PRINCETON, N.J. – Two of the four CoSIDA Academic All-America Hall of Fame Class of 2022 members, which were announced on Wednesday, are former Ivy League student-athletes. Princeton softball star Jennifer Babik and Dartmouth women’s basketball standout Gail (Koziara) Boudreaux will be honored at a luncheon on Tuesday, June 28, 2022, in conjunction with the CoSIDA Convention at Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas.
 
This is the first time that multiple Ivies will be part of the same class. The duo will be the seventh and eighth Ivies inducted to the hall of fame.
 
Created in 1988, the Academic All-America Hall of Fame recognizes former Academic All-Americas who received a college degree at least 10 years ago, have achieved lifetime success in their professional careers, and are committed to philanthropic causes.
 
Babik led Princeton on an incredible run to the 1995 College Softball World Series. A four-time all-Ivy honoree, she still holds numerous program records including most career games played (228), career at-bats (722), season at-bats (193), season runs scored (59), career triples (21) and career assists (569). When she graduated, the shortstop and .319 career hitter held career records for runs scored (171), hits (230) and stolen bases (53). Her career and season at-bat totals remain Ivy League records.
 
A Rhodes Scholar, she earned a PhD in physiological sciences from Oxford. Babik was the winner of Princeton University's Pyne Prize, the highest general distinction conferred by Princeton on an undergraduate and awarded to the senior who has most clearly manifested excellent scholarship, strength of character and effective leadership.
 
She was a five-time Academic All-Ivy League selection in softball and field hockey. Babik played alto saxophone in the university’s jazz ensemble and won an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. She was selected as an Academic All-America in 1993, 1994 and 1995. Babik graduated with a bachelor’s degree in molecular biology and completed medical school at Stanford.
 
Babik is currently an associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where she specializes in clinical infectious diseases.
 
The only women’s basketball player in Ivy League history to be named the Ivy League Player of the Year three times, Boudreaux finished her career with 1,933 points and 1,635 rebounds. A four-time All-Ivy selection, she still holds 23 program records.
 
Boudreaux was a two-time Academic All-America selection and a third-team All-American. She also participated in track and field for Dartmouth, winning Ivy League titles in the shot put and discus and achieved 1982 All-American honors in the shot put.
 
Among her numerous honors, Boudreaux was inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame in 2003. She was recognized with the NCAA’s Silver Anniversary Award in 2007 and, in 2022, was awarded the association’s highest honor, the Theodore Roosevelt Award. Professionally, Boudreaux has been named as one of Fortune Magazine’s Most Powerful Women in Business and featured by Forbes as one of 100 Most Powerful Women in the World. She has been named by Modern Healthcare as one of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare and one of the Top 25 Women Leaders.
 
She also received the 2018 Billie Jean King Leadership Award from the Women’s Sports Foundation for outstanding leadership and significant contributions to the advancement of women through achievements in sports and the workplace.
 
Boudreaux has spent her career in healthcare administration and in 2017 was named the chief executive officer of Anthem, a provider of health insurance and the largest for-profit managed health care company in the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association.