After a nearly flawless start to their 2003 spring season, all four Princeton crew teams — men's heavyweight and lightweight, women's open weight and lightweight — take to the water this weekend to race a handful of challenging opponents.
This weekend, men's heavyweight crew races on Lake Carnegie against crews from Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The heavyweights have gotten off to a good start, sweeping all four races in their seizure of the Child's Cup from Columbia and Penn in last weekend's race. The weekend marked the second straight one in which the heavyweights have enjoyed across-the-board success, as the weekend before all four Tiger crews had swept Rutgers in New Brunswick, N.J.
Though undefeated, the heavyweights will have their hands full with the Harvard team which they race Saturday. Last year, Harvard handed the Tigers their first loss of the season in winning two out of three races to take the Compton Cup. That race, however, took place on Harvard's home course on the Charles River in Cambridge, Mass. Harvard has won the Compton Cup 28 straight times racing at home. This weekend, however, Princeton will have the advantage of racing on familiar Lake Carnegie waters.
The lightweights, meanwhile, will travel to Philadelphia, Pa., to race the lightweight crew of Penn.
After opening their season with a disappointing loss at home to Georgetown, the Tigers are coming off a successful weekend trip from Ithaca, N.Y., in which the lightweights beat Cornell and Rutgers in every race except the third varsity race. The first varsity boat dominated the Big Red and the Scarlet Knights, winning by a comfortable margin of just under ten seconds.
This weekend the Tigers must again battle the disadvantage of an unfamiliar course in Philadelphia. However, last year saw the Tigers defeat the Quakers by a wide margin, and this year's crew will be looking to replicate that domination.
A win against Penn would be an excellent start to the upcoming home stretch of Princeton's season. After Penn, the Tigers race Harvard and Yale, last year's national champion, on Yale's home course. On May 11 the team competes in Eastern Sprints, then races in the National Championships in late May.
After beating Cornell and Wisconsin easily and all but the first Princeton varsity boat beating Radcliffe last weekend, open weight crew will try to add another victory to what's been a memorable season thus far this weekend against Yale.
Last year, rowing on Lake Carnegie, the Tigers swept each race against the Elis except the novice eights' races. This season, however, Princeton must travel to Yale's home course.
The women will not be short on motivation. The bitter taste from the Radcliffe race still fresh in their mouths, Princeton must once again prove that it is a force to be reckoned with in the East. The Tigers have just two races after the Yale regatta until Eastern sprints, so the time to prove their mettle is now.
The lightweight women so far have enjoyed an undefeated season, defeating crews from Radcliffe, UC-Davis, and Stanford. The Tigers are coming off a season in which they captured their fourth national championship, and this season they are looking for number five. This weekend, Radcliffe and MIT come to Lake Carnegie to try to topple the Tiger juggernaut.
Princeton has already raced Radcliffe twice this season, winning both races. Last weekend, however, the Tigers only narrowly defeated the Crimson in Camden, N.J., edging their challengers by the slim margin of .4 seconds. The rematch on Lake Carnegie on Saturday promises to be an exciting race.
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