On Nov. 14, in Lewisburg, Pa., senior goaltender Peter Sabbatini refused to let the men's water polo team lose.
Johns Hopkins, Virginia, Syracuse ? three of the best teams in all of college men's lacrosse.
In a league stacked with talent, Princeton's tennis teams found themselves earning narrow victories and facing tough competition from their Ivy opponents.
The fencing team finished eighth at the 2005 NCAA fencing championships. The men's and women's squads combined to total 77 points, 60 points behind Ivy League rival Columbia, which finished in fifth, and 96 points behind national champion Notre Dame.The Tigers earned the bulk of their points in the epee.
On the cold and windy evening of Nov. 26, the women's soccer team did the unthinkable on Lourie-Love Field.
The men's soccer team went through its season like a sputtering rollercoaster, earning a breathtaking win one day only to stagnate offensively the next, resulting in a steep nosedive.When it was all over, the Tigers (8-5-4 overall, 3-2-2 Ivy League) were far from the worst team in the league, yet the Ivy crown would elude their grasp.
By the end of his junior season, calling Yasser El-Halaby the Michael Jordan of college squash might be excessively complimentary ? to Michael Jordan.For a third consecutive year, the soft-spoken Cairo, Egypt native dominated his competition with remarkable ease, destroying Yale's Julian Illingworth, 9-6, 9-2, 9-1 in early March to become the first male to ever win three individual national titles in his first three seasons.
For ten straight years, from 1994 to 2003, the outcome had been as certain as death and taxes ? at the end of every Ivy League field hockey season, Princeton sat atop the standings.But on Nov.
When the women's lacrosse team took the turf in Evanston, Ill., on May 15 to face Northwestern in the NCAA tournament quarterfinals, the Tigers (13-5 overall, 6-1 Ivy League) found themselves playing an unfamiliar role: underdog.After reaching the Final Four for five consecutive years and winning national championships in 2002 and 2003, this year's Princeton squad was younger, more inexperienced and, ultimately, not quite as good."Expectations are always very high," head coach Chris Sailer said.
The men's hockey program entered the 2004-05 season with a drastically altered image. Princeton sported a newly refurbished home ice and a brand new head coach, Guy Gadowsky.
Coming off a 2003-04 campaign in which the team won only a single meet, the wrestling program made positive strides in 04-05, earning victories in five meets.
Bolstered by the strongest corps of returning players and veteran leadership in recent memory, the sprint football team reasonably hoped to accomplish something the Tigers haven't done in a while ? win a game.In spite of much improved play, however, Princeton (0-6 overall) continued to be outmatched by the four other schools that compete in the Collegiate Sprint Football League.
For the second year in a row, Princeton proved to be the preeminent golf program in the Ivy League as both the men's and women's squads repeated as Ancient Eight champions.
After winning nine straight Lou Gehrig Division titles from 1996-2004, the baseball team has established itself as the Yankees of the Ivy League.
MIAMI ? Playing under threatening skies, the No. 21 nationally ranked women's soccer team (0-1) fell in its season opener against No.
After dominating regular season play in the College Water Polo Association's Southern Division and acquitting themselves well against national-caliber competition, the women's water polo entered the CWPA Eastern tournament with high expectations.But after the Tigers notched a 10-6 first-round victory over Brown, Michigan ran over Princeton (27-9 overall) with five straight first quarter goals en route to an 8-3 semifinal victory.
Thanks to savvy scheduling prior to the season and stellar play throughout it, the Ivy League champion softball team (36-20 overall, 12-2 Ivy League) was able to close out the year in a situation identical to how it opened play ? as an underdog battling some of the nation's toughest competition.Princeton's season ended on May 21 in Tucson, Ariz., with a 6-3 loss to Oklahoma State in the semifinals of the NCAA tournament regionals, but only after the Tigers had downed Lehigh, 3-1, earlier in the day for their first regional-round win since 1996.The tournament appearance thus proved to be the final success in a season that was full of them for the Tigers.
The expectations placed on the 2004-05 men's basketball team were remarkably high, but they weren't unfounded ? not on paper, at least.Thanks to a unique combination of change and continuity, the Tigers appeared poised to breeze to an Ivy League title.
The first time the women's volleyball team played Penn in 2004, the Tigers topped the Quakers 3-1 in their Ivy opener.
On a crisp afternoon in late October, the sea of orange and black-clad homecoming fans watching the football team battle Harvard at Princeton Stadium had reason to cheer.The 4-1 Tigers had jumped to 14-3 first quarter lead against the defending-Ivy champion Crimson.
