Princeton Director of Athletics
Walters has been the Director of Athletics at his alma mater since June 1994. Princeton teams have won 28 national championships in his first 18 years as director of athletics. During that time Princeton has fielded 33 teams in Ivy League sports, and 31 of those have won at least one league championship.
In addition, 35 of the 38 Princeton varsity teams have played in postseason championship competition. Princeton teams in six different sports have competed in the NCAA Final Four since he became AD, including four in the calendar year of 2004, tying Princeton with UCLA and Stanford for the most in Division I.
Walters has led an athletic department that has won the Ivy League’s unofficial all-sports standings every year of his tenure and had, as of the end of the 2011-12 academic year, won 202 Ivy League championships, 76 more than the second-best Ivy school since he became AD.
Princeton produced three national champions in 2011-12 (the men's squash team, epee fencer Jonathan Yergler and steeplechase runner Donn Cabral). Princeton also had 17 Olympians who won a total of seven medals at the 2012 Summer Games in London, for a total that would have ranked 31st had Princeton been a country.
In 2008, sportsillustrated.com ranked the Princeton intercollegiate athletic program as the 13th best in the nation, an honor that is particularly noteworthy because no other non-scholarship school was in the rankings.
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