The back-and-forth action during the first round of the NCAA women?s lacrosse tournament this Saturday against No.
Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m., the No. 8 women?s lacrosse team will make its 11th-straight NCAA tournament appearance when it faces No.
It?s common knowledge that many Princeton students have a secret talent, be it speaking four languages, being national debate champion or being able to juggle six balls at once that helped separate them from the thousands of other applicants with perfect GPAs and SAT scores.
While typical 18 year olds are in the process of making the adjustment from high school to college life, sophomore thrower Eric Plummer has been there, done that.
As the spring season comes to a close, we wanted to look back on some of the best athletic feats from this academic year.
It was 1996. The Cleveland Indians were undeniably my favorite sports team, and Omar Vizquel was my undisputed favorite athlete (he would soon be usurped by Kerri Strug and Dominique Moceanu of the Magnificent Seven, but that wouldn?t happen for at least a few weeks). I was an avid fan, proudly declaring that the Indians would return to the World Series and that this time they would win it.So when my dad told me that after going to visit my grandparents next spring, he had gotten tickets for an Indians game, I was, as you can imagine, ecstatic.
Q: Welcome to college moment?A: I raced at Princeton my senior year at an open meet in the 5K. This race is hardly run in high school, and I did not really run it very often, though I knew I would be [running it] in college.
At the beginning of the season, the men?s tennis team was optimistic about its chances of winning the Ivy League.
For about 30 minutes, we climbed through straight elevation, and upon finally reaching the fifth checkpoint, suddenly realized that we had missed the second checkpoint.
As Tiger track and field athletes look forward to the Heptagonal Championships next weekend, they can look back at their performances last weekend at the Princeton Elite Meet.
It seems as if the men?s lacrosse team?s Cinderella story has just about come to an end.
Last weekend the women?s lacrosse team went head to head with Georgetown in one of its closest and hardest-fought games of the season.
The No. 8-seeded women?s lacrosse team will play host to No. 9 Vanderbilt in the first round of the NCAA tournament, the NCAA tournament selection committee announced Monday.
When it comes down to it, sports teams can only hope for a shot at the title. In 2006, Ivy League softball changed its format to give that chance to only two teams, the winners of the Ivy League North and South divisions.
With the first round of the NCAA men?s lacrosse tournament just a little more than two weeks away, the pressure is already on the Princeton squad to perform at tournament-level perfection.
With the storm clouds gathering overhead, junior Duncan Roberts fixed senior Tom McKay with a steely gaze.
In the sports world, athletes often talk about their performances as being 90 percent mental and only 10 percent physical.
The women?s lacrosse team looks to rebound this Saturday against No. 7 Georgetown after a tough loss to No.
Each year, a handful of Princeton graduates pursue the dream of becoming a professional athlete. Though not all succeed, most of them have at least two traits in common: youth and inexperience.Major League Lacrosse (MLL) rookie Howard Krongard ?61 has neither.At 67 years old, Krongard, a former bureaucrat, has dreams of playing in the MLL, the nation?s premier lacrosse league.
The school year is quickly winding down. For some of us, like yours truly, the same can be said about the entire college experience.
