While much of the East coast was dealing with Hurricane Ivan, women's volleyball ran into a storm of its own, as the Tigers finally dropped their first match to the Red Storm of St.
The field hockey team has faced some tough competition early on in the season. From No. 6 Connecticut, No.
In a game last night in Baltimore, men's water polo pulled out a 16-11 win over Johns Hopkins (5-5).Junior driver John Stover had two goals in the first quarter for the Tigers (6-0) on the way to a game-high six.Princeton led 3-1 after the first quarter and had pushed the lead to 9-4 by halftime thanks to two consecutive goals from junior utility Mike McKenna just before the period ended, his only scores of the game.The Blue Jays made a push in the third, outscoring the Tigers 5-3 to draw the score to 12-9 heading into the final period.
"It's great to be selected for this profile, but what I really want to know is ? who do I have to talk to to get nominated for the 'Princeton Hotties' feature article?" senior middle blocker Alex Brown asked with a grin.
While virtually every other college football team in the country has started its season, Princeton football has done nothing but work through 26 practices.
This weekend, the women's soccer team (3-0) will be traveling to North Carolina to try to build on its early-season success."We are going down there for two wins," freshman midfielder Diana Matheson said.
Every little boy dreams of playing pro sports. He imagines himself winning championships, becoming an All-American in college, and being a top draft pick.
For the first time in Princeton women's lightweight crew history, somebody other than Heather Smith will grace the decks of the boathouse this season.This July, former head coach Smith announced that she would not be returning for an eighth year.
If a philosophy major attends a football game at Princeton Stadium, he might find himself considering a challenging question: are the stands half-empty or half-full?In five home games last season, the Tigers drew an average of 13,270 fans, or less than one half of the stadium's 27,800 capacity.
Junior Emily Behncke has made a tough transition this year look easy. After two seasons playing in the Tiger midfield, Behncke moved to forward after the arrival of freshman midfielder Diana Matheson, a member of the Canadian national team.Behncke showed just how comfortable she is in her new position this weekend against Vanderbilt.
The football program spews a lot of propaganda about how any team can beat any other on its schedule and how the Ivy League is characterized by parity.
The men's water polo team could not have asked for a better start to its 2004 season. The Tigers' five-game winning streak this weekend, which included a huge victory over rival St.
Recently, senior writer Daniel Satterfield sat down with senior forward Ryan Rich of the men's soccer team.
An old sports adage opines that offense wins games while defense wins championships. For Princeton football, the need to win games is a more immediate goal than securing the Ivy League championship.
When head coach Roger Hughes was brought to Princeton in 2000 to restore the program to prominence, he was expected to bring a high-powered West Coast offensive system with him that would modernize the Tiger attack.
As painful as last year's 2-8 debacle was for the football team, it may have been even more trying for three teammates who were unable to even suit up.After all, if those three players ? senior linebacker Zak Keasey, senior safety Brandon Mueller, and junior cornerback Jay McCareins ? had been in uniform instead of academically ineligible, things might have gone quite differently.
Men's soccer had its home opener against Drexel at Lourie-Love Field last night, revenging last week's loss to Akron with a 3-0 win over Drexel.Both teams entered the game off a loss.
For most college freshmen, the transition from high school to college can be daunting. Adding to the normal angst, Princeton freshmen emerge from accomplished secondary school careers in which their academic, athletic and extracurricular successes were unique among their peers.
LafayettePrinceton opens its season with a home night game against Lafayette (2-0 overall), a middle of the pack Patriot league team last year.
"On Saturday November 6th, Princeton sent twenty-five picked men to play our twenty-five a match game of football."So began the account of the first intercollegiate football game in the Rutgers Targum of November, 1869, and so began intercollegiate football as we know it.Not really as we know it, actually.
