Five Princeton student-athletes have been named finalists for the 2025 Art Lane ’34 Award, which is presented annually to undergraduate student-athletes in recognition of selfless contribution to sport and society.

The Art Lane ’34 Award will be presented at the Gary Walters ’67 Princeton Varsity Club Awards Banquet on Thursday, May 22nd starting at 5:00 p.m. ET. For more information on the 2025 banquet, click here.

Meet the 2025 finalists!

 

LEXI ALLEN | WOMEN’S TRACK & FIELD / CROSS COUNTRY 

Lexi Allen of Princeton women’s track & field is a multi-time NCAA regional qualifier in both cross country and the 3000m steeplechase, ranking 4th in program history in the event. She helped the Tigers to their third-ever Triple Crown in 2024-25 with Heps titles in cross country and indoor and outdoor track. 

 

Allen has dedicated herself to serving her country, enlisting as a Tiger Company Executive Officer and leading prospective cadet recruitment in Princeton’s Army ROTC program. She previously interned with the Office of the Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps in Washington, D.C. and assisted senior officers with crafting and interpreting military justice policies.

 

On campus, Allen has supported her team as a SCORRE leader to promote healthy relationships among teammates and is an Undergraduate Fellow for the James Madison Program. She has also volunteered regularly at the Princeton Mobile Food Pantry, packing grocery bags to help fight food insecurity among local families.

 

From Canton, Ga., Allen is a politics major studying in the School of Public and International Affairs.

 

 
ERICA DE SAN JORGE | WOMEN’S RUGBY 
Erica De San Jorge, is a utility forward and NIRA All-Academic selection for Princeton women’s rugby, where she scored the Tigers’ first try as a varsity program.
 

Off the pitch, De San Jorge founded her own non-profit, the Natural Hair Collective, which helps to empower Black youth through educational workshops teaching students to embrace their natural hair. A three-year member of the Student-Athlete Service Council, she regularly volunteered with Reading with the Tigers and the National Girls & Women in Sports Day Clinic.
 
De San Jorge has made an impact on her campus community as a founding member and co-president of Princeton’s Generational African American Student Association and co-president of the Athlete Ally affinity group. She has interned with the Princeton Gender and Sexuality Resource Center in addition to representing her team as a Student-Athlete Wellness Leader and a SHARE Peer through Princeton’s office for Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education.
 
From Baltimore, Md., De San Jorge is a psychology major pursuing certificates in African American studies and entrepreneurship.
 

 
SAM KLEINER | MEN’S HEAVYWEIGHT ROWING 
Sam Kleiner has been an integral member of the Princeton men’s heavyweight rowing program, leading the Varsity 4+ to gold at the 2022 IRA national championships and helping the 3V to gold at the 2024 Eastern Sprints.
 
Off the water, Kleiner helped found Princeton Rowing’s STEM to Stern program, bringing the sport of rowing and STEM curriculum to underserved students in the Trenton area. As the program’s director, Kleiner has led the initiative within the Princeton boathouse and recruited rowers from each of the four teams to serve as STEM mentors and instructors. Additionally, he has worked with the national organization to establish the annual Rowers for Change Fundraiser, helping to raise more than $120,000 in support of STEM to Stern’s 25 programs nation-wide.
 
Kleiner also serves as a Princeton Student-Athlete Wellness Leader helping to promote mental health resources among student-athletes and is a leader within Princeton rowing’s Special Olympics partnership.
 
An electrical and computer engineering major from Westport, Conn., Kleiner is pursuing a concentration in robotics and cyberphysical systems.
 

 
ISSA MUDASHIRU | MEN’S SOCCER 
A senior captain and defender for Princeton men’s soccer, Issa Mudashiru helped the Tigers to both an Ivy League Regular Season and Ivy League Tournament Championship during his four years at Princeton.
 
A 2025 Schwarzman Scholar and Spirit of Princeton Award recipient, Mudashiru has displayed a commitment to service, participating in both the Tiger Pals mentoring program and Reading with the Tigers initiatives. Additionally, he founded his own nonprofit, the Dunya Soccer Foundation to help bring equipment and his love for soccer to youth in West Africa.
 
