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.
Just 500 meters into the Eastern Sprints men's heavyweight grand final on Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, Mass., on Sunday, it was clear the race would come down to two boats: Princeton and Harvard.Both crews had gone out extremely fast, and by the 1000-meter mark, the Tigers trailed the Crimson by half a boat length with the rest of the field languishing well behind.
Freshman defenseman Dan Cocoziello was honored as the Ivy League Rookie of the Year on Wednesday, the first time in history the award has gone to a defenseman.
Though the women's golf team failed to advance out of the NCAA East Regionals to the NCAA Championships this weekend, the Tigers did improve on their finish from last season.
For generations, Princetonians have risen to the highest levels of success imaginable in their chosen field ? and men's lacrosse head coach Bill Tierney is no exception.
"As a team, Heps are what we look forward to," junior Cack Ferrell said. "It's the culminating meet for our team's season because it's the last time we will all be together."In the final team contest of the season, both the men's and women's track teams failed to send the seniors out in a manner befitting their high expectations.Held at Columbia's Wien Stadium this weekend, Heptagonals brought all of the Ivy League schools together.
The men's lacrosse team may not have had the season it had hoped for this year, but with the combination of young players already on the roster and a strong incoming recruiting class, Princeton shouldn't take long to return to its usual winning ways.The Tigers bring in nine talented players in the recruiting class of 2009.
It has often been said that familiarity breeds contempt, but for the women's lacrosse team, familiarity has bred respect.
The women's lacrosse team has won three national championships during head coach Chris Sailer's 19 year tenure.
The women's lacrosse team swept the Ivy League's top two honors, it was announced Tuesday, the second straight year that Tigers have claimed both the Ivy Player of the Year and the Rookie of the Year awards.Senior attack Lindsey Biles, who led the league with 62 points, shared Player of the Year honors with Dartmouth's Katieanne Christian, while midfielder Katie Lewis-Lamonica nabbed the Rookie of the Year award.Senior midfielder Elizabeth Pillion and junior defender Lauren Vance accompanied Biles on the All-Ivy first team.
With eight seniors graduating, including four All-Ivy League honorees, the field hockey team will need to find new leaders next season.
Friday night, on the side court next to the storied main floor of Jadwin Gymnasium, the sports staffs of the two titans of Princeton media ? The Daily Princetonian and WPRB ? waged their annual blood feud of a battle in the 2005 Matt Oxman '01 Classic.Proving that the good guys never win, the loudmouth shock-rockers of WPRB jumped to an early lead and breezed to a 64-49 victory over the oft-frazzled, yet still eloquent, scribes of the 'Prince.'Despite having claimed victory last year, the 'Prince' entered the game as the substantial underdog, and with good reason, after the Benedict Arnold-esque off-season defection of sophomore center Meka Asonye from the 'Prince' to WPRB.
This year's men's lacrosse season hasn't exactly been as epic as some past years, but it certainly ended in poetic fashion.The Tigers (5-7 overall, 4-2 Ivy League) defeated Brown (6-6, 2-4) on Saturday at Class of 1952 Stadium by a score of 13-4.
The 2004 men's soccer team missed a share of the Ivy League title by just one loss, a fate that the six members of the Class of 2009 who will join the squad next season are determined not to repeat."We think it's a really strong class," head coach Jim Barlow said.
His adrenaline pumping, Brian Elbogen hustles down the court at Dillon Gym, shouting instructions to teammates.
Wondering what a difference one new class of freshmen can make? Look no further than the women's basketball team's last season.With the help of a stellar freshman class ? including the Ivy League Rookie of the Year, forward Meagan Cowher ? the Tigers pushed their record from 7-20 in 2003-04 to 13-14 in 2004-05.
The future is looking bright for Princeton's tennis teams, as both squads add promising freshmen in the Class of 2009.After playing to a 3-4 Ivy League record this past season, the men's team will need immediate contributions from its four new players if it is to improve next year.The first new player is Alex Krueger-Wyman of Pasadena, Calif.
