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The First Ivy League NGWSD Word Find
The answers to the clues can be found on the Ivy League timeline and history!

You will be searching for the last names of the people described below. When you are done, the unused letters will spell out a message. Please click here for a downloadable version in PDF format. Click here for the answers.

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THE CLUES:
I was the first (and remain the only) three-time winner of the Heptagonal Cross Country Championships.

Hockey is my thing. Not only have I won Olympic medals in ice hockey, I was once the Ivy League Player of the Year in field hockey.

I am Columbia's most recent NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipient.

Last year I was named first-team Academic All-America for the second time and was a finalist for the NCAA's Woman of the Year Award.

I was the first female athlete from Cornell to win an Olympic medal (at the 1956 Melbourne Games).

I am the only Ivy Leaguer to ever play in the WNBA.

I am the only female athlete in Penn Quaker history to win a national title.

I am the most recent Ivy female athlete to earn a Rhodes Scholarship.

I was the first Ivy League woman to be honored with an NCAA Silver Anniversary Award in 1998.

I was the member of three national championship Brown Bear rowing teams and was a second-team Academic All-American in 2000.

I won two national titles in fencing for Columbia in the 1980s.

I was an NCAA Woman of the Year finalist, an NCAA Postgraduate Scholar and an Academic All-American -- all in 1992.

A soccer player, I am the only Dartmouth athlete to be a finalist for the NCAA Woman of the Year Award.

I am the only Ivy Leaguer to play in the WUSA and be an NCAA Woman of the Year finalist.

I am the most recent player to be named first team All-Ivy League in women's basketball four times.

No one else can say this, I was named Ivy League Player of the Year four times in a single sport (which was squash by the way).

In 2002 Yale University named an award after me which is to be presented at the discretion of the Department of Athletics to an outstanding athlete who has excelled on the field of play and who has shown spirit and courage in transcending unforeseen challenges.

I was a three-time first team Academic All-American in basketball for the Ivy school in the smallest state.

I am the most decorated female swimmer in Ivy history, with four NCAA Championships and a Gold Medal from the Olympics.

Last summer I became the first woman in history to be named as the Director of Athletics at an Ivy League school.

I was a three-time Ivy Player of the Year in basketball and became the first woman in League history to earn an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship.

I won the NCAA national high jump title both indoor and outdoor for the Crimson.

I am the only Penn Quaker woman to win more than one Olympic medal.

I am the only female track runner to earn an Olympic medal and now the Heps Cross Country Championship trophy is named for me.

I won a Silver Medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics in the sport of Modern Pentathlon.

A former NCAA Champion, I was also the first Ivy League female to ever claim an NCAA Top VIII Award.