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After year of training with Mexican team, Ibanez has Sydney dream dashed

After year of training with Mexican team, Ibanez has Sydney dream dashed

When members of Mexico's Olympic team march through the stadium this evening for the Opening Ceremonies, the team will be two members short.Those two members are Mariana Altamirano and Princeton junior Carola Ibanez, who were supposed to have made up one of the two Mexican women's open two-person sculls at the Games.Instead Ibanez is back in school, looking forward to a delayed junior year.Ibanez's story starts before her freshman year when she saw the cover of the admissions booklet with the Princeton crew team rowing down Lake Carnegie.

SPORTS | 09/14/2000

Podsakoff sets the tone for the Princeton defense

The play went to the right, and Nathan Podsakoff was there. The opposition, Ben Davis High School ? the No.

SPORTS | 09/14/2000

As the football team's campaign opens, Tigers boast new-look offense, experienced defense

After months of preparation, the opening game of Princeton's football season may well resemble a wedding.

SPORTS | 09/14/2000

Morris named interim w. hoops coach after Feeley's departure

With all the attention the men's basketball team has gotten after the loss of head coach Bill Carmody and star center Chris Young, it would be easy to overlook the events that have taken place on the women's side.Coming off a 9-19 (6-8 Ivy League) season, Princeton is hoping that a new coach will help reverse the trend in the win-loss column.

SPORTS | 09/14/2000

Shaner plans to attack more this year

A team's "sparkplug" usually comes in for a short period of time to bring some energy to the team.Senior midfielder Julie Shaner, however, brings that energy to the women's soccer team for all 90 minutes of the game."She seems to be able to run all game," head coach Julie Shackford said.Shaner returns for her second season as Princeton captain, one of three this season for the Tigers, who are also led by junior defender Kelly Sosa and senior defender Jenny Lankford.Shaner, however, is recognized by her peers as the vocal leader of the Tigers.

SPORTS | 09/14/2000

Davies takes over softball

Softball coaches move around a lot. When a coach has been with one program for 18 years, it has been a serious commitment.

SPORTS | 09/14/2000

Coach Hughes instills his vision for a new Princeton football

As with any team, the bulk of Princeton football's fans are oblivious to the intricacies of the games, attending merely to fill their Saturday with a few hours of excitement.

SPORTS | 09/14/2000

Field hockey dumps No. 19 Drexel

On the first day of classes, freshmen often have a tough time finding their way around. But a group of freshmen ? inexperienced but talented ? shined for the field hockey team in a 6-0 rout of No.

SPORTS | 09/14/2000

Tigers look to remove all doubt regarding NCAA status

Last year, it came down to the wire: Would the women's soccer team make the NCAA tournament?While the answer turned out to be yes, this year's team looks to that nail-biting decision as its personal challenge ? to remove any doubt in the eyes of the tournament selection committee."We want to make it clear that we deserve to be in the tournament, that there is no question," junior midfielder Linley Gober said.With a deeper and more talented team than last year, the Tigers hope to equate their skill with success."Our goal is to win the Ivy League and to make a name for ourselves," Gober said.Princeton's goal will be a difficult one.

SPORTS | 09/14/2000

Men's water polo takes three, falls to St. Francis in tourney

When a team finishes its first weekend at 3-1 with three dominating victories, including a thorough beating of a traditional Top-25 team, normally one would say that the weekend was a success.But for the members of the men's water polo team, whose goals this season are to rise into the nation's Top 10 and become the best team in the East, the one loss ? a 12-8 defeat at the hands of St.

SPORTS | 09/13/2000

Former assistant Quesnelle named new head coach of men's hockey

When Don Cahoon resigned as men's hockey's head coach April 5, Director of Athletics Gary Walters '67 and an advisory committee began a national search for a new coach to lead the program.Nearly two months later, Walters and the committee returned to the place where they began, handing long-time Tiger assistant Len Quesnelle '88 his first head coaching job.Quesnelle, an all-Ivy defenseman for the Tigers, remained with the program following graduation and had served as an assistant for the past 12 seasons.

SPORTS | 09/13/2000

Field hockey looks to rebound from disappointment of 1999 season

The turning point in this year's field hockey season might have come last year, on Oct. 9. Princeton fell to Brown in Providence, R.I., 2-1.The loss was the first Ivy League defeat for any of the players on the team ? the Tigers had gone five years in conference play without a blemish on their record.

SPORTS | 09/13/2000

Matson takes reins for field hockey

For the first two years of Hilary Matson's Princeton field hockey career, she found herself in the company of some of the greatest players in the country.

SPORTS | 09/13/2000

Ivy infractions to prevent Brown football from title competition

To the NCAA, it was a minor infraction. To the Ivy League, it was a major offense.Brown's football team was ruled ineligible to win the 2000 Ivy League championship as a result of recruiting and financial aid infractions in July.

SPORTS | 09/13/2000

Men's soccer seeks continued success

Jason White remembers offensive players swarming like ants, burrowing through a defense that was left frantically trying to fill the holes.

SPORTS | 09/12/2000

News & Notes

In addition to the departure of men's basketball head coach Bill Carmody, there were several other coaching changes over the summer.

SPORTS | 09/12/2000

Senior captain Kevin Griffin looks to lead Princeton to a second straight Ivy title

His freshman year, the unthinkable happened to Kevin Griffin, a newly recruited collegiate athlete ? he got injured.Before the men's soccer season even started, Griffin injured his ankle at practice ? tearing ligaments and sidelining himself for the majority of the season.

SPORTS | 09/12/2000

The aftermath: M. hoops fans left to assess the damage

As the 1997-98 season drew to a close, and the men's basketball team put the finishing touches on a 27-2 season, nobody had any delusions around here.

SPORTS | 09/12/2000

As Thompson era begins, new coach vows to carry on winning tradition

In any kingdom, when the sitting monarch departs the throne, the question of succession arises. Will the king's favored son rise to power, or will an outsider grab the reins of the empire?

SPORTS | 09/12/2000

Football undergoes coaching change following 3-7 season

It began with a quarterback controversy and ended with a coaching controversy. It began with a surprising loss and ended with an even more stunning defeat.And in between, the football team's 1999 campaign mirrored its start and finish ? a season replete with disappointment, frustration and painful defeats.The Tigers (3-7 overall, 1-6 Ivy League) finished in a tie with Columbia for last place in the Ivy standings, suffering through their worst league season since 1973.

SPORTS | 07/16/2000

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