David Hale ’10 grew up outside Atlanta with dreams of playing for his hometown’s Atlanta Braves. This past summer, those dreams came one step closer to becoming a reality.
Greg Hughes ’96 has been named the new heavyweight crew head coach, the University announced July 30. Hughes replaced Curtis Jordan, who retired after 19 years as head coach of the men’s heavyweight crew.
In one of the most significant coaching changes in the sport’s history, men’s lacrosse head coach Bill Tierney announced June 8 that he would leave Princeton to become the new head coach at the University of Denver.
Curtis Jordan will retire after 19 years as head coach of the men’s heavyweight crew, Director of Athletics Gary Walters ’67 announced Thursday.
Drexel head coach Chris Bates has accepted an offer to become the new head coach of the men’s lacrosse team. Bates is expected to bring Greg Raymond and Stephen Brundage, Drexel’s two assistant coaches, with him to Princeton.
Kathy Sell will step down as head coach of the women’s tennis team, becoming the third coach in 10 days to part ways with the University.
Men’s lacrosse associate head coach David Metzbower has declined an offer to succeed former head coach Bill Tierney and said instead that he will leave the program as well. Metzbower was seen as the top candidate to replace Tierney, and many in the lacrosse community assumed he was a shoo-in for the job.
David Hale '10, a pitcher and designated hitter on the baseball team, was drafted by the Atlanta Braves on Tuesday in the third round of the MLB draft. The Arizona Diamondbacks selected right-hander Brad Gemberling ’09 on Wednesday in the 24th round of the draft, and the Toronto Blue Jays picked catcher Jack Murphy '10 on Thursday in the 31st round.
In one of the most significant coaching changes in the sport’s history, men’s lacrosse head coach Bill Tierney announced Monday that he is leaving Princeton to become the new head coach at the University of Denver.
On Sunday, the women?s lightweight and open crew teams will head to the Cooper River in Camden, N.J., to compete in the EAWRC Championships.Last May, the lightweight women went down to the wire in a tight finish against Wisconsin.
At the end of the regular season two weekends ago, the men’s lacrosse team won a share of the Ivy League title with a win over Brown. The Tigers (13-2 overall, 5-1 Ivy League) split the title with Cornell despite falling to the Big Red in Ithaca, N.Y., because Brown had previously beaten Cornell.
The No. 7 women’s lacrosse team has had a taxing schedule so far this season, with games against No. 2 Maryland, then-No. 3 Penn and No. 4 Duke, but the stiffest, most daunting test of all comes tomorrow in the behemoth that is undefeated defending champion No. 1 Northwestern (20-0).
For most collegiate swimmers, five All-America honors in one season would be the ultimate dream. But for senior swimmer Doug Lennox, his NCAA accomplishments did not hold a flame (pun intended) to having the opportunity to compete in the Olympic Games.
The men’s lacrosse team fell 6-4 to Cornell on Saturday in the NCAA quarterfinals at Hofstra University.The women’s lacrosse team also lost its NCAA quarterfinal game on Saturday, falling 16-9 to undefeated Northwestern in Evanston, Ill.
The members of the men’s and women’s track and field teams each have one more opportunity to qualify for NCAA competition. The men will compete at this weekend’s Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America (IC4A) Championships, while the women will compete at the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Championships. Princeton will host both meets at Weaver Stadium, with the IC4A decathlon slated to kick off competition at 1 p.m. on Friday.
How much can the average Princeton student accomplish in 16 minutes, 59.9 seconds? For an editor at The Daily Princetonian, 17 minutes is a respectable time to be clocked on a Wa run. Junior Liz Costello, however, can traverse five kilometers in that time.
Manny took PEDs: What did you expect? Well, it’s official: Manny Ramirez has used performance-enhancing drugs. Human chorionic gonadotropin is the drug that Manny is confirmed to have taken, which was likely prescribed to him because he has low testosterone.
Senior alex pessala wanted to throw the hammer farther than he actually did last weekend at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships. But he still separated himself from the pack by a prodigious 5.5-meter margin.
Q: What was your ?welcome to college? moment?A: I had a guy that lived on my hall freshman year that was pretty ridiculous but will remain unnamed.
Racing against Lance Armstrong would usually be the highlight of any college cyclist’s career. For senior Nick Frey, however, it was only one of several high points in the past two weeks, during which the mechanical engineering major also won the Division II road race at the USA Cycling Collegiate Road National Championships and helped Princeton to a second-place finish in the Division II men’s team time trial.
