Football

After a hard-fought victory, it's usually the key attacks or tenacious midfielders who win recognition. That said, the player head coach Kristen Holmes-Winn labeled as "phenomenal" stole the spotlight playing both ends of the field.Senior defender and co-captain Paige Schmidt had better get used to the limelight.A standout in critical ...

The Ivy League officially ruled Tuesday that freshman Joey Cheek, who medaled in speed skating in the past two winter Olympic games, is ineligible to play on the sprint football team based on his status as a professional athlete.Cheek won a gold medal in the 500 meter and a silver ...

In one of the most dominant performances in program history, the men's and women's cross country teams swept the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships for the second straight year, coming away with a pair of individual and team titles last Friday at Van Cortlandt Park in New York City.The Tigers managed ...

The women's volleyball train kept on rolling over the weekend, boosting its two-month-long win streak to 19 games in historic fashion.On Friday night, Princeton (21-3 overall, 13-0 Ivy League) beat Brown (7-16, 5-8), 3-0, in Providence, R.I., clinching a berth in the NCAA tournament along with the Ivy League title. ...

A team can outshoot, out-corner and out-pressure an opponent, but a win is not guaranteed unless that team brings more focus to the game. Though the field hockey team competed with skill and heart in its NCAA play-in game against Massachusetts yesterday, the two moments that the Tigers let their ...

On the nationally televised stage of Sunday Night Football, in a city where the game is a religion, in front of a sea of black and gold and high-flying Terrible Towels, Jon Dekker '06 made his long-anticipated debut in the National Football League as a Pittsburgh Steeler last weekend."I've been ...

QUEENS, N.Y. — As the old saying goes, "All good things must come to an end."The women's volleyball team learned that lesson in painful fashion Friday night, as the Tigers (22-4 overall, 14-0 Ivy League) lost 3-1 to Delaware (31-4 overall) in the first round of the NCAA Tournament at ...

The women's soccer team suffered two losses and saw its Ivy League title hopes come to a disappointing end over Fall Break after a 1-0 loss to Penn on Saturday.Princeton (8-7-1 overall, 4-2-0 Ivy League) started off the break on Saturday with a 1-0 win over Ivy rival Cornell (4-10-0, ...

The men's soccer team was dealing with a lot of history heading into Saturday's home contest against Dartmouth (2-4-3 overall, 0-1-1 Ivy League). There was the Tigers recent three-game winless skid that Princeton (5-3-2 overall, 1-1-0 Ivy League) had snapped earlier that week. Then there was the more distant memory ...

The 13,408 fans who attended the football team's homecoming game against Yale on Saturday were greeted with surprises from beginning to end. Surprisingly, Princeton dominated the undefeated Bulldogs in the first half. Confusingly, the Tigers were still unable to score a touchdown. Mystifyingly, No. 12 Yale (9-0 overall, 6-0 Ivy ...