Susan Teeter will enter her 29th season as the ultra-successful head coach of the Princeton women’s swim team when the 2012-13 swim season comes around. Princeton’s all-time leader in wins, Teeter has racked up 198 dual meet victories to only 47 losses (.808), and she has guided Princeton to an incredible 15 Ivy League titles.

During a seven-season stretch, her teams won a Princeton-record 47 consecutive meets, a streak that ended in 2004 at nationally-ranked Pittsburgh. Princeton also won five consecutive Ivy League titles during that time period (2000-04).

Princeton has been just as successful recently; since a 2007 loss against the nationally ranked Michigan Wolverines, the Tigers have won 44 of their last 45 dual meets. The Tigers have also won five of the last seven Ivy League championships, including wins in the 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2011 conference meets and an 18th-place finish at both the 2009 and 2010 NCAA Championships; in both cases, they were the best finish for a non-scholarship program and the second-best finish for a non-BCS program.

By winning the 2011 Ivy League championship in a thrilling wire-to-wire victory, Teeter capped an incredible run of 10 championships in 12 years. Her teams won five straight titles from 2000 through 2004, three straight between 2006 and 2008 and then two between 2010 and 2011, one of which came at Harvard's own Blodgett Pool. In the two years that Princeton didn't win the Ivy League title, her program produced the Ivy League Swimmer of the Meet in Stephanie Hsiao (2005) and Alicia Aemisegger (2009).

Aemisegger, arguably one of the greatest female athletes to ever compete for Princeton, cemented her legacy at Princeton with a brilliant career and was named the GoPrincetonTigers.com Female Athlete of the Decade. Under Teeter's tutelage, Aemisegger earned 13 All-America honors, reached 10 NCAA individual finals, won all 12 of her Ivy League championship finals and reached the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials final in the 400 IM, a race televised live on NBC. She ended her career with nine of the 14 individual Princeton records.

Teeter has a number of individual standouts currently on her roster, and that group is led by junior Lisa Boyce. She has won four individual Ivy League titles in her career, including all three last season, and she competed in the 50 free, 100 free and 100 back at the NCAA Championships.

While individual successes have become a regular part of Princeton's recent dominance, Teeter proudly points to the team successes. Besides her 15 Ivy League championships, Princeton has become a more consistent member of the national Top 25 polls. The Tigers have been fixtures in the polls over the last three seasons. At the end of the 2009-10 season, Princeton was named the top team in the CollegeSwimming.com/CSCAA Mid-Major Rankings.

Teeter has also consistently brought in the best talent, as shown by Princeton's consistent presence in the collegeswimming.com national recruiting rankings. Each of her last three recruiting classes have been ranked in the Top 15, with the Class of 2015 earning a 12th-place position.

Her peers have taken notice of Teeter's place in the sport. She was honored with the prestigious College Swim Coaches Association "Lifetime Achievement Award" in 2011, and she earned an American Swimming Coaches Award of Excellence four straight years from 2006 through 2009.

Teeter has mentored swimmers who went on to become Olympians, NCAA qualifiers, All-Americas, senior national/Olympic trial qualifiers, World University Games team members and Ivy League champions.

Teeter spent the summer of 2000 serving on the U.S. coaching staff at the Summer Olympics in Sydney and the summer of 1996 as the head manager of the Olympic team in Atlanta. In all, she has been on the staff of nine international swim teams. She now serves as a special consultant to Speedo USA for all Olympic and World Championships.

In the winter of 2000, Teeter’s senior class established the Susan S. Teeter Award, which is given annually to the senior class swimmer who, during her four-year career, distinguishes herself as an outstanding student and a valuable member of the women’s swimming team.

In 1988 she received the Master Coach Award from the College Swimming Coaches Association for her contributions to collegiate swimming. Teeter also was recently awarded the credentials of Certified Professional Behavioral Analyst by Target Training International, Ltd. An honorary member of the Class of 1985, Teeter is also a Certified Professional Values Analyst.

After a stint as the assistant women’s coach at her alma mater, Tennessee, Teeter continued her coaching career as an assistant for both the women’s and men’s teams at Auburn.