Rutgers Honors Women's Basketball Team
Apr 07 | Women's Basketball
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - The Rutgers women's basketball team received one of the school's highest honors on Thursday afternoon. The Scarlet Knights rang the Old Queens Bell at the Old Queens building on the Rutgers College campus, in honor of advancing to the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball National Championship game.
Head coach C. Vivian Stringer, members of the Rutgers coaching staff and the ten players each rung the historic bell as hundreds of well-wishers turned out for the event.
The bell was originally used to signal the beginning and ending of classes, but now it is only rung on special occasions. This will be the third time in program history that Rutgers women's team will ring the Old Queens Bell, as the 2000 squad had the honor bestowed upon it on April 7, 2000, after reaching the Final Four. The first time the women's squad rang the bell was in 1982 after winning the AIAW national championship.
The bell, which sits atop the Old Queens building in the middle of the Rutgers College campus, was a gift from the school's namesake, Colonel Henry Rutgers, in 1826. The bell was originally used to signal the beginning and ending of classes, but now it is only rung on special occasions, as well as for Rutgers College graduation and fall freshman orientation.
