At last weekend's Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet in Cambridge, Mass., it really didn't take the full two days to figure out the best team in the pool.
Traveling to California last week for its annual trial-by-sunshine, the men's volleyball players had a hard time fitting into their airplane seats and an even harder time winning.Facing the likes of No.
There are only two names that matter in Ivy League fencing: Princeton and Columbia. This weekend those two teams clashed, along with national power St.
While their classmates were skiing, traveling, and sleeping past noon, members of both squash teams were hard at work battling top national competition.Men's and women's squash scheduled several important matches over intersession.
While hundreds of millions of people were preparing to see the Tampa Bay Buccaneers demolish the Oakland Raiders in Super Bowl XXXVII, the Princeton women's hockey team shook off its final exam rust by defeating one of Canada's best hockey teams, McGill, 3-1?a team which sports one of the best amateur goalies in the world.Five days later, Princeton blew out Vermont to notch its fifth Eastern College Athletic Conference win and followed that up with a conference loss to Dartmouth, putting Princeton in the doldrums at fifth place in the conference. Taking on one of the bestMcGill (20-5-2) came into Baker Rink Jan.
While most people spent the break catching up on some well-deserved sleep, men's hockey battled Dartmouth (11-8-1 overall, 7-6-0 Eastern College Athletic Conference) and Vermont (9-12-3, 6-8-0 ) at Baker Rink.There was no shortage of goals in Friday's 5-2 loss to the Big Green.
Princeton's women's basketball team (6-11 overall, 1-2 Ivy League) won a game over intersession, but it was its least important one.
Men's basketball began intersession by blowing out Ursinus after almost three weeks off. The next two games were a different story, however.
Facing two of the best teams in the region, the Tigers were unable to pull out victories. Princeton wrestled in two meets this past week, facing Lehigh at home Thursday and travelling to Cornell Saturday. Against the Mountain HawksIn the first meet, held in the friendly confines of Dillon Gymnasium, the Tigers surged out of the gate, refusing to back down and be intimidated by Lehigh's top-five national ranking.
The men's hockey team has only 10 games left to turn its season around to prepare for the Eastern College Athletic Conference playoffs, beginning with a home game against Dartmouth on Feb.
As the three-time "defending champion" in U.S. News and World Report's top national universities, the authorities at Princeton clearly do not take lightly to falling behind the competition.
This is the last issue of our board, and the last opportunity for the outgoing sports editors ? Matt Simmons, Kimberly Ruthsatz and Ramesh Nagarajan (from left to right) ? to express what The Daily Princetonian has meant to us.
The time for No. 8 women's hockey to prove its mettle ? if it has not done so already ? has arrived, as the Tigers head into a long stretch of nothing but Eastern College Athletic Conference opponents on the docket for the rest of the regular season.After hosting McGill in an exhibition game Sunday, women's hockey will get back into action with a two-game weekend at the end of Intersession.
"It's nice to be able to wipe the slate clean and say everybody is 0-0," women's basketball head coach Richard Barron said before the team's Ivy League season began with a victory over Penn Jan.
In the depths of reading period, the men's fencing team still found time to slice themselves away from their studies to bolster their record with a resounding victory against Hoboken's Stevens Technical Institute.In what would be a nearly perfect match, the Tigers defeated Stevens Tech 25-2.
Going into a match with the defending national champions is intimidating under any circumstances.This past Saturday proved no exception for the Tiger women's squash team.Princeton (4-1 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) started off 2003 with a loss to Trinity.
With no meets during Winter Break, the women's swimming team could afford to take a little time away from DeNunzio Pool.
During reading period, most students are locked away in some corner of Firestone or Frist, banging away at their computers or cramming for exams.But the women's track team found time Saturday to face Route 1 rival Rutgers in an indoor track meet at Jadwin Gym.The Tigers won eight of 17 events against the Scarlet Knights, but got enough points to win the dual meet, 87-55.Junior Emily Kroshus led a sweep for the Tigers in the one mile run, clocking in at four minutes, 57.71 seconds, more than ten seconds ahead of fellow junior Pilar Marin.
Before the second semester begins in early February, the women's basketball team will have three more entries in its record book.
The middle of the pack and the best in the country were first on the agenda as women's hockey began the bulk of its Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference schedule this weekend at Baker Rink.
