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Pang makes wrestling team, history

Pang makes wrestling team, history

Audrey Pang is boldly going where no Princeton woman has gone before. This season she will be the first female in school history to have a permanent spot on the dual-meet lineup of a men's wrestling squad, and one of the few women in NCAA history to have this opportunity.For the past three years Pang has competed on the Princeton wrestling team, but her competition has largely been independent, consisting of tournaments on a women's national freestyle wrestling circuit.

SPORTS | 12/07/2004

W. basketball travels to No. 20 Rutgers

The shot clock gives a women's basketball team 30 seconds to get off a shot. The women's basketball team intends to use every one of them every time down the floor.The Tigers (2-3 overall) travel to Piscataway, N.J., tonight to take on No.

SPORTS | 12/07/2004

Questions and answers with women's hockey goalie Gaudiel

Recently, 'Prince' staff writer Karl Micka-Foos spoke with junior goaltender Roxanne Gaudiel of women's hockey about reaction balls, pre-game rituals, "The Mighty Ducks" and the song.The 'Prince': So, to begin with, how exactly did you discover hockey growing up?Roxanne Gaudiel: A rink opened up near my house, and my mom signed my brother, sister and I up.

SPORTS | 12/07/2004

Wrestling cleans up at Williams Duals

The wrestling team started off its dual-meet season on the right foot at the Williams Duals held in Williamstown, Mass.

SPORTS | 12/06/2004

Indoor track opens season with New Year's Invitational

New Year's came early for the men's and women's track teams as the Tigers kicked off their seasons by hosting the New Year's Invitational on Sunday.In a meet that featured local rivals, including Ivy foe Penn, Princeton took first place in several events on both the men's and women's sides.The Tigers got a win from junior Ray Lenihan, who flew through the 60-meter hurdles in 8.23 seconds.

SPORTS | 12/06/2004

Swimming dominates Princeton Invitational

Three years ago senior Stephanie Hsiao and junior Chrissy Macaulay were just freshmen, but the two standout swimmers immediately contributed to the history of the Princeton swimming and diving team when they swam on the record-breaking 200-yard freestyle relay.

SPORTS | 12/06/2004

M., w. fencing both split against Penn St., North Carolina

Princeton's fencers matched their pointed weapons with a sharp performance in North Carolina this past weekend.The men's squad turned in a strong performance, losing a close match to fencing powerhouse Penn State by a score of 14-13 and then coming back to thrash North Carolina, 19-8.Junior

SPORTS | 12/06/2004

UCLA's speed, athleticism too much for Tigers

CARY, N.C. ? The women's soccer program did not just take a step in the right direction this year.

SPORTS | 12/05/2004

Bruins end w. soccer's title hopes

CARY, N.C. ? For the first time this season, women's soccer got beat. It wasn't their first defeat of the season, but Princeton (19-3 overall, 7-0 Ivy League) was overmatched for the first time in its 2-0 loss in the national semifinals ?the College Cup ? against UCLA (18-6) on Friday.

SPORTS | 12/05/2004

Men's hockey misses chance to move up in league standings

Men's hockey faced a difficult road trip this weekend, squaring off against traditional league powerhouses Colgate and Cornell.Though Princeton kept both games close early on, both the Raiders and the Big Red pulled away in the third period to send the Tigers home without a point.Junior Dustin Sproat turned in a stellar performance on Friday night, a practice he has been making rather habitual this season, but it was not enough to prevent Colgate (12-4 overall, 5-1 Eastern College Athletic Conference Hockey League) from dealing the Tigers (4-7-1, 4-6-0) a 4-2 loss.Colgate got its first score three minutes, 42 seconds into the first period when Adam Mitchell picked up the rebound from teammate Darryl McKinnon's shot on goal.The Tigers responded soon after, evening the score at the halfway mark.

SPORTS | 12/05/2004

Men's water polo finishes season in fourth place nationally

It was a tough weekend for the men's water polo team (25-5), which dropped a thriller to second-seeded UCLA (24-3) on Saturday and was edged out, 6-5, against Loyola Marymount (21-11) on Sunday during the Final Four tournament in Palo Alto, Calif.This was the first Princeton appearance at the Final Four in 12 years and the culmination of a fantastic season.

SPORTS | 12/05/2004

Men's squash records first Ivy win

Men's squash (2-1 overall, 1-1 Ivy League) earned its first league win with a 7-2 decision over Brown (0-1, 0-1) on Saturday.

SPORTS | 12/05/2004

Gaudiel anchors women's hockey to home win, tie

When it comes to stopping flying projectiles, perhaps a wall, a shield, or a Star Wars-like forcefield come to mind.

SPORTS | 12/05/2004

Men's water polo heads to Palo Alto for Final Four

In an occurence about as rare as Halley's Comet, the men's water polo team and the women's soccer team will both be competing in the Final Four of their respective NCAA tournaments this weekend against the same foe, UCLA.

SPORTS | 12/02/2004

College Cup kicks off this afternoon for women's soccer

Women's soccer takes to the road after five straight games and 33 days at home to play 14-seed UCLA (17-6) in the semifinals of the NCAA tournament in Cary, N.C., at 2 p.m.

SPORTS | 12/02/2004

M. squash wins season's first match

Men's squash found its footing on Wednesday with an 8-1 match victory over Franklin & Marshall (2-3 overall) for its first win of the season.Princeton (1-1, 0-1 Ivy League) took every match but the No.

SPORTS | 12/02/2004

W. basketball beats Wagner for first away win in over a year

Losing every away game for over a year is not an easy stigma for a team to overcome. Yet, with a 63-53 win against Wagner this Wednesday night, the women's basketball team did just that, proving that this year's squad is finally ready to move on to bigger and better things."It's good to get a road win," head coach Richard Barron said.

SPORTS | 12/02/2004

W. hockey hosts Colgate, Cornell

This weekend, the women's hockey team is looking to get its conference season back on its traditional winning track.The No.

SPORTS | 12/02/2004

M. hockey travels to upstate New York this weekend

After last weekend's embarrassing loss at the hands of then-winless Yale, the men's hockey team faces No.

SPORTS | 12/02/2004

Club figure skating guided by Olympians, team atmosphere

Tara Lipinski and Michelle Kwan may have captured the hearts of America at the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano, Japan, but Princeton's Figure Skating Club already holds a few Tiger hearts here in Princeton.The growing club counts among its 25 members skaters who all share the same passion for self-expression on ice."We're pretty typical of club sports," senior Liz Asch said.

SPORTS | 12/01/2004

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