Coming off a weekend sweep over Ancient Eight rivals Harvard and Yale last weekend at the annual HYPs, the Princeton men's and women's track teams opened up Jadwin Gym on Saturday, Feb.
It was an emotional afternoon at Baker Rink Saturday when women's hockey head coach Jeff Kampersal stood up and gave a speech for Senior Day.Judging by the fact that the Tigers (16-10-4 overall,14-6-2 Eastern College Athletic Conference Hockey League) followed it up with their second shutout victory in a row, it must have been a pretty good speech.Princeton's Friday night matchup against Colgate (14-14-2, 13-7-1) resulted in a hard-fought 1-0 victory, while Saturday's skate against Cornell (4-23-2, 4-17-1) put a notch in the win column, with an easy 3-0 victory.The pair of victories meant that the Tigers finally won the fight for fourth place in the ECACHL, which gives Princeton home-ice advantage in the first two games of its quarterfinal matchup with Colgate this weekend at Baker Rink."It was awesome winning the last two games of the regular season," senior captain and forward Kim Pearce said.
In sports, teams don't get many second chances ? but they do get some, and how they capitalize on them dictates the quality of the squad.This weekend, with the Ivy championship slipping from the grasp of the fourth-place Tigers, they'll effectively have one last shot to show what they've got.
The men's basketball team is halfway through its Ivy League season, and though a title run is out of reach, there is still plenty for this young team to play for.Princeton (10-11 overall, 1-6 Ivy League) kicks off the second round of conference matchups this weekend at home against Cornell (13-9, 6-2) tonight and Columbia (13-9, 4-4) tomorrow night.Team goals of running the offense efficiently and grinding out wins remain salient, but the individual performances of those Tigers building toward next season will be just as important.Princeton enters the weekend with junior forward Kyle Koncz leading the way in scoring at 8.8 points per game.
With the penultimate weekend of the men's hockey season looming just around the corner, fans from all around the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Hockey League (ECACHL) sit on tenterhooks, anxiously poring over the standings and schedules, trying to predict where their favorite teams will stand when the dust has settled.All playoff seeds from one to 12 are yet to be determined, and all 12 teams still have a shot at a top-four finish and the first-round bye that comes with it."Our league is so close it's unbelievable," senior goaltender BJ Sklapsky said.
It's hard to say whether the women's hockey team is hosting its final pair of regular season games or is holding a convention aimed at dental hygiene and fresh breath this weekend as the Tigers face off against Colgate at 7 p.m.
There's only one question to ask this weekend: Can the Tigers stay perfect?It's rare for a Division I school to have two teams remain undefeated during the same season and even rarer for both of those teams to compete in the same sport.
A good sports team tries to force its opponent to make errors. Better teams can even adjust to an opponent's strengths ? and that's exactly what the men's volleyball team did against New York University.There was certainly no lack of excitement for the crowd at Dillon Gym on Tuesday night, when the men's volleyball team took on New York University (5-9 overall) in its home opener.
"I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell." Sound familiar?To most, these words conjure an image of Christopher Walken encouraging a belly-baring Will Ferrell to explore the studio space in a Saturday Night Live skit.
The Tigers just wrapped up an undefeated Ivy League season, something that hasn't been done since 2003.
Senior forwards Darroll Powe and Grant Goeckner-Zoeller are members of the men's ice hockey team.Welcome-to-college-sports moment?GGZ: I guess it was the first weekend of our freshman year, on the road against St.
Stepping onto the ice to perform a three-minute-long program is daunting enough when the skater is competing solo.
It's been said that the least comforting part about winning a championship is its transience ? come next season, a title signifies nothing about the strength of the team defending it.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. ? When rivals meet, the setting is always intense. And when the game is intense, a team that plays good defense will almost always be the winner.Unfortunately for the men's basketball team (10-11 overall, 1-6 Ivy League), its stellar defense was outdone by an even better Penn defense, guiding the Quakers (15-8, 6-1) to a 48-35 win in a slugfest last night at The Palestra.After the Tigers rallied to tie the game at 29 with 11 minutes and 24 seconds remaining, Penn sealed Princeton's fate with a long second-half run maintained by stifling pressure defense.The Orange and Black shot a dreadful 31 percent from the floor, including 21 percent from beyond the arc, but was kept in the game by Penn's 35 percent field-goal and 13 percent three-point shooting.
Most sibling rivalries extend to all sorts of quarrels. For the water-polo-playing duo of senior utility Elyse Colgan and sophomore driver Brendan Colgan, however, their fights center on just one issue."We only fight over the car," Brendan said.The two siblings, who share a passion for water polo, actually get along so well that they cooperate in a musical venture at home."I actually have a band back home," Brendan, who hails from Annapolis, Maryland, said.
Professors always tell students to think outside the box because creativity and individuality keep them from being confined to any one space.