In the midst of the presidential election flurry, media members from the eight Ivy areas headed to the polls to cast their votes for basketball pre-season picks.The men's team was the runaway favorite, garnering 14 of the 16 first-place votes.
While the 40th running of the Head of the Charles Regatta last week in Boston and Cambridge might not have stolen the headlines away from the Red Sox, one of rowing's most prestigious events still generated good news for the men's and women's crew teams.The Tigers, in town to flex their collective muscle against some of the world's most powerful teams, came away with solid performances from all 10 of their team boats.
While it's certainly too soon to throw in the towel, the women's volleyball team has found itself in a position in which one loss could effectively dash its hopes for an Ivy League title.With five games left in the Ivy League season, Princeton (15-6 overall, 6-3 Ivy League) sits one and a half games back of both Cornell and Harvard.
Like wolves in fear of the oncoming Russian winter, the men's hockey team frequently finds itself scurrying in the November month, trying to prepare for the oncoming freeze.Coming off a 5-24-2 season in which more than half of the team's victories came in the first full month of the season, the team is looking to rebound and expand its win total beyond what can only be called a disappointment.However, with new head coach Guy Gadowsky at the helm, and the part-time help of current Philadelphia Flyers' head coach Ken Hitchcock, the team believes it is building a nucleus capable of raising its level of play.The women, meanwhile, are looking to build on last year's promising season in which they went 22-11 elevated themselves to the role of national contenders.Despite the loss of some key players to graduation last season, the team believes it can continue to be factor in the ECAC.It has already seen key players step up in the first few games of the season.
Schmidt is Ivy Player of WeekJunior midfield Hillary Schmidt was named Ivy Player of the Week for her contributions in last week's Harvard game.
If all the loyal fans of Princeton football attempted to collectively recall the team's recruiting class of 2002, the name Popielis would go unmentioned.
Women's rugbyFollowing a second-place finish at the 2004 national championships this May, the women's rugby team is looking forward to another successful run this year.
With the start of the season only four months away, The 'Prince' asked legendary men's lacrosse head coach Bill Tierney to help give a synopsis of how the class of 2008 will make an impact on this year's team. DefenseAlex Hewit, from Chatham, N.J., was an All-American goalie at Delbarton School, and joins his brother, junior midfielder Grant Hewit, on the team."Alex will compete with David Law '06, our starter from last year, and Matt Larkin '05 for our goalie spot." Tierney said.
This is the seventh in a series of articles on the history of Princeton football in honor of its 135th anniversary.Legendary head football coach Charlie Caldwell '25 thought he was too small to play college football.But that didn't stop Dick Kazmaier '52 from coming to Princeton.
So we have a new president . . . or we have the same president. I don't really know; I didn't want to wait around to find out before I turned this in.
Anything but a first-place finish at this past weekend's Southern Championships would have been a disappointment for the men's water polo team.
Long before he moved to the United States from China at the age of nine, freshman Pan Lin wielded a table tennis paddle.
The men's soccer team entered Fall Break with a 2-0-1 league record and an opportunity to better its chances at an Ivy League title.
Fall break. A time of rest and relaxation for the average Princeton student following the crazed week of midterms.
Juniors from the men's and women's tennis teams were the centerpieces of each team's showing at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Eastern Regionals.The men went to Blacksburg, Va., and junior Darius Craton reached the final 16 in both the main singles bracket and the doubles bracket with classmate Josh Burman.As the No.
On Wednesday I went to the U-Store to buy the NBA preview edition of Slam magazine ? about the extent of the research I do for any of these columns.
The first night of Fall Break was anything but relaxing for the sprint football team, which dropped its last home game of the 2004 season, 61-20, to Navy (5-0 overall) and extended its 33-game losing streak to 34.Navy, a traditionally strong program who had beaten the Tigers (0-5), 77-16, in the first game of the season, came out strong and never let up.
Following four league games over Fall Break, the women's volleyball squad finds itself a game and a half behind league leaders Harvard and Cornell.After splitting the four games, head coach Glenn Nelson finds himself one win shy of the 500 mark for his career at Princeton.During the first weekend of Fall Break, Princeton (15-6 overall, 6-3 Ivy League) hit the road against Cornell and Columbia.
The men's and women's golf teams were not idle over Fall Break, as both teams concluded their fall seasons with tournaments in Tennessee and Virginia.
In its first two non-league games of the season, the men's hockey team (0-1-1) lived and died by the power play.
