Men’s Water Polo Diving into a fresh season while riding last ones’s monumental success, the men’s water polo team (3-0) traveled to Annapolis, Md., for the annual Navy Invitational. Opponents facing the No.
Princeton soccer’s own senior forward Cameron Porter has had incredible success both in his Princeton and professional careers and is The Daily Princetonian’s 2015 Male Athlete of the Year. After finishing the season leading the NCAA in goals and points per game, Porterreceived Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year and ECAC Offensive Player of the Year honors before he was drafted in the third round of the MLS SuperDraft by the Montreal Impact in January. “You always want to leave a mark in your senior year, like any other person, and make sure you leave the program in a better state than when you came into it," Porter said.
Cameron Porter ’15, former Princeton men’s soccer star, had a collegiate career filled with triumph after triumph.
Senior forward Cameron Porter, former captain of the Princeton men’s soccer team, has torn his ACL in his fifth game in Major League Soccer.
After falling to Dartmouth in its Ivy League opener back in October, it would have taken some creativity to imagine the men’s soccer team ending up sharing the league title with the Big Green.
The end of the regular season has come for the men’s soccer team, which takes on the Ivy’s weakest side on Saturday, as the Tigers (10-3-3 overall, 4-1-1 Ivy) travel to New Haven to take on a Yale side (1-12-3, 0-5-1) that has won just one game this season.
Clutch play continued this weekend for the men’s soccer team, as the Tigers (10-3-3 overall, 4-1-1 Ivy League) took down Penn (6-8-2, 2-2-2) by a 3-2 margin at home on Saturday evening.
After taking down American University (10-4-3 overall, 4-2-2 Patriot League) 2-0 on the road on Wednesday afternoon in its final non-conference game of the regular season, the men’s soccer team (9-3-3 overall, 3-1-1 Ivy) moves into its penultimate match of the regular season on Saturday evening, and the stakes cannot be higher. With just two Ivy League matches remaining for each team in the conference, the Tigers stand atop the conference standings, tied with Dartmouth with a total of 10 points.
When Ivy League play consists of only seven games, winning the conference title requires clutch performance each Saturday between October and November.
In a week characterized by performance under pressure during midterms, the men’s soccer team (6-3-3, 1-1-1 Ivy) will close its work week on Saturday evening when it hosts Harvard (8-3-1, 2-0-1 Ivy) in what could arguably be the most critical match of the team’s season. Coming off a less than thrilling draw on the road last weekend against Columbia, the Tigers now face the only undefeated Ivy team in conference play.
Eight sides turn their attention to the midpoint of their conference schedules. Six of these teams are within a single win of the Ivy League lead.
In their third match of Ivy League play this fall, the men’s soccer team (6-3-3 overall, 1-1-1 Ivy League) came out of the weekend with a 1-1 draw on the road against Columbia (4-5-1, 1-1-1). While the Tigers were able to deal with the Lions handily in a 2-1 victory in their 2013 meeting, they struggled to get momentum going their way after allowing a goal just minutes into the match. Columbia’s lone goal came in just the fourth minute of the match.
The men’s soccer team will square off against Columbia at 4 p.m. this Saturday, in its first Ivy League road matchup of the season.
The men’s soccer team earned a hard-fought 2-1 home victory over Brown (3-4-3 overall, 1-1 Ivy League) on Saturday afternoon, when senior defender Joe Saitta scored the first goal of his college career in the 84th minute.
A 5-2 smashing of in-state rival Rutgers on Tuesday brought a little bit of solace to the men’s soccer team, following a crushing 2-1 overtime defeat to Dartmouth in the team’s Ivy opener last weekend.
It was just two years ago that senior forward Cameron Porter, then a sophomore, scored the game-winning goal just two minutes into overtime to sink Dartmouth in the men’s soccer team’s Ivy opener.
Undefeated over the last two weeks of play, the men’s soccer team (3-2-2) now heads into the heart of its season this weekend, as it opens up Ivy League play at home against Dartmouth (4-2-1). It was two years ago that the Tigers found themselves in a 1-1 deadlock with the Big Green at home after 90 minutes of regulation.
Men’s soccer juniors Andrew Doar and Jack Hilger comprise an athletic, artistic and dynamic duo.
This weekend witnessed the men’s soccer team accomplish something that it was unable to do last year: come out of the month of September with a winning record.
Looking for its second road win of the season, the men’s soccer team (2-2-2) came out of Philadelphia with a 1-0 victory on Wednesday evening against Drexel University (2-4-2). Junior forward Thomas Sanner’s conversion of a 53rd-minute penalty kick proved to be the deciding factor in a match where the Tigers’ dominance was not justified by the final score. Until Wednesday night, the Tigers had struggled to find the consistency to play a full 90 minutes in a majority of their games.
