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Web Update - Tigers knocked out of NCAA Regionals

Web Update - Tigers knocked out of NCAA Regionals

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.

SPORTS | 05/15/2008

Rookies showing promise

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.

SPORTS | 05/15/2008

Chicago powerhouse to test Princeton's defense

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.

SPORTS | 05/15/2008

Shechet ’09 works the weights

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.

SPORTS | 05/13/2008

Samara reminisces on Olympics past

Fred Samara is currently the William N. Weaver ?34 head coach of the men?s track and field team.

SPORTS | 05/13/2008

Goodman ’90 key to NBC’s coverage

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.

SPORTS | 05/13/2008

Tigers to compete on biggest stage

While thousands of Princeton students will be spending their summers at internships, beaches and other universities, a handful will be doing something a little different halfway across the globe.

SPORTS | 05/13/2008

Female Athlete of the Year: Diana Matheson

While we often give these awards to athletes who have made an impact on a school, Ivy League or even national level, our 2008 Women?s Athlete of the Year ? senior midfielder Diana Matheson of the women?s soccer team ? has already made her presence known on the international stage.First consider her performance at Princeton.

SPORTS | 05/11/2008

Male Athlete of the Year: Mike Moore

The Daily Princetonian?s 2008 male athlete of the year arrived on campus as a freshman to play for a brand new coach and a team that had won only four games the previous season.

SPORTS | 05/11/2008

Cornell too strong in Heps wins

As the men and women?s track teams began competition on Saturday, both knew it would take a group effort to capture the Outdoor Heptagonal Championships ? track?s equivalent to an Ivy League Title.

SPORTS | 05/11/2008

Tigers face UMass in NCAA Regionals

The softball team will travel to the University of Massachusetts - Amherst for its first game in the NCAA tournament, the NCAA announced last night.

SPORTS | 05/11/2008

Late run advances Princeton

The back-and-forth action during the first round of the NCAA women?s lacrosse tournament this Saturday against No.

SPORTS | 05/11/2008

Vandy to visit No. 8 Princeton

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.

SPORTS | 05/08/2008

Frist worker a volleyball stud

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.

SPORTS | 05/08/2008

Plummer ascends national rankings

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.

SPORTS | 05/08/2008

The top 10 in Princeton sports: 2007-08

As the spring season comes to a close, we wanted to look back on some of the best athletic feats from this academic year.

SPORTS | 05/08/2008

Buy me some peanuts and crackerjacks

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.

SPORTS | 05/06/2008

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