After spending nearly a month on the road, the baseball team has returned home to Clarke Field to defend its turf and its 2006 Ivy League title.
College admissions offices, alarmed at the number of applications from students with bulging, possibly inflated resumes that list more activities than number of hours in a given week, have started to say they are not looking for well-rounded applicants so much as well-lopsided ones ? good students with a particular aptitude or musical interest or proven athletic ability.Back when Craig Masback '77, now CEO of USA Track & Field (USATF), applied to Princeton in 1973, he would have defied any such categorization.
When a team falls into a cold spell, it can often seem as if the opponents are hitting with bigger bats.
It's midway through the season and the men's lacrosse team has found its groove. Over spring break, No.
Coming off a tough loss against No. 3 Virginia last Saturday, the women's lacrosse team (3-3 overall, 0-0 Ivy League) is looking to bounce back.
It's a good thing the spring season is a marathon and not a sprint, because in the short run, the Princeton softball team would be out of contention already.
Just over two weeks ago, rival players Joey Porter, a former Steeler, and Levi Jones, a current Bengal, were involved in an incident in a Las Vegas casino.
Hot Hands. Sparkle. Zentar. Ranger Rick.Though these names may sound like characters from a failed Saturday morning cartoon, they are, in fact, a roster ? just a few of the many nicknames given to players on the men's volleyball team.
Most young soccer players have coaches and parents who emphasize that at the end of the day, "it's just a game." For senior tennis player Darcy Robertson, however, the lessons she has learned from sports last long after the game is over.Robertson, a veteran member of the Princeton varsity squad who began her tournament tennis career at the tender age of nine, has had a racquet at her side "from the moment I can remember." The lessons which Robertson has taken from tennis extend far beyond the athletic arena and have helped her in her academic career as a Wilson School major."[Tennis has] taught me so many lessons; it's given me so much strength throughout my life.
There is a type of weather that emerges every year sometime in late March. It's not always the warmest day of the year or the one with the most sunshine, but something in the air signifies the arrival of something great.
Sometimes the greatest decisions in life are made unknowingly. When Elizabeth Pillion '05 decided to pick up lacrosse, she hadn't put too much thought into it.
After an intense week of practice over spring break, the men's lightweight crew and women's open crew launched their spring seasons over the weekend.Both teams hosted regattas at home on Lake Carnegie, with the men challenging Navy and the women facing both Brown and Ohio State.
March Madness ? a time to agonize over filling out brackets, cheer on local underdogs in vain and inevitably lose a few (or more than a few) bucks to the lucky friend who entered the pool but doesn't know a thing about sports.
Seven, they say, is a lucky number. This past weekend, the fencing team certainly hoped this old saying would hold true as it sent seven members to compete in the NCAA National Championship finals.The men started the national competition Thursday afternoon, with each Tiger representative fencing a 14-bout round robin.
The No. 18 women's water polo team spent its spring break in sunny California. But far from a vacation, the squad's eight-day trip was a tuneup for the rapidly approaching postseason.
Fresh off crowning three All-Americans in the indoor season, the men's and women's track and field teams went to Florida during spring break to open the outside season.On March 21, at the National Training Center in Clermont, Fla., senior pole vaulter Andrew Park and sophomore hammer thrower Alex Pessala both qualified for NCAA Regionals while the team claimed five first-place individual finishes in the next two days at Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex.Not only did Park qualify for May's NCAA Regional competition in Gainesville, Fla., but he also vaulted his way to second place in program history with a jump of 17 feet, two-and-a-quarter inches.
Wanted: Princeton men's basketball head coach.You might not think that a job that has been so closely guarded within the Princeton family would be so widely advertised.But if you check out part of the NCAA website, you will see what essentially amounts to a want ad for the Princeton coach. Anyone who submits a resume and a cover letter has a shot, now that Joe Scott '87 has picked up and moved camp."Obviously, based on my background both as a former player and a former coach ? somebody who's been active in college basketball all my life, I clearly am wired into the world of college basketball," Director of Athletics Gary Walters '67 said.
After winning six matches in a row, the No. 64 women's tennis team (7-5) faced a rude awakening on the West Coast against some of the best teams in the nation.
