Meg Altenderfer left a legacy as the best diver in the Lycoming College women’s swim team’s history. A four-year letterwinner, the Reading, Pa., native set school records in one-meter required, one-meter optional and three-meter optional diving and placed in one- and three-meter diving at the Middle Atlantic Conference Championships in all four of her seasons. She took first in the one-meter category as a junior and took second in three-meter diving as a sophomore. She finished third as a freshman and a senior in one-meter diving. After her junior year, the eight-time dean’s list member became the first female at Lycoming to earn CoSIDA Academic All-American honors. One of two juniors on the team, she repeated the honor as a senior, earning first team honors on the at-large team for the second time. Out of the pool, Altenderfer was a member of the Phi Kappa Phi national honor society and the Gamma Delta Sigma sorority and a writer for the student newspaper, The Lycoming Ledger. The mass communication and art major also designed a new College logo that was used in the late ’80s. There was little doubt that she has left a large impact on the College, and that impact was recognized when she won the Pocahontas Award as the College’s best female athlete and the Chieftain Award, for leaving the largest impact on the community, in 1986. She was inducted into the College’s Athletics Hall of Fame in 1991.
