Many of the people on campus who I've talked to don't know much about the sport of squash. Do a quick straw poll of all your friends, asking which of them can honestly say that they know how squash is played.
The second half of the Ivy League season will open for the men's basketball team (11-10 overall, 2-5 Ivy League) in the same fashion as did the first half ? with a pair of weekend games against Yale (7-12, 3-3) and Brown (9-11, 2-4).Yet just as the order of the opponents and the location of the games have been flipped ? the Tigers visit the Bulldogs on Friday night and the Bears on Saturday night ? Princeton's season has likewise been turned on its head over the past three weeks.When Brown and Yale came to Jadwin Gym in the last weekend of January, the Tigers had just wrapped up a tough non-conference schedule with a 9-5 record.
The women's basketball team (10-10 overall, 2-5 Ivy League) will look to sweep the season series from Yale (4-17, 1-7) tonight, then avenge the loss it suffered to Brown (14-7, 6-2) in its Ivy League opener.
When Mitch Henderson '98 walked off the court in Hartford, Conn., after a 63-56 loss to Michigan State in the second round of the 1998 NCAA tournament, the playing career of a great Princeton guard came to a close.The Tiger star refused to fade away, however, and his life in the basketball world was nowhere close to being over.Henderson has taken a career path increasingly common for former Orange and Black players ? he joined the fraternity of Princeton coaches.
In light of their high expectations heading into last weekend's H-Y-P meet in Cambridge, Mass., the mixed emotions the fencing team felt at the end of the matches against Yale and Harvard were understandable.
Having home-court advantage for the first time this season proved to be the perfect remedy for the men's volleyball team's recent slump.
Recently, Daily Princetonian senior writer Sofia Mata-Leclerc sat down with junior rowers Steve Coppola and Pat Cotter.
You knew the Red Sox were going all the way this past year. You knew the Yankees had nothing on your favorite unshaven players.
Get out the broomsticks. The men's and women's tennis teams swept their opposition this weekend in their first home stand of the season at Jadwin Gymnasium.
After surviving four months of the Roman bus system, I have a new appreciation for the simplicity of New Jersey traffic and mass transit.What is this article doing on the sports page?
The men's swimming and diving team (9-1 overall, 6-1 Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League) conquered Columbia (6-5, 4-4), 140-98, in its final dual meet of the season Friday, dominating the Lions as expected."They were third at Easterns last year," junior Will Reinhardt said, "but we weren't that worried."Reinhardt anchored the 200 medley relay, the first event of the meet, for Princeton's victory.
Halpern's mother killedThe mother of former men's hockey star Jeff Halpern '99 died in a car accident in Davie, Fla., last Friday night.
Up 6-4 in the fourth quarter against Brown, the women's water polo team knew a goal by the Bears could threaten their victory at any moment.
Three months ago, as the men's basketball team tipped off its season, the Tigers were a mortal lock for another trip to the NCAA tournament and head coach Joe Scott '87 was the basketball messiah.Three weeks ago, as Princeton began Ivy League play, it all still seemed true.How quickly times have changed. Over the past 40 years, Orange and Black faithful have been spoiled rotten.
Heptagonals have not always been kind to senior Alexis Tingan. As a freshman, he fell in the preliminaries of the 500-meter dash, failing to qualify for the finals.
Tough losses to Trinity last Saturday marked the end of a disappointing regular season for the men's and women's squash teams.
With numerous Princeton alumni and fans in attendance for the celebration of 100 Years of Princeton Wrestling, the mini-reunion, elaborate luncheon and banquet were surpassed only by the main attraction in Dillon Gymnasium ? the Tigers' match against Franklin and Marshall (3-14).The current Princeton wrestlers did not disappoint, cruising to a 40-8 victory over the Diplomats on Saturday night.
"We are a team that just does not like to lose," freshman forward Brittany Salmon said.
Valentine's Day is here, and I'm girlfriendless once again (shocking, I know).But I have a valentine nonetheless, the same valentine I've had every year for as long as I can remember, the same Valentine I'll have every year for as long as I live.My valentine has everything I could ask for in a relationship.
Last year, close games just didn't seem to go the Tigers' way. This weekend, Princeton women's basketball started to correct its problem with close games in its 78-74 win over Cornell (2-18 overall, 0-7 Ivy League) on Friday."That's a game we would have lost last year," sophomore forward Casey Lockwood said.
