With funding from the University and a variety of donor organizations, it may seem that Princeton athletics would be more than able to run successfully.
While zero may have negative connotations for some people, it is quickly becoming a favorite number for the men's tennis team (7-2 overall). Zero matches lost this past weekend, zero home losses this season and zero defeats against their past six opponents all add up to something much greater than zero.Saturday morning at Jadwin Gym, the Tigers cruised past George Washington (4-6), notching a 7-0 shutout.
The men's and women's fencing squads finished in second place at this year's Intercollegiate Fencing Association championships, held this weekend in Providence, R.I.
When the football team played in San Diego this September, they didn't make the trip to California alone.
Thanks to a strong defensive effort ? and benefiting from Princeton's error-plagued offensive play ? Rutgers-Newark swept the men's volleyball team on Tuesday night in Dillon Gym.Princeton (2-8 overall, 1-5 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association) was defeated, 30-27, 30-27 and 31-29.The Tigers had hoped to avenge their loss to the Scarlet Raiders (7-5, 4-1), having fallen to them, 3-2, earlier this season.
The women's water polo team matched up against some of the nation's top teams this past weekend, proving in the process that it deserves to be considered among the best.
The University of Virginia spends about $38 million on its 23 varsity athletic teams each year. The University of Michigan has budgeted $59 million this year for its 26 varsity teams.
According to data released by the NCAA yesterday, none of Princeton's varsity athletic teams are in danger of falling below new academic standards that will take effect next season.Princeton's overall "academic progress rate," or APR, of 994 ranked in the top decile of all universities, well above the 948 national average.Based on the 2003-04 school year, the NCAA calculated the APR for each team at all 326 Division-I universities.
Jackie Chan would be proud of me.Well, maybe not.As an Asian, I have often keenly felt the absence of any knowledge of martial arts.
Junior Cack Ferrell traveled to the weekend's Heptagonal Championship at Harvard as the defending champion in both the mile and the 3,000-meter run.
For Princeton, the women's Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championship started and ended the same way ? with a winning school-record relay anchored by senior co-captain Stephanie Hsiao.
With an extraordinary 162-30 record in his 25 years of coaching, men's squash head coach Bob Callahan has had a career full of huge victories.Yet Callahan referred to team's performance in last weekend's National Team Tournament as the highlight of his career."Through all the adversity, the team just kept working harder and harder," Callahan said.
NEW YORK -- For the first time this Ivy League season, following Friday night's 68-59 victory over Columbia (12-13 overall, 3-9 Ivy League), the men's basketball team (13-12, 4-7) could have enjoyed a post-game meal at T.G.I.F.'s without each bite being laced with the bitter taste of irony.Sophomore forward Luke Owings scored 10 of his game-high 19 points during a key 12-4 run early in the second half.
If it wasn't already the case, the 2004-05 season has now become a nightmare for the men's basketball team.
After being eliminated from the battle for playoff home-ice advantage, the men's hockey team entered their final regular-season road trip battling only for league position.
It's what no fan likes to see but what all players and coaches hope for: a dominating blowout of the opposing team.
When Union traveled to Princeton this weekend, it was a women's hockey battle of David and Goliath.
The advantage of playing at home is one of the most often-cited sports truisms thrown around by the talking heads on ESPN.
Colonial Club will host the annual Intramural Billiards Tournament tonight at 9:30 p.m., with "Intramural Champion" t-shirts awarded to the winners of both the men's and women's divisions and points awarded to intramural teams based on numbers of participants.The tournament will bring some of Princeton's finest pool players out of the woodwork, allowing them the chance to test themselves against each other and lay claim to a place among the sport's on-campus elite.The University-wide event will be a welcome change for students accustomed to playing billiards primarily at the local level at their residential colleges or eating clubs rather than in an organized tournament setting.While pool tables can be found scattered throughout the entire Princeton campus, the quality and quantity of competition varies.At eating clubs, pool tables are often an integral part of the social scene and a reflection of student priorities.
The men's hockey team has just two games left in its regular season and its opponents this weekend, Rensselaer and Union, are ranked one below and above Princeton in the league, respectively.Needless to say, these are big games for the Tigers.Relatively big, at least, considering that every team in the Eastern College Athletic Conference Hockey League will make the playoffs.