Mudashiru had served as Vice President of the Black Premedical Society and as a Global Health Scholar for the Princeton Center of Health and Wellbeing. A Student-Athlete Wellness Leader, he has also mentored undergraduate students with the Princeton University Mentoring Program and recently completed an internship with the Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding.
 
From Bethesda, Md., Mudashiru is a medical anthropology major pursuing certificates in East Asian studies and global health and health policy.
 

 
MADDIE SELTZER | WOMEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING 
Maddie Seltzer is a senior diver for Princeton women’s swimming and diving, helping the Tigers three-peat as Ivy League champions. Seltzer is a three-time NCAA Zone Championships participant.
 
Out of the pool, Seltzer has been a two-year fellow for Team IMPACT, pairing children with serious illnesses and disabilities with Princeton teams to create life changing experiences. Under her guidance and leadership, Princeton was named the 2023-24 Division I Team IMPACT Fellowship Campus of the Year, honoring meaningful team partnerships and outstanding campus leadership.
 
Seltzer is also a recipient of the 2025 Spirit of Princeton Award, recognizing her impact on the campus community. As a two-year Co-President of the Student-Athlete Service Council, she has helped shape broad-based service offerings for Princeton student-athletes. Additionally, Seltzer has taught underserved students in Vietnam as part of the Coach for College initiative and is a co-founder of the Jewish Student-Athlete Collective.
 
A sociology major from Scarsdale, NY, Seltzer is completing an additional certificate in Entrepreneurship.
 

 

LOGAN, Utah – Utah State head volleyball coach Rob Neilson announced the team’s 2025 nonconference schedule on Tuesday. Along with the team’s Mountain West slate, the Aggies will play a total of 12 matches this year against foes who finished in the top 100 of the RPI in 2024.
 
Utah State’s season will kick off in Hawai’i as the Aggies will participate in the Rainbow Wahine Volleyball Classic. USU will first face San Diego on Friday, Aug. 29, before taking on tournament-host Hawai’i on Saturday, Aug. 30. The Aggies will close the tournament with a match versus Marquette on Sunday, Aug. 31. The Golden Eagles finished 2024 ranked 21st in the AVCA rankings.
 

The Aggies will then reopen Club Estes for the 2025 season, hosting Texas A&M on Friday, Sept. 5, and Utah on Saturday, Sept. 6, at the Wayne Estes Center. Both the Aggies and Utes were included in the final AVCA rankings of 2024 at 16th and 23rd, respectively.
 
USU returns to the road for its toughest test of the season, facing Stanford on the road on Friday, Sept. 12. The Cardinals ended 2024 ranked fifth in the country and reached the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament. The Aggies will then take on UC Davis in a neutral match on Saturday, Sept. 13. 
 
Utah State then faces a trio of in-state opponents as the Aggies will take on Utah Valley on the road on Tuesday, Sept. 16. Utah State will welcome BYU to the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum on Thursday, Sept. 18, as the team attempts to break the all-time state attendance record for a volleyball match. USU will also take on Weber State inside the Spectrum on Saturday, Sept. 20, to conclude the team’s nonconference schedule.
 

In total, the Aggies will play eight matches against teams who played in the 2024 NCAA Tournament (Hawaii, Marquette, Texas A&M, Utah, Stanford, BYU and Colorado State). USU will have 12 matches against teams who finished in the top 100 of the RPI last season.
 
Aggie fans can place deposits for season tickets here. Complete pricing for season and individual game tickets will be made available at a later date.
 
