Twice this weekend, field hockey played an outstanding first half, only to follow it with an inadequate second half effort.
Lawnparties.The word makes any Princeton student's eyes light up ? and rightfully so.
The arrival of wide-eyed freshmen to campus also signifies the arrival of another American tradition ? football.While the rest of campus is finishing up adjustments to dorm rooms and settling in for classes, most of the football team has already been at Princeton for two weeks, practicing for their season opener against Lehigh a week from tomorrow at Princeton Stadium.Defense was supposed to be the strength of this year's team, but suspensions and injuries to key players have shifted the pressure onto the offense to carry the team early in the season."During spring practices I thought that our defense was going to have to play very well to give our offense time to adjust, but now the reverse must happen," head coach Roger Hughes said. QuarterbackThe Tiger offense will be directed at the start of the season by junior quarterback Matt Verbit.
With less than a month to go before Princeton's Ivy League opener versus Columbia, here is a capsule look at the other seven teams in the Ancient Eight, including a brief thought on each from Tiger head coach Roger Hughes. Brown Bears2002 Recap: Typically a contender, Brown is coming off a 2-8 (2-5 Ivy League) season in which four of its five league losses came by a total of 11 points.
Since the end of last season, Princeton has lost three defensive starters ? then-junior linebacker Zak Keasey, then-sophomore cornerback Jay McCareins and then-junior free safety Brandon Mueller ? to academic ineligibility, and the team will get knocked around because of it.When an opponent runs a play against the football team this fall, it looks like it will be either a stop in the backfield or a touchdown.
A little more than a month ago, I noticed a change in, well, the atmosphere around me. Sure, the weather was either unbearably hot or unbearably wet here on the East Coast, but it was not a meteorological change.
Never a team to settle for second, women's volleyball has its eye on first prize again this year.For the last two years, Penn has kept the Ivy League championship safely out of Princeton's reach.
Avery Kiser advances to match play of U.S. Women's AmateurPlaying in her second U.S.
The men's water polo team has started practice again, but one might suppose the girls on campus could have been able to tell you that.
Athletes who play a fall sport are accustomed to returning to campus early for pre-season practice.
In the 40-year history of the 10 clay and 27 hard tennis courts just below Dillon Gym ? known as the Pagoda Courts for the elevated pagoda structure at their center ? there have been, among the thousands who have played there, University presidents (Robert F.
A new head coach. Seven players lost to graduation. Changes of this magnitude are enough to give any team growing pains.But out of the gate with a 2-0 receord after a pair of early-season wins, the field hockey team, which recently welcomed a new head coach while bidding adieu to several star players, has shown growth with relatively little pain.The Tigers opened their season this weekend with a 3-1 win over Virginia, and followed that with a convincing 5-1 win over Drexel.Despite playing both games at home, in the familiar confines of Class of 1952 Stadium, the team had a noticeably different feel to it than last year's Ivy League winning squad.Beth Bozman, head coach for 15 seasons, no longer controlled the sidelines.
The women's soccer team had one of its most successful seasons in its program's history last year, going 13-2-1 in the regular season.
It was a season that began with amazing possibilities for the men's basketball team. While other teams were adding inexperienced freshmen, the Tigers were welcoming back two proven scorers to a team that won a share of the Ivy title.Junior forward Andre Logan was back from a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee that caused him to miss the entire conference schedule.
With a record of 20-9-2, women's hockey had its best season in history. The problem was that the women played in one of the toughest conferences in the country.National powers Harvard (30-3-1) and Dartmouth (27-8-0) stuck a knife through Princeton's plans for a dream season.
In late February, Princeton University hosted the Intercollegiate Squash Association Championships.Hosting college squash's version of the NCAA basketball tournament, albeit with far less teams, gave Princeton the unique privilege to witness firsthand the nation's top college squash players.College squash is one of those few sports here at Princeton, according to the humble opinion of this lowly sports writer, where its players are nearly as good as professional ones; where action is seldom dull; and where a day spent literally holed underground in Jadwin Gym's C-Floor, is not wasted.On the final day, for the championship, Princeton matched up with Trinity in a best of nine series.
In its first of two games against Cornell this season, the women's basketball team trailed the Big Red at halftime, 37-26.
Since 1994, the field hockey team has dominated the Ivy League.This year was no exception.Under the guidance of head coach Beth Bozman, and with the help of a strong core of senior standouts, the Tigers went undefeated in Ivy League play for the third consecutive season.While Princeton easily took home its ninth-straight Ivy League title, the story of the season as a whole was one of feast and famine.While the Tigers were a perfect 7-0 in Ivy League play, they went only 5-7 in their other contests.
President Bush has two college-aged daughters, one of whom attends school in New Haven, Conn. But with the amount of time that the women's lacrosse team has been spending at the White House lately, the majority of the Ivy Leaguers that the president has seen have been swathed in orange.The Tigers (16-4) overcame some early-season adversity to capture their second-straight national championship and to ensure the trip to the White House that goes with it with an 8-7 overtime victory over Virginia.
Success can be measured by different people in different ways. When you are a six-time national champion in lacrosse and your team has played in the last three national title games, many expect that high performance and no less.This season, the men's lacrosse team shared the Ivy League crown, the ninth straight season it has sat atop the Ancient Eight.
