Almost halfway through the season, six of the eight Ivy League teams are at or above .500, and at least half the league still has legitimate championship hopes.
Princeton’s dual history as an athletic as well as academic powerhouse is well-documented. Like its fellow Ivy League schools, Princeton promotes the coupling of these two fields, aiming to foster great minds and physical fitness among its students.
Despite strong performances by many individual players, the women’s volleyball team suffered a major setback in its hunt for the Ivy League championship this weekend, dropping both of this weekend’s away matchups. The Tigers (6-9 overall, 2-3 Ivy League) went to Brown on Friday, where they managed to come back after dropping the first game to win the next two, but eventually lost 3-2.
The football team continued its best season in recent memory Saturday, pulling through in the second half to overcome Lafayette by a score of 42-26.
The No. 12 men's water polo team opened its weekend of three conference games with two wins but dropped the final game to Bucknell on Sunday.
Despite outshooting Brown by more than double and tallying several more shots on goal than the Bears (3-5-3 overall, 0-0-2 Ivy League), the men’s soccer team could not find the net even once during the matchup in Providence on Saturday afternoon.
After a tough loss to the best team in the nation on Friday, the No. 9 field hockey team ended its weekend on a high note Sunday afternoon.
The women’s soccer team suffered a third straight tough Ivy loss in a shootout of a game against Brown this weekend.
Off to one of its best starts in recent memory, the football team is back in Princeton Stadium this afternoon to take on Lafayette in its last non-Ivy contest of the year and its last home game before heading to Providence and Cambridge in the coming weeks.
This weekend, the No. 12 men’s water polo team will take on three conference opponents: Johns Hopkins (12-4, 2-2), Navy and Bucknell . The first two matches— Saturday at 2 p.m.
On Saturday afternoon, the women’s soccer team will visit Brown in desperate need of a win, having lost its first two Ivy League games to Yale and Dartmouth.
Coming off of momentous one-goal wins over Dartmouth and Drexel in the last week, the men’s soccer team will look to build on its momentum Saturday night when the Tigers hit the road for their second Ivy League match, this time against Brown. A win against Brown would send the trajectory of this season in an eerily similar direction to that of the 2010 men’s soccer team.
After a convincing victory over Columbia last weekend, the football team has attained its first winning record through three games since 2008 and currently holds a two-game win streak.
On the road for its next five games, the field hockey team will travel down to College Park, Md., and Newark, Del., this weekend to face off against the No.
Winning is in freshman forward Tyler Lussi’s genes. Gustave Lussi, Tyler’s great-great-grandfather, is considered to be one of figure skating’s greatest trainers — he coached 16 world champions and seven Olympic gold medalists.
The Ancient Eight kicked off their seasons last weekend, and though they had a late start, some of the Ivy League men’s soccer teams have already made a big impact.
The Princeton soccer team hit the ground running, following up its season opener against Dartmouth on Saturday with Tuesday-night non-conference play against Drexel. The Tigers (4-5 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) had reason to be confident after their 2-1 win over Dartmouth, which was the Big Green’s (4-1-4, 0-1) first loss of the season. Junior forward Cameron Porter, who scored the game-winning goal, earned his second-straight Ivy League Player of the Week award.
Former guard Niveen Rasheed ’13, perhaps the best player in the history of Princeton women's basketball, was sad when she left Jadwin Gymnasium for the last time.
Earlier this month, the New York Knicks announced that Steve Mills ’81 will replace Glen Grunwald as the team’s president and general manager.During Grunwald’s two-year tenure, the Knicks attained their two highest winning percentages since 2001 and ended a postseason victory drought of 13 seasons.
Alex Wong is a sophomore on the women’s golf team. Playing in six events during her freshman year, Wong managed to shoot the lowest round of any Tiger in a team event on the season with a 70 at the Nittany Lion Invitational.
