After two tough losses, the women?s lacrosse team was more than ready to get back to its winning ways on Wednesday when it faced Temple on the road in Philadelphia.
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I really don?t want to start this column off with a reference to the movie, so I?m going to come right out and say that I?m talking about dodgeball.
The legendary Vince Lombardi once said, ?Victory isn?t everything. It?s the only thing.? For athletes at every level of competition, the ever-elusive W in the results column seems to drive decisions and actions both on and off the field.
Tuesday wasn?t a good day to be a hitter. In a matchup with Patriot League power Lehigh, the softball team found itself on the wrong side of a 3-1 pitchers? duel between two dominant starters.Princeton (20-21 overall, 15-1 Ivy League) sent senior righthander Kristen Schaus to the circle.
At first glance, Mark Wilf ?84 seems like just another alum who made good and is now sharing the wealth with his alma mater.
Another weekend passes by, marked by another Saturday filled with wins and another Sunday filled with losses.
The men?s and women?s tennis teams closed out their regular seasons this weekend with their final two Ivy League matches against Columbia and Cornell.
Despite a dominant individual performance by junior Susannah Aboff, the women?s golf team came up just short in the Ivy League championship, finishing in third behind Harvard and Columbia.
With two seconds left in overtime and the women?s water polo team still tied with Bucknell, sophomore utility Helen Meigs launched a perfect lob shot from five meters that sailed over the opposing goalie and hit the back of the net at the buzzer.
After racing in Orlando last weekend, the No. 1 women?s lightweight crew brought the Sunshine State?s pleasantly warm weather home for Saturday?s Class of 2006 Cup.
It was not supposed to end this way.The men?s volleyball team was supposed to go to the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (EIVA) Championship game and maybe even to the NCAA tournament.
The women?s lacrosse coaches? display of electric intensity as they hollered at one another over the lacrosse stick being examined by the referees was only a fraction of the intensity shown on the field.
Hundreds of track athletes from around the Northeast arrived at Princeton?s Larry Ellis Invitational on Friday and Saturday, with many hoping to turn in a new personal record or qualify for the NCAA regionals.
Undefeated in Ivy League play heading into consecutive weekend series with Penn and Cornell, the softball team seemed primed to run away with the Ivy League title.
As its season winds down, the men?s lacrosse team faces new adversity on a daily basis. The Tigers have found themselves in a must-win situation going into tomorrow?s game against No.
Shaken from its first defeat of the season at the hands of No. 6 Penn on Wednesday, the women?s lacrosse team will return to Class of 1952 Stadium on Saturday to face the only other Ivy League team that has beaten them at home since the 1991 season: Dartmouth.
As the New England Patriots learned this past February, perfection is not an easy standard to maintain.
Princeton (17-19 overall, 12-0 Ivy League) took a break from the pressure of maintaining a perfect Ivy League record yesterday as it traveled to Villanova (15-21-1) for its annual doubleheader against the Wildcats.
