Halpern and Parros in NHLLast night, Jeff Halpern '99 and George Parros '03 suited up for the National Hockey League's opening night.
It would be a cliché to say they are inseparable.Unfortunately, it also happens to be true.It's difficult not to speak in clichés, though, when talking about the Schmidt sisters.
Senior Jenny Senske could be described as an Energizer Bunny ? she has played in all of the women's volleyball team's games.
Editor's Note: This is the seventh in a series of postcards that The Daily Princetonian sports staff writers wrote about their experiences in the wide world of sports this summer.
Every a capella group, debate club and comedy improv cast faces the daunting task of filling the holes left by the graduation of senior stalwarts and bemoans their loss.
If you watch the Princeton football team during practice any given afternoon, your attention immediately turns to the quarterback airing out the ball, the receivers running their routes and the coaches chewing on their whistles.Easy to overlook is the player wearing number 15, the one working out alone, separate from the rest of the players clothed in Orange and Black.Transition to any Saturday afternoon, and you'll see a wildly different picture.
Similar to political success, sometimes athleticism just runs in the family. From 1999 to the 2004 season, a familial lineage dominated the goalie position for men's soccer.
For senior Andrew Lieu, the Eastern College Athletic Conference Invitational at Flushing Meadows, N.Y., this past weekend was but another stepping stone on the road that he hopes will end with the men's tennis team claiming the Ivy League championship.
Down two games to one with the end in sight, the women's volleyball team knew it needed a win to stay in the match Friday night in Dillon Gym.
Editor's Note: This is the sixth in a series of postcards that The Daily Princetonian sports staff writers wrote about their experiences in the wide world of sports this summer.
I was wrong.Three weeks ago, I predicted a 4-6 season for the football team, writing that "another 5-5 season is the best the Tigers can possibly hope for."Oops.A brief digression before I begin eating my words: Sports writers are often criticized ? and fairly so ? for being quick to second-guess coaches and players.
Led by the record-setting performance of senior Cack Ferrell, the women's varsity cross country team outran Harvard and Yale this past weekend to place first at the annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet held at the Yale Golf Club.The Tigers beat the Bulldogs, 23-36, and cruised over the Crimson, 19-44.
It would have been easy for women's soccer to give up and take a loss Sunday afternoon. Traveling to Hanover, N.H., to play Dartmouth, Princeton faced a team that was riding a four-game winning streak, had home field advantage and, by the end of the first half, had taken nearly twice as many shots as the Tigers.This was the kind of game Princeton (3-4-2 overall, 1-1-0 Ivy League) has been losing all season.
Senior goalie Bobby Guelich had the game of his collegiate career on Sunday against Dartmouth (4-1-3 overall, 1-0-0 Ivy League). Unfortunately for his team, his performance was part of a losing effort in which the Tigers (3-4-1, 0-1-0) could not muster much of an offense and fared little better on defense.
PHILADELPHIA ? For the second straight weekend, sprint football failed to score a point. The Tigers (0-2 overall) did, however, cut the number of points their opponent scored nearly in half, losing 42-0 to Penn (2-0) on Friday night.The Quakers scored three touchdowns in the first quarter and registered three more scores in the final three quarters.
In the football team's first two games of the season, the Tigers found ways to win. But on Saturday, the team didn't have to do much searching at all.Princeton easily discovered the formula for a blowout win: keep your offense on the field for 40 minutes and 12 seconds, more than ample time to establish some dominating and devastating rhythm."I had confidence, and I felt like I could carry on the rhythm early on [after the first drive]," junior quarterback Jeff Terrell said.And while Terrell played a solid game, a confluence of factors allowed the Tigers to utterly frustrate Columbia en route to a 43-3 win.As both Terrell and head coach Roger Hughes agreed, the ultimate key to Saturday's win was the strong play of Princeton's all-senior offensive line, led by offensive captain and senior outside lineman Ben Brielmaier. "When our offensive line plays well, we have a chance to move the football," Hughes said.
Despite a 2-1 weekend record, the men's water polo team returned disappointed after its 14-game league win streak was snapped by a feisty Bucknell squad.
As head coach Roger Hughes addressed the media following the football team's 43-3 dismantling of Columbia on Saturday, the three Tigers seated to his right shared a laugh while pointing at their printouts of the game's statistics.Junior tailback Cleo Kirkland later explained the cause of their amusement.
After the final whistle blew in Sunday's game against Villanova, the field hockey team felt quite different than it had a mere 48 hours before.
Wearing her orange jersey and cleats, eight-year-old Jessica Bush spent Saturday night bouncing around like a jumping bean.From her vantage point in the bleachers behind the south goal at Lourie-Love Field, Jessica screamed "Princeton!" at the top of her lungs and cheered wildly for her favorite players.She was one of a bevy of young girls at the game, all watching and learning from their heroes on the women's soccer team.
