This Monday, Princeton's women's lacrosse team scored a visit to the White House to celebrate its 2003 national championship victory.
For the second consecutive year, the team participated in Champions' day ceremonies, meeting the President and posing for photographs.
During the photo session, the President shook hands, made jokes and charmed members of the team.
"The President is so much cuter in person than he comes off on TV," said Kelly Darling '05 in an email. "He is really a sweet, nice man."
"He's very charismatic," said Theresa Sherry '04, whose overtime goal won Princeton the NCAA title in an 8-7 victory over Virginia in May. "Both times I've gone, I see him and think he's taller in person."
Bush immediately put the team at ease, Sherry said. "He just kind of walks in the room — saunters in — like a normal person."
Sherry said Bush always knows what is going on with the teams and even made a reference to his niece, Lauren Bush '06.
"He always kind of makes a joke about us corrupting his relatives," Sherry said.
"I think that since he was outside the stressful political area, and in the presence of just a fun group of athletes, he was very relaxed and his humor really came out," Darling said. "I couldn't get over how funny and adorable he was that day, and it really made me appreciate him more."
Darling said her first thought upon meeting Bush was, "Wow, I am looking into the president's eyes. This is real."
Sherry also mentioned the President's eyes. "I thought he looked really tired," she said. She observed that the president appeared noticeably older than he had the year before, but attributing his physical change to the stress of being the President. "You can really see the aging process," she said.
Though the president looked tired, at least he was clean.
"I stood one person away from him and he didn't smell," said Darling when asked about the president's intimate characteristics.
After meeting the president, the team attended a private reception at the Capitol Building with Republican Sen. Bill Frist '74 and Democrat Sen. Paul Sarbanes '54.
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