Men's Water Polo: Tigers place third in tourney
The No. 13 men’s water polo team picked up a 6-5 win against No. 6 Loyola Marymount in the NCAA consolation match, giving Princeton its first NCAA Final Four victory.
The No. 13 men’s water polo team picked up a 6-5 win against No. 6 Loyola Marymount in the NCAA consolation match, giving Princeton its first NCAA Final Four victory.
After arresting a four-game losing streak and proving that its offense is capable of keeping up with the competition, the men’s basketball team may have a new strategy for winning games: Get the ball to sophomore guard Doug Davis.
In a closely fought contest at Jadwin Gymnasium on Saturday night, Rutgers (5-4 overall) edged ahead in the second half to claim a 60-50 victory over the women’s basketball team. Despite Princeton’s (5-2) early surge — the Tigers scored the first six points of the game — the team could not come away with the victory.
In Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Road,” a father and son take a harrowing journey on a post-apocalyptic throughway in search of human life. Confronted by cannibals and other appalling horrors, the two men struggle against the elements for survival.
This weekend, the No. 13 men’s water polo team strives to make history and clinch its first-ever NCAA championship.
This weekend, the women?s hockey team faces two tough ECAC opponents in St. Lawrence and No.
If past outcomes are any predictor of future performance, the men?s and women?s squash teams should come away from their matches with Brown this weekend undefeated in the Ivy League.
Former New York Jets head coach Herm Edwards once said, “You to play to win the game.” Last night, the men’s basketball team did not seem to follow Edwards’ advice.
The men?s hockey team will face ECAC Hockey bottomfeeder Brown on Friday night, and the matchup could not come at a better time for the Tigers.
This Saturday, the women?s basketball team will play its second home game in a row, tipping off against Rutgers at 7 p.m. The Tigers are 5-1 in their first six games of the season, and they look to continue their success this weekend.
Though he grew up playing tennis, soccer and basketball, and though he tried his hand at rowing, Matt Hale has finally found his place: in the pool, playing water polo.
Last night’s game was a tale of two strikingly different halves as the women’s basketball team ultimately cruised to an 86-68 victory over Lehigh at Jadwin Gymnasium.
Last year, junior dave Letourneau helped the men?s squash team to a 13-2 record while earning first-team All-American and first-team All-Ivy honors.
At the end of the 1999 football season, Princeton’s squad was in crisis. The Tigers had just finished the year 3-7 overall and only 1-6 in the Ivy League, their worst finish since 1973’s infamous 1-8, 0-7 team. Head coach Steve Tosches had been in charge longer than some players had been playing the sport, and his last four seasons had been disappointing.
A week and three days after the decision was officially made, the dust surrounding the firing of football head coach Roger Hughes has begun to settle. While the Department of Athletics has not named any of the candidates that it has interviewed thus far, numerous internet reports have surfaced regarding applicants.
Roger Hughes needed to be fired. There is no sugarcoating the issues or dancing around the truth. After 10 seasons as the football head coach, Hughes’ time calling the shots at Princeton had to end.
It says a lot about the men’s soccer team that, despite reaching its first NCAA tournament since 2001, it wasn’t satisfied with how the season went.
Last week’s 23-11 victory over Dartmouth wrapped up the football team’s third consecutive 4-6 season. But there was more to the season than the record. While the 2007 and 2008 seasons panned out nearly identically, with Princeton winning and losing games against the exact same opponents, the 2009 season had a much more complicated plotline.
The 2009 field hockey team was young, but its stellar season proved that it was anything but inexperienced.