Recently, Daily Princetonian Senior Writer Ross Mazo sat down with junior Nate Rawlings of the men's rugby team.
The women's soccer team tied Colorado College (8-7-1) 1-1 on Saturday in a well-played battle between two packs of Tigers.
With five matches in nine days, the volleyball team did not have much of a fall break.The Tigers faced Dartmouth, Harvard, Villanova, Columbia, and Cornell this past week in a test of their endurance.Despite tough losses to Har-vard and Villa-nova, Princeton (13-5 overall, 6-3 Ivy League) steadily improved its play over the course of the week.
Last Friday, the field hockey team won the outright Ivy League championship for the eighth time in nine years.Although not as dominant as their other Ivy League victories, the Tigers' 3-0 win over Penn (6-11 overall, 2-5 Ivy League) was enough to close out their third-straight perfect Ivy League season.During this year's Ivy League campaign, the Tigers (11-6 overall) posted a 7-0 record, and led the league in goals scored (43) and the fewest goals allowed (six). On offense, senior tri-captain and attack Ilvy Friebe has been outstanding for the Tigers, leading the league in two key scoring categories with 22 goals and nine assists.Senior goalkeeper Kelly Baril recorded another impressive season in goal.
It is strange that a scoreless tie might be the highlight of the men's soccer team's season, but with the undefeated Penn team playing for the Ivy League championship, the Tigers chose a good game to play their best soccer.Normally a Penn vs.
The football team continued its streak of impressive fourth quarter performances Saturday against Penn.The rest of the game, though, was one of the most one-sided games ever at Princeton Stadium, as Penn (7-1 overall, 5-0 Ivy League) took a 30-0 lead into the fourth quarter to win by the final of 44-13.During the first half the Quakers dominated the Tigers, outgaining Princeton (5-3, 3-2) 202 yards to 29.
Head coach Beth Bozman and her field hockey team needed to win at least a share of the Ivy League title to qualify for the NCAA tournament.
Two weeks ago, the football team, at 2-0, sat atop the Ivy League with two other teams ? Harvard and Penn.
Year after year, men's and women's heavyweight crew are among the nation's best. Given this rich tradition of Princeton rowing, expectations are always lofty.This year is no different.As always, the Tigers have their sights set high, mindful of the legacy they must defend."We see alumni on the national team every day," junior Tyson White said.
0 ? Times the football team has beaten rival Harvard since 1995, not incidentally the last time Princeton won the Ivy League title.1 ? Actual victories by the Tigers since 1993 against the Quakers, this week's opponent.
The color of the leaves on the trees are changing and there is a chill in the air. To some this would indicate one thing only: the onset of a winter that will undoubtedly last way too long.For avid sports fans, however, the changing season indicates something completely different and much more exciting ? hockey time.And, for the men's ice hockey team, this season started with a bang.At the beginning of fall break, the Tigers took to the ice for their two preseason exhibition games.
With only one regular season game left to play, women's soccer (13-2-0 overall, 6-1-0 Ivy League) has amassed quite a list of achievements this fall, including an NCAA tournament bid and at least a share of the Ivy League title.
Princeton golf certainly didn't fade quietly into the winter off-season. With both the men's and women's team posting top five finishes over fall break, coaches and players alike are looking anxiously towards the spring season and eyeing Ivy titles.The men's team spent Fall Break at the Lansdowne Resort in Leesburg, Virginia, competing in the Hoya Invitational.
This season the men's rugby team has learned to play and win in high-pressure games, and this experience proved invaluable when the Tigers defended their league championship by beating Westchester, 31-5.After losing to Westchester in its first game of the season, Princeton (5-1) had to win all of its remaining games to defend its 2001 Eastern Pennsylvania Rugby Union title.The Tigers' success in the fall qualifies the team for higher-level tournaments in the spring.
If one were to start in Princeton, draw a line directly east to the ocean and another directly north to Canada, and call the area in that box "the Northeast," one would find that "the Northeast" has about one-ninth of the country's population.
Without even competing in an Ivy League match for the women's teninis team, freshman Neha Uberoi established herself last weekend as one of the rising stars in the League, advancing to the quarterfinals of the Omni Hotel Eastern Regional tournament in Cambridge by defeating top-seeded Alice Pirsu of Penn.Uberoi, who had already lost to Pirsu during the fall, played aggres sively from the baseline, varying the depth of her powerful groundstrokes.
'Prince' staff writer Anuj Basil recently sat down with sophomores Alexis and Natalie Martirosian from the women's field hockey team.'Prince': Why did you choose Princeton?Natalie: Field hockey was by all means a factor.
When it rains it pours. This old adage not only applies to life, but to the world of sprint football.Over the break, Navy (5-0, 2-0 Collegiate Sprint Football League) defeated Princeton (0-5, 0-3) by a score of 59-8, handing the Tigers their worst loss of the season.The Midshipmen entered the contest riding an eight-game winning streak, which included five consecutive league victories.
Early in the fourth quarter against Harvard Oct. 26, football's star quarterback, junior David Splithoff, was crushed when trying to scramble for a first down.
American legend says that on the evening of Halloween strange things happen. Tradition has it that children hit the streets to trick-or-treat in costumes emulating the evil spirits thought to be roaming the world on this day.A strange thing did happen to the men's soccer team this fall break, only on the evening preceding Halloween.
