Down two points with two seconds to play in the second overtime last night, freshman forward Meagan Cowher stepped to the line to shoot two free throws.
The last time the Princeton women's swimming and diving team lost in Ivy League dual-meet competition, Bill Clinton was President, current senior captain Stephanie Hsiao was a freshman in high school and college students managed to procrastinate without thefacebook.com.Princeton, Harvard and Yale gathered this past Friday and Saturday in a clash of three undefeated swimming powerhouses.
When frustration about the overcrowded Stephens Fitness Center peaks or when the wintry weather conditions abate, many students lace up their sneakers and hit the sidewalks and trails around campus for a great workout.
The sabers were flying in Jadwin Gymnasium on Saturday when the men's and women's fencing teams squared off against St.
Breaking news! Terrell Owens will play in the Super Bowl!Breaking news! We were wrong! He's not playing!Gag me.
The Princeton wrestling team hit the road this past weekend, traveling to Ithaca, N.Y. to take on Cornell Friday night and then heading south to the Big Apple to face off against Columbia.
I'd like to begin with an important announcement: the Boston Red Sox are no longer the official baseball team of this sports section.With this issue, a new set of editors takes the reins at The Daily Princetonian.
No one ever accused Mike Stephens of having a complex game.Saturday night, the senior center's ability to keep things simple was just what the doctor ordered for the ailing men's basketball team.
For three years, even as her team struggled mightily, Becky Brown has been a pillar of consistency in the middle of the women's basketball lineup.The junior center turned in three more stellar performances over the past week, surpassing 1,000 points for her Princeton career and leading the Tigers (9-6 overall, 1-1 Ivy League) to two victories in three games.With the victories, Princeton exceeded its win total of last year and matched its total of two seasons ago, with nearly half the season still left to be played.The Tigers traveled to Easton, Pa., to face Lafayette (3-17) on Jan.
As much as the men's hockey team has improved under new head coach Guy Gadowsky this season, the Tigers still have a long way to go before they can count themselves amongst the elite teams of the Ivy League.Harvard and Brown drove that point home this weekend, visiting Baker Rink and handing Princeton (6-14-1 overall, 4-10-0 Eastern College Athletic Conference Hockey League) a pair of tough losses.Friday night the Crimson (12-5-2, 9-4-1) unleashed a scoring blitzkrieg, embarrassing the Tigers 7-0.
For half a century, when Brown arrived in Princeton to face the men's basketball team, the Bears didn't really believe they could win.Times have changed.Friday night at Jadwin Gym, it was the visitors from Providence who played with the confidence and poise of defending Ivy League champions.
The Tigers staging a thrilling comeback to pull off a victory against Brown? The Harvard game ending in a tie?
Facing a Division III opponent after a 19-day break from competition, men's basketball head coach Joe Scott '87 knew he could not expect perfection.Indeed, his Tigers (9-5 overall) were far from perfect Monday night as they dispatched an overmatched Haverford team, 60-33.Yet, for most of the game, Scott substituted quiet, pained grimaces for his normal sideline histrionics.
For the last year, the five of us have shared the privilege of editing the sports section of this newspaper.
Most Princeton athletes go to practice day after day simply expecting that their coaches and team will always be there, that there will always be competitions, and that there will always be next year.
Ahmed El-Nokali '02 has basketball in his blood.It's why he is spending another winter working two jobs, managing hedge funds by day for Merrill Lynch and coaching Princeton Day School's basketball team by night.It's why he spent his summer playing the game, both in a low-key intra-company recreational league and in Princeton's competitive summer league.And it's why he will be spending Feb.
On the field: B+Since the fall of 2001, there have been vast differences in team performance, ranging from two straight women's lacrosse national championships and two individual men's squash national championships to zero sprint football wins and awful women's basketball and men's hockey teams. Varsity facilities: A-High marks for Clarke Field, the Shea Rowing Center and Class of 1952 Stadium and DeNunzio Pool.
He knew Joe Scott '87 when he was a starter in a Tiger jersey. He went on recruiting trips and tournaments with men's basketball's legendary coach Pete Carril, and he has been around long enough to see Jadwin raised from its raw materials to the towering monolith of Princeton athletics.At close to 80 years old ? 58 of those spent at Princeon ? George Boccanfuso is the living history of Jadwin Gymnasium.A Princeton native, Boccanfuso retired in 1991 before returning shortly thereafter to work part-time.
New York Jets defensive end John Abraham has missed the last five games ? including one in the playoffs ? and is listed as questionable for Saturday's 4:30 p.m.
How many people have the opportunity to snorkel at the Great Barrier Reef, raft down the Tully River and hold a koala?And then come within one goal of tying the world's No.
