Over the course of my time at Princeton, certain images have become permanently emblazoned on my mind ? snapshots from four of the best years of my life.There was the 4:58 p.m.
The season's struggles continued for the men's lightweight crew team yesterday at the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges Sprints yesterday at Lake Quinsigamond near Worcester, Mass.The Tigers finished sixth overall in the Grand Final in a time of five miuntes, 49.97 seconds.
With Harvard, Brown and Princeton trading places at the top of the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges rankings throughout this year, the men's heavyweight Grand Final was almost certain to be among the most exciting races of yesterday's Sprints.Princeton wanted no part of the excitement, however.The Tigers broke away from the Bears and Crimson 500 meters into yesterday's final and never looked back, taking the Sprints title by three seconds over second place Harvard.
Two dramatically different events ? and the athletes that won them ? captued the attention of Princeton and the track and field community this weekend.The Golden Spike Tour Open at the Princeton Invitational was a rare spectacle, especially for Princeton track.
Dartmouth might have tarnished Princeton's Ivy League title, but the Tigers have the upper hand when it comes to NCAA Tournament competition.
Half a second. Not a whole lot of time. About the time it would take to hit your lightswitch and jump into bed, trying to hit the sack before the light went off.
A few rowers on the boat had lost to Brown seven straight times.They didn't want to make this the eighth.When the women's openweight varsity eight took the water in Camden, N.J.
The second-seeded men's lacrosse team discovered its quarterfinal opponent Saturday when Loyola topped Georgetown, 11-9, in Baltimore, Md.The Hoyas and Greyhounds traded goals for more than half of the game, but a third quarter burst put Loyola up 9-5, and another gave them an 11-7 lead with only a few minutes remaining.Georgetown quickly to pull within two, but the Greyhounds' goalie, Jason Born, clamped down for the remaining minutes to keep the Hoyas at bay.
After securing a bid to the NCAA Tournament by defeating Dartmouth last Sunday ? earning its second straight Ivy League title ? the baseball team closed out its regular season with losses in two relatively meaningless games.
When the NCAA women's lacrosse tournament started today, there were three Ivy League teams, all in the same bracket.
The women's lightweight and openweight crew teams head to the most prestigious meet of their seasons this weekend at Lake Quinsigamond near Worcester, Mass.
When Marion Jones steps into her blocks Saturday for the Golden Spike Tour Open at Princeton's Weaver Track and Field Stadium, she will not only be staring at the finish line but also at the follow-up season to last year's record-breaking Olympic performance and, further in the distance, at breaking the 100-meter world record held by Florence Griffith-Joyner.Jones ? who was named 2000 Athlete of the Year by the Associated Press, Reuters and ESPN after winning three gold medals and two bronze medals at the Olympics in Sydney ? will run her first 100-meter dash of the season this weekend in Princeton.Though she won Olympic gold last year in the 100, 200 and 4x400 relay and bronze in the long jump and 4x100 relay, Jones said in a conference call interview last week that she has room to improve on her home soil."I haven't been pleased with my individual performances in the U.S.," she said.
The season-long game of King of the Hill in men's heavyweight crew will reach a fever pitch Sunday at the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges Sprints at Lake Quinsigamond near Worcester, Mass.Brown was ranked No.
Yesterday, a man who turned a program that had not had a winning season in 10 years into a Division III power was named the new head coach of a team that finished 2-25 last year.Richard Barron, who led the Tigers of the University of the South to a school record 20 wins in the 1999-2000 season, will take the helm as the head coach of the women's basketball team next season.
After a strong finish to its Ivy League season, the softball team was swept by Boston College Sunday in its final two games of the season.
Under senior Julie Shaner's picture in the 2001 Nassau Herald sits a quote that describes the whole athletic career of the captain of the women's soccer and lacrosse team."It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog."Despite her small stature, no one has ever questioned the fight in Shaner, who grittily led the lacrosse team to the national finals last year and quarterbacked to the soccer team to back-to-back NCAA appearances.Monday night the scrappy player added one more award to her trophy case when she was named the Daily Princetonian's 2001 Female Athlete of the Year."Being able to excel at two sports at this level is rare," head women's soccer coach Julie Shackford said.
The Princeton women's track team had high hopes before last weekend's Heptagonal Championships. While certainly not one of the favored teams, the Tigers looked to several key individuals for big performances that could have carried the whole squad to a respectable finish.Princeton got some of the individual results it had hoped for, but the team as a whole finished eighth out of nine teams.
Sitting on the fuzzy, peach-colored sofa that wraps around a corner of his 134-square foot Scully Hall single, Dennis Norman chatted with his girlfriend and his mother ? and waited.
Not all athletes understand the meaning of sacrifice as well as Princeton's rowers do. In the summer of 1986, Leif Shiras '81 had the best tennis tournament of his life, upsetting then No.
The Tiger lacrosse team reported that during practice last week, it had difficulty focusing on Saturday's meeting with Hobart because of the ensuing NCAA Championships.
