Coming off a tough mid-week loss to Temple, members of the women?s volleyball team knew that turning things around meant cutting out the hitting errors that are common to any team early in its season.
On a spectacular Saturday afternoon, the field hockey team had its home opener in Class of 1952 Stadium.
On a team that most expected would draw its strength from a veteran senior class, it was freshman middle blocker Cathryn Quinn who kept the women?s volleyball team in its Wednesday night game against Temple.With the outcome of the match resting on the Tigers pulling themselves together in the fourth set and playing like an Ivy League champ, they came out of the gates running.
For only the second time in the storied program?s 140-year history, the Princeton football team will board a plane to fly to a game this weekend, as the Tigers take on No.
The men?s and women?s soccer teams find themselves at similar junctures early in the season, with both looking to build momentum heading into Ivy League play.This weekend, the men?s soccer team (1-2 overall) travels to the Windy City, where it will take on two nationally ranked teams.
After its first loss of the season came in devastating fashion ? a 3-2 double-overtime loss to No.
After a tough outing at the Princeton Invitational, the men?s water polo team heads up to Harvard for the ECAC championship this weekend.
When standout linebackers Tim Boardman ?08 and Doori Song ?08 walked out of FitzRandolph Gate in June, the Princeton linebacking corps was left with large shoes to fill.
Q: What was your welcome-to-college moment?A: In one of the first games my freshman year, I went up for a header and got knocked out and had to get seven stitches in the back of my head.
Correction appendedMeet sophomore Tess Wood. A former crew standout at The Bolles School in Jacksonville, Fla., Wood came to Princeton looking for something new and exciting in the way of sports.
As a player in his 13th season of Major League Soccer, Jesse Marsch ?96 is considered a veteran in the world of American professional soccer.
Over the last 12 months, I have fielded one question with surprising regularity: ?Are we going to get another bonfire this year??And my answer is often as slick as head coach Roger Hughes?.Hughes will tell you the Ivy League is filled with parity: anyone can beat anyone on any given day.
What would your dream summer job be? Selling your soul to The Man in I-banking or consulting? Serving as a ?community organizer?? As your friendly neighborhood Princetonian sports editor, and a huge sports fan, there was only one for me. ESPN.
Princeton head coach Roger Hughes was getting angry.It was less than 10 days until the Tigers? season opener, and the two-minute offense had stalled at the 30-yard line.After senior quarterback Brian Anderson overlooked a wide open receiver on fourth and two, Hughes had seen enough, stopping practice with an enraged outburst that reminded everyone on the field that no one, not even the quarterback, is safe from critique.Anderson absorbed the criticism and got back under center.
When offensive coordinator Dave Rackovan was asked to pinpoint the key to Princeton?s offense this season, he gave a definitive answer.?The bottom line will be this,? Rackovan said.
Three years ago, Tom Methvin, Pete Buchignani and Matt Koch arrived on campus as complete strangers, linked only by their hulking frames and talent for football.
When the Tiger defense takes the field for the first time this season, opponents won?t have any doubts about where to attack.
The Daily Princetonian gives Tiger fans an in-depth look at the 2008 Princeton football team. From overviews of the offense and defense to a look at what makes the D-line such a force to be reckoned with, look no further than our special football preview.
Every September, more than 50 freshmen walk on to the men?s and women?s crews, eager to try their hands at a sport that looks almost effortless from afar.
Last season, Princeton saw high expectations go unfulfilled as the Tigers failed to defend their Ivy League crown.
