The Princeton Varsity Club hosted its winter edition of the PVCΒ Coaches Luncheon on Tuesday January 16th, whereΒ several winter coaches and student-athletes took a break from final exams toΒ share inspiring remarks with our university and community partners. Thank you to our loyal PVC Members, Corporate Partners and members of the Princeton Athletics “Team Around the Team” that attended the event in support of our Tiger coaches and student-athletes.
Those featured winter programs includedΒ men and womenβs basketball, womenβs ice hockey and menβs squash and womenβs swimming & diving. Each featured coach, including Sean Wilkinson (menβs squash), first-year head coaches Cara Morey (women’s ice hockey) and Bret Lundgaard (womenβs swimming & diving), andΒ assistant coach Kerry Kittles (menβs basketball) provided updates on their respective 2017-18 seasons while speaking to their programβs role in living Princeton Athletic Departmentβs core missions of Education Through Athletics.
A complete photo gallery of the event can be view by clicking here.
Following formal remarks from our featured coaches, our four participating student-athletes (noted below) engaged in aΒ panel conversation, moderated by Ford Family Director of Athletics, Mollie Marcoux Samaan ’91. Our student-athletes providedΒ a behind-the-scenes perspective into their Princeton student-athlete experience and shared examples ofΒ how Princeton Athletics has afforded them opportunities to Achieve, Serve and Lead through athletic competition, in the classroom and beyond. Conversation ranged from leadership to performance to conference rivalries to what it truly means to “Be A Tiger.”
Featured student-athletes included:
- Womenβs Basketball β Sydney Jordan β19
- Menβs Squash β Abhimanyu Shah β18
- Menβs Basketball β Myles Stephens β19
- Womenβs Swimming & Diving β Elsa Welshofer β18
The luncheon alsoΒ recognized two student-athletes who were awarded the PNC Bank Student-Athlete Achiever Award for the winter season, which recognizes achievement across academics, athletics and community service. ThoseΒ honorees were Leslie RobinsonΒ β18 (Women’s Basketball) and Abhimanyu Shah β18 (Men’s Squash).
The date and location for the PVC Spring Coaches Luncheon will be announced later this Winter.