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Eric Leroux Wins Hockey Humanitarian Award
Terrell, Steckel Named 2006 Football Captains
Men’s hockey senior goaltender Eric Leroux, who was featured in the last issue of the PVC News, was named the recipient of the 2006 Hockey Humanitarian Award during the 2006 NCAA Frozen Four in Milwaukee. Here is an excerpt from his acceptance speech. “A smiling kid in the stands hoping for an autograph, or a starving person hoping for a meal, or a shy kid in the park hoping to find a friend to play catch with, or a mourning widow whose husband died of AIDS. It doesn’t matter whether you’re with a family half-way around the world or with the guy around the corner, you have the opportunity to make a difference, and a little deed can go a long, long way. After four years, college hockey ends, the overtime winner you scored can live as a cherished memory—but the ice gets cleaned. However, to that kid in the stands that you took the time to talk with or to that widow whose hand you held—your influence is never erased. You can make a lasting difference in someone’s life if you recognize just how big an impact a seemingly small deed can have.”
Rising seniors Jeff Terrell (quarterback) and Luke Steckel (linebacker) were chosen as team captains for the 2006 football season. Head coach Roger Hughes made the announcement following the spring game on April 15. “From a character and integrity standpoint, there aren’t two finer players out there,” Hughes
Erin Snyder Surpasses Coach’s Strikeout Mark Entering the softball season with 561 strikeouts, it was only a matter of time before senior righthander Erin Snyder broke the Princeton career record held by her head coach, Maureen Barron ’97, at 596 batters fanned. That moment came Sunday, March 19, in Sacramento, Calif., when Snyder struck out 10 Nevada batters in a 10-0, five-inning win. Since then, Snyder has only picked up the pace. Entering the team’s final Ivy weekend, Snyder had struck out at least 11 batters in each of her last four outings. In one weekend against Brown and Yale, Snyder fanned 11 in a five-inning perfect game defeat of the Bulldogs before striking out 19 of a maximum 21 against the Bears.
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said. “It would be difficult to have higher quality or more natural leaders. I think these were great choices for captains.”
Bill Tierney Claims 200th Princeton Win Princeton’s 9-4 win over Butler in men’s lacrosse March 24 was the 200th at the University for Tiger head coach Bill Tierney, who also won 34 games while the head coach at Rochester Institute of Technology. Prior to the 2006 season Tierney had coached Princeton to six NCAA championships, eight NCAA championship games, 10 NCAA Final Fours and 12 Ivy League championships. He also coached the U.S. team to the 1998 World Championship.
Princeton Athletics Announces New Hires David Leach has been named Director of Campus Recreation. Leach replaced Eric Stein, who left to assume the same position at Stanford. Leach previously has worked at St. Joseph’s and Temple and brings nearly two decades of experience to Princeton. Thomas Cocuzza has been named head coach of sprint football, replacing Bill Hickey. Cocuzza most recently has been the offensive coordinator at Kean University and also has considerable experience with indoor professional football teams. Greg Paczkowski has been named Director of Aquatics. He comes to Princeton from EmbryRiddle University in Florida, where he responsible for event management and the aquatics center. Paczkowski is currently working on his master’s
Upcoming PVC Events May 8 Princeton Athletics Golf Classic, hosted by the Princeton Varsity Club Springdale Golf Course Registration: 11:30 a.m. • Shotgun Tee 1:30 p.m.
June 1 Senior Student-Athlete Awards Banquet Cleveland Tower • Grad College Reception 5:30 • Dinner 6:30 For more information, contact Kellie Gale at kgale@princeton.edu
visit www.PrincetonVarsityClub.org for updates on upcoming events degree in sports management from the United States Sports Academy after earning a bachelor’s in air traffic management with a meteorology minor from Embry-Riddle.
