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.
Robby Andrews is not any ordinary assistant coach for the men?s Princeton track team. In addition to being a part of the program, Andrews ? or ?Coach Bob? as the men prefer to call him ? is one of the top middle distance talents in the country.?Just talking to him, you would never get the sense that he is one of the best runners in the United States or even the world,? senior middle distance runner Russell Dinkins said.
Imagine this: Princeton and Harvard are tied with 30 seconds left in a fierce basketball game, with the Ivy League lead on the line.
Coming off of the start of the women?s water polo season at the Princeton Invitational this past weekend, senior co-captain and attack Brittany Zwirner took time outside of the pool to sit down with the ?Prince? and discuss her music choices, the California lifestyle and her black eye record ? currently a personal best of eight in a year.Q: Where are you from and what is it like there?A: I?m from Orange County, Calif., and it?s really sunny and warm there, even now.Q: So you?re originally from the Philippines?A: I was born in the Philippines.
Men’s Volleyball: Tigers lose EIVA opener The men’s volleyball team had high hopes for the season after an impressive season-opening win over No.
The men’s basketball team (11-8 overall, 4-1 Ivy league) split a pair of home games this weekend, extending its undefeated Ivy League record to 4-0 against Brown before falling to Yale by just four points. Saturday’s loss snapped an impressive six-game winning streak for the Tigers, who had outscored their opponents by a convincing 16.7 points per game during that stretch. Following last place Columbia’s 78-63 upset over an undefeated Harvard squad on Sunday, the weekend leaves the Tigers one win behind the league-leading Crimson.
The No. 10 women’s water polo team kicked off its season by hosting the Princeton Invitational. The Tigers went 4-1 on the weekend, only falling to No. 4 Cal 5-7.
The pair of wins has significant implications for the Tigers in the ECAC standings. Princeton’s four-point weekend brought the Tigers to within two points of second-place Yale, whom Princeton will face at home on Feb. 23. In addition, the victories give the Tigers momentum heading into a crucial four-game home stand at Baker Rink, where Princeton is 6-2 this season.
The women’s basketball team steamrolled two of its lesser Ivy opponents over the weekend, nearly doubling both Brown’s and Yale’s scores. The Tigers’ 99 points against the Bulldogs set a new record for the program, for which the previous high was 97. It was the second weekend in a row in which the Tigers (14-5 overall, 5-0 Ivy League) defeated two opponents by a combined 77 points.
The No. 1 men’s squash team headed into last weekend’s matches against No. 5 Cornell and No. 11 Columbia as the unbeaten favorite to win the Ivy League title. They ended Sunday with a decisive 9-0 victory against the Lions in Jadwin Gymnasium. What happened on Friday night against the Big Red, however, unexpectedly changed the Tigers’ course and resulted in a tie for first place in the conference rather than an outright title.
The No. 1 nationally ranked Princeton men’s squash team will travel to Ithaca to face No. 5 Cornell this Friday. The Tigers are 9-0 and look to come out of tomorrow’s match with their unbeaten record intact. Cornell comes into the match with a 13-3 record, with losses to Yale, Trinity and Harvard. Princeton defeated Harvard and Yale in close matches (5-4 and 6-3, respectively) and will close out their regular season against Trinity. The women will open the weekend on Friday against Cornell. Their Saturday game against Trinity was cancelled due to the expected inclement weather.
