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.
"You can't miss me in a crowd."Meet Becky Brown. Too shy? Let her introduce herself.
As women's volleyball heads to Penn tonight for the final game of the regular season, more is riding on the player's shoulders than ever before.
The bad news? The women's basketball team is young this season. The good news? The women's basketball team is young this season.Featuring two seniors, one junior and 10 underclassmen, Princeton has little experience.
Pete Carril. Palestra Miracle. David 43, Goliath 41.Over the last 10 years the men's basketball fans have accrued some great memories.
Head Coach Gail Ramsay has every reason to be happy with her team this season, as women's squash adds five new freshmen to its top nine players.Freshmen Claire Rein-Weston, Ali Pearson, Marilla Hiltz, Genevieve Lessard and Anina Nolan all join one of the most successful squash teams in the country.Last year, six sophomores and one freshman made up seven of the team's top nine.
"Everything I do has a kind of spin, a thought toward preparing us to win the league," men's basketball head coach John Thompson '88 said yesterday, remarking on his team's difficult pre-Ivy League schedule.The first half of Princeton's schedule, which Thompson likes to refer to as the pre-season, is 13 games long, with four of them televised.
The Princeton University Table Tennis Club is reestablishing the name of table tennis here at the University as well as in the wider community.Several years ago, the participation in the club was limited, but under the current leadership of Ivan B
Senior co-captain and midfielder Claire Miller and freshman goalkeeper Allison Nemeth received two of the top Ivy League honors for the 2003 season.After leading the team to its tenth consecutive Ivy League title this year, Miller was named the 2003 Ivy League Player of the Year.
One of the best fencers in the world goes to Princeton. Unfortunately for the fencing team, he ? Soren Thompson ? has decided to take the year off in hopes of qualifying for a spot in next year's Summer Olympics.
If you didn't already know, now you know ? men's water polo ends the season proving yet again that it is a force to be reckoned with.
