Here's a quick game of good news, bad news. Good news ? the women's volleyball team is still alive in the race for the Ivy League title heading into this weekend's action.
As Princeton students scan the Course Offerings catalogue over the next few weeks, most will keep their eyes peeled for the perfect class ? one that combines some extracurricular interest with the area of study they have chosen to pursue.Unfortunately "Transatlantic Approaches to MC Hammer's 'U Can't Touch This' " and "Beirut and the Human Response" will exist forever only in the imagination.One can then imagine the sense of serendipity that Katy O'Brien, a junior pursuing a degree in Political Economy and the starting point guard for the Princeton women's basketball team, must have felt upon learning at the beginning of this school year of a course to be taught in the Fall semester called "The Political Economy of Sports.""It is very relevant to my experience as a student-athlete," O'Brien said of the class.
For the seniors on the football team, the time has come when the word legacy seems very important.
Senior forward Esmeralda Negron carried the ball upfield, played it out to the right after the Penn keeper came out of the box and sent it into the back of the net over the diving goalie's body.
The men's water polo team is undoubtedly the barracuda in a small pond. The No. 12 Tigers handily won the Southern Championship and have dominated their opponents with a 22-4 overall record this year.
Although every other Princeton sport competes in the postseason, football, a Division I-AA sport, must content itself with contesting only for an Ivy League championship.In 1951, the emerging coalition of Ivy League athletic programs adopted an eight-point code of amateurism to govern its collegiate football teams.
Beat up, banged up and in the middle of one of the more grueling parts of its schedule, the women's hockey team now faces a key weekend series the Tigers hope can set the tone for the rest of their season.Princeton, currently No.
The men's basketball team tips off a new season in Syracuse, N.Y., nearly seven months after their season came to an abrupt end in Denver.
If history has shown one thing, it is the certainty of change. For Princeton's cross country runners, then, it is not surprising that historic Princeton Battlefield Park will no longer be their home course.While the Tigers have been running meets at the park since 1992, the New Jersey State Department of Parks and Recreation has decreed that the Tigers cannot hold competitions there any longer because of its historical significance.The Princeton women's teamwon the last meet held at the Battlefield against Harvard and Yale.
"I am the teacher of athletes. He that by me spreads a wider breast than my own proves the width of my own.
For basketball fans at UConn, Stanford or Duke, seeing thousands of zealous students at a game is the norm rather than the exception.
Although senior center Judson Wallace is now a captain of men's basketball, a team which is forecast to handily win the Ivy League and take another trip to the NCAA tournament, he fondly remembers the humble beginnings of his freshman year.
No bonfire. Eh, how many of us can actually say that they expected one before the football season started?Is it disappointing?
The temperature is dropping, the days are getting shorter and a successful 2004 fall sports season is coming to close here at Princeton.
Freshmen Meagan Cowher of Pennsylvania, Ariel Rogers of Illinois and Ali Prichard of Minnesota hail from all across the country, but they each have two things in common.
It didn't take new head coach Joe Scott '87 long to figure out who the heart and soul of his basketball team would be.Even as he spent four years in Colorado Springs, Colo., resurrecting the Air Force program, he kept tabs on his Tigers back in New Jersey.
At 4:30 p.m. on Monday, the women's soccer team got its best news since senior forward Esmeralda Negron decided to matriculate four years ago.The team received the seventh seed for the upcoming 64-team NCAA Tournament that begins this Friday.
With the men's basketball team tipping off its season tomorrow night in Syracuse in the Coaches vs.
"Crash through that line of Blue And send the backs around the end! Fight! Fight for every yard! Princeton's honor to defend (rah rah rah!) Roar, Tiger!
Goals, nets, hurdles and bleachers. Playclocks, scoreboards and lights. Jadwin Gym, Baker Rink, Dillon Gym and DeNunzio Pool.That's just a small list of all the things the groundskeepers of Princeton University are responsible for in addition to keeping all the athletic fields and their immediate surroundings neat and tidy."They call them groundskeepers, but that really doesn't do them justice," John Cruser, Jr., says of his team.Cruser is the foreman of the athletics grounds crew at Princeton University ? that is to say, a grounds crew of six ? which makes the fact that those six take care of all of Princeton's athletics facilities all the more remarkable.This fall marks Cruser's 39th year working at the University.
