Mid-'90s. Minnesota. Somewhere among the vaunted lattice of ponds in the frozen north, two rising stars take to the ice together for the first time.
Water polo, as practitioners of the sport know, is primarily a West Coast fascination. Californian schools such as Stanford and University of California-San Jose have traditionally dominated the game, though the playing field has gradually become more level with the advent of the spread of the sport across the country.Still, perhaps the most telling detail of the disparity involved in water polo lies in the fact that out of all three All-America teams for the 2000-01 season, only one person was not from a California university.That one person was second team All-America Adele McCarthy-Beauvais, a current junior at Princeton.McCarthy-Beauvais is one of the major reasons behind the Tigers' success in past seasons, most recently leading the team to a third consecutive Eastern College Athletic Conference championship as well as a second consecutive Southern Championship.For her efforts she was awarded MVP honors in both tournaments.
Freshmen are often considered the bottom rung of the social hierarchy. They can, however, occasionally serve a useful purpose.The women's water polo team hopes that freshmen can be the difference this year in its goal of winning the Eastern Championships.The Tigers came ever so close to the title last season, but were thwarted by Brown in a 11-10 sudden-death double-overtime match in the finals of the Eastern Championships.The Tigers will rely on the play of seven freshmen to try and fill the void left by departing seniors and also to patch up the few holes in the team from last season.Freshmen two-meter Kathyrn Parolin and Mariah Zebrowski and also defender Julie Garton are just a few who will be counted on to adapt quickly to the college game."Jules brings speed to our counter and Kathryn and Mariah will help Adele [McCarthy-Beauvais] out in set," junior defender Jenny Edwards said.
How bad was the men's basketball team against Penn Tuesday night? Not only did the Tigers lose by 24 points, but they also had six more fouls than field goals.But one game ? even if a pathetic one ? does not an Ivy League season make.And Princeton is still second in the conference at 5-2 (9-9 overall against Division I teams, 1-0 against D-III teams). The Tigers, who have lost back-to-back league matchups to Penn and Yale, haven't lost three Ivy games in a row since head coach John Thompson '88 turned his tassel in front of Nassau Hall.This weekend, the Tigers play Harvard and Dartmouth at Jadwin Gym, where they have won 50 straight conference matchups that weren't against Penn.The Crimson come to town Saturday night.
This coming weekend, the women's basketball team will try to end its current six-game losing streak.
In the first major Ivy home meet of the season, the men's and women's fencing teams faced off against the Quakers for the first time since last year's two upsetting losses.
One week after their trouncing of Franklin & Marshall, the Princeton grapplers hoped to build on that win to stop a two-match Ivy League losing streak as they traveled to New England to take on league rivals Harvard and Brown.The Tigers had already lost close matches to Ivy foes Cornell and Columbia, wrestling well enough to stay in each match, but missing the right formula to record their first league win.Princeton headed to Massachusetts hungry for the elusive conference victory.The Tigers traveled first to Cambridge, Mass.
With only three weekends left in the season, the Princeton men's hockey team has its work cut out if it wants to finish in the top five and win home ice advantage for the playoffs.
As the Princeton announcer introduced the Penn players, the Quakers clutched one another and hopped in a circle like overactive toddlers in a playground.Then, like stern and conscientous parents they locked the backdoor, eliminated all fire hazards and set an example for others to follow.The men's basketball team (10-9 overall, 5-2 Ivy League) bowed to Penn (17-6, 4-3), losing 62-38, in its most crushing loss this season."We got spanked," freshman guard Will Venable said.Princeton missed shots in a variety of ways ? clanging balls over the rim, bouncing them off the blackboard, fumbling layup attempts and three-pointers alike.
Men's swimming and diving wrapped up its dual meet schedule convincingly last weekend with back-to-back wins over Columbia and Navy.Princeton traveled to Columbia Friday, Feb.
"The game three years ago always stays in our thoughts," Penn head coach Fran Dunphy said.He was referring to the "Palestra Miracle," a game in which Princeton came back from 24 points down at halftime to win the game, 50-49.Last night's competition between the two teams was like that game three years ago, except without the Palestra.
It wasn't the missed lay-ups. It wasn't the piss-poor officiating in the second half, no matter what the Tiger partisans claimed.
An undefeated season.A goal so unobtainable only one team in the National Football League has ever accomplished it.
In what is fast becoming the biggest rivalry in college squash, Princeton (8-0 overall, 6-0 Ivy League) won the latest match 5-4 over Harvard (6-2, 4-1) before 500 stunned fans at the Crimson's Murr Center Sunday to win its second Ivy title in the last three years.The winner of the Harvard-Princeton match won the Ivy title the last three years, and in each of those years the margin of victory was 5-4.Head coach Bob Callahan '77 figured Princeton would need to win the top five positions to pull out a victory.
North Carolina vs. Duke. Indiana vs. Purdue. Tennessee Tech vs. Middle Tennessee State.Rivalries are the blood that flows through college basketball's veins.
At this point, it's all about Heps and the post-season. As the indoor track season winds down, the chances to qualify for either the IC4A or NCAA championships grow fewer and fewer, adding a sense of immediacy to the last couple of meets of the year.
'The Game' is tonight at 7:30. Penn and Princeton. Always the biggest game of the season. The rival schools have been the end-all of Ivy League men's basketball for decades.
The sellout crowd of 3,100 invaded the court as the team's star finished the visiting team with an emphatic dunk at the buzzer.
With eight seconds left in regulation and the Tigers trailing, 67-64, junior Allison Cahill threw up a desperate shot from the three-point line.
In life, love and hockey, it's the little things that count.The Princeton men's hockey team has made huge strides on both ends of the ice since the beginning of the season.
