Princeton University Athletics
150 Years - Field Hockey
November 17, 2014 | Field Hockey
| Field Hockey |
| First Full Varsity Season: 1971 |
| All-Time Full Varsity Record: 467-231-38 (0.660) |
| 1971 | Field hockey is one of the original women's varsity sports introduced at Princeton during the 1971-72 academic year. Under head coach Merrily Dean Baker, the Tigers post a 5-3-1 record in their inaugural season. |
| 1974 | Penny Hinkley takes over as the program's second head coach, leading Princeton to its only unbeaten season at 9-0-2. In three years, Hinkley compiles a 27-7-6 overall record. |
| 1979 | Princeton hosts the National Field Hockey Championships. The Tigers finish sixth with a 12-7-1 overall record. |
| 1981 | The Orange and Black capture the first of 23 Ivy League championships with a 12-4-1 (5-1 Ivy) mark. |
| 1982 | Betty Logan's Tigers repeat as conference champions, turning in their first perfect league record (6-0). Helping to lead Princeton to its first NCAA Tournament appearance, Martha Russo becomes the first of 20 Tigers to be named Ivy League Player of the Year. |
| 1988 | Beth Bozman takes over as the program's fifth head coach. She leads the Tigers to a 9-7 (4-2 Ivy) mark in her first full season. Fifteen years later, Bozman would rack up a 188 wins - the most in school history. |
| 1991 | Bozman leads Princeton to its first Ivy title in nine years. The Tigers finish with an 8-4-5 (3-1-2 Ivy) record. |
| 1996 | With an 18-4 (6-0 Ivy) record, the Orange and Black make a run all the way to the national championship. Playing in its first ever title game, Princeton falls to North Carolina, 3-0. Bozman named the NFHCA National Coach of the Year. |
| 1998 | The Tigers find their way back to the national championship game, but fall short against Old Dominion, 3-2. Princeton finishes with a 17-3 (7-0 Ivy record). |
| 2002 | In Bozman's final season, Princeton posts a 12-7 (7-0 Ivy) record to claim a 12th league title. The Tigers would go as far as the national quarterfinals before falling to Penn State, 3-2. |
| 2003 | Kristen Holmes-Winn named the program's sixth head coach - a position she currently still holds. Over the last 12 years, she has amassed a 153-73 overall record, with an impressive 79-4 mark in league play. |
| 2009 | After capturing the program's 18th conference championship, the Tigers make a run to the NCAA Final Four, eventually falling to Maryland, 7-5. |
| 2012 | Princeton sets a program record with 21 wins en route to its first-ever national championship. The Tigers defeated North Carolina in the title game, 3-2. Kristen Holmes-Winn named the NFHCA Coach of the Year, while Katie Reinprecht becomes the first Tiger to be named the NFHCA National Player of the Year |
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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