Field athletes take starring role in women's win
Personal record. Career best. Phrases such as these lead many to think of track as an individual sport.
Personal record. Career best. Phrases such as these lead many to think of track as an individual sport.
After a slow and steady first half, the women?s lacrosse team used a second-half streak to turn a 9-8 contest into an 18-9 landslide.
While the men's lacrosse team typically relies on big saves and big shots to win close contests, it also got help from a mid-afternoon downpour en route to a key Ivy League victory.
The highlight of this season was probably the men?s volleyball team?s March 1 home win over No.
After preserving its winning streak in a close match against Yale last weekend, the women?s lacrosse team will be on the road tomorrow to face Harvard in Cambridge, Mass.
Fresh off a 7-4 loss to Monmouth on Tuesday, the baseball team will travel to Columbia this weekend for what are undoubtedly the most important four games of its season to date.The Lions (10-18 overall, 6-2 Ivy League) currently sit in first place in the Ivy League?s Gehrig Division, the spot that the Tigers must reach to accomplish their goal of an Ivy League title.
This paper runs a lot of preview articles. And most kinda, sorta, suck. As a former editor, I know that better than most.There is an explanation for all this nonsense: it?s a daily sports section, and ? let?s be honest ? that?s a lot of sports.
After facing the No. 1 Syracuse Orange last weekend, the Princeton men?s lacrosse team will confront a much less daunting task this Saturday when it travels to Cambridge to battle the Harvard Crimson.
While Princeton?s motto might read ?Dei sub numine viget? ? ?Under God?s light she flourishes? ? on Saturday, it was God?s rain that aided the men?s lacrosse team to a key Ivy League victory.
The men?s volleyball team closes out its regular season in a much-anticipated rematch with Tait division rival George Mason (17-7 overall, 7-3 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association Tait Division) tonight.
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.