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.
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.
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.
For senior David Schneider, captain of the men's ice hockey team, it seems like only yesterday he traveled with his Tiger teammates to Lake Placid, N.Y., to play in the Eastern College Athletic Conference Championships.The memories of the trip remain fresh ? the unthinkable comeback from four goals down against Clarkson in the ECAC semifinals to force overtime; the heartbreak of the eventual loss in the overtime period to the Golden Knights; and the ultimate feeling of emptiness after the team's final loss to Rensselaer in the ECAC consolation game.The trip to Lake Placid wasn't yesterday though, but three years ago when Schneider was a freshman just learning the ropes on defense as a Tiger.
Christmas Day is a triply-special day for the Deland household in Washington, D.C. Besides the obvious, Dec.
The Princeton women's soccer team re-established its habit of dominance last night as it beat Fairfield (13-5, 7-2 MAAC) 4-0 and extended its streak of games without a loss to eight.The Tiger scoring came early and furiously, as Princeton built its 4-0 lead before the end of the half against its much-weaker opponent.With consistently strong build-up in the back and good movement in the front, freshman midfielder Esmeralda Negron netted the first two and sophomore forward Theresa Sherry found the back of the goal for the team's third."We played so well in the back that we were able to get the ball wide and to our forwards," senior defender Jess Collins said.The fourth goal of the evening, scored by freshman forward Kristina Fontanez, exemplified the type of build-up and domination Princeton maintained the entire evening.The play leading up to the goal started with the Tigers passing the ball around the perimeter of the Stag midfield.
The men's hockey team has stumbled out of the gate with two losses to Niagara, falling to the Purple Eagles, 4-2 and 7-1.So what does a team that drops two games to open the season do to rebound before the year goes too far south?"We need to take care of business now," junior goaltender Nate Nomeland said.
Going into last weekend's Southern championships, the men's water polo team had not been playing up to its abilities.
A minute of straight ice time is considered a long shift in the NHL. Nearly twice a minute, pros come on and off the ice to catch a breather from the hectic pace of the game.The speed and physical nature of hockey make it one of the most grueling sports to play, and one where a team's depth can decide the outcome of a game.
