Princeton University Athletics
150 Years - Women's Basketball
November 14, 2014 | Women's Basketball
| Women's Basketball |
| First Full Varsity Season: 1972 |
| All-Time Full Varsity Record: 580-508 (0.533) |
| 1972 | Women's basketball is one of the original women's varsity sports introduced at Princeton in the 1971-72 academic year. Penny Hinckley named the program's first head coach. Tigers go 3-4 in first season. |
| 1975 | Under first-year head coach Pat Walsh, Princeton captures its first of four consecutive Ivy Championships. Prevailing in an annual postseason format that existed between 1975-82, the Tigers finished the season with an 11-4 overall mark. |
| 1979 | Heidi Nolte '79 and C.B. Tomasiewicz '79 were selected in the fifth and sixth rounds of the Women's Profession Basketball League draft. |
| 1985 | Princeton wins its only Ivy title of the 1980's, closing out the year with a 15-11 overall and 9-3 conference record. The season is the first for head coach Joan Kowalik (1984-95), who holds the program record for wins with 163. |
| 1996 | The Orange and Black earn their first-ever postseason berth with an appearance at the National Women's Invitational Tournament in Amarillo, Texas. Seeded eighth, the Tigers picked up their first at-large bid to a postseason tourney. |
| 1999 | Posting an 11-3 league ledger, the Tigers share the Ivy title with Dartmouth to claim their only title of the decade. |
| 2006 | Tigers go 21-7 and 12-2 in Ivy play under head coach Richard Barron to claim its first Ivy League title in six years. |
| 2007 | Courtney Banghart named the ninth coach in program history. In eight seasons, Banghart has amassed a 138-66 overall record. |
| 2010 | Princeton wins first of four straight Ivy titles under Courtney Banghart. Going 26-3, the Tigers earned a No. 12 seed in their first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance. Princeton's 26 wins are the most in program history. |
| 2011 | Tigers repeat as Ivy Champs with a 24-5 overall and 13-1 Ivy record. Princeton returns to the NCAA Tournament, falling to Georgetown in first round action. |
| 2012 | Princeton once again claims the Ivy title and became the first team in conference history to receive a national ranking. Earning the No. 9 seed in the NCAA Tournament, Princeton closed out the year ranked No. 24 in the AP Top-25 poll. |
| 2013 | The Tigers capture the Ivy crown for a fourth consecutive year and finish with a 22-7 overall record. Picking up her second straight Ivy Player of the Year honor, Niveen Rasheed becomes the Princeton's first All-America selection, earning praise from the AP and WBCA. |
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.
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