A little more than a month after the resignation of former men's tennis head coach Glenn Michibata, Billy Pate was hired to coach the Tigers, Directer of Athletics Gary Walters ’67 announced this morning.
WEST WINDSOR — On a chaotic Sunday on Mercer Lake, the women’s open crew finished fourth at the NCAA Championships. Princeton, which entered the meet ranked No. 6 nationally, exceeded expectations by finishing in the top five of every race.
With less than two minutes remaining in Sunday’s first-round NCAA Tournament game, the men’s lacrosse team trailed Virginia 6-4.
Before the 2011-12 season, one question loomed large for fans of the women’s basketball team: How well would junior forward Niveen Rasheed come back from her injury? After dominating the first half of her sophomore season, Rasheed missed all of Ivy League play and the Tigers’ NCAA Tournament appearance due to a torn ACL. After rehabbing throughout the spring and summer, Rasheed was still less than 100 percent as late as September, when head coach Courtney Banghart held her out of exhibition games in France and Senegal.
Sophomore Kelly Shon competed at the NCAA East Regional this weekend, finishing at plus-six to tie for 29th place in the 126-player field.
The decorated Princeton rowing program entered Eastern Sprints hoping to add to their trophy case. The women’s open crew took home the overall team points trophy, though it lost the varsity eight final and official Ivy League championship to Harvard. The other three Princeton crews, despite highlights, came away empty-handed.
Thirteen straight years of domination. Trinity’s name rang out across squash courts everywhere as the national champions for all of those years. And dominate it did, winning an incredible 252 straight matches in that time. Would Trinity’s reign ever end?
For this year’s Princeton swimmers, the road to the Olympics seems likely to end before reaching London. However, for the swimmers who have managed to successfully traverse the road to Omaha, Neb., where this year’s U.S. Olympic Trials are being held for the second consecutive time, all that matters is that they swim their best and absorb as much as they can from the whole experience.
An impressive season came to an end for the women’s water polo team, which finished sixth at NCAA Championships this weekend. The Tigers lost to No. 3-seed University of Southern California in the quarter-finals on Friday, as the Trojans overpowered Princeton 14-2, leaving the Tigers battling over the weekend for fifth position. Princeton (29-6) won its first consolation bout 9-5 over Iona before falling to Loyola Marymount 15-11 in the fifth-place game.
As the school year comes to a close, the ‘Prince’ brings you the best of Princeton sports in the 2011-12 season. Earlier this week, we listed our coaches of the year; today, we count down the top 10 games. Stay tuned as we unveil our Athletes of the Year next week. From sprints through snowfall to five-overtime slugfests, the Tigers’ seasons were hardly short of highlights.
Princeton’s presence at the Olympic Games runs deep, as Tigers medaled in all kinds of events since the first games in 1896. Yet no sport is more heavily represented than crew. Of the 128 Princeton competitors at the Olympics, 45 have been rowers. As one of the University’s largest athletics teams, Princeton crew has been represented by a student or alumnus at the past 12 Summer Olympic Games. This year is no exception.
While many students will hit the books this weekend before the final stretch of the school year, the women’s water polo team will return to the pool one last time at the NCAA Championships in San Diego to face Southern California in the first round. Princeton’s appearance in the eight-team tournament is the first in program history since water polo became an official NCAA championship sport in 2001.
In their annual spring meetings, the Ivy League directors of athletics decided not to proceed with a proposal for a postseason basketball tournament, the league announced in a release on Thursday afternoon.
The men’s lacrosse team can vouch that anything can happen to the favored team entering a game. Sunday afternoon, the No. 12 Tigers will attempt to recover from a difficult late season against the Virginia Cavaliers, who likely hold similar sentiments. Both teams lost in their respective conference tournaments, and both are ready to avenge unexplained losses as the NCAA Tournament begins.
Sophomore Will Gillis and senior Ian Silveira have established themselves as key parts of the men’s heavyweight crew. Silveira is the captain and stroke seat of the first varsity boat, where he is joined by Gillis. The Tigers have had an up-and-down season thus far, winning the Childs Cup but placing second in the Compton and Carnegie Cups as they head into Sunday’s Eastern Sprints. The 'Prince' sat down to talk with the two of them ahead of the race.
As the school year comes to a close, the ‘Prince’ will bring you the best of Princeton sports in the 2011-12 season. Today, we complete our countdown of the top 10 head coaches, which started with the first five on Monday. Stay tuned as we list the top games on Friday and unveil our Athletes of the Year next week.
Talent, hard work and luck. For the few Princeton track and field athletes who hope to qualify for the world’s biggest stage at June’s Olympic Trials, those three attributes will be more important than ever before. In a sport ruled by pain, guts and the will to push the physical limits of their bodies, the dedicated Princeton athletes have left nothing behind in their various roads to the Trials.
Sophomore utility Katie Rigler has seen nothing but success in high school and with the women’s water polo team. Rigler has scored nearly 20 percent of No. 10 Princeton’s goals this season, helping to lead the team to its first ever NCAA tournament appearance. A native of Fullerton, Calif., Rigler will be traveling back to southern California at the end of this week for the NCAA championship in San Diego. Her success was recognized late last month, when she was named the Southern Division Player of the Year and won the Eastern Championship MVP award.
"It’s not the easiest thing to explain,” Soren Thompson ’05 said of his improbable return to the Olympics. Thompson, currently the ninth-ranked epeeist in the world, competed in the Athens games in 2004 but was essentially out of fencing entirely less than two years ago. Then, he decided he wanted to go to London.
Despite losing 15-7 in the Ivy League Tournament final, the men's lacrosse team received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament on Sunday night. Princeton will face No. 5-seed Virginia on the road at 1 p.m. Sunday.
