The women’s hockey team heads to New England this weekend to take on Northeastern (3-1-1) and Providence (5-1) in its first regular season games of the season.
From now on, it’s all business for the field hockey team.After suffering another loss to No. 4 Connecticut on Sunday, the No. 5 Tigers (10-3 overall, 4-0 Ivy League) are working on revamping their practice methods.
With three games left in the season, the women’s soccer team finds itself pitted against Harvard after a history of struggle on its path to take the Ivy League title.
The women’s volleyball team is dominating its Ancient Eight competition this fall. After a rocky string of losses in the last four weeks of September when Princeton (10-6 overall, 5-0 Ivy League) lost six of eight matches, the Tigers have fallen back in stride. It appears Princeton must have been saving energy for the Ivy League season, since the team has not lost an in-conference match yet.
As the NFL moves toward an 18-game season, injuries are the biggest concern for players and fans alike. Only five weeks into Ivy League football season, many teams in the conference find their depth charts shot by an unusually injury-ridden year.
The sprint football team was shut out by Army last weekend, and the Tigers are no strangers to being shut out by their next opponent. Princeton (0-5 overall, 0-3 Collegiate Sprint Football League) will travel to Annapolis, Md., to take on the Navy Midshipmen (3-1, 1-1) tonight at 7 p.m. The Midshipmen have held the Tigers scoreless in their previous five meetings, with a cumulative score of 333-0. The shutout streak includes a 98-0 battering in 2005, the largest margin of defeat in Princeton’s program history.
At first, sophomore Mark Linnville never considered Princeton — or any Ivy League school for that matter — as a possible destination when he was being recruited two years ago for the men’s soccer team. Linnville, a standout high school player from Hendersonville, N.C., was focusing on a number of large Division I programs when Princeton came knocking late in the recruitment process.
Field hockey is a sport I know next to nothing about. So as I stood in front of the goal — wearing pads twice my size and staring out at a resolute-looking Kat Sharkey — I began to wonder what I was doing there. I also began to wonder just how hard a field hockey ball is. During my time “shootin’ With Sharkey,” I found an answer to the second question.
The men’s ice hockey team kicked off its season last night with an exhibition game against the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivieres. The Tigers defeated the Patriotes with a final-minute goal to earn the 5-4 win.
The blue waters of Lake Carnegie regularly wash back and forth peacefully, only slightly jostled by the ripple of oars slicing through its surface in a synchronized effort by the men’s and women’s crews. In the last week of September, though, the lake welcomed newcomers, less experienced in their techniques.
Boomshakalaka!Video game simulations of sports have become a part of America’s collective sports consciousness. The annual release of the new Madden football game every August draws crowds to Best Buys across the country. But the best sports video games have always been the ones that did not try to stay completely faithful to the sport by turning the sport’s best qualities into a fun game to play. These arcade sports titles are still fun today, even though many of these series have not been updated in quite some time. Without further ado, let’s count down the top five arcade sports games of all time.
The women’s cross country team has large shoes to fill. Peter Farrell has trained some astounding athletes in his 33 years as the team’s head coach. Since its first competition in 1978, Princeton has captured seven Heptagonal Championship titles, including the last four.
It was a remarkably successful weekend for the men’s tennis team, as it sent players to the finals in both singles and doubles at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Regional Tournament hosted by Yale. The Tigers had a strong start to the tournament on Friday, with victories coming from freshman Dan Richardson and senior Alex Faust in singles. Sophomores Matija Pecotic, Matt Siow and Matt Spindler received first-round byes.
With his signature blond hair and NorCal lingo sophomore attack Tim Wenzlau, one of two sophomores from California on the men’s water polo team, certainly has his quirks. The Forbes resident enjoys spending time in his residential college when not in the pool. He is often a little wild, but in the pool he is all focus.
What do I have in common with the NFL’s leading rusher, besides 225 pounds of muscle and a tie for the Houston Texans’ team single-game rushing record? If you guessed “neither of you were drafted by an NFL team,” you’d be right.
A black jersey slips past several defenders before it is finally brought to the turf, safely clutching the ball as a whistle blows. He finds the referee and flips the ball, getting his bearings and quickly running to his spot at the line of scrimmage. Five linemen quickly march downfield and set up as junior quarterback Tommy Wornham barks out a play call. He looks over to the sideline, where backups senior Andrew Dixon and sophomore Tim Dondanville are side by side issuing identical signals, like a third-base coach standing by a mirror. Wornham reaches his position, flanked by a single running back. He gives one quick call and the ball is back in motion, mere seconds after the last play ended.
In the final tournament of its fall season, the men’s golf team finished eighth at the Northeast Invitational at Shelter Harbor, R.I. The par-71 course hosted all eight Ivy League teams and other stiff competition from schools such as Army, Navy and Boston College.
The women’s ice hockey team opened its season with an exhibition loss to McGill on Friday at Baker Rink. Despite three goals, the team was unable to overcome a strong McGill head start and ultimately fell 4-3.
The men’s rugby team lost 17-10 to Yale and 17-10 to Harvard on its road trip this weekend, but while the scores in the two matches were identical, the quality of Princeton’s play differed drastically.
Amid the buzz of Freshman Parents Weekend and other Princeton athletic events on campus, both the men’s and women’s cross country teams had a solid weekend of racing. The two teams sent their top groups to Terre Haute, Ind., for the Pre-Nationals meet, while the rest of the squads hosted the Princeton Invitational at West Windsor Fields.