Tennis Class Of ‘10 Lauded As One Of Best TennisRecruiting.net has ranked Princeton’s three-person women’s tennis recruiting class in 2006 as the No. 2 recruiting class in the nation in NCAA Division I, trailing only the incoming class at Notre Dame. Princeton Varsity Club News published by Princeton’s Department of Athletics, Jadwin Gymnasium, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., 08544-0071 Princeton Varsity Club 609-258-5666 www.PrincetonVarsityClub.org Director of Athletics Gary Walters ’67 Associate Director of Athletics for Athletic Relations & Marketing Jamie Zaninovich Assistant Director of Athletic Relations/PVC Kellie Gale Assistant Director of Marketing Nick Konawalik Assistant Director of the Princeton Varsity Club Louise Gengler ’75 Athletic Friends Group Manager Lorin Maurer Associate Director of Athletics Jerry Price Assistant Directors of Athletic Communications/ PVC News Editors David Rosenfeld, Craig Sachson Athletic Communications Assistant/PVC Design Yariv Amir, Andrew Borders Staff Photographer Beverly Schaefer printing by Prism Color Corp. Moorestown, N.J.
Expectations Met, Surpassed
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A new standard was set by Yasser El Halaby. • by Craig Sachson
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he very reason the New York Yankees are a credible World Series threat every spring is the same burden the team carries throughout the following summer and fall. The team with the highest payroll is assumed to be the team with the most talent. The team with the most talent is assumed to be the last one standing. And when it doesn’t pan out that way, there is only one assumed reason. They failed. Princeton University doesn’t have payrolls to measure their teams. It doesn’t even have athletic scholarships. But it is not immune to the pressure of expectations. When Yasser El Halaby arrived on Princeton’s campus in the fall of 2002, men’s squash head coach Bob Callahan tried to shield him from some of those pressures. Honestly, it was probably an exercise in futility. No matter what Callahan said, or didn’t say, about the greatest recruit in the history of collegiate squash, one thing was obvious. If El Halaby left Princeton without four national individual titles, an unprecedented feat in the history of men’s squash, most would wonder what went wrong. El Halaby never complained about those expectations. He never shied away from them. He didn’t even simply live up to them. He set a new standard for squash players, athletes, and human beings. • • • iddharth Suchde is one of the premier college squash players in recent memory. He is a gifted shotmaker, a fluid athlete and a terrific competitor. He entered the 2006 national individual championships as the top seed and breezed into the final match without losing a game. Suchde is a terrific competitor and will likely enter the 2007 championships as the favorite to bring the national title to Harvard. He’s that good.
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And yet, Siddharth Suchde simply had no chance in the 2006 final. It’s nothing to be ashamed of. Bernardo Samper didn’t have a chance in 2003, nor did Will Broadbent in 2004 or Julian Illingworth in 2005. El Halaby was never an easy opponent, but he became Popeye on a spinach binge during those matches. He did what he wanted, and his opponent simply had no answer. Take his history-making fourth championship victory. Suchde already owned a win over him during the season and had to be peaking in confidence. “I went into that match with the goal of trying to win every single point,” El Halaby says. “I didn’t want to risk anything. I didn’t want him to be able to make a match of it.” El Halaby won 25 of the first 27 points and, well, that was that. “He was unbelievable today,” Callahan said afterwards. “It was probably the finest Yasser has ever played. He came out from the first point with his ‘A’ game. It was just a devastating performance.” El Halaby figured he had the match won after the first point. He liked the way he moved, the way he was seeing the ball, the way everything seemed to work. He sensed that Suchde knew the same fate was coming shortly thereafter. “I think he really wanted to make it competitive,” El Halaby says. “I don’t think he was thinking about winning at that point.” Maybe he will in 2007. Popeye won’t be around by then. • • • ometimes you learn more about an athlete from the way his rivals talk about him. Paul Assaiante never had to play El Halaby during his career, but he saw enough of him, and most everybody else in the overall landscape of collegiate squash, to own a qualified opinion. The longtime coach of the eight-time defending team champion Trinity Bantams coached against El Halaby during the first
