A four-time Ivy League champion during the Ivy League Tournament era (1975-82), Margaret Meier Benchich is one of the greatest players to ever don a Princeton jersey. The two-time team captain is the only player in program history with 1,000 points (1,165) and 1,000 rebounds (1,099). Meier, the Princeton career rebounds record-holder, owns the top-three single-game rebounding performances in program history (30, 24, 24) and three of the top-four season rebounding totals in Tiger lore (295, 282, 275).
 
Meier Benchich also possesses the top-four season rebounding averages in Princeton history (18.8, 12.3, 12.0, 11.8) and the program’s career high-water mark at 13.2 rebounds per game. In 1978, she received the C. Otto von Kienbusch Award, given annually to the Princeton senior woman of high scholastic rank who demonstrated general proficiency in athletics and qualities of a true sportswoman.
 
Meier Benchich, who lost only one game to Ivy League opposition during her four-year career, graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor’s degree in history in 1978 and was hired as a sales rep by IBM. She would go on to hold a variety of roles at IBM in her distinguished career such as Director, International Technical Support Organization; Director of IBM Global Web Strategy & Innovation; and Director of Global Sales Center Delivery. She was honored with the Louis V. Gerstner Chairman's Award, IBM's highest level of recognition. She also established the company's first commercial publishing imprint (IBM Press) and successfully launched the industry's first fully-staffed, 3-D virtual sales office.
 
Meier Benchich retired from IBM in 2010, earning a Masters of Arts in Teaching (History) at Bard College, before returning to the company in a part-time role a year later. She now leads the Digital Sales Technology global curriculum development.