The No. 3 men’s lacrosse team has jumped to a 4-0 record this season with big wins in Baltimore, Md., over then-No. 6 Johns Hopkins and then-No. 6 University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
When typical college sports fans hear “NCAA Tournament selection process,” they probably envision closed-door discussions and hordes of ESPN talking heads debating whether Penn State’s win over Michigan State is more important than Florida’s loss to Kentucky. For basketball fans, this image is relatively accurate, as the selection process is highly secretive and involves a good deal of subjective decision-making.
Zane Kalemba, junior goaltender of the men’s hockey team, lays out his equipment the exact same way before each game, with all the items spread equally far apart. Sophomore forward Sam Sabky listens to Eminem’s hit song “ ’Till I Collapse,” as he walks to Baker Rink. Sophomore forward Kevin Lohry fills two cups of coffee but never completely finishes the second cup.
When I was growing up on the West Coast, it became apparent that the sports world has an extremely unfair East Coast bias. For starters, “SportsCenter” on ESPN airs at 11 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, while NBA, NHL, MLB and NCAA games are still in progress on the West Coast.
Anytime collegiate athletes can describe debut performances the way junior Aaron Horvath did, something special must be afoot.
As Johnny trots off the field after football practice, he thinks about the long list of things he has to do that night: Complete the homework for his Advanced Placement classes, work on his college applications, eat dinner and field two or three phone calls from the college football coaches who are recruiting him.
Just four days after the men’s basketball team’s hopes for an Ivy League title died on the court at Columbia, the Tigers closed their season with a 59-56 win at Penn.
When the women’s basketball team stepped off the court at Penn’s Palestra a year ago, it had just suffered an 85-78 loss to the Quakers to end its Ivy League season at 4-10, second from last.
Team U.S.A. wasn’t the only baseball squad that got rolling this weekend. Princeton’s baseball team also turned in impressive performances, winning three of four games against a feisty William & Mary squad in Williamsburg, Va.
With a small roster compared to its opponents’, the softball team needs all of its players to contribute. More importantly, as they demonstrated last weekend at the UNC Tournament in Chapel Hill, N.C., the Tigers need their hitters to come up big in the clutch.
Of the 24 Princeton fencers who participated in the NCAA Mid-Atlantic/South Regional fencing meet at Drew University in Madison, N.J., last weekend, eight competitors are likely to advance to the NCAA Championship in State College, Pa., in two weeks.
After extending its winning streak to a season-high four matches on Saturday, the men’s tennis team was unable to overcome injury and illness, dropping consecutive matches the following day.
After defeating Stevens Institute of Technology on Friday, the men’s volleyball team came up short against George Mason on Saturday, falling in an error-filled Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (EIVA) Tait Division match.
For the men’s wrestling team, the 2008-09 season was one of marked improvement. Unfortunately for Princeton, things didn’t go as planned at the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) Championships at Penn’s Palestra last weekend. No Tiger placed, and all were eliminated by the end of the first day of competition.
With just two minutes, 59 seconds left on the clock, it looked like the women’s lacrosse team had finally earned the win after an exhausting back-and-forth game against Duke.
Correction appendedWhat could have been a season of redemption for the men?s basketball team turned into one of disappointment.
The women?s basketball team continued its winning streak with two triumphant performances against Ivy League rivals Columbia and Cornell last weekend at Jadwin Gymnasium.
The walls of DeNunzio Pool nearly came down this weekend as the No. 17 men’s swimming and diving team clinched the Ivy League title.
They say there?s no rest for the weary. But despite playing three games in nine days, the No. 5 men?s lacrosse team looked anything but weary last weekend, using a pivotal third-period run to squeak past No.
The weather forecast in Williamsburg, Va., calls for clear skies, 70-degree temperatures and little chance of rain for the weekend. That’s good news for the baseball team, which heads south for a four-game series against William & Mary (3-4 overall).
