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Princeton has its first NBA player since Steve Goodrich ’98.
May Tieu, a sophomore fencer on the Princeton women’s fencing team, was named women’s foil Junior World Champion on Tuesday in Cairo, Egypt. The Junior World Fencing Championships are held annually and are open to athletes around the world who are up to 20 years of age, and who meet certain selection criteria.
There’s no way around this simple fact: Princeton basketball would not be what it is today without Pete Carril.
“We have an excellent team but people are always surprised we have a team at all,” said Katharine Holmes ’17, a former member of Princeton’s fencing team. Holmes herself is a 2016 fencing Olympian, 2018 world champion, and currently serves as a volunteer coach for the University’s fencing teams.
If it wasn’t for the Princeton 1988-89 men’s basketball team, “March Madness” as it is known and loved today may never have come to be.
During his time at Princeton, Charlie Volker ’19 was an All-Ivy football and track athlete. But after graduation, he left those sports behind in favor of something entirely new: Bobsledding. Daybreak sat down with Volker to talk about his transition to the sport, his training, and his hopes for making it to the Beijing Olympics in 2022.
Before Pete Carril, before Jadwin Gymnasium, even before Princeton had won multiple games in an NCAA tournament, there was Bill Bradley ’65.
Although the Ivy League has not held any athletic competitions this school year, recruitment — one of the most important processes in collegiate athletics — has chugged along at the University, despite the obvious challenges the pandemic has presented.
On February 18, the Ivy League announced that it will not be holding spring athletic competitions. Today, sports reporter Wilson Conn speaks to junior pole vaulter Hanne Borstlap and senior triple jumper Kara Steele, two athletes on the women’s track team, about their reactions to the cancellation, and how they are planning to stay competitive without a season.
The NBA has hired Leon Newsome ‘92 as its Chief Security Officer, the league announced last Wednesday. Newsome was a member of the 1989 and 1992 Ivy League champion football teams during his time at Princeton, and received All-Ivy honors in 1990.
On Feb. 11, the Ivy League Council of Presidents announced that current senior student-athletes would be given an extra year of competitive eligibility if they enroll in a graduate program at their current university for the 2021–22 academic year. Exactly one week later on Feb. 18, the same Council came out with yet another decision — that the Ivy League would not see athletic competition for the remainder of the spring.
When the Ivy League Basketball tournament was canceled in March 2020, senior guard Ryan Schwieger and senior forward Jerome Desrosiers of the Men’s Basketball team were shocked.
Feb. 1 marked the University’s first day of classes, as well as the start of Phase I of the Ivy League’s plan for resuming athletics. But with the recent decision to suspend league competitions for the entire spring season, student-athletes may now be limited to practices for the rest of the semester.
Two-time All-American wrestler, Patrick Glory ’23, has made the best of this past year despite losing a season to the pandemic.
The Ivy League will not see athletic competition for the entire duration of the 2020-21 academic year, though there may be potential for “local spring competition” if there is a drastic improvement in public health conditions.
A little less than a year ago, the women’s basketball team stood on the court together for their last game of the season. Their victory against Cornell maintained their standing as first in the Ivy conference. However, this was only a snippet of their successful season. In the 2019-2020 season, the team won every game aside from an overtime loss (75–77) against the University of Iowa.
Some student-athletes from Ivy League institutions in the class of 2021 whose seasons have been cancelled due to COVID-19 have been given a rare lifeline to continue their collegiate careers.
For the first time in almost a year, Princeton athletes are allowed to practice on campus — at least, in small groups. We checked in with athletes both on campus and afar to hear how this development is affecting them.
It’s not where you start; it’s where you finish.
When James Chu ’00 was accepted to Princeton, he immediately went on a run. He probably would’ve gone on a run if he was rejected, too.