Princeton University Athletics

150 Years ? Women's Tennis
November 17, 2014 | Women's Tennis

| Women's Tennis |
| First Game: April 12, 1971 |
| All-Time Record: 470-264 |
| 1973 | The program's first head coach, Eve Kraft, wraps her tenure with a perfect 26-0 dual-match record |
| 1976 | Princeton's 39-match winning streak to start the program's varsity era comes to an end, but the Tigers continue posting a winning record by finishing 6-2 |
| 1980 | Louise Gengler coaches the first of what would become a 25-season tenure leading the program |
| 1983 | Princeton makes the NCAA team tournament for the first time, and Joy Cummings '84 gives Princeton its first NCAA individual tournament participant |
| 1988 | Princeton sends two players to the NCAA individual tournament for the first time with Diana Gardner '90 and Lauren Fortgang '91 |
| 1990 | Diana Gardner '90 wins her first-round NCAA singles tournament match, notching Princeton's fourth and most recent win in the NCAA singles tournament |
| 2000 | Princeton returns to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1983, winning the Ivy League with a 7-0 league record and seeing a player win the Ivy League Player of the Year award for the first time with Kavitha Krishnamurthy '03 |
| 2009 | Princeton goes 6-1 in the Ivy League to return to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2000, coming up just a point short against Florida International, 4-3 |
| 2010 | Princeton posts its second 7-0 Ivy League season and first since 2000, advancing to the NCAA tournament and again coming up just one point short, this time against Virginia |
| 2014 | Princeton goes 7-0 in the Ivy and makes program history with a 4-3 win over Arizona State to earn its first-ever victory in the NCAA team tournament |
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.
Tuesday, September 02
Tuesday, June 04
Wednesday, June 22
Monday, June 06




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