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Biles leads young Tigers by example

Biles leads young Tigers by example

As the injury-riddled women's lacrosse team hobbles into its season-opener against Johns Hopkins, senior attack Lindsey Biles eases into her role as an older and wiser co-captain.Honored as an All-American last year, Biles has long been a crucial part of Princeton's offense.

SPORTS | 03/03/2005

Orange and Black face St. Lawrence

After climbing up a spot to 10th in the Eastern College Athletic Conference Hockey League last weekend, the men's hockey team is poised to face the seventh seed St.

SPORTS | 03/03/2005

Tigers return to Jadwin to play out string

When the men's basketball team (13-12 overall, 4-7 Ivy League) visited Dartmouth and Harvard on the first weekend in February, it had been four years since it suffered a loss to either opponent.Things have most certainly changed.

SPORTS | 03/03/2005

Two road wins could give Princeton .500 Ivy League final record

Women's basketball will begin a tough road trip this weekend against Harvard (17-7 overall, 9-2 Ivy League) and Dartmouth (14-9, 10-1) to finish its season.

SPORTS | 03/03/2005

Princeton and foes must adjust to new rules

Restraining line. Crease. Box. 2-3-1. 1-4-1. Clear. Ride. Slides. Pole. Crosscheck. Faceoff. Wings.Know what any of those mean?

SPORTS | 03/03/2005

Tigers to New Haven for first round

Twice this season, the women's hockey team has scored first on Yale and put itself in the position to claim a victory.

SPORTS | 03/03/2005

Post-Boyle, Tigers need team effort

Last year at this time, men's lacrosse was a team unsure of itself and its capabilities, returning only three starters from the previous year.

SPORTS | 03/03/2005

Big Cleats to Fill

During his storied career on the men's lacrosse team, Ryan Boyle '04 was a player of uncommon skill, even on Princeton's high-caliber team.

SPORTS | 03/03/2005

Feel the Burn

The "Call on Me" music video and TV parodies of Richard Simmons are about the closest I've come to aerobics classes, so I was a bit nervous when I recently headed to Dillon Gym to join the "Butts and Guts" group fitness class for a day.

SPORTS | 03/02/2005

Wrestling program boasts storied history

Long before Donald Rumsfeld '54 had the world's most advanced military weaponry at his fingertips as U.S.

SPORTS | 03/02/2005

Big kids should play fair, too

It should have been in the police blotter, not the sports section: Nehemiah Ingram, 22, assaulted John Bryant, 22, on Tuesday, Feb.

SPORTS | 03/02/2005

Tigers expect duel with Crimson

For the past 15 years, the men's Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League Championships might as well have been called the Princeton and Harvard show.True, all eight Ivy League teams and Navy have competed each year.

SPORTS | 03/02/2005

Sponsors reach out to community

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.

SPORTS | 03/02/2005

Men snag sixth straight, women manage split

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.

SPORTS | 03/01/2005

Tigers finish second at IFAs

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.

SPORTS | 03/01/2005

'Friends' groups contribute key dollars

When the football team played in San Diego this September, they didn't make the trip to California alone.

SPORTS | 03/01/2005

Tigers lose in three games after Hamming hurt in warmups

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.

SPORTS | 03/01/2005

Tigers take 15th in Calif.tournament

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.

SPORTS | 03/01/2005

Less is more thanks to unique philosophy

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.

SPORTS | 02/28/2005

Princeton performs well under APR index

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.

SPORTS | 02/28/2005

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