Men's volleyball defeats Juniata, readies for Eastern rival Penn St.
Now is not important. What matters is later.As men's volleyball prepares for its match at No.
Now is not important. What matters is later.As men's volleyball prepares for its match at No.
It is a meet of epic proportions. Harvard. Yale. Princeton. The three schools atop the Ivy League collide this weekend in the tradition known as the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Invitational.In what is usually the deciding meet in the race for the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League dual meet title, the Tigers square off against Harvard, their toughest competition in the league."It's going to be one intense environment," freshman backstroker Andrew Chadeayne said.
It's no surprise that Harvard is atop the women's basketball Ivy League standings.What may catch one's eye, though, is that this weekend's matchup between Harvard and the Tigers Saturday at Jadwin Gym could be for first place.
For the men's volleyball team, games do not hold immense importance until April, when it plays in the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Tournament for a chance at a spot in the NCAA Final Four.The team's two games in the next two days are the early season's only rival for the late spring excitement.
To the average team, a training week is no better than prison. After a week spent locked in a dungeon of a weight room or running until the players drop, shackles and bars would be a relief.
All-state. Few high school athletes maintain the commitment and possess the sheer athletic ability necessary to claim such a distinction.
Pssst, have you heard? There's this basketball team down at Jadwin Gym that's playing some pretty good ball.
Women's hockey owes a good bit of its offensive strength to the former players of Little Caesar's club hockey team in Michigan.
With the men's basketball team now firmly entrenched in the heart of its Ivy League schedule, high-profile games against Texas, North Carolina State, North Carolina and Wake Forest are a distant memory.Instead, the No.
On a team dominated by athletes slicing through the water, it's sometimes easy to overlook what goes on above the water.For the men's swimming team, three members have been quietly dominating their own portion of the pool: the diving well.
Any rebuilding athletic program needs at least three or four years to return to its former prominence.
Oe knew it would be close but we were hoping to pull it off," epee sophomore Jason Burrell said.His words captured the sentiments of both the men's and women's fencing teams going into their much anticipated competitions with Columbia.
In swimming, the timing of a team's training can raise it to a higher level. Without careful planning, swimmers can enter meets too exhausted to swim well.Saturday, Penn State showed the importance of this principle for the fans assembled at DeNunzio Pool.
College track is a team sport, but at its most basic level track is a contest between individuals.Sunday, the men's track team hosted nine schools in Jadwin Gymnasium for the New Jersey Invitational in a meet that was a return to that individual level of competition.
Men's squash would have hoped to kick off the second half of its season in a better way, but a tight loss and the prospect of a season-ending injury marred the team's New England road trip this past weekend.After easily putting away hosts Williams and Dartmouth, 9-0 and 9-0, the Tigers concluded their weekend trip Sunday night at Harvard.
All good things must come to an end, even for Harvard. The No. 1 Crimson women's squash team found that out the hard way at home on Sunday.No.
Throughout her season, an athlete must use her competitive experiences to gauge her situation and to progress.
The women's hockey team entered its two-game road trip last weekend with revenge on its mind.All Princeton ended up with, however, was a pair of losses that dropped the Tigers precariously close to the playoff fringe.After having been embarrassed in their first encounters with both Brown and Providence, the Tigers (9-10-1 overall, 6-8 Eastern College Athletic Conference, 3-5 Ivy League) hoped to have more success in Saturday and Sunday's rematches following a solid 4-0 victory over Bowdoin.Although senior goaltender Tammy Orlow was sensational, Princeton once again lacked the firepower necessary to defeat its Rhode Island rivals, falling to Brown, 3-0, and Providence, 6-4. No lightIn the weekend's initial contest, the Tigers were shut out by perennial-powerhouse Brown (12-5-3, 9-3-2, 5-2) for the second consecutive time.
In the 98-year history of Princeton men's basketball only 22 players have ever scored 1,000 points.
LOS ANGELES ? For a trip that is usually a whirlwind of victory, family time and carousal, last week's installment of the annual men's volleyball trip to California simply flew by.The Tigers had hoped to get in some solid games before facing eastern foes, but as it turned out, their ratio of time spent on the court to that spent in the hot tub hit an all-time low.Playing the minimum nine games in three matches, No.