championship match, a 3-0 win over Samper, the 2001 champion. “In my mind, and this is after 31 years in education, I have never met a person who better represented what college athletics is all about,” Assaiante said. “He was a fiery competitor, a class act, an academic, a great team player, and a champion. Yasser has been great for the game and is and was a credit to the sport, to Princeton University, and to the best coach in the association, Bob Callahan.” In other words, he seems to be a fan of Yasser El Halaby. • • • is is the anti-ESPN.com story. As the national sports media tracks those who will make the jump from college to the pros, or high school to the pros, or kindergarten to the pros, El Halaby stunned the international squash world by doing the opposite. When a family friend walked in to Callahan’s office and told him of El Halaby’s desire to get an education at Princeton University, the former Tiger captain and longtime coach of the program was floored. Not pleased. Not surprised. Not even pleasantly surprised. No, this was different. This was the cliffhanger ending of a season on Lost. This was the one they use to keep you interested for months at a time, but instead of wondering whether Jack would sooner go to battle with the Others, Locke or Sawyer in the next season, he was wondering how many Others could contend with El Halaby over four seasons. The answer proved to be the one he hoped—and likely suspected. Not many. And when it mattered, none. El Halaby spent his childhood dominating his age level. He began to realize he was something special around the age of 10. When he won the top prize in junior international squash, the British Open, at the age of 13, he seemed untouchable for the college game. A top American college squash program saw him the way a Big
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Ten or ACC school once saw Lebron James — not worth the time. Two factors were overlooked. The politics and criticisms came early and often from the Egyptian Squash Federation, and they turned El Halaby off from staying home for an immediate professional career. More importantly, his parents stressed education, and the chance to play for a top program while studying at Princeton was the chance of a lifetime for him. As it turned out, it was the chance of a lifetime for both sides. Princeton likely won’t see El Halaby’s equal ever again, even though a brilliant Class of 2009, including younger brother Hesham, promises to continue a winning tradition. As for the older brother, a professional career is on the immediate horizon. He’ll work out this summer and start playing around the fall, when the international tour gets going. American fans will likely have chances to see him at the U.S. Open in Boston or the Tournament of Champions in New York City. He made history at the latter in 2004 by becoming the first amateur to reach the Round of 16, and he’ll look to go well beyond that in the future. But his greatest mark isn’t likely to come on a squash court. He went to Princeton to give himself the best chance at a successful future, and if you doubt he will achieve that, then you missed the point of his career. El Halaby is an engaging, smart and personable young man. Take those tools to the real world, and you’re already a step ahead. He was a step ahead when he entered Princeton, and nobody ever caught up to him—not as a player, not as an ambassador to the sport, not as a team leader. He exits as he entered. The best.
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Two Tiger crews stand atop the field heading to nationals • by Craig Sachson
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egendary Princeton heavyweight crew coach Lori Dauphiny said. “It can always vary with coach Dutch Schoch took his 1957 squad conditions. I do believe it was a good performance to the Charles River for the 20th competition for for our team. We treated it as a steppingstone the Compton Cup. Schalk brought the Cup for the towards the championship races.” 1956 victory, and had good memories of a similar It was quite a steppingstone for both teams, win on the Charles four years earlier. defeating Top-5 opponents (the Harvard men Princeton got the job done, winning the race were ranked fifth) by solid amounts. Even if by four seconds over the Crimson. It had to make either team loses a race prior to Easterns, both for a satisfying ride home — much more so than will be considered a heavy favorite to leave with any of the next 28 trips home from Cambridge, gold medals. when Princeton left the Charles empty-handed. And nobody will be rooting harder for that to ° ° ° happen than each other. Expectations were high for the 2005 Princeton “I loved being an athlete,” Jordan said. “I loved women’s open crew, which entered its first race as the the camaraderie of being with my teammates. No. 1 team in the country. Loaded with talent, These other coaches are my teammates, and it especially in its junior class, the Tigers were would be a lot less of a career if it weren’t for my favorites every time they hit the water during an friends in the boathouse.” 