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DirecTV has acquired the national rights to broadcast Ivy League basketball games and is offering nine weeks of "Ivy League Friday Nights" this season.

Columbia's men's and women's basketball teams were featured in a doubleheader against Cornell that was broadcast from Ithaca on January 15. The men's team will be seen again on February 26 against Penn at the Palestra.

The Ivy League is currently celebrating its 25th year of women's intercollegiate athletic competition by recognizing a Silver Anniversary Honor Roll for each league sport. The Honor Roll consists of two athletes per school for each sport, as determined by each of the eight Ivy institutions.

Ula Lysniak B'87: Lysniak played four years for the Lions and is Columbia's all-time leader in scoring (1,447 points) and rebounding (764 boards). Following her graduation she became the first Columbia woman to play professional basketball when she joined the Union Basketball Club in Salzburg, Austria. She spent two years in Austria on a Fulbright Scholarship attending the University of Salzburg, teaching high school English and coaching basketball. She was an assistant coach with the Ukranian women's team at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and is currently a faculty member and head women's basketball coach at John Jay College in Manhattan.

Devon Martin '90: Martin holds the fastest time on the Lions' home course at Van Cortlandt Park with a 1989 mark of 17:49. Martin also holds four school records in indoor track & field and three outdoors. She was All-East and All-Ivy in track in the 1,500 meters and qualified for the cross country nationals as a senior. Following graduation she continued to compete as a member of the Nike Coast track team and won the silver medal at the 1991 U.S. Olympic Festival. A bout with cancer, which is now in complete remission, curbed her training in 1992. Devon Martin Sargent is now an attorney at Cravath, Swain and Moore.

Ylonka Wills B'83: A walk-on as a freshman who had never run competitively, Wills became a Division III All-American in 1982, a Metropolitan champion and the school record-holder in two outdoor track & field events, the 3,000 meters (9:30.14) and the 5,000 (16:42.14). Currently living in Paris, Wills was the winner of Barnard's Bettina Buonocore Salvo Prize as a top student studying Italian, and the Steck Award for outstanding athletic achievement.

Jessica Brewer '96E: Brewer was a three-year member of the club team before it achieved semi-varsity status in 1995. Competing for the first time with a full-time coach and regular practices, official games and uniforms, Brewer led the 1995 Lions with 16 shots on goal and received Academic All-Ivy recognition. Following her graduation, Brewer worked for an investment banking firm before joining Credit Suisse First Boston.

Rachel Pauley B'95: Pauley was instrumental in the field hockey club's organization, playing in every game during her four years at Barnard. She received the Margaret Holland Bowl, given annually to a Barnard athlete who demonstrates the highest level of leadership in athletics and a club sport. She will be completing her studies at Fordham Law School this spring.

Kristin Friedholm Bissinger '90: A four-year starter at forward from the team's inception in 1986, Bissinger held Columbia's career goal-scoring record at 23 until the 1997 season, when it was surpassed by Tosh Forde '99. She was named to the All-Ivy second team three times and received honorable mention once, leading the Lions in scoring in each of her first three seasons. She earned a law degree from Seton Hall in 1994 and currently works in employment labor law.

Liz Cheung '98: In 1997 Cheung became only the second player in the history of Columbia women's soccer to earn All-Ivy First Team honors. She also made the second team once and received honorable mention once and twice garnered All-Northeast Region honors as a sweeper. An outstanding one-on-one defender, she started all 68 games in her four years at Columbia and earned the Connie S. Maniatty Outstanding Senior Student-Athlete Award in 1997. She is now a first-year law student at Notre Dame.