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Badminton Club beats TCNJ; students storm court*

Badminton Club beats TCNJ; students storm court*

Mere seconds after junior Racket McBirdie sent the final birdie to the floor in Dillon Gymnasium, hundreds of students stormed out of the bleachers and rushed onto the court, jubilantly celebrating the badminton club’s 5-2 victory over The College of New Jersey on Thursday night. The celebration continued a trend of Princeton court-stormings that has become even more prevalent in recent months.

SPORTS | 01/10/2013

Men's Basketball: Ivy favorites set to begin league play

The Ivy League men’s basketball season begins this weekend, with four teams kicking off the proverbial 14-game tournament on Saturday. That quartet includes the two Ancient Eight title favorites, Princeton and Harvard, which both take on opponents that have struggled this year.

SPORTS | 01/09/2013

On Tap with ... Kimberly Newell

Rookie Kimberly Newell is making headlines as the starting goalie for the women’s ice hockey team — she sits at second in saves in the ECAC with 492 this season. Last weekend at the International Ice Hockey Federation U18 Women’s World Championship in Finland, Newell saved 19 out of 20 shots in the championship game to win gold for Team Canada. She sat down with the ‘Prince’ to discuss playing with the boys, strange goals and heavy metal.

SPORTS | 01/08/2013

Women's Track & Field: Kiwi shines in debut season

At a little over 5 feet, 7 inches, freshman Julia Ratcliffe is far from being the biggest weight thrower. But she is strong — strong enough to crush the Ivy League record in her first competition as a Tiger.

SPORTS | 01/08/2013

Men's Basketball: Freshman Brase earns starting role

As the Tigers (6-7) gear up to start Ivy League play, freshman forward Hans Brase has begun to emerge as a starter with impact potential. The South Carolina native is the first Princeton men’s basketball player to start consistently as a freshman since guard Doug Davis ’12 in 2009.

SPORTS | 01/08/2013

Women's Basketball: Rookie quintet makes early contributions

Every season, there are always uncertainties about how the freshmen on a team will adjust to college-level play and the extent to which they will be able to contribute. For the five freshmen on the women’s basketball team, however, these questions have hardly been an issue. Despite the presence of a talented senior class, the freshmen quintet, consisting of guards Amanda Berntsen, Michelle Miller and Annie Tarakchian along with forwards Alex Wheatley and Taylor Williams, has received considerable playing time and provided an offensive boost in scoring and rebounding for the Tigers. The Class of 2016 has combined to score nearly a quarter of the Tigers’ total points so far this season, with each member averaging at least five minutes per game.

SPORTS | 01/08/2013

Men's Hockey: Princeton alumni return to ice after NHL lockout

After a fierce 16-hour discussion in a midtown Manhattan hotel, rumors circulated on the morning of Jan. 6 that the NHL and the NHLPA would bring the competition back to the ice and away from the negotiating table. Both sides have all but promised the fans a 48-game or 50-game schedule after the lockout, the second-longest stoppage in the past decade behind the full-season lockout of 2004-05. The conclusion of the lockout will be welcome news for five Princeton alumni: George Parros ’03, Kevin Westgarth ’07, Jeff Halpern ’99, Darroll Powe ’07 and Mike Moore ’08.

SPORTS | 01/08/2013

Football: Brown recovers at home after life-threatening incident

On Oct. 9, Sophomore cornerback Khamal Brown was rushed to the hospital after he became sick and unresponsive in afternoon practice. Doctors performed an emergency operation to drain out blood that had accumulated in his brain and later determined that the rupturing of an arteriovenous malformation — or AVM, an abnormal connection of veins and arteries — had caused the blood spillage.The AVM was likely present since birth, and there is no reason to believe the rupturing was at all football-related. Brown has been in stable condition since being released from the hospital in late October and will take the spring semester off from school to recover at his home in Atlanta.

SPORTS | 01/06/2013

Women's Hockey: Without coach, starting goalie, Princeton splits pair vs. UConn

The women’s hockey team seemed like two different squads when it faced Connecticut in a two-game series at the Freitas Ice Forum on Wednesday and Thursday. After losing to the Huskies in a crushing 5-1 defeat on Wednesday, Princeton (6-10-2 overall, 2-8-2 ECAC) came out on Thursday and handily beat Connecticut 4-1.

