The most dominant women’s basketball player in Penn history, Diana Caramanico’s 2,415 career points still stand as Ivy League and Big 5 records, and she remains the only men’s or women’s basketball player in Penn’s illustrious history to score more than 2,000 career points. The four-time first-team All-Ivy selection was the first player in Penn history to earn Ivy League Rookie of the Year, Philadelphia Big 5 Rookie of the Year and ECAC Rookie of the Year.

The accolades continued to pour in during Caramanico’s four-year Quaker career from 1997-2001, as she was a three-time Ivy League Player of the Year, three-time Big 5 Player of the Year and two-time Academic All-Ivy. During her senior campaign, Caramanico helped Penn become just the second team in League history to finish with a perfect 14-0 mark in Ivy play. The Quakers’ 22 overall wins that season was the program’s high-water mark until 2015-16. For her on-court efforts, Caramanico was inducted into the Philadelphia Big 5 Hall of Fame in 2007 and the Penn Athletics Hall of Fame in 2012.

After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, Caramanico played professional basketball for the Racing Club in France from 2001-03, leading France’s second division in scoring both years. She returned to Penn and earned her master’s degree in applied positive psychology in 2011. Now a sports psychologist, Caramanico launched her business Corpus Mensque with the mission of ensuring that (a) physical training is never done without developing productive habits of the mind and (b) resilience training for the mind is never done without addressing how it connects to enhance the physical skills.