Senior utility and co-captain Helen Meigs of the women’s water polo team keeps breaking her own records. Meigs set Princeton’s single-season record for assists as a freshman, smashed that as a sophomore and then broke it again during her junior year — Meigs has more than double the amount of assists than the second-place holder. At the Princeton Invitational last weekend, Meigs helped Princeton win by scoring three goals against No. 18 Brown. Princeton will host the Eastern College Athletic Conference Championships at DeNunzio Pool this weekend.
Q: What was your “welcome to college” moment?
A: One night freshman year, two of my roommates got in a “flash war” — yes, it is what you imagine — over a boy in my room. It ended with one of them somehow victorious, the other physically stuffed into my closet, the guy long gone and my friend who got caught in the crossfire cowering under my covers. I was shell-shocked for days.
Q: What’s the greatest highlight of your sports career?
A: Making it to Eastern finals freshman year. Easterns was at home, and the stands were packed with the biggest, rowdiest home crowd I’d ever seen. We beat Michigan 4-3 in the semis in a huge upset, and we’ve been looking to do it again ever since.
Q: Who’s your quirkiest teammate?
A: Have you met my team? Quirky doesn’t even begin to cover it. We’ve got a germophobic Colombian who doesn’t understand American idioms, a vegan who refers to diet soda as “Liquid Satan” and loves all living creatures except for children, and a girl who remembers game scores by whether or not they’re divisible by 7. Who am I to judge? I, on the other hand, am completely normal.
Q: What has been your most embarrassing moment at Princeton?
A: I submitted a religion paper accidentally titled “Titlicious.”
Q: What’s the worst part about being an athlete on campus?
A: Jumping into the pool. Nothing we do during practice is ever worse than that jump. Our pool is known as the coldest in the East.
Q: What’s your funniest story about your head coach, Luis Nicolao?
A: Lu likes to think he’s in the know about everything — gossip, pranks, you name it. But he had no idea that we’ve been putting estrogen in his lemonade for years until he reads about it in the school paper!
Q: Who gets the most guys/girls on the water polo team?
A: That would definitely be [junior attack] Sarah Hutchison. Yeah, Hutch, we all know what you mean when you say you’re stuck in “architecture studio.”
Q: What’s the most embarrassing song on your iPod?
A: An entire ABBA CD. It was a gift ... and I loved it.
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