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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Though some of the underclassmen have been earning the spotlight during women's basketball's current five-game winning streak, this time it's the court leader who is making waves.Junior center Becky Brown scored 42 points and grabbed 18 rebounds combined in a pair of home games last week for the Tigers as the team record improved to 7-5.Against St.
When Matt Conti goes to work, he operates an Olympia Millennium ice-resurfacing machine.Translation: he's the Zamboni guy.It turns out that Zamboni is merely a company name like "Kleenex" for tissues or "Xerox" for photocopying.
TerraceAlthough Terrace isn't known for having a particularly sports-oriented membership ? the only sporting equipment the club owns is a pool table ? the club features an energetic core of crusaders in a few sports."We had a lot of people pretty into soccer this fall," intramural chair Jimmy Hoeland said.Other popular intramural sports at the club include broomball and five-on-five basketball.
Although the men's basketball team is in the midst of a 19-day break from games for exams, the rest of the Ivy League squads are still wrapping up their non-conference schedules.The Tigers (8-5 overall) get back into action on Jan.
So you want to be a Princeton swimmer? There are no cuts, so all you have to do is walk through the door.But here comes the catch: get ready to spend twenty hours per week training.
