All coaches want to see improvement from the beginning of the season to the end. This was certainly the case for men?s and women?s fencing coach Zoltan Dudas.
The men?s lacrosse team entered the 2008 season with high hopes for Ivy League success and postseason play, but inconsistency and unfortunate injuries left the Tigers (7-6 overall, 4-2 Ivy League) just short of qualifying for the NCAA tournament.?You?ve heard me say it a thousand times before this year:
The road to the 2006 Ivy League championship was full of dramatic moments and defining plays. Princeton?s journey in 2007 would prove no less dramatic, but the outcome was different.Heading into the 2007 season, there were a lot of unanswered questions.
Last year on Sept. 14, the women?s volleyball team (22-4 overall, 14-0 Ivy League) beat William & Mary 3-0 in a routine non-conference match.
Despite starting out the season with a disappointing 12th-place finish at the Gopher Invitational, the men?s golf team improved steadily as the season progressed.
Two weekends ago, the morning of the Eastern Sprints Regatta dawned cold, wet and gray, but this did not deter Princeton?s top-ranked men?s and women?s crews.
The women?s lacrosse team could not have asked for a better beginning to the season, steamrolling through its first 10 opponents en route to the third-best start in program history.
For the second-consecutive season, the baseball team fell short of an Ivy League title, finishing in third place behind Columbia and Dartmouth.
Replacing former head coach Joe Scott ?87 and his three-year legacy of losing with the fresh approach of Sydney Johnson ?97 was never meant to trigger an immediate revival of the men?s basketball team?s former glory.
The men?s and women?s tennis teams each showed moments of great promise, though the overall results were less than ideal.
Look to the sports section for two dozen stories detailing athletic teams' performances this year.
The morning of the Eastern Sprints Regatta dawned cold, wet and gray, but this did not deter Princeton?s top-ranked men?s and women?s crews.
The Ivy League champion softball team will face off against the host University of Massachusetts Minutewomen tonight at 5 p.m in the NCAA regionals.
I will never forget the day Carlos Delgado became a New York Met. It was February 2006, and ?New York?s other team? was just turning the corner.
AMHERST, Mass. -- The softball team (25-24 overall, 20-2 Ivy League) found only five victories outside of the conference this season, and it failed to find any more this weekend as the Tigers dropped two games and ended their season at the NCAA softball regional in Amherst, Mass.
This fall, women?s basketball and field hockey will each welcome a strong freshman class of recruits, and both programs will offer their newcomers an equally exciting opportunity.
The last time the women?s lacrosse team saw Northwestern, Princeton found itself on the losing end of a quarterfinal match in 2005 that halted the team?s five-year streak of reaching the Final Four.
If you were to see junior Ben Shechet around campus, you probably wouldn?t guess that you were looking at a capable mixed martial artist and dedicated weightlifter.
Fred Samara is currently the William N. Weaver ?34 head coach of the men?s track and field team.
Princeton alumni Brett Goodman ?90, Joe Gesue ?93 and Rebecca Chatman ?94 may be some of the most overlooked contributors to this year?s Summer Olympics in Beijing.
