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Meagan Cowher
Second all-time at Princeton with 1,671 points
Three-time first-team All-Ivy selection
Princeton’s single-season scoring leader
von Kienbusch
Award Winners
Diana Matheson
2007 Ivy League Player of the Year
Four-time first-team All-Ivy selection
Only player in team history with career totals of 20
goals and 20 assists
PVC C. Otto von Kienbusch Award
Awards Banquet 2008
C. Otto von Kienbusch Award
Awarded annually to a Princeton senior woman of high scholastic rank who has
demonstrated general proficiency in athletics and the qualities of a true sportswoman.
Presented in memory of C. Otto von Kienbusch ’06, friend and benefactor
of women’s athletics at Princeton.
Meagan Cowher from the women’s basketball
Committee, serving as the President this past
team and Diana Matheson from the women’s year.
soccer team shared the 2008 C. Otto von Kienbusch Cowher was a religion major from Pittsburgh,
Award, the highest female student-athlete award Pa.
at Princeton.
Matheson helped Princeton become the first
von Kienbusch was a staunch opponent of the Ivy League team to reach the final four of a
addition of women to Princeton University in the 64-team NCAA tournament in any sport when
late 1960s. Once women were admitted to the the Tigers reached the College Cup semifinals
University, several early women athletes made a in 2004.
trip to his home in upstate New York to try to win Last fall, Matheson became the sixth player
him over. They were so successful that he became in Princeton women’s soccer history to be named
a supporter of women’s athletics at Princeton and the Ivy League Player of the Year and fourth player
later endowed the award.
to receive the honor this decade. Testament to her
Cowher, who finished her career as Princeton’s proficiency as a midfielder, Matheson provided
second-leading all-time
the assists on many
scorer with 1,671 points,
of the goals that
is the only three-time
helped Esmeralda
first-team All-Ivy League
Negron win the
honoree in Princeton
league’s top honor
women’s basketball
in 2004 and Emily
history. Her point total
Behncke repeat
ranks third all-time in
for the program in
basketball at Princeton,
2005.
behind only Bill Bradley
A first-team All-
’65 and Sandi Bittler ’90.
America selection,
Cowher began her
Matheson finished
time at Princeton with an
her career with
Ivy League Rookie of the
26 goals and a
Year honor in 2005 and
program-record 26
added the first-team All-
assists, becoming
Ivy accolades in each of
the only Princeton
her final three seasons.
After helping the
Meagan Cowher ‘08 (left) and Diana Matheson ’08
soccer player, male
or female, to score
Tigers to a share of the
at least 20 goals
Ivy League title in 2006, Cowher set the single- and have at least 20 assists in a career.
season scoring record with 496 points her junior With the Ivy League Player of the Year honor
year. That record was helped by a 66-point Ivy last fall came Matheson’s fourth first-team All-Ivy
League weekend, making Cowher and Bradley accolade. She is only the third Princeton women’s
the only Princeton basketball players, male or soccer student-athlete in the program’s history
female, to score as many points in an Ivy League to be named to the league’s first team four times.
weekend.
Also an accomplished international player,
This past season, she broke the single-season Matheson helped the Canadian national team
record again, scoring 532 points to become the qualify for the 2008 Summer Olympics in China,
11th woman in the history of the Ivy League to the first time Canada has qualified a team in
reach that total.
women’s soccer.
She also was a three-year member of the Matheson was an economics major from
Princeton Varsity Student Athletic Advisory Oakville, Ontario.
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