Men’s hockey picked up its second conference win of the season with a 6–3 win over St. Lawrence but fell in a 1–3 heartbreaker to no. 5 Clarkson.
After clinching the win over Penn, the Tigers fell to Harvard in the semifinals. The third place match against Dartmouth, a repeat of last year, saw Princeton dominate the Big Green to claim a spot on the podium.
Women's basketball isn’t done dominating just yet. With their No. 1 scoring defense paving the way, they haven’t lost during the first half of Ivy League play. With a 15-game winning streak and 7–0 conference record, the Tigers dominated Yale and Brown this weekend.
Wrestling walked away from a Saturday, Dillon Gymnasium doubleheader against Penn and Drexel — Pennsylvania’s top two Division I programs — with back-to-back victories. The 33–6 and 22–16 wins cemented Princeton as the sole Ivy League champion and earned the team its first undefeated Ivy League season since 1986.
“Destroyed” and “rolled” were among the words used by Princeton head coach Mitch Henderson to describe his team’s 88–64 loss to Yale on Friday night.
The women had several outstanding performances and a number of personal bests across all event groups at the HYP meet this past Saturday, including first-place finishes in the 60m hurdles and 500m races. The Tigers came first overall, beating Harvard 67–58 and Yale 67–56.
It took three decades, and a dream.
Despite losing for the first time in the Ivy League, Princeton remained tied for first in the league after Yale fell to Harvard.
Princeton women’s hockey went 2–0 in their second to last weekend of the regular season. They defeated both Rensselaer and Union in two tough battles. The Tigers have already guaranteed themselves a playoff position as one of the top eight teams, and need one more win to ensure a home quarterfinal. The Tigers’ toughest remaining game is against No. 7 Clarkson next Saturday afternoon. When these teams last met Princeton, won 2–1.
Princeton became the first Ivy League to win 500 Ivy League Championships.
No. 2 Princeton Women's Squash recorded two wins at home last weekend against No. 4 Yale and Brown, granting them a record of 9–1 and a record of 4–1 in the Ivy League.
Men’s and women’s track and field felled too many records to count in their first week of the indoor season, which saw the Tigers traveling to New York City, Cambridge, Ithaca, and Annapolis.
Heading into a new decade, no, 12 Princeton wrestling didn’t pump the brakes. In the past three weeks, Tiger wrestling earned NCAA Team of the Week honors for routing no. 25 Rider University 25—9 and placed fifth, the highest of any Ivy League program, at the grueling 35-team Ken Kraft Midlands Championship.
Head wrestling coach Chris Ayres has a vision. But sometimes, dreams fall flat.
“I’ve gone through hell to get to this moment,” said head wrestling coach Christopher Ayres. “I’m getting chills. I mean, this is surreal. This is a dream come true. This is – I think – the greatest turnaround college athletics has ever seen.”
A historic day for Princeton wrestling ended on a bitter note. Patrick Glory, Patrick Brucki, and Matthew Kolodzik secured All-American status but fell into the consolation bracket.
As the first day of the NCAA tournament progressed, the stratification of Princeton’s team became more pronounced. For only the second time in program history, the Tigers ended the day with three wrestlers in the quarterfinals. Monday, Stefanik, and Parker were not so lucky. Their seasons — and their dreams of All-American status — ended with the day.
After a third-place finish at the EIWA championships, including individual wins for Patrick Brucki and Patrick Glory, Princeton wrestling will send six wrestlers to Pittsburgh for the NCAA championships next week
Women’s basketball defeated Dartmouth 64–47 and Harvard 61–58 this weekend, earning the top seed in the Ivy League tournament.
No. 3 Matthew Kolodzik lost in an upset to unranked Parker Kropman, but Princeton wrestling earned a convincing win over Drexel in its last match before its conference tournament.