11-race regular season. It does begin with the coaches, whose genuine Eleven races, eleven victories for Lori respect for each other might only be matched Dauphiny’s crew. One win came by 4.1 seconds by how much they all like each other. Dauphiny over a talented Yale squad that promised to be found out that the heavyweight novice (yes, the one of the challengers to Princeton’s Eastern novice) had topped Harvard before any of her supremacy at the league championship race. races began, and she was quickly on the phone A contender, but few imagined a victor. And with Jordan to hear all of the Compton Cup yet, there the Bulldogs were, finishing ahead of details after her team cruised to victory for the Princeton for a stunning Eastern crown. It was Platt Cup. a long ride home for Princeton, and as with all With strong coaches in position with both those men’s rides, an emptyhanded one. lightweight programs (Greg Hughes, men; Paul ° ° ° Rassam, women), there could come a day when Eastern Sprint titles and national all four programs could be ranked No. 1 at the championships do not get determined until the same time, especially if it could come at the end critical racing period between the middle of of the racing season. May and early June. Nothing that happened on Until then, both top-ranked crews are still April 15, 2006, will guarantee a championship for focused on the bigger picture, including the either program. It won’t even give them an extra women’s NCAA championships, which will second to work with in those races. take place on Mercer Lake in neighboring West But let’s face it. April 15, 2006, was a nice day Windsor during Reunions Weekend. for Princeton crew. Dauphiny plans on making the short ride The heavyweight men and the open women both home anything but empty-handed. She hopes entered key midseason races as the No. 1 teams in to have one hand on a trophy and the other on their respective sports. The men went to the Charles a cell phone to share the moments with her River, site of their amazing Head of the Charles win teammates—and her friends. in 2005, and topped three-time defending Eastern and IRA champion Harvard by more than three seconds. The open women welcomed that same Yale crew to Lake Carnegie and won by 9.1 seconds over the fourthranked Bulldogs. “The margin of victory doesn’t mean a tremendous amount to me,” open head The No. 1 Princeton heavyweight crew won the Compton
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sk Mike Novogratz ’87 about wrestling, and you won’t hear anything about his standout career as a two-time All-Ivy performer at Princeton or the two Ivy League championships the Tigers won during his career. Instead, you’ll hear mostly about a dream of a man named Al Bevilacqua, and what the sport could mean for thousands of kids in our nation’s largest city. Novogratz is a principal at Fortress Investment Group, a successful and prestigious asset management firm in New York. Bevilacqua is a long-time wrestling coach and teacher on Long Island recently honored as USA Wrestling’s “Man of the Year.” Together, they are two of the driving forces behind the Metropolitan Wrestling Association’s “Beat the Streets” program, an initiative to bring the sport of wrestling to New York City’s middle schools. Starting with one pilot school last season and more than 20 this year, Novogratz believes the program can eventually reach all 155 middle schools in the city. And he also believes that the program can reach far beyond those minutes spent on the mat. “In general, wrestling is a sport that breeds leadership,” says Novogratz. “It grooms discipline and toughness. It teaches you that losing isn’t always the worst thing. If you add in the element of creating an activity that keeps kids off the streets, it makes a lot of sense.” Bevilacqua, a local and national legend in the wrestling community who was once immortalized by former student Jerry Seinfeld in a famous episode of his long-running sitcom, has already seen first hand what the program can be. “Mike was our first sponsor and convinced a school to take a chance on it,” he says. “They gave it a try, and it was dynamite. The principal couldn’t believe the change in her kids. She experienced it, and she got involved in telling other schools close by about it. We know that will continue to happen if given the chance.” The plans for the program are both realistic and ambitious. The realism comes from the fact that the sport simply requires a mat, a trained coach and a modicum of equipment, and Novogratz’s and others’ work that has already led to over $1 million in pledges toward the program. The ambition lies in the hope that the grassroots efforts eventually lead to sponsorship by New York’s Public School Athletic League (PSAL) and a large increase in the number of high school programs in the city. According to both Novogratz and Bevilacqua, programs like “Beat the Streets” are more of an absolute must than simply another extracurricular activity. “I think we’ve done a disservice in education recently
