Q: Welcome-to-college moment?A: My parents dropped me off, and I immediately started to cry. My new teammate, [junior] Marlowe [Boukis], was there, and we just laughed at how pathetic we were.
Think you?re busy? Try juggling that growing pile of homework with a varsity sport, a senior thesis in the Psychology department and substantial community service, and you?ve got a schedule that would suffocate most Princetonians ? but not senior Lizzie Keady.
Senior defenseman Mike Moore of the men?s hockey team became the latest product of the revitalized Tiger hockey program to have his services enlisted by a professional team, when he signed with the NHL?s San Jose Sharks on Tuesday.
Coming into yesterday?s doubleheader against Rutgers, the softball team appeared to have found the fast track, sprinting out to an 8-0 start in Ivy League play.After the Scarlet Knights (16-21 overall) tagged Princeton (11-19, 8-0 Ivy League)for 16 runs in a pair of decisive wins, the only sprinting the Tigers were doing was the mandatory kind.The Tigers dropped the opener, 9-5, and followed it up with a 7-2 loss in the nightcap, leading head coach Trina Salcido to keep her players an extra 15 minutes after the final pitch to run post-game wind sprints.
For the last month, Princeton (12-15 overall, 4-4 Ivy League) has lost games thanks largely to missed opportunities.
The Princeton basketball coaching tree?s branches have now spread to the West Coast.Craig Robinson ?83 accepted the head coaching position at Oregon State on Monday.
"Why me?? former assistant men?s soccer coach Arron Lujan modestly asked. It was as if he believed he did not deserve his new appointment as the head coach of Carnegie Mellon?s men?s soccer team.As a seven-year professional soccer player and three-year assistant coach at Princeton, he has meant a great deal to the Princeton program and certainly has the credentials and potential to succeed as a head coach.Lujan brings to Carnegie Mellon his experience both on the field and on the sideline, his vast understanding of the game and his ability to recruit the true student-athlete.?I have the ability to give knowledge in certain situations, what works and what doesn?t work, because I have been there,? Lujan said.
Four years ago, senior outside hitter and captain Peter Eichler arrived at Princeton and immediately became a starter on the men?s volleyball team.
When Rob Bordley ?70 first arrived at the Landon School, a prep school in Bethesda, Md., he was 8 years old.
Penn?s men?s lacrosse goalie Chris Casey had nightmares last night. Unfortunately for the Quakers, they started while he was still awake.
Since spring break and the beginning of Ivy League play, the softball team has found a much-needed spark.
The women?s water polo team earned three straight wins at DeNunzio Pool this weekend, defeating No.
It?s not surprising that a Princeton team would aim for no less than perfection, though only the most dedicated squads of athletes can produce the results.
East met West as the men?s heavyweight crew returned to the San Diego Crew Classic for the first time since 1989.
Sitting in second place in the Ivy League?s Gehrig Division standings, the baseball team (12-14 overall, 4-4 Ivy League) travelled to Yale (11-16, 4-2) and Brown (11-12, 4-3) this weekend for two almost identical doubleheaders.
In a game that was expected to be close, the men?s volleyball team put away Juniata in dominant fashion Friday.
If this first home meet is any indication of what?s to come, then the men?s and women?s track teams have tremendous seasons in store for them.
After an inconsistent start to the season, the men?s lacrosse team had the opportunity to reestablish itself as one of the nation?s elite teams this weekend at No.
The men?s and women?s tennis teams stayed busy this weekend with two matches apiece, both facing off against Brown and Yale.
On a bad day, the typical golfer may find himself trapped in the sand or caught in the rough. On Friday, however, the men?s golf team was stuck in a different place ? indoors.