SPORTS | 01/06/2013

Men's Hockey: Princeton moves into 2nd in ECAC

The men’s hockey team opened 2013 with a bang, leaping into second place in the ECAC with home victories over Harvard and Dartmouth. The Tigers now have a 4-3-3 record in ECAC play, good for 11 points, nine behind Quinnipiac but two clear of everyone else.

SPORTS | 01/06/2013

Men's Swimming: Tigers upend Navy

After exciting dual meets in 2011 and 2012, the men’s swimming and diving team had no such drama against Navy on Saturday. Princeton submerged the Midshipmen 182-115 at DeNunzio Pool, winning 12 of 16 events to remain perfect this season.

SPORTS | 01/06/2013

Men's Basketball: Tigers regain form entering Ivy play

The men’s basketball team will head into Ivy League play with some much-needed momentum. After a series of close losses and lost leads early in the season, the Tigers (6-7) won three of four games over winter break.

SPORTS | 01/06/2013

Men's Basketball: Barclays Center welcomes Tigers to Brooklyn

A few hours after the men’s basketball team lost to Fordham at the Barclays Center last weekend, the fans started filing in. Sporting navy blue shirts and yellow towels, the had come to support their Michigan Wolverines as they took on West Virginia in the NBA’s newest and most hyped-up arena.The crowd for the Michigan-West Virginia game was far larger than the crowd that came out to support St. Johns or St. Francis in the game before that, which in turn was larger than the fan base that turned out for Princeton or Fordham in the day’s first game. But for the Barclays Center, which is trying to establish itself as a “must-play” for both local schools and top national teams, the pull and popularity of the teams it invites to play are not necessarily the most important factor.

SPORTS | 12/18/2012

Men's Basketball: Tigers to play at Barclays Center

The men’s basketball team will look to get the season back on track when they travel to the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., to take on Fordham this Saturday after having blown another second-half lead against Drexel in their last outing, dropping the Tigers to 3-5. Fordham (1-8) is the perfect opponent for Princeton to attempt just that as the Rams have lost five games in a row.

SPORTS | 12/13/2012

Men's Hockey: Cashing in on man-up situations

The men’s hockey team, even with a few injuries, hung with the big dogs in college hockey in the first half of the 2012-13 season. Currently tied for fifth in the ECAC, one of the deepest conferences in Division I, Princeton (3-6-3 overall, 2-3-3 ECAC) has held its own against a number of nationally ranked teams.

SPORTS | 12/13/2012

On Tap with ... Clay Wilson

Clay Wilson is a sophomore guard on the men’s basketball team. He is second on the team in scoring this season, with 9.1 points per game, and leads the team in three-point attempts — the classic sixth man. He sat down with the ‘Prince’ to discuss basketball, faith and Justin Bieber.

SPORTS | 12/13/2012

Football: Reid, Catapano named All-America

Senior defensive linemen Caraun Reid and Mike Catapano were named to two Football Championship Subdivision All-America teams this week. The Associated Press named Catapano to its second team and Reid to its third team on Wednesday; The Sports Network made Reid a second-team selection and Catapano a third-teamer.

SPORTS | 12/12/2012

Women's Basketball: Cagers fall at Villanova

Despite Niveen Rasheed’s game-high 15 points, the women’s basketball team (6-4) fell to Villanova (8-1) 61-54 at The Pavilion. Princeton dropped its second straight matchup in a four-game road stretch, losing to Delaware on Sunday, while the Wildcats extended their win streak to seven. However, Villanova and Delaware are among the Tigers’ toughest opponents this season, highlighting their non-conference schedule.

SPORTS | 12/12/2012

Men's Basketball: League plagued by turnovers in early play

One month into the season, no Ivy League men’s basketball team has truly excelled so far. The conference as a whole is weaker than some past editions, with an aggregate record 15 games below .500. Still, when league play starts in January, there should be plenty of excitement.

SPORTS | 12/12/2012

Track & Field: Princeton's longest-tenured coaches share history, vision

Covering the wall above the desk of men’s head track and field coach Fred Samara are mementos and pictures of achievements and athletes from years gone by. Just two doors down in Jadwin Gymnasium is the office of women’s head track and cross country coach Peter Farrell, who has been working at Princeton alongside Samara since the sport’s inception for women at the University in 1978. Together, Farrell and Samara are the two oldest active head coaches at Princeton, having led the men’s and women’s programs into a class of their own.

SPORTS | 12/12/2012

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