When you watch the men's volleyball team in a home match, you see a confident, solid group. The confines of Dillon Gym make the Tigers capable of stretching even the most worthy opponent to five games.
After a week of training and racing in warmer climates, the men's and women's track and field teams are ready to start their seasons at home.The men's team spent Spring Break in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Hockey's premier skaters come from the frozen ponds in the North. Volleyball's hardest hitters hail from the beaches of the West Coast.
Heralded freshman hurler Gavin Fabian has wasted no time in becoming a key member of the Tigers' pitching staff.
The week before Spring Break, the University broke ground on the new science library that will reside next to Fine Hall.
Over Spring Break the softball team traveled to the Golden State to take on 10 top collegiate competitors.Princeton opened its week of play at the Riverside Tournament.
After a successful week in California over Spring Break, women's water polo jumped two spots from No.
In order to qualify for the NCAA Championships which begin on Thursday, members of the men's and women's fencing squads first had to display their skills at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic South Regionals during the first weekend of Spring Break.Two Tigers put on especially strong displays as they won their respective weapon groups.
After leading the women's swimming team to a fifth straight Ivy League title, senior Sarah Fraumann and junior Stephanie Hsiao had their sights set even higher as they competed in the NCAA Championships this weekend at Texas A&M in College Station, Tex.The championship meet kicked off Thursday.
The baseball team has achieved great success in the Ivy League the past few years, but it has not yet established itself on the national scene.
The men's and women's golf teams each competed over Spring Break in their first tournaments of 2004.
Both the men's and women's tennis teams returned this weekend from a tough week in California. They spent their Spring Breaks in Southern California soaking up the sun and trying to get in some training and wins before returning home."We had double practices during the week, playing in the mornings and afternoons in La Jolla and in Los Angeles," senior women's captain Alex Kobishyn said.
More than one Princeton team was hoping to get to the Final Four over Spring Break, but like the basketball team, the women's hockey team was stymied in its efforts.In a pair of heartbreaking losses, the women's hockey team saw the end of its season last weekend as it lost to Brown (12-5-1 Eastern College Athletic Conference, 18-11-2 overall) 2-0 in the best-of-three series in the ECAC quarterfinals.Though Brown had the advantage of playing host to the Tigers (12-6-0, 20-11-0 ), the contest was expected to be fairly even, as the two teams entered the weekend having split the regular season series, 1-1.
While the majority of Princeton students spent last week sun tanning or skiing, the men's lacrosse team found itself hard at work breaking some streaks and extending others.On Saturday Princeton's 10-5 win against Hofstra extended its dominance over the Pride to seven straight wins since 1991.The weekend before, the Tigers traveled to Charlottesville, VA determined to break their decade-long losing spell on Cavalier turf.
Women's lacrosse held onto its undefeated record over a snowy Spring Break, maintaining its top spot in the NCAA rankings in the process.Over the past week, the Tigers earned wins over three schools in the top 20 of March 14 Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association poll.
DENVER ? For 20 minutes, it seemed as if the men's basketball team was on the verge of adding another chapter to Princeton's proud history of NCAA tournament upsets.Then reality ? in the form of Brandon Mouton ? set in.Texas' star senior guard caught fire after halftime, drilling three three-pointers early in the second half en route to a game-high 23 points.
Cornell senior defenseman George Boiardi died after being struck in the chest with a lacrosse ball in a game against Binghamp-ton on Wednesday.With the Big Red leading 9-6 and two minutes, 33 seconds left in the game, the Bearcat's Nate Kerstein fired a shot on goal.
Men's basketball failed in its upset bid against Texas in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
Denver. It sounded semi-exotic, a mile high and all those mountains and what not. Who was more excited about the free trip for the first round of the NCAA tournament, the men's basketball team or me, is debatable.
While most students spent the week before Break preparing for a relaxing spring vacation at the beach, senior Emily Kroshus and sophomore Cack Ferrell were busy preparing for a trip to Fayetteville, Ark., this year's site of the NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships.Kroshus and Ferrell were the sole Princeton representatives at the meet, which held both men's and women's events.
