In the 9th inning of softball's matchup with St. Joseph's yesterday, the Tigers had bases loaded, no outs.
Hitting the water at speeds of 30 miles per hour from 32 feet above the pool, senior Danielle Stramandi seems to have no problem with hitting things quickly and intensely.Her diving career at Princeton has been, to say the least, one of record-setting magnitudes, and it has been a career that has taken her as far as Beijing this past summer as one of two divers from the United States to compete at the World University Games.Stramandi began diving after training as an elite gymnast.
Esty Dwek came to Princeton last year from Geneva, Switzerland and was a freshman star, leading the Tigers to an Ivy League Championship.She was Princeton's top finisher in three of five tournaments last spring, which included a first place finish at the Jacksonville State Classic.
Imagine your childhood dream. Now imagine it came true.It happened to Princeton head baseball coach Scott Bradley when he made it to the major leagues in 1985 to play for the team he loved as a child.A native of Essex Fells in northern New Jersey, Bradley grew up playing baseball and going to watch the Yankees play in New York."I can remember my dad coming over to the field and calling us up, saying we had tickets to see the Yankees play the Minnesota Twins," Bradley said.
"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift."Words spoken by Steve Prefontaine, perhaps the most talented American runner ever.
Dartmouth, like the rest of the teams Princeton has played this year, was probably trembling in its turf shoes when the attack trio of senior BJ Prager, junior Sean Hartofilis, and sophomore Ryan Boyle got off the bus in Hanover.
With his seventh-inning single to centerfield, senior shortstop Pat Boran became the sole holder of the all-time hits record at Princeton with 203, after taking possession of the runs-scored record when he scored his 141st career run in the top of the third.
Nineteen days. Sixteen teams. Fifteen upsets. One champion.These are just a few of the numbers wracking the women's lacrosse team's mind as it prepares for the 2002 NCAA tournament, which, beginning May 9, will ultimately culminate in the national championship May 19.Among the 15 other contenders, the top teams Princeton will have to watch out for are Georgetown, Loyola, Virginia, North Carolina, Duke, Cornell, and Maryland.Fortunately for the Tigers, they have already played six of those seven opponents ? and won five of those six games ? so they will be entering the first round of the tournament with a good idea of what to expect from the other top teams in the nation.Fortunately for the Tigers, they have finished the season ranked No.
Some seasons end with dramatic finishes to determine who goes to the postseason, or who gets home-field advantage.
The start of a race is usually marked by reverential silence, particularly if that race includes world 100-meter record holder Maurice Green.
This weekend, the Princeton crew teams raced twice and recorded two triumphs for the first varsity eight squads.In a clean sweep, the open women's team claimed a total of six victories over Northeastern and Dartmouth, both Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges adversaries, in Hanover, NH.
Unexpected players provided the power for Princeton this weekend, but the Tigers' usual workhorses carried them to two victories in the rain-shortened Princeton Invitational.In the four-team tournament, Princeton played Manhattan and then Seton Hall on Saturday.
The men's lacrosse team came away from Hanover, NH with a 13-7 victory over Dartmouth this weekend.
A week ago, life did not look so good for women's golf. The Tigers finished second at the Ivy League Championship ? and without the automatic bid to the NCAA Regional.This past weekend, things looked better as the team was in a familiar place ? at the top.
To run your best, you have to run against the best.Or so the general theory goes, at least.
The Princeton sports world is in balance again.Penn remembered it had more talent than the men's basketball team, the men's lacrosse team remembered it was good and 'Prince' sports beat WPRB sports Saturday night in the annual basketball game between the campus's two sources of athletics news.The 44-40 win at Jadwin Gym for the 'Prince' was its first in the last three years, but the sports scribes still hold a 82-3 all-time series edge.Holder Hall bookies put the athleteics announcers as early 22.5-point favorites, but the gap closed when the gaps started opening in the radio station's once-formidable lineup.Freshman Zack Pierce, a baseball beat writer and WPRB play-by-play man, decided Thursday to compete with the 'Prince.'"It's just a better group of people," Pierce said.
There's an old sports saying: "It's not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game."Luckily for women's lacrosse, that saying isn't exactly true.
It's always sweet to win a championship, especially at home. Winning it is even better if it gets you a bid to the NCAA Championship.
The Tiger baseball team wanted to go to bed Sunday night above .500 for the first time since coming back from its spring trip 4-11, and senior captain Pat Boran played the role of Sandman.Boran's one-out double in the bottom of the ninth inning in game two of Saturday's doubleheader with Pace (10-30) scored sophomore utility man Steve Young and capped a 5-4 victory and two-game sweep of the visiting Setters.In the first game, freshman Ross Ohlendorf shook off a rocky third inning to lead Princeton (19-18 overall, 11-5 Ivy League) to a 9-3 win.
With the Ivy League season coming down to the wire, the baseball team puts it all on the line this weekend when it takes on:Pace University?The Tigers (16-18 overall, 11-5 Ivy League) and the aptly-named Setters (10-25) square off in a doubleheader Saturday at Clarke Field before a Sunday finale at Pace.
