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(03/02/14 5:21pm)
It requires a total team effort to win the Ivy League track and field crown. At the indoor Heps meet this weekend at Dartmouth, the Princeton men put forth an exceptional display of depth, with Tigers scoring points in 15 of the 19 events — the largest spread of any team in the competition.
(02/09/14 3:41pm)
Charging into the final lap of the third heat of the mile race at the Boston University Valentine Invitational Saturday, senior Michael Williams was in excellent positioning. With only 200 meters to go, Williams was in third place, and the clock read three minutes, 32 seconds. Closing the final circuit in 27 seconds, Williams let loose a huge kick to take first place and stop the time at 3:59.63 — crashing through the revered four-minute mile barrier.
(01/07/14 11:54pm)
Senior track and field athlete Michael Williams is a national class runner. As a key leg of Princeton’s distance medley relay, Williams has won both the prestigious Penn Relays and National Championships. His personal best time of three minutes, 44.97 seconds in the 1500m is tied for number 10 all-time at Princeton. Nevertheless, at the cross country Ivy League Championships this fall, Williams did something he vows never to do again. He gave up.
(11/25/13 6:32pm)
Megan Curham arrived at the NCAA Cross Country Championships last weekend looking for a fight. Refusing to be intimidated by the talent-loaded field, Curham gamely stuck her nose in with the top women in the country — and prevailed.
(11/17/13 10:30pm)
For the first time since 2010, both the men’s and women’s cross-country teams are traveling together to the NCAA Championships. Racing in the Mid-Atlantic Regional this pastFriday, both teams gutted it out over the tough course at Lehigh to qualify.
(11/04/13 3:02pm)
For the cross country teams, the Ivy League Championships are always one of the toughest meets of the season. Full of history and tradition, the race for the Heps crown is always a fierce and close battle. Tensions were high for the men on the starting line Saturday, as perennial second-placer No. 10 Columbia was poised to mount an attack on the No. 15 Tigers — the defending champions. The women’s race was also stacked, with several of the teams nationally ranked, led by No. 11 Dartmouth.
(10/06/13 8:40pm)
The men’s and women’s cross country teams had their first taste of competitive racing this season at the Notre Dame Invitational on Friday. Having had an easy September, free from any high-caliber meets, the Tigers used the race in South Bend, Ind. to test their fitness and run aggressively.
(09/17/13 10:21pm)
Coming into the 2013 cross-country season, both the men’s and women’s teams are bolstered by strong packs of freshman recruits. Spearheaded by experienced upperclassmen, the Tigers are poised to excel on the national stage — with the men ranked ninth and the women 29th. Buying into that mentality, the new runners are looking to add to Princeton’s depth, and several may soon break out into the Tigers’ top seven.“It looks to be a pretty good class; I am excited about the possibilities,” women’s head coach Peter Farrell said. “This is a class that has a lot of character, and I see them developing.”
(02/25/13 9:07pm)
Trailing Cornell by over 40 points in the final hours of the Ivy League championships on Sunday at Harvard, it was hard for anyone but the Tigers themselves to believe that the Princeton men still had a shot at the indoor Heps title.
(12/12/11 11:00pm)
Typically, in track and field, the first meet of the season is an opportunity to acclimate to competition and work the kinks out. Such rust-busters come before the bulk of event-specific training and preparation. In general, season openers are viewed more as a way to gauge basic fitness than as an occasion to break records.
(12/07/11 11:00pm)
Last year the men’s and women’s track teams achieved the height of conference domination, winning every single Ivy League championship title from cross country to outdoor track. The 2010-11 squad was arguably one of the best groups of track and field athletes that Princeton has ever produced. Nevertheless, this year’s pack of runners, throwers and jumpers is striving to be even better. Though the women missed a win at the Heptagonal Championships in cross country, coming into the indoor season the men are still in the hunt for a second straight triple crown.
(11/28/11 11:00pm)
The competitive collegiate season never stops for distance runners. Rather than enter a long offseason until next fall arrives, members of the men’s and women’s cross country teams head straight into preparations for the indoor track campaign. However, while cross country, as well as winter and spring track, all essentially involve running races, for the Princeton runners, the seasons are distinctly different.
(11/21/11 11:00pm)
Even though her team struggled during the season, senior cross country captain Alex Banfich never failed to bring her best. Despite traveling to the NCAA Championships in Terre Haute, Ind., on Monday without a team, the three-time All-America proved that she is truly one of the best distance runners in the nation. Banfich powered down the final stretch of the LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course to claim fifth place overall, the best finish ever for a Princeton cross country individual.
(11/13/11 11:00pm)
“Fuel for the fire,” is how senior co-captain Donn Cabral of the men’s cross-country team described the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional this past weekend. After a long few weeks of training and smaller competitions for the men’s cross-country team, the bigger race served as a sharp motivational reawakening.
(11/06/11 11:00pm)
Competing in one of the most intense Heptagonal Championships in history, the men’s cross-country team ran away with the Ivy League title on Oct. 29 at the West Windsor fields. Powering through some of the worst weather conditions imaginable, the Tigers displayed their toughness, persevering over the 8K distance to repeat as team champions.
(10/16/11 10:00pm)
The Wisconsin adidas Invitational was a race of titans. Making up what was perhaps the deepest and most competitive mid-season meet in recent NCAA history, 21 of the nation’s top 30 cross-country powerhouses toed the line on Friday in Madison, Wis. Effectively a type of pre-nationals, the field was filled with individual and team contenders for the national title in November.
(10/12/11 10:00pm)
The Wisconsin Adidas Invitational is the place to be this weekend for a nationally ranked NCAA cross-country team. When the gun goes off for the men’s 8K race at 1:40 p.m. on Friday, of the 40-team field, no fewer than 20 of the top 30 ranked teams in the nation will toe the line. Not to be outdone, the women’s 6K race will likewise feature 18 ranked squads.
(10/02/11 10:00pm)
This past weekend saw the men’s and women’s cross country teams face their first true challenges of the season. With their past races only including an easy win at the Fordham Fiasco and a destruction at the women’s annual Harvard-Yale meet, both Tiger squads were looking forward to seeing how well they stacked up against other nationally ranked teams at this early point in the season at the prestigious Notre Dame Invitational in South Bend, Ind.