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Before freshman fall, junior Heidi Robbins had never raced on the water. Almost three years later, Robbins has risen to the top of the women’s openweight crew with a spot on the first varsity boat. The team ranks seventh in the nation and is fresh off of its third straight perfect Ivy League season after beating No. 19 Dartmouth and Penn on the Schuykill River. The ‘Prince’ sat down with Robbins to learn about her beginnings in crew, how she quickly grew to love the sport and being a part of the team.

SPORTS | 04/24/2012

Women's Water Polo: Princeton looks to extend strong season at Eastern Championships

Women's Water Polo: Princeton looks to extend strong season at Eastern Championships

After winning its seventh Southern Division title a few weekends ago, the women’s water polo team (25-4 overall, 5-0 Southern Division) looks to continue its successful play in the CWPA Eastern Championships tournament this weekend. By winning Southerns, the team guaranteed itself one of the top two seeds in the tournament. Michigan’s win gave it the first seed, pushing the Tigers down to the second spot.

SPORTS | 04/24/2012

Column: Miami Heat schadenfreude extends beyond LeBron

The NBA Playoffs affords fans another opportunity to watch the Heat struggle. For some, the Heat are no longer the team to root against: “The Decision” was bad, but perhaps not worthy of more than one year of scorn. To some degree, I sympathize with this perspective. LeBron James is hardly worthy of perpetual hatred. But the Heat don’t have just one annoying, whiny player. The entire franchise is annoying and worth rooting against. During this year’s NBA playoffs, feel free to enjoy the Heat’s defeats.

SPORTS | 04/24/2012

Ultimate Frisbee: Clockwork qualifies for nationals

The women’s club ultimate frisbee team, Lady Clockwork, recently qualified for the Division III national tournament in Appleton, Wis., the weekend of May 19–20. The team is currently 27-9 in its spring season and has won 10 straight matches, the last six of which were played at Metro East Regionals, the tournament that allowed the team to qualify for the national tournament.

SPORTS | 04/24/2012

Softball: Strong pitching yields split with Columbia

With Penn taking three of four games from Cornell, last weekend was the softball team’s chance to make up some ground in the Ivy League South Division standings. However, after splitting its four-game series with Columbia, Princeton’s chance of coming away with the title remains slim as the team sits three games behind the leaders Penn and Cornell with only four more conference games left to play.

SPORTS | 04/23/2012

Sports Shorts: Rowers invade Lake Carnegie

Both women's crews won their respective races this weekend, while only the lightweight rowers won on the men's side. The women's lightweight team retained the Class of 2006 Cup, beating Georgetown in its home opener. The varsity eight boat of the fifth-ranked Tigers finished 2.3 seconds ahead of the sixth-ranked Hoyas.

SPORTS | 04/23/2012

Track & Field: Stilin keeps pace in ‘stacked’ 5k field, sets Princeton record

Toeing the line of the elite invitational 5000-meter run at the Mt. SAC Relays in California, senior Joe Stilin found himself a long way from the Ivy League. Racing against one of the most competitive fields he had ever seen, Stilin had two choices before him: run the race of his life, or get dropped like a sack of bricks.“I don’t even really remember the last three or four laps, I was just in oxygen debt pretty bad,” Stilin said. “I looked at the clock with 600 to go and saw what I needed to run to get the school record, and I just focused from there."

SPORTS | 04/23/2012

Men's Lacrosse: Princeton gets revenge, share of Ivy League title

Featuring several star performances, the No. 13 men’s lacrosse team seized an early lead over Harvard and refused to give up its dominance on Saturday. With a 12-5 victory, Princeton (9-3 overall, 5-0 Ivy League) remained undefeated in conference play and, thanks to a surprising result at Cornell, earned a share of the Ivy League regular-season title.

SPORTS | 04/22/2012

Men's Volleyball: Siroky leads comeback to secure playoff spot

On March 3, the men’s volleyball team began to watch its postseason chances slowly crumble after losing to Harvard in a five-set thriller. Princeton would embark on a five-game losing streak in the EIVA, dropping in league standings with each loss. The Tigers needed to break back into the top four to reclaim a spot in the postseason, which meant winning their last two conference matches. They could only qualify for the playoffs by being nothing less than perfect.

SPORTS | 04/22/2012

Tennis: Men's coach Michibata resigns after 12-year tenure

After the conclusion of his 12th season as head coach of the men’s tennis team, Glenn Michibata resigned Monday from his position. Princeton lost its last two games of the season this past weekend, ending its Ivy title hopes and signaling the conclusion of Michibata’s Princeton career with a 145-121 record.

