Harvard and Yale. For any Tiger, the immediate thoughts upon hearing these words are of rivals and of inferiors.
Coming into the winter, the women's swimming team had high hopes for the season.It was ranked No.
The field hockey team is used to winning. The Tigers have dominated the Ivy League for several seasons and made three-straight NCAA Final Four appearances from 1996-98.Now add 2001 to the list.But just because it has happened often, does not mean field hockey has done it with ease.With just over five minutes remaining in Princeton's game against top-ranked Old Dominion Sunday, the score was knotted at 1-1.
Women's cross country wanted to prove a few things this year.They wanted to prove they were top three in their league, but came in sixth at Heptagonals.Then, they wanted to prove they deserved to go to nationals at Saturday's NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional, held at Lehigh, and, again, came in sixth with 157 points ? far away from qualifying for nationals.So, while the Tigers have improved since last year, they didn't meet all of their goals."Certainly the program made a step in the right direction [this season] ? we just didn't quite maximize our potential," head coach Peter Farrell said.
If placement in cross country were determined by the first four runners alone, then the men's team would have finished higher than third place in Saturday's NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional race at Lehigh University.In the words of junior Jon Bell, "we were ecstatic with the finishes of our top 4 guys." Those four Tigers ? Bell, senior Wes Stockard and sophomores Tristan Colangelo and Ryan Teising ? accomplished what no other team accomplished ? all of them finished in the Top 15.The race started up a long, gradual hill, with Stockard ahead of the Princeton pack.
The women's soccer team (13-2-2 overall, 5-1-1 Ivy League), coming off the program's best season in its 20-year history, will enter the NCAA tournament on Friday, hosting unranked Loyola-Maryland (9-8-2).Loyola earned its first-ever bid to NCAA Tournament with 1-0 victory over Marist last Sunday in the championship of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.
Several times this season, sprint football has come close, though not necessarily on the scoreboard.
With a chance at winning the Ivy League championship almost within its grasp, the women's volleyball team came into last weekend looking for one more rung on the ladder to grab on to to pull it closer to first place, a position held by Penn.Of course, this is a ladder the team has climbed before, as the two-time defending Ivy League champions.
In the wake of a meeting to identify the team's goals for the season last week, the men's hockey team may have lost sight of another kind of goal ? the kind that is scored on the ice to win games.Princeton's offensive woes this season continued, as the team lost back-to-back road games for the second time this season, falling to Clarkson, 3-2, and St.
Despite being outplayed and overmatched, the women's hockey team gave St. Lawrence all it could handle for five periods this weekend.
The field hockey team showed its mettle this weekend, defeating Northeastern, 4-1, in the first round of the NCAA tournament, and then ousting defending national champions Old Dominion, 2-1, to advance to the Final Four.Though Princeton played Northeastern first, the Tigers' first true test of the postseason came on Sunday.
In a season fraught with many great memories, women's soccer's 1-0 loss Saturday on Lourie-Love Field to Yale is one that Princeton would like to forget.
On a tear for the past month, the men's soccer team completed its Ivy League dominance with a convincing win over Yale.
In front of a crowd of alumni and fans alike in the homecoming game Saturday in Princeton Stadium, Princeton (2-6 overall, 2-4 Ivy League) triumphed over Yale (3-5, 1-5), 34-14.
Some people like to say that the best teams are those that treat every game the same and that play as hard in practice as they do in the most important game of the season.
It's the Yale game.The Princeton Tigers (1-6 overall, 1-4 Ivy League) play host to the Yale Elis (3-4, 1-4) this Saturday at Princeton Stadium in what is one of the most historic rivalries in college football.And that is all that really matters.As for an example of how important a game this big is, cast your memory back to last season's matchup.
It's pretty much a done deal for the women's soccer team. Atop the Ivy League with a 5-0-1 record, the team has already clinched at least a share of the Ivy championship and will receive, by virtue of a tiebreaker, the League's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.
The women's volleyball team has spent most of its season digging its way out of a hole. Early season woes nearly put what was expected to be a top-notch Princeton team out of the Ivy title race.
It's the last game of the year, under the big lights, before the home crowd. Princeton men's soccer wants this win.
Going into last weekend's Southern championships, the men's water polo team had not been playing up to its abilities.
