While a good offense is something to brag about, it is a good defense that wins games. Just look at the women's soccer team.
The 'Prince' Picks Team Ivy record 1. Penn 7-0 2. Harvard 5-2 3. Brown 4-3 4.
When it comes to football aphorisms, perhaps none is more hackneyed than "We have to stop the run."In the Ivy League, where most of the coaches are as pass-happy as Steve Spurrier of the Fun and Gun, the cliche increasingly seems obsolete.
Learning from last year's slow start, Princeton survived its first test, beating Dartmouth, 3-0. But this weekend's opponent plays a very different style and the Tigers know that they have not proven anything yet.Tomorrow, Princeton will open its home Ivy League schedule with Columbia ? a big, fast and aggressive team.Princeton (3-0-1 overall, 1-0 Ivy) has started its season just as it hoped, undefeated and tied for first in the Ivy League.
We live in a world obsessed with ratings, rankings, scores and statistics.Thousands of people spend their days, sometimes their lives, entering even the most obscure sports results into computer programs so that players and fans can have a better understanding of where they and their teams stand.A lot of people apparently feel that sports can be broken down like a science, that if they squeeze enough past performance into some magical formula they'll end up with the truth about a team or player.
The NBA. Probably not the most obvious parrallel to collegiate women's soccer one could find.On the other hand, if you're looking for examples of former players who have hung up their Air Jordans and become coaches, there is no more fertile ground than the National Basketball Association.
In the first quarter of men's water polo's game at George Washington Friday the No. 14 Tigers were down 5-1 to the inferior Colonials.Then junior driver Robert Urquhart, (above, No.
Leonardo DiCaprio may have been somewhat delusional when he declared himself to be the king of the world, but senior diver Danielle Stramandi's situation is somewhat different.
In my three plus years here at Princeton, I have been to approximately 27 football games, 46 men's basketball games including the NCAA Tournament in New Orleans, two women's ice hockey games, 12 men's lacrosse games, a rugby tournament and the dedication of the new wrestling room.And I didn't cover a single one of them for the 'Prince'. As a sports fan who knew he was not destined for a spot on a varsity squad at Princeton, I knew I wanted to stay in some way involved with watching and dealing with sports.So when I walked onto campus for the first time as a freshman, I was determined to join two groups.
In the first full week of Ivy League action this season, Princeton took home much of the league hardware as junior attack Ilvy Friebe was named Ivy League field hockey player of the week, senior forward Mike Nugent was the men's soccer player of the week and freshman forward Kristina Fontanez was the Ivy League women's soccer Rookie of the Week.
In the wake of last week's walloping by Lehigh, the eyes of many Tiger fans fell on the young and inexperienced offensive line.
It was not supposed to be an intrasquad tournament.It just turned out that way.The singles competition at the 33rd Annual Farnsworth Invitational this past weekend was dominated by Tigers, as men's tennis placed three of its own in the semifinals and two in the finals.In the final match, senior Judson Williams defeated his roommate, senior Darren Joe, 6-2, 7-5 to take the individual title.
Clearly, the upperclassmen of the men's golf team have their work cut out for them. No one likes to be beaten by a freshman, regardless of how self-deprecating and amiable he may be.
Health and stamina are two top concerns for the Princeton women's tennis team this year.The team proved it has both this past weekend as it blasted into the season ? taking not only the William and Mary Tennis Invitational in Virginia but also Princeton's own Invitational by storm.The Tigers clinched number one in the Ivy League two years ago, but were unable to repeat the triumph last year when a back injury forced their number one singles player, Kavitha Krishnamurthy, out of the lineup and allowed Penn to squeeze by with the title.Despite being injured much of last year, Krishnamurthy was still good enough to qualify for the NCAA Championships last season, where she lost in the first round.Now a junior, Krishnamurthy showed no signs of rust.
Roughly 48 hours after its first win in the Ivy League this season, the women's soccer team was back on its own field, looking to extend its four-game shutout streak.Stony Brook (0-5-1 overall, 0-1-1 America East) did its best to end the Tigers' four-game streak in the first half before finally falling, 3-0.
The game remained scoreless at halftime in Sunday's women's soccer match against Dartmouth. The Ivy-opener against one of the Tigers' big-gest rivals marked the second year in a row in which the scoreboard remained blank after 45 minutes.Forty-five minutes remained to test whether the Tigers could steal one on the road and begin another march to an Ivy League championship ? a title that they shared last year with the Big Green ? or whether their hopes for a title would dim with another early-season loss."I remember our coach saying at halftime, 'Who of you will go in there and make the difference?
The women's cross-country team made the most of its late season opener by winning the Central Connecticut State Invitational in New Britain, CT, this weekend.The Tigers finished with 39 points, narrowly edging Rhode Island by three points.
Ten goals.Not a bad tally for a weekend of water polo for a player.Junior driver Rob Urquhart picked up 10 goals ? then he hopped into the pool for the second game of the four that the men's water polo team (7-0) played this weekend.Urquhart started the weekend by leading the Tigers to a 12-5 win at George Washington on the strength of an astounding 10-goal effort.
After one of the shortest road trips a team can have, the women's volleyball team played three solid games in a tournament at Rider University in Lawrenceville this weekend.
"To be the man, you've got to beat the man, and today the man beat us, but we're getting closer," football head coach Roger Hughes said after Saturday's 34-10 loss to No.
