Tigers topple nation's best
Having just emerged from the rigors of final exam week, the women's squash team faced three more tests over Intersession break.
Having just emerged from the rigors of final exam week, the women's squash team faced three more tests over Intersession break.
Junior captain Peter Eichler and the rest of the men's volleyball squad (1-3 overall) expected fierce play when they headed out to California for a four-game stretch to begin the season.
Despite the recent freezing cold temperatures in the Northeast, the men's tennis team was in action over Intersession, both at home and at the Harvard and Columbia Invitational tournaments.
According to Jon Dekker '06, Old Nassau gives its students lessons in life skills useful in all walks of life.
The men's hockey team continues to tread water in the tight ECAC Hockey League, where it has managed to stay afloat amid a sea of teams with middling records.
For a team that has been waiting all season for its first dual-meet win, it looks like Ivy competition won't be any easier.The Princeton wrestling team's return to Dillon Gym ended in disappointment as the Tigers were swept in their weekend matches against Harvard (2-6 overall, 1-1 Ivy League), Brown (2-9, 1-0) and Franklin & Marshall (7-4).The losses dropped the Tigers to 0-12 on the season, 0-2 in the Ivy League and 0-5 in Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association conference action.On Friday, the Tigers faced an energized Harvard team coming off its first win of the season against Army.Though the match would begin and end well, the Crimson's four ranked grapplers, including sixth-ranked J.P.
After another winless Ivy League weekend, the men's basketball team can no longer point fingers at anyone else for its last-place league standing.Princeton (9-9 overall, 0-4 Ivy League) first hit the road on the Monday of Intersession to take on non-conference opponent Seton Hall (12-9) at Continental Airlines Arena.
Three months ago, as Fall Break was coming to an end, the women's hockey team took a road trip and came home with a pair of wins over Brown and Yale.This past weekend, the Bears and the Bulldogs made a trip of their own to Hobey Baker Rink.
As any scientist worth his Ph.D. would tell you, there's something special about powers of 10. On the day when junior forward Meagan Cowher reached 1,000 points, her outstanding effort also vaulted the women's basketball team into the top spot in the Ivy League standings.At the end of the season, this past weekend may be considered the team's high-water mark.
As aimless freshmen, we were lured onto The Daily Princetonian's sports staff by the possibility of traveling with the men's basketball team to the NCAA tournament.
Intersession is a time for students to breathe a sigh of relief that another semester's worth of exams has come and gone.
After a solid start to the new year, the men's hockey team finds itself in the midst of a two-week hiatus as it prepares for the final push in its ECAC Hockey schedule.
In the midst of the finals-induced mid-season break in Princeton winter sports, The Daily Princetonian takes a step back to evaluate the men's basketball team (9-6 overall, 0-2 Ivy League) season so far.Compared to their success at this point last season ? a fairly low standard ? the Tigers appear to be doing well.
As our tenure as sports editors of the 130th Board comes to a close, we are in quite the reflective mood.
After hitting the books for two weeks during exams, the well-rested women's hockey team returns to the ice over Intersession in a pair of home games against Ivy League foes Brown and Yale.
College football may very well be America's greatest sport. No other competition can rival the passion or the pageantry ? or the performances on the field.Over winter break, I had the privilege of attending the Peach Bowl in Atlanta, a contest that saw the Georgia Bulldogs come back from a 21-3 deficit to beat the Hokies of Virginia Tech.The experience went beyond the game itself: Every one of the more than 75,000 seats in the Georgia Dome was filled half an hour before kickoff, a rare occurrence for any sporting event.
After remaining undefeated for 25 straight dual meets, the Harvard women's swim team (5-1 overall, 5-0 Ivy League) was brought down by Rutgers (6-0, 3-0 Big East), dropping a Jan.