BERKELEY, Calif. — The men's water polo team plays for third place against University of California, San Diego in the consolation game of the NCAA Tournament. Follow the game with our West Coast live blog!
The women’s hockey team will look to end its six-game skid this weekend when it takes on the Yale Bulldogs and the Brown Bears on the Tigers’ first Ivy road trip of the season. The Tigers (4-7-1 overall, 3-4-1 ECAC) began the season with a strong 4-1-1 record but have since lost six straight and fallen to a tie for sixth in the ECAC.
Back on its home ice for the first time in three weeks, the men’s hockey team will host two conference rivals this weekend at Baker Rink. On Friday night, Princeton (3-7-1 overall, 2-5 ECAC Hockey) will take on the last-place team in the conference, Rensselaer (3-10, 1-4). The following afternoon, the Tigers will face off against No. 9 Union (7-3-3, 3-2), which is two points ahead of Princeton in the ECAC standings and has played two fewer games.
The men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams will host the Big Al Open this weekend at DeNunzio Pool. Both the men and women are 2-0 in dual meets and hope to continue their strong starts.
The men’s water polo team faces No. 1-ranked Southern California in the first game of the NCAA national championships this Saturday in Berkeley, Calif. In their fourth-ever NCAA appearance, this will be the first time that the Tigers have teammates who have been to the national championships before.
The women’s basketball team was handed its first loss of the season on Thursday night, falling to undefeated No. 24 Delaware by an 81-70 score. The Blue Hens scored the first 14 points of the game and led comfortably for the rest of the game, keeping Princeton winless all-time against nationally-ranked teams.
Mitch Henderson ’98 is the centerpiece of a photograph that has been a key part of the identity of Princeton basketball for the last 15 years. Taken immediately after the final buzzer sounded on the Tigers’ 43-41 victory over defending national champion UCLA in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, the photograph shows a disappointed Bruin Toby Bailey on the left, a shocked Sydney Johnson ’97 on the right and a leaping Henderson, arms stretched high in the air, in between.
The New England Patriots beat the Philadelphia Eagles so badly last weekend that PETA intervened on an injured Michael Vick’s behalf and the Republican-controlled House of Representatives changed the national bird to the F-16.
It was a bit over a year ago when Sports Illustrated senior writer Alex Wolff ’80 set out on a journey across the world to examine how sports are used for more than just exercise and entertainment. On Wednesday night, Wolff spoke with a group of roughly 30 Princeton students about his journey and how he believes that people can change the world through sports.
If you asked, most people would tell you fencing is an individual sport. But for Ed Kelley and Jonathan Yergler, junior epeeists on the fencing team and roommates for the last two years, it’s a little more complicated than that.“We’re treated as a unit, rather than individuals,” Kelley joked.
With a 43-point second half due to nine Lafayette turnovers, the men’s basketball team overcame a poor shooting performance in the first half to blow out the Leopards 69-54. “We talked about swagger, and it looked like we had it,” head coach Mitch Henderson ’98 said.
The women's basketball team puts a 26-game home win streak on the line and goes for its first win against a ranked opponent in program history, facing No. 24 Delaware at Jadwin Gymnasium at 7 p.m. Follow the action with our live blog!
Lois Anderson didn’t just run into the history books on Thursday afternoon — she high-stepped into them, scoring, as time expired, to lift her side to a much-needed victory. On a day that saw the third largest family turnout of the century, Lois was the hero, and she knew it.
While many students traveled back home or to various parts of the country on breakout trips during fall break, the men’s squash team traveled to France. In many ways, the trip to France epitomized what it means to play squash — to win and to have fun at the same time.
In the statistics-driven world of modern athletics, skilled players who don’t rack up tons of points often go unnoticed in the shuffle of rosters, depth charts and stat sheets. Junior point guard Lauren Polansky of the women’s basketball team doesn’t score an average of 17.7 points per game, like junior forward Niveen Rasheed has done this year, but Polansky’s team-first attitude, defensive intensity and disciplined leadership on the court are beyond replacement.
Two weeks ago, the wrestling team had what head coach Chris Ayres called its best performance since he began coaching the Tigers in 2006. Princeton had the best finish of any Ivy League team at the Keystone Open in Philadelphia, finishing fourth overall. Junior 149-pounder Luis Ramos has been a mainstay on the team for his skill, intensity and humor. The ‘Prince’ sat down with Ramos to learn about growing up in North Carolina, his love of dubstep and cauliflower ear.
The transition from high school to college is very rarely an easy one. Things that are bigger, faster and more complex now complicate what may have been simple or easy in high school. While this rings true for most college freshmen, rookie tailback Chuck Dibilio had to adapt both on and off the field as he was thrust into a starring role for the football team this season.
One of Princeton University’s greatest qualities is its diversity of interests among the student body. Even though the majority of Tigers are bound to work on Wall Street, the range in areas of concentration while pursuing a black-and-orange degree truly is remarkable. This quality is mirrored in students’ leisure time — there are more clubs and teams on this campus than blondes in Pi Phi.
The competitive collegiate season never stops for distance runners. Rather than enter a long offseason until next fall arrives, members of the men’s and women’s cross country teams head straight into preparations for the indoor track campaign. However, while cross country, as well as winter and spring track, all essentially involve running races, for the Princeton runners, the seasons are distinctly different.
The men’s hockey team has been in nonstop action this fall, even giving up their Thanksgiving break to travel to Denver, Colo., where they came away with a loss to Denver and a win over Providence. Princeton (3-7-1 overall, 2-5 ECAC), who last won the ECAC in 2008 and also appeared in the 2009 NCAA tournament, currently sits in ninth in the ECAC standings with four points. The ‘Prince’ looks at the conference competitors and how the Tigers stack up under first-year head coach Bob Prier.
