Follow us on Instagram
Try our daily mini crossword
Subscribe to the newsletter
Download the app

Sports

ADVERTISEMENT
20130914_MWP_ConorDube_1611

Rookies already contributing to undefeated Princeton squad

The men’s water polo team will add three recruits from the Class of 2017 to its roster this season to join the 16 returning members. “It is not a huge class,” head coach Luis Nicolao said, “but all [four] will have an impact as freshmen, and we are looking forward to seeing them compete this fall.” The recruits are Curtis Fink, Bret Hinrichs and Jovan Jeremic. Fink will join the team as a utility player after leading his high school team to three consecutive league championships and earning All-CIF Division I and All-Sunset League first team honors in 2011 and 2012, as well as being named a California-Hawaii All-American.

SPORTS | 09/17/2013

20130917_CatCaro_ShannonMcGue_4438

National champions add five freshmen

After winning both the Ivy League Championship and the NCAA Championship with a nearly perfect record, the field hockey team (21-1 overall, 7-0 Ivy League last season) has high hopes for the 2013 season and its incoming freshman class. The five freshmen that will join the field hockey team this year — Cat Caro, Ellen Dobrijevic, Annabeth Donovan, Andrea Jenkins and Hailey Reeves — come ready for the challenge. As members of the United States National Team, the Junior Women’s National Indoor Team, the Junior Olympics team, the New South Wales All-Schools Team, the Canada-USA Series and the Disney tournaments and showcases, the rookies know what competitive field hockey looks like. “They have a high level of self-discipline, I would say, across the class,” head coach Kristen Holmes-Winn said.

SPORTS | 09/17/2013

TylerLussi_LiliaXie_3413

Lussi, 2017 make their mark

The women’s soccer team got to the second round of the NCAA Tournament last year, but the Ivy League Champions — who went 14-4-1 overall and 7-0 in the Ancient Eight — hope to make it even further this year. The team will face growing pains, however, given that it lost eight seniors and has a large, nine-player freshman class.

SPORTS | 09/17/2013

20130916_MSoccerProfile_ShannonMcGue_0051

Accomplished freshmen aim for Ivy title

Even having lost Mark Linnville ’13, a superstar center back who graduated with four first-team all-Ivy selections, and two-time first-team all-league selection Matt Sanner ’13, the men’s soccer team has fixed its sights on an Ivy League championship in 2013 and, with the addition of a promising class of freshmen, the squad looks to return to the NCAA Tournament after a two-year absence. Head coach Jim Barlow welcomes seven freshmen to the program: one goalkeeper, two defenders and four midfielders. “Everyone we recruit is a person who we think has the ability to make an impact and compete for a spot right away,” Barlow said. Each freshman is accomplished at the high school and club level.

SPORTS | 09/17/2013

20121013_MWP vs. JohnsHopkins_Horia Radoi_8986

Tigers to begin play this weekend as they host the Princeton Invitational

After finishing third in the Eastern Championships and just missing the NCAA tournament in 2012, the men's water polo team begins its season this weekend at the Princeton Invitational with games at home against Santa Clara, Penn, Harvard and Iona. Last year, the team went 17-12, finishing in third place in both the Southern Championships and the Eastern Championships.

SPORTS | 09/12/2013