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To The Mat by moving away from programs in athletics and the arts,” says Novogratz. “Of course academics are a high priority, but there need to be those other ways to reach kids.” “At 2:15 in the afternoon, the bell rings and school’s over for over a million kids in the city,” Bevilacqua says. “Where do they go? What kind of choices do they make? We think it’s important to have something within the schools, and we believe that wrestling is an activity that can interest a lot of kids.” Novogratz says he’s amazed at how many successful people mention their wrestling experience as a key part of their development, and he is certainly an example of that himself. A former U.S. Army helicopter Some of the many kids helped by pilot after the “Beat The Streets” program. graduating from Princeton, he eventually became a partner at Goldman Sachs, where he worked for 11 years. He held the positions of president of Goldman Sachs Latin America and the head of Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities Risk in Asia, where he lived for seven years. At Princeton, he was a first-team All-Ivy pick at 150 lbs. in 1986 and at 158 lbs. in his senior year of 1987. Under the tutelage of longtime coach John Johnston, the Tigers won the Ivy League title in both 1985 and 1986. And though he jokes about “not exactly being in wrestling shape anymore,” Novogratz still brings the same passion to his goals with “Beat the Streets” as he did back then. “Our goal is 100 middle-school programs and 100 high school programs by 2008,” he says. “It’s not a small goal, but we think it’s possible, especially if we can get the city on board.” “Mike has gotten involved and really taken ownership of this thing,” Bevilacqua says. “He’s a competitive guy who takes the same kind of approach to these things as he did as a wrestler, and the same kind of approach wrestling teaches all of us.” Al Bevilacqua’s dream has become Mike Novogratz’s passion, and hundreds and soon thousands of New York City kids have already been the beneficiaries. And while they hope the future features one of the biggest and best scholastic wrestling leagues in the nation, they hold out even greater hope for the kinds of leaders that wrestling in our biggest city will create. by David Rosenfeld
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n Thurs., June 1, the PVC will honor Princeton’s Class of 2006 at the Ninth Annual Princeton Varsity Club Senior Student-Athlete Awards Banquet. This year, the banquet will take place at the base of majestic Cleveland Tower at the Graduate College. The venue change will allow the P.V.C. to expand the number of guests who can attend this remarkable evening, which is a celebration of the athletic, academic and civic accomplishments of not only the exceptional senior student-athletes but also alumni and Friends of Princeton Athletics. The banquet is an extraordinary event that joins together the entire Princeton athletics family — past and present — to celebrate each other’s accomplishments. From the awards presentations to the student speeches to the pre-dinner reception, the The picturesque Grad College evening always leaves a lasting impact on all of the students, parents, alumni, and Friends in attendance. In addition, for many in the Class of 2006, the banquet will be their first introduction to the vast network of alumni and Friends – representing all Princeton sports – who are joined together by the Princeton Varsity Club. Seniors like Erin Snyder will be For more information on the 9th Annual Princeton Varsity honored at the annual PVC banquet. Club Senior Student-Athlete Awards Banquet, please visit the PVC website at www.PrincetonVarsityClub.org and select “Event Calendar,” or contact Kellie Gale at kgale@princeton.edu or 609-258-6696
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n the final PVC coaches’ luncheon of the 2005-2006 academic year, coaches, student-athletes, university staff and alumni came together to discuss the current state of Princeton Athletics. Head coaches spotlighted included Bill Tierney (men’s lacrosse), Chris Sailer (women’s lacrosse), Curtis Jordan (men’s heavyweight crew) and Maureen Barron (softball). Each coach fielded several questions about his or her program and shared information on incoming freshman for the 2006-07 season. Attendees also got an inside Caitlin Reimers (l.) and Lauren Vance peek at the life of current student-athletes when members of the teams discussed their athletic and academic experiences. Lauren Vance ’06, a four-year starter for the women’s lacrosse team, excitedly told the audience that she had just finished her senior thesis that morning. Her announcement was met with a loud burst of applause and congratulations from the crowd. PVC Coaches Luncheons will resume in the fall of 2006. Make Men’s lacrosse coach Bill Tierney sure to check the event calendar for upcoming dates.
