Sibling Stuff

TigerBlog wishes that there was some master database that he could simply tap into to find out whatever interesting statistical or historical fact he's trying to locate.

Sort of like the Princeton version of the Elias Sports Bureau.

It would certainly make things easier. There are so many things that he'd like to look up that he simply cannot, because it would just be nearly impossible to do so.

For instance, how many times has Princeton Athletics through the years produced siblings who were both first-team All-Ivy League at least twice? Or, more precisely, where one sibling was a three-time first-team All-Ivy League selection and another was a two-time first-team All-Ivy League selection?

TB was thinking about that as he saw that Juliana Tornetta was named first-team All-Ivy for the third time in her career. Her sister Sophia, who graduated a year ago, was a two-time first-team All-Ivy selection.

Wouldn't it be great to have some sort of way of looking this up with some level of efficiency?

In situations like this, TB usually has to rely on his memory, and in that case he almost always forgets someone.Has it ever happened before? Is TB just overlooking the obvious?

Ah yes, the obvious. He realized that pretty quickly.

It's the same sport, actually. Field hockey.

The answer, of course, is the Reinprecht sisters. In fact, there were three of them, Sarah, Julia and Katie, and between them they earned 11 first-team All-Ivy League selections. That was three for Sarah, who graduated in 2009, and then four each for Julia and Katie, who led Princeton to the 2012 NCAA title and who also played in the Olympic Games.

Yes. That was obvious. And quite probably record-setting.

He thought the Martirosian sisters might also have done it in field hockey. As it turns out, Natalie was a three-time first-team All-Ivy pick, but Alexis was honorable mention, never first-team.

He thought of a brother/sister combination - the Hoys. Jen, in women's soccer, and Danny, in baseball, were both two-time first-team All-Ivy picks. 

Who else is out there?

He thought of the Hummer brothers, John and Ed, who played basketball at Princeton in the late 1960s through in John's case 1970.

They were both three-time All-Ivy picks, but only John was first-team, something that he did in 1969 and 1970 - before he played in the NBA. Ed was never first-team, though his son Ian earned that honor twice.

If finding siblings who did this is hard, then finding uncle/nephew combinations is even tougher.

The Garrett brothers in football were the first ones that leapt to mind, especially Jason and Judd. They were both first-team All-Ivy League, but TB was surprised to learn that they were only first-team All-Ivy once each - as seniors, when each won the Bushnell Cup as Ivy Player of the Year (Jason in 1988, Judd in 1989).

Jason, in fact, wasn't All-Ivy at all his junior year of 1987. For that matter, Kelly Ryan of Yale was first-team, Tom Yohe of Harvard was second team, and no quarterback earned honorable mention.

Jason Garrett's stats that year? He completed 162 of 251 passes (64.5 percent), for 2,057 yards. That's not worthy of any All-Ivy mention?

There were three Samaras sisters in women's lacrosse who were All-Ivy, but only Christi was first-team.

In men's lacrosse, there are the Lowe brothers, Kevin and Darren. They were first-team All-Ivy League three times each, though at different schools (Darren went to Brown), so that doesn't exactly count.

There were also the Krongard brothers, Howard and Alvin. Or Cookie and Buzzy.

Cookie was first-team All-Ivy in both 1960 and 1961 - not to mention still to this day a goalie in the alumni games. Howard was first-team All-Ivy in 1957 according to Princeton's records, but 1957 and 1958 according to the Ivy League records.

TB will have to look into that one. It's a little before his time.

Were there others in other sports?

TB would guess yes. If only it could be easy to look it up, right?