2025 Schedule

Date	Opponent	Location
Friday, Aug. 29	vs San Diego	Honolulu, Hawai’i
Saturday, Aug. 30	at Hawai’i	Honolulu, Hawai’i
Sunday, Aug. 31	vs Marquette	Honolulu, Hawai’i
Friday, Sept. 5	TEXAS A&M	WAYNE ESTES CENTER
Saturday, Sept. 6	UTAH	WAYNE ESTES CENTER
Friday, Sept. 12	at Stanford	Palo Alto, California
Saturday, Sept. 13	vs UC Davis	Palo Alto, California
Tuesday, Sept. 16	at Utah Valley	Orem, Utah
Thursday, Sept. 18	BYU	DEE GLEN SMITH SPECTRUM
Saturday, Sept. 20	WEBER STATE	DEE GLEN SMITH SPECTRUM
Thursday, Sept. 25	at Nevada*	Reno, Nevada
Saturday, Sept. 27	at Air Force*	Colorado Springs, Colorado
Thursday, Oct. 2	SAN JOSÉ STATE*	WAYNE ESTES CENTER
Saturday, Oct. 4	FRESNO STATE*	WAYNE ESTES CENTER
Thursday, Oct. 9	at Wyoming*	Laramie, Wyoming
Saturday, Oct. 11	at Colorado State*	Fort Collins, Colorado
Thursday, Oct. 16	UNLV*	WAYNE ESTES CENTER
Saturday, Oct. 18	SAN DIEGO STATE*	WAYNE ESTES CENTER
Tuesday, Oct. 21	at Boise State*	Boise, Idaho
Saturday, Oct. 25	NEW MEXICO*	WAYNE ESTES CENTER
Thursday, Oct. 30	at San Diego State*	San Diego, California
Saturday, Nov. 1	at UNLV*	Las Vegas, Nevada
Thursday, Nov. 6	COLORADO STATE*	WAYNE ESTES CENTER
Saturday, Nov. 8	WYOMING*	WAYNE ESTES CENTER
Thursday, Nov. 13	at Fresno State*	Fresno, California
Saturday, Nov. 15	at San José State*	San José, California
Thursday, Nov. 20	AIR FORCE*	WAYNE ESTES CENTER
Saturday, Nov. 22	NEVADA*	WAYNE ESTES CENTER
Wed.-Sat., Nov. 26-29	Mountain West Tournament	Las Vegas, Nevada

*denotes MW conference match
HOME GAMES IN BOLD AND ALL CAPS
 
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Stevenson girls water polo is not an easy team to beat, as evidenced by a 367-17-2 record overall since the start of the 2014 season.
The Patriots won state in 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023 and 2024, along with finishing runner-up in 2021 and 2022, in addition to third at state in 2014 and 2016.
Of those 17 losses since 2014, five came in that 2014 season. Stevenson has just 12 losses since the start of 2015. 
The only in-state teams with wins over the Patriots in the last decade are Lyons, Fenwi…

ST. LOUIS – Indiana State track and field athletes accounted for all four weekly MVC honors Tuesday afternoon after a plethora of season-best showings at the Sycamore Open, the conference office announced.
 
Terrance O’Bannon was named MVC Men’s Track Athlete of the Week, Noah Bolt garnered MVC Men’s Field Athlete of the Week accolades, Rachel Mehringer was selected MVC Women’s Track Athlete of the Week and Lillian Gibbs was tabbed MVC Women’s Field Athlete of the Week.
 
O’Bannon ran his two fastest all-conditions 100m times of his career on his way to a first-place finish in the event at the Sycamore Open. He clocked a time of 10.20 (w: +4.4) in prelims and followed with a time of 10.23 (w: +2.2) in finals, marking the third time in his last two meets running a 100m time of 10.30 or faster. In addition, he also ran the anchor leg of Indiana State’s 4x100m relay which ran a season-best time of 39.73 to place first. O’Bannon’s 100m time ranks third in program history for all-conditions times, and is also second in the MVC, sixth in the Great Lakes Region, 36th in NCAA East Qualifying and 59th nationally. Indiana State’s 4x100m relay, with O’Bannon on the anchor leg, ranks first in the MVC, fourth in the Great Lakes Region, 30th in NCAA East Qualifying and 46th nationally, excluding B and C teams.
 