SPORTS | 04/22/2012

Women's Lacrosse: Hosts drop No. 8 Dartmouth, keep postseason hopes alive

The women’s lacrosse team pulled off a crucial 12-9 upset of Ivy League rival Dartmouth at 1952 Stadium on Saturday afternoon. By beating the No. 8 Big Green, which was previously undefeated in conference play, No. 20 Princeton (7-6 overall, 4-2 Ivy League) kept its playoff hopes alive and remained in a three-way tie for third place in the conference.

SPORTS | 04/22/2012

Baseball: After losing 3 of 4, Tigers need sweep to return to ILCS

After a disappointing series at Columbia, the baseball team will need to pull out all the stops next week against Cornell to keep its hopes for a repeat Ivy League Championship alive. The Tigers’ reliable defense came up short this weekend in three of four outings against the Lions, while Cornell won its series at Penn, leaving Princeton (17-22 overall, 9-7 Ivy League) three games behind the Big Red with four head-to-head meetings remaining.

SPORTS | 04/22/2012

On Tap with ... Jonathan York

The players of the baseball team (16-14 overall, 9-3 Ivy League) always look their best, thanks to sophomore third baseman Jonathan York. The Atlanta native and self-proclaimed “fashion police” said that his role is the most important on the team, contributing to its successes this season. With an important weekend against Columbia (14-21, 6-6) coming up, the team will need York’s skill, humor and fashion sense to succeed.

SPORTS | 04/19/2012

Women's Lacrosse: Princeton’s post-season hopes at stake

With the regular season coming to a finish in the next two weeks, every game left on the women’s lacrosse team’s schedule is critical in determining if it qualifies for the post-season Ivy League Tournament. The conference standings are currently close, with No. 20 Princeton (6-6 overall, 3-2 Ivy League) in a three-way tie for third place with No. 13 Cornell and Harvard.

SPORTS | 04/19/2012

Men's Lacrosse: Tigers look for revenge at Harvard

For the men’s lacrosse team, the road to Cambridge this weekend may not dramatically change its post-season plans, but it certainly will determine the difficulty. No. 13 Princeton (8-3 overall, 4-0 Ivy League) has clinched one of the top three spots in the Ivy League tournament, while its host, Harvard (6-6, 2-2), is still looking to clinch a spot in the four-team season-ending event.

SPORTS | 04/19/2012

Column: Playoff benefits Ivy League lacrosse

When the No. 13 men’s lacrosse team left the field at the end of its 21-6 shellacking of a wildly overmatched Dartmouth side last Saturday, the celebration was more than just an acknowledgement of a convincing win. The Tigers had clinched a return to the Ivy League Tournament, the three-game extravaganza held on the first weekend of May that has quickly turned into one of the most exciting events in Princeton’s corner of the college sports world.

SPORTS | 04/19/2012

Basketball: Columbia coach discusses pros of tourney proposal

Earlier this week, The Daily Princetonian heard from several Ivy League basketball players with mixed feelings on the idea of a potential conference tournament. The ‘Prince’ recently spoke with Columbia men’s basketball coach Kyle Smith, who has been in charge of drafting the tournament proposal that will be discussed by league administrators.

SPORTS | 04/19/2012

Softball: Junior’s deception fools Ivy League hitters

Nine years ago, 12-year-old Liza Kuhn decided to pick up softball after years of playing Wiffle ball with her family in the backyard of her home in Middletown, N.J. In order to pursue softball, she gave up gymnastics, which she had been doing for several years.“It only took a few weeks to realize that I loved the game for its competitiveness and sense of team,” Kuhn said. Kuhn threw two-and-a-third innings in the second game of Princeton's doubleheader on Wednesday, allowing one run, but Princeton dropped both contests at Lehigh, 3-1 and 2-0.

SPORTS | 04/18/2012

Profile: Helping casual athletes ‘join the club’

There are 36 active club sports on Princeton’s campus, which include everything from ballroom dancing to rugby to baseball to powerlifting. But the club sports program has not always been so successful. It wasn’t until Mitch Reum was hired as the assistant director of campus recreation for sport clubs that the University decided to separate the administration of club and intramural sports.

SPORTS | 04/18/2012

Men's Volleyball: 5-set comeback saves Tigers’ playoff hopes

After a thrilling comeback win over the New Jersey Institute of Technology, the men’s volleyball team remains on the hunt for an EIVA playoff spot. The Tigers (12-9 overall, 6-7 EIVA) dropped the first two sets against the Highlanders (12-16, 5-8), but the hosts won the final three to stay in post-season contention.

SPORTS | 04/18/2012

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