With only one game left in the regular season, women's lacrosse has checked off almost everything that would appear on any team's to-do list.
The climax of most Division I sports is competing in the NCAA Tournament.The Tournament gives the team a chance to prove that it is among the nation's elite, but in order to get that chance the team must play well and earn a berth.
Just as the men's football team traveled to Dartmouth this fall to take on the Big Green, the men's lacrosse team will do the same this weekend.
On Sunday, the women's softball team returned to prominence in the Ivy League by capturing its first league title since 1996.It was the team's 14th overall in the 23 years the sport has been a part of the league.The Tigers finished with 13 league wins, which is the most in the history of the program.
Rachael Quinn Becker, a junior from Broomall, PA, is the leading defender on the top-ranked women's lacrosse team, with the highest number of turnovers caused and groundballs.
The first twenty minutes gave no indication of what was to come.Down 5-0 with ten minutes left in the first half, the women's lacrosse team looked, perhaps, star-struck by its opponent, Maryland ? the Maryland that eliminated the Tigers from the tournament last year and went on to win the national title.The reigning champions jumped ahead just 45 seconds into the match, as the Tigers struggled to maintain ? or even to gain ? possession of the ball.Following a tricky save by freshman goalkeeper Sarah Kolodner seconds after the first Maryland goal, Princeton (14-1 overall, 6-0 Ivy League) tried to take advantage of the turnover and was able to transition smoothly into its usually unstoppable offensive set-up.
For the first time in six years the softball team has won the Ivy League title. Maybe it is the weakness of the Ivy League this year, or possibly it is the strong core of freshman who have helped the Tigers reach the top of the Ivy League.
Just about the only thing that could have made the baseball team's 13-1 victory over Monmouth better was if the bands on Prospect Ave.
Two weeks ago when the Princeton men's lacrosse team was ranked No. 12 by the USILA coaches poll, this newspaper said that they were by no means a No.
In the last 132 seasons of Princeton football, only 16 teams have had multiple captains. Next season will be number 17, with captains Chisom Opara, a senior wide receiver, and senior linebacker Drew Babinecz.
With the football team losing senior place kicker and punter Taylor Northrop to graduation, the team's kicking game is, as head coach Roger Hughes puts it, "one piece of the puzzle that we don't have the answer to." Northrop led the team in scoring last year with 55 points, making up one-quarter of the total points scored by the entire team (200).However, a piece of the puzzle that Princeton does have the answer to is the offense.
The Princeton men's golf team won the Ivy League Championship this past weekend by a commanding 13 shots over Yale.
Just like China's Ming dynasty, the football coaches want to build a little dynasty of their own, and they think they are taking steps in the right direction.The Ming dynasty started small, and so will the football dynasty, after having gone through two three-win seasons.
It's over. Dreams are shattered. Hopes have vanished. Princeton's lone remaining undefeated crew team has fallen.
It was the final match of the season and no one could compete with the men's tennis team. It put up a tough last fight to take third place in the Ivy League....After a sweep on Friday a-gainst Colum-bia, followed by a 6-1 win on Saturday over Cornell, the men couldn't have asked for a better ending to their season.On Friday, the Tigers went into their competition against Colum-bia with a vengeance, since they had lost to the Lions the past two years in a row."[Columbia] had beaten us the last two times for the Ivy title," sophomore Dan Friedman said, "but we knew if we were focused, we had a shot at beating them."Princeton won two of three doubles matches.
One goal was all that kept the women's water polo team from winning the Southern Division Tournament at Villanova on Sunday.After easily defeating Gannon 14-7, Mercyhurst 18-5 and George Washington 16-3 on Saturday, the No.
It is easy to start strong right out of the gate but harder to keep up the pace and finish strong.
With the season drawing ever-closer to its finale at Heps, the women's track team has begun its last push to finish preparing for the all-important championship meet.
Eighteen days and counting. The Heptagonal championships are fast approaching, and the men's track and field team used a home meet last weekend to prepare for the focal league championship competition.Princeton hosted a trio of local schools: Rutgers, Iona and Manhattan, and came out victorious despite not fielding a full squad."This weekend was a tune-up for the beginning of the championship part of the season," junior half-miler David Dean said, "so a lot of people either rested or rabbited a race." Rabbiting is track vernacular for serving as a pacesetter for a portion of the race.
Champions show up to play when it counts. Last Saturday, it counted.Capitalizing on six straight goals over a 10-minute span in the second half, the men's lacrosse team moved into a tie for first place in the Ivy League with a 12-7 thrashing of Cornell at 1952 Stadium.The Big Red (9-2 overall, 4-1 Ivy League) suffered its first conference loss in the process, while Princeton (6-4, 3-1) now needs only to win its last two games against Dartmouth and Brown to capture its eighth straight Ivy title.
