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.
Since junior guard Katy O'Brien arrived at Princeton, the only team the women's basketball team has been unable to beat is Columbia.
The men's basketball team can keep alive the hope of finishing the Ivy League season with a winning record with a pair of wins this weekend.
My parents dropped in for a visit last weekend, which means two things. First, my laundry got done.
Recently, Daily Princetonian senior writer Sofia Mata-Leclerc sat down for a chat with a pair of middle hitters from the men's volleyball team, sophomore Evan Pasion and junior Brian Hamming.Daily Princetonian: How is the season going so far?Evan Pasion: It's been a disappointing start.
Junior Juliette Poussot has never felt like her collegiate performances during the indoor track season have met her high personal standards.
The women's swimming and diving team will have revenge on its mind as teams from across the Ivy League gather at DeNunzio Pool this weekend for the Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championships.Before January, Princeton had not dropped a meet to any league competitor since the 1997-98 season.
Everything that went right against Yale last Friday went wrong Tuesday night against the Quakers, who handed the Tiger women's basketball team a 58-50 loss at the Palestra.Princeton (12-11 overall, 4-6 Ivy League) ultimately lost the game on poor free throw shooting and an inability to control Penn's offense in the last eight minutes of the second half.
After a brief cameo at DeNunzio Pool ? where, two weekends ago during the Princeton Invitational, the Tigers played their first and last home games of the season ? the No.