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Marc Washington ’97 A PVC Testimonial
Playing football at Princeton was unparalleled preparation for my career in business. It goes without saying that my classroom experiences also significantly contributed to my preparation given the rigorous academic demands, the quality of the learning environment at Princeton and the countless hours spent in the E-Quad. However, my experiences competing with my team on the football field toward a common goal (which we achieved with our Ivy League championship in 1995) provided me unique development opportunities that would have been difficult to replicate outside of a team sports environment. As I reflect on the impact of being a studentathlete at Princeton, some of the most influential attributes include learning how to contribute as a member of a team, how to effectively compete in the face of adversity and how to be an effective leader. Although the value of teams is welldocumented and discussed, I have experienced many situations in my professional career where it was apparent that the importance of working together effectively as a team was underappreciated. I believe athletics are the best environment for learning how to contribute as part of a team. There is no substitute for the feeling of dependency that comes with competing as part of a team where your success is based on the performance of the team as a whole. This experience is directly relevant in my business experiences. I’ve found it to be beneficial to invest in developing strong working
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relationships instead of solely focusing on completing “the task at hand” or just relying solely on what I can contribute as an individual. I would not have been successful as a consultant for McKinsey & Co. in advising corporations on many broad-ranging topics if I was not able to develop good relationships and bring resources from my team and from around the company to assist in delivering the best end products for our clients. Succeeding in a competitive environment is highly relevant in both sports and business. In my experience, former student-athletes not only have a strong appreciation for teamwork, but are also effective at knowing how to compete while dealing with adversity and pressure. While I had learned along the way to the younger competition can bring out the best and worst in members on the team. people, I believe someone who has played team In my current role as Director of Strategy sports has the benefit of experience responding for Roll International (the company that owns in competitive/pressure situations. I think my FIJI Water, POM Wonderful and other consumer experiences as a student-athlete at Princeton brands), I am responsible for leading my team in prepared me for dealing with the competitive driving performance improvements for the FIJI pressures of the business world and help me Water business and also for the professional remain “cool under pressure.” development of my team. I have benefitted from I have never felt a greater sense of each of my leadership experiences in different responsibility than serving as the co-captain of the environments and I feel fortunate to have been football team during my senior year. In addition granted the opportunity while at Princeton. My to the considerable sense of responsibility for football experiences definitely provided exposure the team’s performance on the field, I also felt a to the responsibilities that come with leadership responsibility to the team and positions which is something For more testimonials by Princeton the program to help instill I know will continue to benefit alumni student-athletes, visit PrincetonVarsityClub.org some of the characteristics me throughout my career.
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Princeton Water Polo Hits The Books With A Local Elementary School
embers of the men’s water polo team took time out to help a class at Stony Brook Elementary School honor the birthday of Dr. Seuss. Reid Joseph ’07, Victor Wakefield ’07 and Sam Bliss ’06 all took turns reading some of Dr. Seuss’s best work to the eager young scholars.
“My favorite part about volunteering at the school was seeing the excitement and wide eyes of the kids when they asked questions about college and answered questions about themselves. There is so much energy at the elementary school age and it was a very refreshing environment to be around. I also have to mention how important Dr. Seuss was to my childhood and love of reading. All in all, it was a very fun and gratifying experience reading to the kids.” ~ Victor Wakefield ’07 (pictured, right)
“The best part of reading to the children was to witness their interest in learning and in college (higher education) at such a young age. I really enjoyed hearing what each of the students felt like they were good at and also fielding questions about college athletics and college life in general. Their eager point of view and high level of enthusiasm to have college athletes read to them and share their experience made the visit special.” ~ Reid Joseph ’07 (pictured, left)
Jake McCandless ’51 PVC Speaker Series: Valerie Purdie-Vaughns Valerie Purdie-Vaughns, an assistant professor in the psychology department at Yale University, recently visited campus as part of the Jake McCandless ‘51 PVC Speaker Series. Professor Purdie-Vaughns delivered a lecture titled “Identity and Stereotype Threat: Powerful Influences for Student Development, Achievement, and Performance.” Purdie-Vaughns presented research surrounding the contributing factors to stereotype threat, detailing that every individual falls into a stereotyped group, including student-athletes. She further examined how stereotype threat alters performance in the classroom and on Valerie Purdie-Vaughns (l) and the playing field. Gary D. Walters ’67 An accomplished scholar, PurdieVaughns earned her B.A. in psychology from Columbia and her Ph.D. from Stanford. She has published several articles in her field, including multiple appearances in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. One recent feature examined sensitivity to status-based rejection and the implications for African-American students’ college experience.
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