New York University women’s basketball standout Jen Krolikowski (’98) will be among four former student-athletes honored at the 2007 NYU Athletics Hall of Fame and Varsity Athlete Reunion on Sunday, May 6, at NYU’s Kimmel Center in Manhattan.

Krolikowski, a former standout at Pocono Mountain Hiegh School in Swiftwater and a  Cresco native, will forever be remembered as one of the heroes of the Violets’ 1997 NCAA Division III Women’s Basketball National Championship Team.  She scored the game-tying basket with 26 seconds left against the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire that helped propel NYU to its first national title in women’s basketball.  Krolikowski earned Kodak First Team All-America honors in 1997, one of only six Violet players to ever earn the honor.  She was also a First Team All-University Athletic Association (UAA) selection in each of her final three seasons (1995, 1996, 1997).

An outstanding perimeter shooter, Krolikowski ranks second all-time at NYU with 1,802 career points.  She also ranks among the Violets’ top-five in seven career statistical categories including: scoring, three-point field goals (264, second), three-point field goal percentage (35.8, second), three-point field goal attempts (738, second), scoring average (15.9 ppg, third), field goals made (624, third), and free-throw percentage (71.3, fifth).  She also set a program mark by hitting 20 consecutive free throws in 1994.

Off the court, Krolikowski earned the NYU Varsity Club President’s Scholar Athlete Award in 1996 and garnered GTE/College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-America District I honors that year. 

Krolikowski, who graduated from NYU’s College of Arts and Science with a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and engineering in 1998, was awarded an NCAA post-graduate scholarship in 1997.  She now resides in Haledon, New Jersey

In addition to Krolikowski, the trio of Richard Maiocco (Men’s Track and Field, ’52), Mike Muzio (Men’s Basketball/Baseball/Coach/Administrator, ’58), and Robert Schwarz (Men’s Volleyball, ’00) will also be inducted into the Hall of Fame on May 6.

For further information about the event, please contact NYU’s Violet Booster Club Coordinator, Sam Albert, at (212) 998-2029 or at sam.albert@nyu.edu.