In an evening meet that ran into the early hours of Saturday morning, the men's track and field team set the tone for the upcoming indoor season with some notable performances and their trademark depth.
Though last Friday night's New Year Invitational, at which Princeton faced a few local teams, counted very little for the women's track team, the Tigers discovered an important new addition to the team.Freshman Chelo Canino set a new meet and school record in the pole vault when she cleared 12 feet, one-and-a-half inches.
Finally escaping the ranked opponents on their schedule, the wrestling team found little solace in Evanston, Ill., as the Tigers dropped two of three matches at the Northwestern Duals on Saturday.The Tigers' 1-2 performance at the Duals dropped their record to a disappointing 2-6 for the season.
With one of the nation's top teams ? No. 5 New Hampshire ? coming to Baker Rink on Saturday, the women's hockey team was hoping to make the game competitive.
For the men's squash team, defeating Trinity is like climbing a mountain. Each time they face off, the Tigers inch closer to the top and a long-awaited victory.The latest chapter in the Princeton-Trinity rivalry was this past weekend's Five-Man Team Championships held at Trinity.
Among the big cats, the tiger is known to be a good swimmer with slight man-eating tendencies. The men's swimming and diving team generally lives up to its mascot in these respects.
The men's hockey team entered this weekend looking for a spark. The defense had been playing well, only to see games slip away because of a lack of scoring power.Against two Eastern College Athletic Conference opponents, Union (4-5-3 overall, 1-3-1 ECAC) Friday night, and Rensselaer (5-5-1, 2-2-1) on Saturday, the Tigers had an opportunity to improve on the inconsistency that has plauged them recently.With both the Skating Dutchmen and the Engineers running in the middle of the ECAC pack, this could have been the perfect weekend for Princeton to pad its road record.With no other ECAC games for more than a month, this was an important chance for Princeton to move up in the standings.It could have been a big weekend for the team.
Saturday night, Monmouth's Rahsaan Johnson exploded for 40 points against Princeton men's basketball, but his record performance was not enough as the Tigers beat the Hawks, 76-70, in inter-conference, intra-state play in Jadwin Gym.Johnson stole the show in the Tigers' second home game.
Since last year, when Army destroyed the women's basketball team, 64-46, in Jadwin Gym, the Black Knights lost most of their offensive threats, while the Tigers have found weapons they never expected to have.Yet Saturday afternoon in West Point, N.Y., Army (2-6) still had enough firepower to knock off Princeton (4-3), 69-65.
"Make Patty Proud."The brand-new banner that adorns the facade of the student section at Hobey Baker Rink, honoring former Princeton women's hockey great Patty Kazmaier, was certainly in sophomore forward Gretchen Anderson's peripheral view as she scored the lone goal in a 1-0 overtime upset of the No.
Indoor trackThe men's and women's indoor track teams saw their first action of the season at the New Year's Invitational at Jadwin Gym on Friday night.
Challenges are nothing new to the men's ice hockey team. Each weekend this season has been an adventure for the team, as it has gone through ups and downs in its play.
Tomorrow night is the second home men's basketball game of the season and since many of the upperclassmen will be fulfilling obligations on Prospect Avenue, residential colleges, it's your chance to show what a good crowd is all about.
Unless you really thought America was going to lose the War of 1812 ? and come on, war fans, who really did?
Princeton men's basketball has had a rough start on the season thus far ?winning just one of its first six games.Tomorrow night at 7:30, the Tigers will return home to Jadwin Gym to take on last year's Northeast Conference Champion and NCAA tournament qualifier, Monmouth, and attempt to pick up their second win on the season before facing No.
After a slow start to its season, the women's hockey team is finally coming into its own.Last weekend, the Tigers (5-3-2, 3-2-0 Eastern College Athletic Conference-North Division) recorded two solid victories over Colgate and Cornell.
Field hockey's freshmen Alexis and Natalie Martirosian, women's soccer's juniors Lynn and Krista Ariss, and freshmen Rochelle and Janine Willis - identical twins all, recently sat down with 'Prince' staff writers Blaire and Chandra Russell to discuss life as twins on and off the field.'Prince': When you first started out playing the sport, did you find you had different skills, leading to your having different roles on the field?AM: Although our styles are similar, Natalie is somewhat more attack-minded.KA: Right when we started playing at age five, Lynn was definitely the more defensive player and I was more aggressive.JW: Well, at the beginning it was hard to tell.
Coming into the season, women's hockey was not suffering from a lack of talent, simply a lack of players.But going into last weekend's contests against league doormats Cornell and Colgate, the Tigers knew that despite being shorthanded, they would have to pick up a pair of victories.After a dominant defensive effort against the Raiders Friday night in which her defense allowed only five shots to reach goaltender Sarah Ahlquist, senior defender Aviva Grumet-Morris turned on her offensive firepower the next night, tallying a pair of assists and her first goal of the season in Princeton's 4-1 win over the Big Red.Grumet-Morris has been the anchor of a very young Princeton defense this season and has performed admirably, even while skating double shifts much of the time.
Women's Soccer's Deerin, Ariss and Willis recognizedIn addition to being named Ivy League Player of the Year before the beginning of the NCAA Tournament, junior midfielder Heather Deerin was named to the All-Mid-Atlantic Region first team by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.
There were no smiles as the women's basketball team walked off the court after last night's game against Lafayette - even though they walked off with the victory.Junior Maureen Lane started the game off with a quick layup - a fancy hook shot from under the hoop - that set the tone for the rest of the game.
