With Easterns and Southerns approaching, men's water polo (16-4 overall, 8-0 Collegiate Water Polo Association) has put its record back on track by adding four wins this weekend.
Though it wasn't exactly a dark and stormy night, Princeton's cross country team faced conditions that would most aptly be described as a dark and cold and windy and not-so-nice day.Despite the adverse conditions, junior Cack Ferrell managed to continue her streak of impressive performances with a tenth-place finish (20:52) over the six-kilometer course at the NCAA Pre-National Invitational meet, held at Indiana State University in Terra Haute, Indiana.The women's cross country team finished seventh overall, behind several cross country powerhouses, such as Stanford and Notre Dame.Meanwhile, the men's team found itself blown off course by the stiff and cold winds.
To most people on campus, Don Betterton is the director for undergraduate financial aid: the guy who was at the core of the drive to implement Princeton's current "no-loan" policy, which replaces loans with grants so that the over 50 percent of students currently helped by financial aid don't have to repay anything.
Heading into Saturday's game against Columbia, women's soccer head coach Julie Shackford was prepared for a typically intense conference match-up."They're going to be organized defensively and tough to beat at their place," she said.
Some people say the third time's the charm. For men's soccer it's more like the 10th time. Princeton remained unbeaten in Ivy League play with an important 1-0 win against Columbia (2-8-2 overall, 0-3 Ivy League) on Saturday in New York City.
Finally, home sweet home.The women's volleyball team played its first conference games in Dillon Gym this weekend, after opening its Ivy League schedule with three straight matches on the road.
On a night in which everyone in attendance could feel a victory in the air, all that came down was rain.
The sounds of Tigers and Bears battling inside Princeton Stadium were a welcome October respite from the pervasive verbal slurs between the elephants and the donkeys.
Senior Spencer Gloger's college basketball career is officially over after the NCAA denied his request for a sixth year of eligibility this summer.The ruling did not come as much of a surprise to those familiar with the circumstances.
From the final stats, at least, it was hard to tell Princeton and Brown apart. After 60 minutes of fundamentally sound football on both sides of the ball, normally telling indicators such as yardage, turnovers, and penalties were equal between the two teams.
In the wild, tigers are members of an endangered species, and this past weekend one particular tiger, the undefeated Princeton Tiger, became extinct.
After a less-than-stellar run in California two weeks ago, the men's water polo team will try to continue its East Coast domination this weekend.
Though the season is still young, the women's volleyball team heads into action this weekend knowing that its Ivy League title hopes could be on the line.Princeton (11-4 overall, 2-1 Ivy League) will host two conference games in Dillon Gymnasium, taking on Dartmouth (4-10, 1-3) on Friday night before battling Harvard (9-5, 4-0) on Saturday.For Dartmouth, which sits seventh in the Ivy League standings, this game represents a chance to garner its second conference win.
Most Princeton students would tell you that being up in the middle of the night with work due the next day is one of the most stressful parts of college.
The story of Princeton University spans over two centuries, and while the swimming team has been in existence for less than half of that time, it too has quite a story to tell.This weekend will see the celebration of the team's centennial anniversary, as both current team members and alumni who swam for the Orange and Black will come together."It's a great chance for us to meet all those names that we just come across from stories and from the record board," senior swimmer Justin Chiles said.
A nationally ranked equestrian, a member of the varsity women's squash team, a representative on Butler College Council and the Committee on Discipline, a tour guide and looking into the marines and ROTC.Surprisingly, she is not Superwoman.
After spending three years as the ace of the baseball team, senior Ross Ohlendorf was picked in the fourth round of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player's Draft last June by the Arizona Diamondbacks.Ohlendorf decided to sign ? forfeiting his final year of Princeton eligibility ? and spent the rest of the summer pitching for the Yakima Bears, going 2-3 with a 2.79 ERA.Back on campus for the fall semester, Ohlendorf recently sat down with 'Prince' senior writer David Baumgarten.'Prince': Let's start off with a few warm-up tosses . . . favorite baseball movie?Ross Ohlendorf: "Bull Durham." When I was playing in high school I got compared to Nuke LaLoosh because I didn't have any control.P: DH or no DH?RO: DH ? I don't want to hit.P: Favorite team (before Arizona)?RO: Houston and Texas.P: Favorite player?RO: Nolan Ryan or Roger Clemens.P: Playoff prediction?RO: I think the Red Sox will get to the World Series, but I think the NL team will win.
The last time the sprint football team played Cornell (0-3), a year ago this Saturday, it was crushed, 47-8.
I'm sick of ESPN. For that matter, I'm sick of ESPN2, ESPNEWS, ESPN Radio, the ESPN Zone, ESPN Deportes, ESPN Original Entertainment, ESPN Video Games, ESPN Classic and ESPN Radio.I know this may be upsetting to those of you who go to sleep to "SportsCenter," keep it on all night and wake up to it in the morning, but one company has virtually complete control of the sports media market.
It's said that Einstein failed algebra, and that Michael Jordan was cut from his high school JV basketball team.
