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150 Years ? Women's Swimming and Diving
November 14, 2014 | Women's Swimming and Diving
| Women's Swimming and Diving |
| First Match: Feb. 7, 1972 vs. William Patterson |
| All-Time Record: 285-67 |
| 1973 | A Princeton team of six women traveled to AIAW nationals and finished third behind only Arizona State and Florida. The 200 free relay set a national record. |
| 1974 | Cathy Corcione '74 won national titles in the 100 and 200 IM. A program-record nine Tigers eanred All-America honors. |
| 1977 | Princeton won its first of a league-best 21 Ivy League Championships. Three Tigers earn All-America honors. |
| 1982 | The 800-yard free relay foursome of Diana Caskey '85, Ann Heusner '83, Liz Richardson '84 and Betsy Lind '85 were the last Princetonians to win a national title. |
| 1984 | Susan Teeter takes over as head coach. She has won more than 200 dual meets and led the Tigers to 16 of the program's 21 Ivy League championships, including 11 in the last 15 years. |
| 1995 | Carwei Seto '95 earns All-America honors for the fourth straight year in the 100 breast. |
| 1998 | Princeton defeats Penn 182-98. That victory ignited a Princeton-record 47-meet win streak that didn't end until a trip to nationally ranked Pittsburgh in 2004. |
| 2004 | Princeton wins a fifth-straight Ivy League championship, the longest title streak in league history. |
| 2007 | Alicia Aemisegger '10 places second in the 400 IM at the NCAA Championships, Princeton's best finish at the NCAA meet (she would match it in the 2010 mile). It begins a career that includes 13 All-America honors. |
| 2008 | Aemisegger joins Meredith Monroe '11, Justina DiFazio '09 and Brett Shiflett '08 to earn All-America honors in the 800 free relay; it is Princeton's most recent All-America relay. |
| 2014 | Lisa Boyce '14 returns Princeton to the NCAA finals; she earns first-team All-America honors in the 100 fly. |
The 150th anniversary of the first intercollegiate athletic event in Princeton University history will be Nov. 22, 2014, which will be 150 years to the day that Princeton defeated Williams 27-16 in a baseball game. As part of the 150th celebration, Princeton will be commemorating the history of each of its 38 varsity teams, in reverse order of the time they became varsity programs.
Friday, May 22
Tuesday, June 04
Wednesday, June 22
Monday, June 06