The past few months, and past few years actually, haven't been easy for the women's basketball program at Princeton.
It doesn't matter if you are a sports fan or not. Some things in sports transcend its boundaries.
The month of January did not end as planned for the men's wrestling team, as the Tigers dropped back-to-back home matches against Columbia and Cornell on Saturday.The first conference foe was Columbia, who defeated the Tigers by a score of 26-14.
Like any group of sensible Princeton students, the men's tennis team headed south over Intersession, leaving behind subzero temperatures for warmer weather.The Tigers returned from balmy Florida with a 1-2 record after sandwiching a win over Florida A&M between losses to No.
Senior forward Konrad Wysocki has unexpectedly left the men's basketball team. The decision was announced in a statement released by head coach John Thompson '88 on Monday afternoon.Thompson told the''Prince,' "He's a second-semester senior who decided to step away and focus on other things."Wysocki started the Tigers' first eight games of the season, averaging 6.0 points a game, but was sidelined for over a month after contracting a viral infection in late December.
"I'm just going to take a study break for half an hour, I swear." We've all said that, because that's how Princetonians think.
The fates of hockey, which had turned a blind eye to the Tigers during winter break, showed their malice again over Intersession as Princeton (5-16-1 overall, 5-9-1 Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference) dropped two conference games against Clarkson and St.
California in January is a great place, with warm beaches and lots of sunshine. The men's volleyball team certainly enjoyed the change of scenery from the cold and snow in New Jersey.
"Princeton relay! Princeton relay!" was the battle cry that brought the orange-clad audience to its feet last Saturday.
The men's and women's squash teams knew that Yale would be their toughest test of the young season.
Spencer Gloger '05 is back at Princeton ? again. It is still unclear, however, whether he will ever step back on the court for Princeton.The former men's basketball star, who has not been enrolled at Princeton the past two semesters after being declared academically ineligible in February of 2003, is back at school and enrolled for the spring semester.
O'Brien summarized it, "We played to win verses playing not to lose."Princeton swept both its Ivy League opponents this weekend with wins over Brown, 66-53, and Yale, 66-58 at Jadwin Gymnasium.The Tigers (5-11 overall, 2-1 Ivy League) started Saturday off with an upset of Brown (9-8, 2-2), pulling it down from its No.
"We didn't just beat 'em, we clobbered 'em," senior forward Gretchen Anderson said after women's hockey's 6-3 win over Harvard on Friday night at Baker Rink.Anderson and her teammates followed up their biggest win of the season, however, with a disappointing effort, also at home, in a 3-1 loss to Brown.
PROVIDENCE, R.I./NEW HAVEN, C.T. ? After scoring 18 points to lead the men's basketball team to an impressive 64-49 win at Brown on Friday night, junior guard Will Venable did not attempt a single field goal for the first 39 minutes and 57 seconds of Saturday's game.But with three seconds left, and the Tigers trailing Yale by one, Venable slipped underneath the basket, grabbed a tipped offensive rebound in tight traffic, and calmly laid the ball in.Thanks to Venable's offensive heroics and his suffocating defense, Princeton (9-6 Overall, 2-0 Ivy League) escaped New Haven with a sweep of its first ? and perhaps toughest ? league road weekend.The Tigers' performance against Brown (7-10, 3-1) was perhaps their best all-around showing of the season.
The indoor track teams had a successful Intersession. The men's team won both the Princeton Relays on Jan.
The men's and women's fencing team each had three meets over Intersession. Both took on squads from St.
Uncertainty will keep Sunday's game exciting for both players and fans, as the men's hockey team takes on the U.S.
At the end of this week, with the pressure of exams alleviated, most Princeton students will be leaving campus to go home, to visit friends or, for the more adventurous, to travel the world far and wide.
We, the outgoing sports editors, began working at the 'Prince' in the winter of 2001. By the time we learned that writers don't get paid it was too late to back out, and we embarked, last year, on a long and winding road which, sadly, ends with this issue.Carrying on a tradition begun several years ago, we have decided to use this space to recount the most important things, big and small, that we have learned over the past four years. First thing's first: you can't please everyone.
In the midst of an 18-day respite, the women's basketball team is exactly at the midpoint of its schedule.
