For one squash team, it was a season to build upon. For the other, it was a season to remember.Despite its youth, women's squash earned an overall winning record this season.
The softball team packed up its bags and went home this summer feeling content. The Tigers (24-21-1) were steady this season with their second-straight Ivy title and NCAA qualification.Princeton's season began slowly, with a blowout by Georgia Tech.
In the third year of the Hughes era, the football team saw vast improvement across the board to the point that it became a contender to remove Harvard and Penn from the longstanding positions atop the Ivy League.The Tigers finished the 2002 campaign 6-4 overall and 4-3 in the Ancient Eight, good enough for the middle of the pack.Princeton opened its season against Lehigh.
Yet again, the top swimming program in the Ivy League was the one that calls DeNunzio Pool home.The women's team continued its dynasty, bringing home a fifth straight perfect regular season and a fourth straight Ivy championship.
Scoring two goals in one soccer game is not typically considered to be a great accomplishment.For Penn State, however, putting two goals past the women's soccer team to win the opening round of the NCAA Div.
The men's hockey team had an uncharacteristically off-year, finishing 3-26-2 overall and just 2-18-2 in the Eastern College Athletic Conference.
In its first of two games against Cornell this season, the women's basketball team trailed the Big Red at halftime, 37-26.
Adele McCarthy-BeauvaisFor the last four years, senior Adele McCarthy-Beauvais has been one of the cornerstones of the women's water polo team.In a sport that has only existed at Princeton for a mere six years, McCarthy-Beauvais has certainly written her name into this program's history.In her sophomore season, she made her first mark on the team, setting the all-time scoring record for Princeton University.
Scoring two goals in one soccer game is not typically considered to be a great accomplishment.For Penn State, however, putting two goals past the women's soccer team to win the opening round of the NCAA Div.
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 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.
Baseball won its sixth straight Lou Gehrig Division title this year, and on May 10 and 11, they defeated Harvard, two games to one, in the Ivy League Championship Series to earn the automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament.The Tigers (27-21 overall, 15-5 Ivy League) will take on Auburn Friday, May 30 to begin their third NCAA in four years.
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 returned from a torn ACL in his left knee that caused him to miss the entire conference schedule.
In the third year of the Hughes era, the football team saw vast improvement across the board to the point that it became a contender to remove Harvard and Penn from the longstanding positions atop the Ivy League.The Tigers finished the 2002 season 6-4 overall and 4-3 in the Ancient Eight, good enough for the middle of the pack.Princeton opened its season against Lehigh.
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.
The softball team packed up its bags and went home this summer feeling content. The Tigers (24-21-1) were steady this season with their second-straight Ivy title and NCAA qualification.Princeton's season began slowly, with a blowout by Georgia Tech.
It's Final Four time. Members of the women's lacrosse team left Wednesday for Syracuse, taking their books and scantrons with them, to prepare for the semifinal battle against top-seeded Loyola at 6:30 p.m.Loyola and Princeton, along with Maryland and Virginia, who will play in the other semifinal game, are the sole survivors of the 2003 season.
In past years, the IC4A championship marked the end of most of the team's season. With the advent of regional NCAA qualifying, the majority of the athletes competing this weekend will be training through reunions.
While the women's outdoor track team has already made it through one of its seasonal markers ? the Heptagonal Championships ? it is still inexorably making its way towards its second: NCAA Regional Qualifying meet.
In the world of sports, familiarity breeds contempt. Just ask the Red Sox and the Yankees, the Patriots and the Jets, and the Celtics and Lakers, and we can see how true this axiom is.Rivalries help define a sport, and Princeton (11-3 overall, 5-1 Ivy League) and Syracuse (9-5) have done just that for college lacrosse.
In what could potentially be the lowest scoring game ever between these two titan teams, the sportscasters of WPRB defeated the sports writers of 'Prince' sports in The Daily Princetonian-WPRB classic held last Wednesday, May 7, in Jadwin Gym.
