Angie And Nancy

TigerBlog was giving his daughter a ride the other day, and when she got out of the car, she had to get a backpack and bag out off of the backseat.

When she had those two wrapped around her, the car door closed but didn't fully catch. You've experienced this many times. The "door open" light on the dashboard was on. 

TB put the passenger-side window down to let his daughter know to open and close the door again. This is what he said:

"The door is still open. Close it in a way that would make Angie proud."

Miss TigerBlog then slammed the door so hard that it almost shattered the windows.

If you don't know who "Angie" is, she's the Associate Head Coach for Strength and Conditioning. She is the one who works directly with MTB and her women's lacrosse teammates, as well as with the women's soccer, men's hockey, women's basketball, women's volleyball and softball teams. 

Angie's actual name is Angie Brambley-Moyer. In a world where achieving the status of being known by only one name, with no last name or title needed, is rare, Angie certainly has enjoyed that at Princeton.

As TB thinks about it, that's probably as true for her as it is for anyone here. 

Angie has been at Princeton for 17 years now. TB believes that are various times, she has been a rugby player, a weightlifter and a boxer.

She recently won her division at the RWJ Barnabas Health "Running With The Devils" virtual 5K. From the RWJ Barnabas website: "100 percent of the proceeds will benefit the RWJ Barnabas Health's Emergency Response Fund, which will help us continue the work of treating our critical patients while preparing to protect our communities for any potential resurgence of the virus or other emergencies."

She was recently featured on a podcast called "The Talking Shop" on which she talked about her role at Princeton and her love for working with her teams. You can listen to it HERE.

It's pretty long, but it's worth it. Angie lets you know exactly what she's all about.

Here's a sample of where she starts:

Bloom where you're planted. Bloom where you're planted ... We train athletes and we go to sports games. It's an awesome job ... Crush it. Crush the job. And not just the job. The job around the job ... Be the person the people want to be around. 

It's really good stuff.

If you want more really good stuff, there's THIS.

This is the video of the recent Notre Dame High School Athletic Hall of Fame induction ceremony. When TB was covering high school sports a long time ago, he spent a lot of time covering Notre Dame, which is located down Route 206, about 15 or 20 minutes from Princeton.

He went onto the school website and saw all of the names in the athletic Hall of Fame that he remembered from those days. It brought back good memories.

The current induction class includes Nancy Donigan, who is a longtime member of the compliance department at Princeton.

Her piece begins at around the 18:30 mark.

It was supposed to be done in March or April, but the Coronavirus situation forced that to be cancelled. Nancy wrote an eight-minute speech for that occasion, only she never got the chance to use it.

TB has known Nancy since the early 1990s, but there were things in her speech that TB had never heard her speak about before. She also framed some of those events, particularly her father's suicide when she was in eighth grade, in the context of the impact that playing sports at Notre Dame had on her and how that experience helped her through.

Unfortunately, that speech would never be used. Instead, she was given two or three minutes on the video version. 

If you listened, then you know that she clearly made the most of it. 

TB told you about Nancy a few weeks ago. These days, Nancy is battling breast cancer, and she is fighting it fiercely.

Her new speech references that fight. And the birth of her first grandchild.

And that's Angie and Nancy.

Clearly, today's subject was strong women.