By Bill Alden

Princeton University recently announced its 10 All-Ivy Academic honorees for the 2017 fall campaign.

Those honored included: Richard Bush, a senior offensive lineman for the football team, who is majoring in Operations Research and Financial Engineering; sophomore cross country runner Viraj Deokar, who is majoring in Operations Research and Financial Engineering; Tom Johnson, a junior football linebacker and Economics major; Noah Kauppila, a senior cross country star studying economics; Jacob Schachner, a sophomore men’s soccer goalie majoring in Chemical & Biological Engineering; junior Gabi Forrest, the women’s Ivy League Heptagonal cross country champion who is studying Economics; Natalie Larkin, a star senior defender for the women’s soccer team studying at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs; Courtney O’Brien, a sophomore women’s soccer star who hasn’t declared a major; sophomore Maggie O’Connell, the women’s volleyball Ivy Player of the Year who is majoring in Chemical & Biological Engineering; and Elise Wong, a junior field hockey star studying at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs.

The honorees were starters or key reserves on a officially recognized varsity team with 3.0 or better cumulative grade point averages. Each Ivy school nominated five men and women for the honor.