Men's squash found its footing on Wednesday with an 8-1 match victory over Franklin & Marshall (2-3 overall) for its first win of the season.Princeton (1-1, 0-1 Ivy League) took every match but the No.
Losing every away game for over a year is not an easy stigma for a team to overcome. Yet, with a 63-53 win against Wagner this Wednesday night, the women's basketball team did just that, proving that this year's squad is finally ready to move on to bigger and better things."It's good to get a road win," head coach Richard Barron said.
This weekend, the women's hockey team is looking to get its conference season back on its traditional winning track.The No.
After last weekend's embarrassing loss at the hands of then-winless Yale, the men's hockey team faces No.
Tara Lipinski and Michelle Kwan may have captured the hearts of America at the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano, Japan, but Princeton's Figure Skating Club already holds a few Tiger hearts here in Princeton.The growing club counts among its 25 members skaters who all share the same passion for self-expression on ice."We're pretty typical of club sports," senior Liz Asch said.
Showing the intensity that head coach Joe Scott has hoped to imbue this year, men's basketball used a team effort to hold onto a tenuous lead at Holy Cross (3-1) last night as Princeton (3-2) lifted its record above .500 and finished a five-game road trip with a win, despite missing one of its leading scorers because of injury.With less than three minutes to play, it looked like Princeton had everything taken care of, when junior guard Scott Greenman hit a three-pointer to put the Tigers up by nine, 52-43, following a brief Holy Cross run.
If you know anything about outdoor track, it should not be hard to understand the intricacies of indoor track.
A series of meetings planned by USG to address student concern over the inadequacies of recreational athletic facilities were canceled Wednesday because the student body had not expressed significant interest.Mike Murray, a Class of 2006 Senator, was in charge of organizing the talks but received only seven emails expressing a desire to attend.
If you've ever seen a person around campus throwing a frisbee for no apparent reason at no discernable target, you've probably run across a frisbee golfer.
Some people say that swimming isn't a team sport. Spend a moment talking to senior Stephanie Hsiao, and you might reconsider.Ask her about winning three individual events at last years Ivy League Championships, and she will tell you that she didn't really think about it, since she was so focused on helping the team to its fifth straight title.Ask her about her team, and she will tell you they are a close-knit family bound together by mornings and afternoons of churning out workouts in DeNunzio Pool.They are a family with a proud winning tradition, a tradition influenced over the last three years by Hsiao's winning ways.After her senior year in high school in Irvine, Calif., Hsiao sought a school far from home since she liked the intensity of the East Coast, and the vibe it gave her.
There is a different feeling this year. If you were to ask those affiliated with the women's basketball program about this young season, that's what they would all say.
An extended road trip outside the friendly ? or at least familiar ? confines of the Ivy League has defined the early season of men's basketball.
And the 'Prince' saw color, that it was good: and the 'Prince' separated the color from the darkness.Ya, you betcha!
For refusing to bow under the pressure as she has led women's soccer to within striking distance of the national championship, junior midfielder Emily Behncke (r.) is the Athlete of the Week.Behncke is the team's second leading scorer on the season, with 13 goals and five assists.
Call them outclassed.It's not disparaging in any way; it's simply the term in racing for a horse that takes his shot against a bigger and stronger class of horses and meets with a predictable defeat.
While most Princeton students will be in dreary New Jersey facing exams in January, sophomore Dustin Urban will be in sunny Sydney, Australia battling the world's best freestyle kayakers.
Defense wins Super Bowls and pitching wins World Series, but just what wins a Lord Stanley's Cup and the collegiate hockey equivalent?Hockey players and coaches agree that there is a link between winning games and a team's success on the power play and penalty kill.
Walking on to any varsity sport at Princeton is tough. Walking on to a team that has won three national titles is simply remarkable.Enter junior Diana Zakem.
In recent months, sports fans looking to get their fill of violence have been treated to a relief pitcher chucking a chair into the stands and basketball players brawling with fans.
Cancel winter formals. Something better just came up.For those of you who went home for the holiday weekend to sleep on tryptophan and get fat on stuffing, you missed the latest chapter in one of the most impressive college sports stories of the year.
