Football players honored by Ivy LeagueThe senior defensive end duo of Tim Kirby and Joe Weiss capped off the first-team All-Ivy selections for Princeton football, announced yesterday.
The wrestling season got off to a bang Thursday night, with the team snagging a win over South Dakota State.
While they didn't exactly prove their doubters wrong, the results of the women's basketball team's season debut did not diminish the optimism of a new season.Princeton (0-1) opened its season with a trip to Nebraska (2-0) to play a game that few gave it any chance of winning.
Men's hockey contributed to two opponents' streaks and broke one of its own this weekend at Baker Rink.Princeton (2-6-0 overall, 2-4-0 Eastern College Athletic Conference) rode a pair of first-period goals to a 2-1 win on Friday against Vermont (0-9-2, 0-5-0), during which the Tigers both prolonged the Catamount's ignominious position as one of only three winless teams in the country and snapped a personal 11-game winless run on home ice.
Yesterday the women's cross country team raced in the NCAA Championships, the first in program history, at the University of Northern Iowa in Waterloo, Iowa.Princeton did not let this opportunity go to waste.
John Rhodes Sturdy once said, "A ship's not a ship to me 'til she gets her teeth in green water." This weekend, women's swimming took their untested ships out into the green waters of the Ivy League and proved that their armada was more than seaworthy.Sailing first to Ithaca, N.Y, and then to Providence, R.I, the Tigers proceeded to pummel all of their competition with more enthusiasm than the French navy cannoning Yorktown.Starting on Saturday, the Tigers easily sunk Penn and Cornell, 183-106 and 202-90, respectively, as they took their first Ivy League victories of the season.
In front of a large and vociferous crowd ? attracted by the dual promise of a new season and free pizza ? the men's basketball team began its 2003-04 campaign with a 73-64 defeat of Colgate on Friday night.As had become routine by the end of last year, junior center Judson Wallace led the way for Princeton.
Sophomore Derek Javarone said he felt his kicking had been improving this season, but he certainly did not mean for the Tigers to rely solely on his leg.Javarone was 5-5 on field goals, tying an Ivy League record, but Princeton football (2-8 overall, 2-5 Ivy League) could not score a touchdown and lost its final game of the season Saturday afternoon at Dartmouth (5-5, 4-3), 21-15.The Tigers had a chance to win the game late.
The women's hockey team left unseasonably warm New Jersey this weekend for frigid New England to open up the Eastern College Athletic Conference portion of its schedule against Dartmouth (7-0 overall, 2-0 ECAC) and Vermont (3-9-1, 0-4-0). The Tigers trounced the Catamounts on Saturday, 5-1, but could not freeze Dartmouth's hot streak and fell to the Big Green, 4-2, on Friday night.No.
The men's basketball team begins its season tonight against Colgate. The Tigers will be welcoming the Raiders to Jadwin Gymnasium at 7:30 p.m.
After what head coach Roger Hughes called "probably the most disappointing, emotionally draining loss that I've ever been associated with in all of sports," the football team will try to bounce back against Dartmouth in frozen Hanover, N.H.The Tigers hope that the bounce will be a springboard into next season.
What your mother always told you is true: You only get to make one first impression.Sports teams, however, are different; they get a chance to make a brand new one every year.The women's basketball team will look to make their 2003-2004 version a good one when they open their season this Saturday with a game at the University of Nebraska.
Two-time All-American Greg Parker '03 was a force to be reckoned with on the wrestling mats, dominating his matches and consistently raising the level of intensity of those around him.
The men's hockey team's thoughts are focused completely on itself this weekend. This isn't to say that the Tigers' are a conceited lot, but are instead a team whose focus is on their practice and their performance instead of on that of the other teams'."This year it's more about what we're expecting to do in practice," head coach Len Quesnelle '88 said, explaining the team's focus.Princeton (1-5-1 overall, 1-3-1 Eastern College Athletic Conference) hopes to utilize home ice to its advantage when it hosts Vermont on Friday and Dartmouth on Saturday for what have the potential to be two thrillers.
Just as Caesar's "felices legiones" ravaged the northern territories that threatened his glittering Rome, so will women's swimming launch a three day campaign through the northeast to reinforce their longstanding dominance among their Ivy League rivals and to begin to chase their dream of a fifth consecutive league title.Competing in their first Ivy League meets of the season, the Tigers will carry their golden standards first to Ithaca, N.Y,. where they will face Penn and Cornell.
There's no shame in second place, but after being so close to the top, it can be hard to accept. This is something the women's volleyball team will have to do, however, after capping off a very successful season with a 3-1 loss to Penn last night at the Palestra.A win for Princeton (17-6, 11-3) would have given it a share of the Ivy League title and would have set up a Saturday showdown against the same Quaker team to see which would advance to the NCAA tournament.The Tigers struggled from the beginning, getting down early in the first game, 7-2.
The women's hockey team travels to Hanover, N.H., this Friday to compete against a Dartmouth squad that it knows too well.The Tigers have lost six out of the last eight to the Big Green.
With the start of the men's basketball season just two days away, it is still anyone's guess how the Tigers will fare in and out of the Ivy League.
Underdog status has its ups and downs. It means the win/loss column isn't always going to be pretty, but it also means a team gets a chance to upset some unsuspecting competition.A preseason media poll referred to on ivyleaguesports.com ranks the Tigers last in the Ivy League, so Princeton can only move up from that projected position.The Tigers tackle an ambitious non-league schedule, facing strong national competitors from the start ? Princeton opens with Nebraska this Sunday, Nov.
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