From practice squad to prime time: Andrei Iosivas ’23 earns his stripes in the NFL
After Andrei Iosivas ’23 completed his first season at Princeton, he met with football head coach Bob Surace ’90.
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After Andrei Iosivas ’23 completed his first season at Princeton, he met with football head coach Bob Surace ’90.
“In my day, at the first Ivy League tournament, the team captain rented a U-Haul truck, and we put mattresses in the back of the truck. And the three officers sat in the cab of the truck, and the rest of us sat in the back … we slept in an ice hockey rink,” Stu Rickerson ’71, founding chair of the Princeton University Rugby Football Club (PURFC) Endowment recounted.
In her first appearance for the U-20 United States women’s national soccer team, Pietra Tordin subbed in for the second half of the game. Weaving through the box past three defenders, she struck a shot into the far left corner of the net, securing the team’s only goal in a 1–0 win over Colombia. This was not her first taste of success on the international stage, nor was it the first national team jersey she has donned.
You don’t have to go too far back in time to find the moment that senior guard and captain Kaitlyn Chen became the star of the Princeton women’s basketball program. On Mar. 30, 2022 — the Ivy Madness final — Princeton faced their rival Columbia at the Lavietes Pavilion in Cambridge, Mass., with an NCAA Tournament berth at stake. The then-rookie Chen dropped a career-high 30 points in the battle and was named the Ivy Madness Tournament’s most valuable player. Postgame, Chen earned effusive praise from Tigers’ great Abby Meyers ’22.
Though basketball is not what Ivy League schools with low acceptance rates and mandatory senior theses are typically known for, over the past decade, the Tigers have made a name for themselves on the court in both men’s and women’s basketball.
70–25 is a score you usually see in a video game.
Behind every Princeton slam dunk is solid footing, powerful momentum, weeks of training, and a committed support staff.
More than five years ago, 100 Division I schools received an email from Tosan Evbuomwan ’23’s club basketball coach, containing his academic record, basketball statistics, measurements, and a highlight tape.
Up twenty against rival Harvard and already flirting with a triple-double in front of NBA scouts, he was just having fun.
The Class of 2023 is one of the most memorable classes in Princeton men’s basketball history. Highlighted by Tosan Evbuomwan ’23, Ryan Langborg ’23, and Keeshawn Kellman ’23 — who led the Tigers to their first NCAA Sweet 16 appearance in the expanded tournament era — last year’s seniors are truly unforgettable.
When Joe Haumacher was hired as pitching coach for the Princeton baseball team prior to the 2023 season, the program was in dire straits. The Tigers were coming off a season in which they went 7–33, finishing in the basement of the Ivy League. They also finished last in the league in both 2019 and 2020, with the 2021 season shelved due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For Princeton, Haumacher represented the centerpiece of a shifting philosophy under longtime head coach Scott Bradley. The baseball team would ride the wave of analytics revolutionizing baseball across the major leagues.
After a legendary career on the gridiron for Princeton football, unanimous First Team All-Ivy League linebacker Ozzie Nicholas ’24 committed last week to play his final year of college eligibility at Duke University as a graduate transfer. Nicholas tallied 104 total tackles in the 2023 season, making him the first Tiger to break triple digit tackles since Jon Olofsson ’11 in 2010.
On a daily basis, Princeton students face all sorts of stressors from academics to social life. But on a campus where, according to The Daily Princetonian’s Frosh Survey, 52.5 percent of the incoming Class of 2027 participated in a high school varsity sport, sports are a natural break for many students.
“After weeks of grinding and studying in East Pyne and Firestone, there’s nothing like fighting between the lines,” sophomore Braden Lalin told The Daily Princetonian after his team, the Travelers, emerged victorious from the championship game of this year’s 5v5 intramural basketball season.
It’s the start of a new season for Clockwork, Princeton’s men’s club ultimate frisbee team. Millions of kids play frisbee in physical education classes across the United States as a lighthearted way to get some exercise, but this is a whole other level to the familiar sport.
Rain or shine, the Princeton Running Club (PRC) doesn’t miss a day of training. Encompassing casual running, sub-elite racing, track events, and social gatherings, the group’s activities center around daily practice, which consists of either an easy run or a pre-structured workout.
On Nov. 18, Princeton Athletic Club Men’s Rugby played their semi-annual game against the men’s rugby alumni team, the Flying Tigers, in a matchup that seeped an aura of camaraderie and healthy competitiveness.
It was just another day studying for finals at Firestone Library when then first-year goalie West Temkin got a call from the USA Water Polo Men’s Junior National Team head coach Jack Kocur.
“It’s hard to instill in yourself the tradition that alumni can instill in other athletes,” football player Jim Anderson ’86 told The Daily Princetonian in 1985. “[Alumni] say, ‘Look, the tradition of Princeton football is this, and the tradition of Princeton football is that, and we have got to do it for the tradition of Princeton football.’”
It’s rare to see a player take the leap from a supporting role to leading scorer in any sport, but that’s exactly what Princeton men’s soccer forward Daniel Ittycheria has done in his sophomore season. After a solid start to his collegiate career off the bench last year, Ittycheria led the Tigers on the scoreboard with nine goals in 15 games, achieving the second highest mark across the Ivy League.