Bolt picked up a pair of first-place finishes in throws events at the Sycamore Open, headlined by a career-best effort in the discus. His win in the discus saw him record a top mark of 56.48m (185-4), his third meet over 55 meters this season, and he also had the top finish in the hammer throw with a mark of 60.23m (197-7), going over the 60-meter mark for the sixth meet this season. Bolt owns program top-10 marks in both the discus (fifth) and hammer throw (sixth), and is the only male athlete in the MVC to rank in the top 10 in the conference in three different throws events (shot put, discus, hammer throw). His discus mark ranks first in the MVC, sixth in the Great Lakes Region, 23rd in NCAA East Qualifying and 58th nationally, while his hammer throw mark ranks fourth in the MVC, 15th in the Great Lakes Region and 56th in NCAA East Qualifying.
 
Mehringer broke every 100m hurdles record imaginable with a career-best performance in the event at the Sycamore Open. She ran a wind-legal time of 13.04 (w: +1.7) in prelims and followed with a time of 13.03 (w: +2.3) in finals to place first in the event, both of which were three-tenths of a second faster than anyone in the MVC this season. Mehringer broke the Indiana State facility and school records in the process, while also breaking the Missouri Valley Conference record in the event. She also ran the anchor leg of the Sycamores’ 4x100m relay which placed second with a season-best time of 45.46. In addition to having the fastest 100m hurdles time in conference history, Mehringer ranks second in the Great Lakes Region, eighth in NCAA East Qualifying and 14th nationally in the event. Indiana State’s 4x100m relay, with Mehringer on the anchor leg, ranks third in the MVC, ninth in the Great Lakes Region and 56th in NCAA East Qualifying, excluding B and C Teams.
 
Gibbs broke her own school record in the javelin at the Sycamore Open, recording a career-best mark of 48.04m (157-5) to place second at the meet. It was her fourth meet going over the 45-meter mark in the javelin out of her five meets competed in, the most in the conference, and she also has the top eight javelin marks in the conference this season. Gibbs, who leads the MVC in the javelin by more than two meters, also ranks fifth in the Great Lakes Region, 32nd in NCAA East Qualifying and 67th nationally in the event.

The weekly honors for Bolt and Gibbs are the first in their respective careers. O’Bannon’s weekly honor is the fourth of his career (one outdoor 2025, one indoor 2024-25, two indoor 2023-24), while Mehringer earned her eighth career weekly honor (two outdoor 2025, three indoor 2024-25, one outdoor 2024, two indoor 2023-24). Indiana State’s sweep of the weekly honors was its second in as many seasons, as the Sycamores also accomplished the feat during the 2023-24 indoor campaign.

 

Indiana State sets its sights on repeating as MVC Men’s and Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Champions Saturday and Sunday, with 2025 MVC Outdoor Championships taking place in Carbondale, Illinois.

 

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GUANGZHOU, China – East Texas A&M University track and field sprinter Ibrahim Fuseini ran a blazing anchor leg to help his home country of Ghana qualify for the 4×100 meter relay at the World Athletics Championships later this year.

Fuseini (Accra, Ghana) raced for Team Ghana at the World Athletics Relay Championships over the weekend in Guangzhou. After missing out on advancement to the finals and qualifying for the World Championships on Saturday by just 0.06 seconds, Ghana ran a time of 38.32 seconds on Sunday in the second round of qualifying.

The World Athletics Championships are set for September 13-21 in Tokyo. Lion coach George Pincock served as the relays coach for Ghana during the World Athletics Championships.

Fuseini’s appearance in the World Athletics Championships later this year marks the second straight time that the Lions had a representative in the World Athletics Championships 4×100 meter relay as former Lion J.T. Smith raced for Team USA at the 2023 World Championships. Fuseini also raced for Ghana in the 4×100 meter relay at last year’s 2024 Paris Olympics.

This weekend, Fuseini returns to the US as the Lions end the 2024-25 season at the Southland Conference Championships Thursday-Saturday in Houston.

Article source and photo credit: lionathletics.com