While the women?s water polo team dealt with the graduation of an all-time great, its counterpart on the men?s side saw a senior star solidify his place in the record books.
It was a season filled with ups and downs for the men?s volleyball team. The team was talented, but it had trouble finding a groove.
The paid attendance at the men?s hockey team?s first game of the year, a 5-3 exhibition victory over a Canadian team from Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, was 257.
At the beginning of the fall, women?s cross country and track and field coach Peter Farrell predicted a season full of highlights.
The Princeton wrestling team saw a second-consecutive season end without a dual meet win, but the lack of victories masks significant progress made by the team this year.
The women?s hockey team?s season can best be described as one with some very high highs and some very low lows.
Unyielding, unwavering and understated is perhaps the best way to describe the 2007-08 men?s and women?s squash teams and their exemplary seasons.
All coaches want to see improvement from the beginning of the season to the end. This was certainly the case for men?s and women?s fencing coach Zoltan Dudas.
The men?s lacrosse team entered the 2008 season with high hopes for Ivy League success and postseason play, but inconsistency and unfortunate injuries left the Tigers (7-6 overall, 4-2 Ivy League) just short of qualifying for the NCAA tournament.?You?ve heard me say it a thousand times before this year:
The road to the 2006 Ivy League championship was full of dramatic moments and defining plays. Princeton?s journey in 2007 would prove no less dramatic, but the outcome was different.Heading into the 2007 season, there were a lot of unanswered questions.
Last year on Sept. 14, the women?s volleyball team (22-4 overall, 14-0 Ivy League) beat William & Mary 3-0 in a routine non-conference match.
Despite starting out the season with a disappointing 12th-place finish at the Gopher Invitational, the men?s golf team improved steadily as the season progressed.
Two weekends ago, the morning of the Eastern Sprints Regatta dawned cold, wet and gray, but this did not deter Princeton?s top-ranked men?s and women?s crews.
The women?s lacrosse team could not have asked for a better beginning to the season, steamrolling through its first 10 opponents en route to the third-best start in program history.
For the second-consecutive season, the baseball team fell short of an Ivy League title, finishing in third place behind Columbia and Dartmouth.
Replacing former head coach Joe Scott ?87 and his three-year legacy of losing with the fresh approach of Sydney Johnson ?97 was never meant to trigger an immediate revival of the men?s basketball team?s former glory.
The men?s and women?s tennis teams each showed moments of great promise, though the overall results were less than ideal.
Look to the sports section for two dozen stories detailing athletic teams' performances this year.
The morning of the Eastern Sprints Regatta dawned cold, wet and gray, but this did not deter Princeton?s top-ranked men?s and women?s crews.
