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Stogin, Princeton Earn New Jersey, ECAC Honors
October 14, 2011 | Men's Fencing
The record-setting 2010-11 Princeton athletic year has added two more trophies for the mantel.
Princeton, who won 15 Ivy League championships a year ago, was named the Josten's ECAC Institution of the Year. Executive Associate Director of Athletics Erin McDermott and Senior Associate Director of Athletics Inge Radice accepted the award on Cape Cod earlier this month at the ECAC's awards banquet.
The award is presented annually to the ECAC institution that "best exemplifies the highest standards of collegiate academics and athletic performance. It is based annually on participation and success of an institution's athletic program in recognition of the following selection criteria: documentation and confirmation of academic success by the institution's student-athlete population; number of ECAC championships won; number of institution's teams selected for participation in ECAC championships; number of institution's teams selected for participation in NCAA championships; and National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics/Learfield Sports Directors' Cup Points."
Princeton and Williams are the only two schools that have won the award more than once.
In addition, Princeton won its second straight College Athletic Administrators of New Jersey Division I/II Cup and was presented with the trophy at the organization's annual meeting this week.
Using a formula that gives points based on league finish and national championship competition, Princeton totaled 245 points, outdistancing second-place Rider's 157.
John Stogin, a fencer who graduated this past May, was named the CAANJ Division I/II Male Athlete of the Year. The award gives equal weight to athletics, academics and citizenship.
Stogin, who shared the Art Lane Award at Princeton for outstanding contribution to sport and society by an undergraduate, was the seventh Princeton men's fencer since 1983, and the first in his weapon, the saber, to advance to the NCAA championships in all four years with the program. He had his best NCAA finish this season, placing 13th, while helping the Tigers to match their best NCAA team finish, fourth, since the current championship format began in 1990.
He also earned All-Ivy League honors this past season.
He has also worked for the National Security Council, developing algorithms in the field of digital signals processing, spectrogram analysis, and feature recognition. He also analyzed proton and antiproton beams that were collided at the Fermi National Accelerator Lab, and his work led to a discovery that was original unknown by the staff there.
An Eagle Scout, he also organized and led a shoe drive that collected more than 1,000 pairs of shoes, which were then sent to Angola.
In his spare time, he also built a wireless device that enabled calculators to share text, as well as a single-person car that could reach 16 miles per hour on a battery or could run on solar power.
His senior thesis was entitled: Energy Estimates in Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations. He was honored by Princeton with the Art Lane Award, given for outstanding contribution by a senior athlete to sport and society.
Stogin is doing graduated work at Cambridge and was unable to attend the banquet, though he did record an aceptance video that was played in his absence. Director of Athletics Gary Walters accepted the Cup.