Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

3/9/2022

A collaboration of student leaders, coaches, alumni, athletics administrators and University partners, Princeton Athletics has established Tigers Together, to create and maintain a culture of mutual respect, diversity, equity, and inclusion in the department; and to promote justice related to gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race and all other marginalized identities.

Read the Full Announcement Here

Executive Committee

Purpose: To lead efforts in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for Princeton Athletics; identifying and moving forward opportunities for results-oriented change while working to ensure a sustainable culture of inclusion, mutual respect and unity for all throughout the department and beyond; and utilizing our platform to promote justice related to gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race and all other marginalized identities, with a specific focus on racial equity.

Co-Chairs: Anthony Archbald, Executive Associate Director of Athletics, John Mack '00, Ford Family Director of Athletics

Administration: Bryant Blount '08, Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Students and Manager of Strategic Communications, Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students; Chris Brock, Executive Associate Director of Athletics/Finance and Administration; Stacey Bunting-Thompson, Senior Associate Director of Athletics/External Relations; Jess Deutsch ‘91, Associate Director, Student-Athlete Services; Michael Medley, Manager, Sports Camps & Clinics; Greg Busch ’99, Senior Associate Director of Athletics/Student-Athlete Services; Kellie Staples, Senior Associate Director of Athletics/Advancement; Jessica Ward, Associate Director of Athletics/Campus Recreation.

Alumni: Steve Mills '81, former New York Knicks President; Vanessa Smith '17, Exhibitions Assistant and Project Manager at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.

Coaches: Bob Surace '90, Charles W. Caldwell Jr. '25 Head Coach, Football; Sabrina King ‘01, Head Coach, Women’s Volleyball.

Student-Athletes: Quincy Monday, Wrestling/BSAC; Grace Stone, Women's Basketball/BSAC; Serena Starks, Softball/ASAP.

Human Resources Advisor: Kimberly Tiedeken, Director of Diversity and Inclusion.

Task Forces

The task forces on diversity, equity, and inclusion, focused first on the experiences of student-athletes and staff of color. Comprised of student-athletes, coaches, administrators and alumni, with advisory from the Princeton Varsity Club Board of Directors' Diversity & Inclusion subcommittee and the Faculty Advisory Committee on Athletics, the initial task forces, reported to the Executive Committee, making recommendations on: Student-Athlete and Staff Experience, Student-Athlete and Staff Recruitment, Alumni Engagement, Community Action. The recommendations of the initial task forces are summarized here.

Tigers Together Work in Progress 2020-present

2020

Formation of the Executive Committee and Task Force on Black Student-Athlete Experience
Tigers Together: Conversations (video)
BLM Rally with coaches, staff and student-athletes
Chi Family Fund for Excellence and Inclusion Announcement
Vote 100 (tool kits for each team, student-athlete leadership)
Candid Conversations (Coach Sam Schweisky in conversation with Dean LaTanya Buck)
A Long Talk (Wintersession evening event for campus community)
Black Student-Athlete Summit (10 student-athletes + staff in attendance at virtual event)

2021

Establishment of student-athlete affinity groups
Black Student-Athlete Collective,
Asian Student-Athletes of Princeton
Black History Month
Princeton UniversityAnnual DEI Report
Princeton Juneteenth Block Party
RISE Fellow for Princeton Athletics: hosted by Student-Athlete Services
Inclusion and Diversity Certificate Program (HR): Student-Athlete Services
Athlete Ally Trans 101 Training (S-A Services, Athlete Ally coaches and officers)
Pride Month
Scholars Institute Fellows Program for Student-Athletes with Doug Davis ‘12
Coaches Lunch and Learn : Carl A Fields Center
Coaches Lunch and Learn: Gender + Sexuality Resource Center
50 Years of Women’s Athletics: I Can Do Anything

2022
SAWL Training: including Bystander Intervention, Maximizing CPS, Building Inclusive Culture
Beyond The Resume: highlighting the excellence and activism of Olympian Allyson Felix
Month of Service with the Pace Center for Civic Engagement
Formation of QSAC: Queer Student-Athlete Collective, as an informal space with G+SRC
Posted: Associate Director, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Princeton Athletics
Staff Anti-Semitism Training (Student-Athlete Experience and other staff)
BHM: Athletics Content + amplification of Carl A. Fields Center Events)
Feb 21: VSAAC/SAWL/Captains Inclusive Leadership Conversations with G+SRC Staff
Feb 24: Head Coaches Meeting: LGBTQ+ Inclusive Team Culture with G+SRC
Mar 1: Coaches Lunch and Learn: Inclusive Team Culture, Part II with G+SRC
Stem to Stern Partnership with Princeton Rowing
Cross-Affinity Group Leadership Conversations (Sept. 9, Oct. 4, Nov. 18)
Sept. 19: Athlete Ally LGBTQ+ Inclusion Training with QSAC and Athlete Ally
Oct. 2: ASAP Welcome Event
Pride Nights:
Oct. 8 Women's Soccer
Oct. 14 Football
Oct. 23 Field Hockey
Nov. 6 Women's Rugby
Jan. 28 Women's Basketball
Jan. 29 Women's Hockey
Nov. 13: ASAP Alumni Speaker Event: Neha Uberoi '12
Nov. 20: ASAP-ASAA Study Break