | Women's Swimming and Diving, Women's Track and Field
The C. Otto von Kienbusch Award is 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 '60s. Once women were admitted to the school, 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.
Alicia Aemisegger finished her career as a 13-time All-America, and she swam in 12 individual Ivy League championship events - and won them all. She was also the Ivy League's Outstanding Swimmer of the Meet four times.
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 led Princeton to three Ivy League championships in four years, as well as a consistent spot in the team national Top 25.
She graduates with eight school individual records, seven DeNunzio Pool records and four relay school records.
Aemisegger is a politics major from Oreland, Pennsylvania.
A captain of the cross country and track & field teams, Liz Costello is one of the greatest distance runners in Ivy League history.
She was the Ivy League cross country champion all four years, a feat accomplished just one other time in the history of the league. She also led the cross country team to four Ivy League team titles and four NCAA appearances, including Top 5 national team finishes her junior and senior years.
Individually, Costello finished 11th as a junior and 18th as a senior at the NCAA championships. There are more than 5,500 women's cross country runners in Division I.
She won four Ivy League track titles in the mile, 1500, 3000 and 4x800 and was the runner-up in two other events, and she competed in two NCAA Track Championships after helping Princeton win three Ivy League track & field titles. Costello holds the Princeton record in the mile, 1000-meter run and Distance Medley Relay and has top five times in seven other events.
She earned All-America honors in both cross country and in track and field.
She was also named the No. 7 female athlete at Princeton for the last decade.
Costello is a chemical engineering major from Strafford, Pennsylvania.