BRIDGEPORT, Pa. — Princeton University alum/two-time Olympic Gold medalist Ashleigh Johnson ’17 rode the Women’s Sports Foundation float during the Rose Bowl Parade with Grand Marshal Billie Jean King.
A three-time Olympian (2026, 2020, 2024) and an All-America selection every season she competed at Princeton, Johnson led the United States to the gold medal in women’s water polo at the 2016 Rio and 2020/2021 Tokyo Olympic Games, becoming just the fifth Princeton athlete to ever win multiple gold medals.
She is among only two Tigers’ athletes ever to win an Olympic gold medal (in 2016) and then come back to compete at Princeton (former United States Senator/men’s basketball player Bill Bradley was the other).
The recipient of the C. Otto von Kienbusch and Cutino Awards during her senior season in 2017, she was the first player in Princeton women’s water polo history to be named first team All-America and third ever to be selected All-America in each of her four seasons. Johnson finished her Princeton career with a 100-17 record, along with a school-record 1,362 saves and a .693 save percentage. She was a 19-time CWPA Defensive Player of the Week award winner, a four-time first-team all-conference player and the Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) Player of the Year.
