The Princeton crews have more than a month before they begin their 2013 campaigns, but they started their training over Intersession in Tampa, Fla.
Last spring, the women?s golf team took sixth place at the Ivy League Championship. The finish was disappointing, especially considering that junior Kelly Shon had recently become Princeton?s first tournament medalist in three years at the Low Country Intercollegiate.
Hoping to rebound from an uncharacteristically disappointing season last spring, the women?s lacrosse team is full of determination and enthusiasm as it opens its 2013 season on Saturday.
Both the men?s and women?s tennis teams head into the spring season with high hopes and carry ambitions of winning the Ivy League crown and taking their talents to the national stage at the NCAA Championships in May.
After starting the season with a strong win over No. 12 University of California, Santa Barbara, the men?s volleyball team struggled to maintain its performance against other top-ranked teams such as UC San Diego and league rival George Mason.The Tigers (4-2 overall, 2-1 EIVA) look to be turning it around, however, as they finish up a big two-win weekend over NYU and conference opponent NJIT.It wasn?t always pretty, though, as Princeton dropped the first set and won the fifth by a close 15-13 margin to eke out the victory 3-2.
If you have been to a Princeton sporting event in the last year and have not seen two guys in orange suits, then you are lying, because you were not at that sporting event.
The women?s water polo team (6-2 overall, 0-0 CWPA South) went 3-1 last weekend but could not pull out a win against No.
For the second straight week, men?s basketball (12-9 overall, 5-2 Ivy) split a pair of Ivy League contests with a convincing Friday victory and a frustrating Saturday loss.
The women?s basketball team (16-5 overall, 7-0 Ivy League) came away with a pair of wins after a doubleheader Ivy League weekend, hosting Dartmouth (6-15, 4-2) and Harvard (13-8, 4-3) at Jadwin Gymnasium.After a pair of unusually slow starts, Princeton picked up the pace to win both games, making it the team?s 31st consecutive Ivy League victory.
Trinity College avenged last year?s national championship loss as the Bantams defeated the Tigers at Jadwin on Saturday in the last game of the regular season for both teams.
With fewer than five minutes remaining on the clock in the men?s hockey team?s home matchup Friday night against Clarkson, senior forward Rob Kleebaum drew a tough tripping penalty.
The Princeton women?s basketball team will face its most formidable league opponents this weekend when it welcomes Dartmouth and Harvard to Jadwin Gymnasium.
The men?s basketball team will once again make its pivotal upper New England road trip this weekend, taking on Dartmouth on Friday before rolling into Lavietes Pavilion to match up against Harvard on Saturday night in a nationally televised contest on NBC Sports Network.
The goaltending tandem of senior Mike Condon and junior Sean Bonar may provide the highest excitement factor on the ice this weekend.
Before the afternoon of Feb. 19, 2012, 13 consecutive chapters in the chronicles of men?s collegiate squash had ended in the same manner, with Trinity College winning the national title.
The men?s tennis team will compete in the ECAC Tournament this weekend, coming into the early-season competition as the No.
The Princeton women?s squash team, ranked No. 1 in the country, clinched the Ivy League Championship last Sunday with a win over Columbia.
The women?s basketball team is doing well ? almost too well. As the Tigers bulldoze their way through the Ivy League, their scores have been so lopsided that it?s pretty easy for observers to tune out at halftime, if not earlier.They beat Yale by 46 on Sunday, and in their last four games they have outscored their opponents by 154.
The men?s volleyball team won its home opener on Tuesday night against Rutgers-Newark 3-0.After opening conference play with a 1-3 loss to rival George Mason, the Princeton men?s volleyball team (2-2 overall, 1-1 EIVA) evened their overall and league records to .500 with a shutout win over Rutgers-Newark on Tuesday night.
On tuesday, the international Olympic Committee Executive Board voted to remove wrestling from the slate of 25 core sports for the 2020 Olympic Games, ending the Olympic run of an iconic sport that headlined the first modern Olympics in 1896.The decision has sparked debate over wrestling?s merits in both the domestic and international communities, a discussion that hits home for Princeton?s wrestling team.
