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.
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.
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.
With a quick move, Parker grabbed on to the Drexel wrestler, put him off balance and then threw him to the mat.
For the past three years, the Tigers have concluded the non-Ivy schedule with seven lossses along with four or five wins.
At an emotional press conference yesterday, filled with tears and shouts, Roger Hughes, the Charlie W.
In what must have been caused by a sin he committed in another lifetime, Princeton Athletic Director Gary Walters '67 was recently traded by President Tilghman to Columbia University in return for two apartment buildings on New York's 124th street, a borough in Manhattan to be named later and cash.The news was announced by Columbia's athletics staff last night in New York City."We are very happy to gain such a wonderful athletic director," a spokesperson for Columbia said.
CHARTER ? In a move that will certainly shift the balance of power in the beer pong community, one of the sport's best teams is rumored to be parting ways.'Prince' Sports learned yesterday afternoon that senior pong standout Andrew Lenz will likely trade longtime playing partner and fellow senior Matt Simmons for international pong superstar Yi Yong Fan before the start of the Charter Club pong tournament this March.Yi currently runs a junior pong clinic in Portland, Ore., but is coming out of retirement to play in the Charter tournament."Simmons has played Robin to my Batman long enough," Lenz said.In an interview given to Paddle Palace magazine, Yi said that "There is so much potential in the U.S.
We've wanted to write this column for a long time. The time has come. The Princeton community and the sporting world have waited long enough.Our patience has run out, and so too should the patience of the new athletic director as soon as he moves in.Men's golf head coach Will Green has got to go.Now, there will be people out there, some of whom may even play golf, that will say that coach Green should keep his job.
NEW YORK ? After a six-hour meeting last night, the Ivy Group presidents voted 7-1 to expel Dartmouth College from the athletics league, effective immediately.Yale's Richard Levin said, "We have known for some time that the Ivy League had grown too big.
Penn Stabler: "So, did you ever win any big meets or championships in high school?"Sophomore high jumper Brooke Minor: "Well, I don't really want to get into that."P: (laughs) "Oh c'mon, seriously, I ask everyone that question.
Men's squash had two main goals for the fall: to win the Ivy League scrimmage and to take the Five-Man Team Championship.No problem.After claiming a hard-earned victory over Yale in the finals for the top scrimmage honors in November, the team focused all its energy into preparing for the Five-Mans.
