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.
MIAMI ? Whether it was caused by fatigue, inexperience, missing teammates, poor weather, or simply the stars being improperly aligned, the women's soccer team (0-2 overall) was again held scoreless Sunday, this time in a 3-0 loss to the Miami Hurricanes (3-1).After falling to No.
Senior midfielder Elizabeth Pillion had missed the last three weeks of the regular season with a hamstring injury, but in her first game back yesterday afternoon at home, no one could tell.
Recently, Daily Princetonian senior writer Clarke Smith sat down with senior basketball and baseball standout Will Venable.
With a berth in the Final Four on the line, the women's lacrosse team needed to play a perfect game against No.
The Princeton style of offense is known for its backdoor cuts, but lately it's been producing more of a revolving door effect.Chris Mooney '94, who spent last season as the head coach at Air Force after serving four years as an assistant to current Tiger men's basketball coach Joe Scott '87, has accepted the head coaching position at the University of Richmond.
The men's golf team, seeded No. 26 out of 27 teams in the upcoming NCAA Regionals, is looking to use its underdog status to slip ahead of its opponents and prove skeptics wrong about its ability to compete at a national level.
With seven teams that made last year's NCAA Tournament scheduled to face the women's soccer team next season ? including the UCLA squad that defeated Princeton in the national semifinals ? head coach Julie Shackford will discover early on how her new Tigers compare to last year's unit.At the moment, she can only guess the impact of losing a stellar senior class that includes two-time Ivy League Player of the Year Esmeralda Negron.
An anxious Princeton softball team waits to hear its fate in the next few days as the NCAA Tournament bracket is revealed.
Princeton's men's and women's crews travel to different locations this Sunday for their respective Eastern Sprints regattas, but when all is said and done, they hope to end up in the same place ? atop all of their competitors.
