One word that describe Princeton fencing in the Ivy League: tradition. For years Princeton fencing has always been a major force in the league.
The men's and women's squash teams were nearly perfect over intersession. The men walked away with a blowout and a narrow victory while the women suffered a close loss before blowing away their next three opponents.Traveling to Yale Saturday, the men's team came away with a 5-4 victory over the Elis (9-2 overall, 3-1 Ivy League) to remain perfect on the season.
Stunning even his teammates, sophomore Greg Parker added to the list of top wrestlers he has beaten by defeating 10th-ranked Francis Volpe of Harvard.Winning both of his matches over the weekend, Parker wrestled at both 174 and 184 lb.
It was crunch time for the men's hockey team. Going into their first game after a three-week layoff, the Tigers had the unenviable task of trying to end an eight-game losing streak against the Eastern College Athletic Conference's top team.Over the course of a month from December into January, Princeton suffered through its worst stretch of games in recent memory, losing close games to good teams and blowouts to lesser opponents.
In its past three games, the men's basketball team has resembled a student oversleeping a 10 a.m.
It was the game the Princeton women's basketball team had been waiting for all season.On Saturday night, the Tigers silenced the crowd in Lee Amphitheater at Yale by beating the home team 61- 60 in overtime.Sophomore forward Maureen Lane led the squad with a game-high 27 points on 9-for-19 shooting from the field.
Sometimes, one can feel the momentum of something special in the air at a sporting event in its very first moments.
For me, it began quite inauspiciously. On a whim, really. Though I was a sports junkie, it was a spur-of-the-moment decision that made me add my name to the sports list for The Daily Princetonian at the freshman Activities Fair.
The Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet is always circled with a big red marker on the men's swimming team's schedule.
Completely focused and set on starting his run for an NCAA championship, senior Ryan Bonfiglio confidently defeated No.
Beep, Beep, Beep.The alarm blared loudly in my ear as I rolled over and groaned. My roommate threw a pillow down at me from the bunk above and mumbled, "What the hell are you doing getting up at eight o'clock on Saturday morning?""Good question," I responded while turning off the alarm and slowly crawling out of bed.
I wasn't expecting it to be the best sports moment of my time at Princeton. Not when I first started walking toward Jadwin Gym that Saturday afternoon in March.It was the second semester of my freshman year, and as the 1997-98 men's basketball season wound down, head coach Bill Carmody and his team had decided to have an intrasquad scrimmage at Jadwin.
The thing about journalists, someone once said, is not that they know what they're talking about.
CrewThe Princeton crew program was disbanded this past week following an NCAA scandal.
Kurt Kehl, Associate Director of Athletics ? Public Affairs:"I'd ice dance with Mario Lemieux any day."Jerry Price, Assistant Director of Athletic Public Affairs:"Nope."Jeff Dinski '99, former sports editor at the 'Prince':"No, no, no way.
An unidentified University student was attacked with some sort of sword by a masked assailant on the C-floor of Jadwin Gym Saturday morning.According to Public Safety Crime Prevention Specialist Barry Weiser, the incident was preceded by the attacker and the victim ? both clad in all-white padded pants and shirt outfit ? eyeing each other from across the room.
The smoke leaping off the torches was stifling ? even in the cavernous confines of Jadwin Gym.
TEMPE, Ariz. ? Steve Lavin was tired. The UCLA coach, after weeks of answering questions about Rick Pitino's potential future involvement with the Bruins, had thought the worst was behind him.
You may not have seen him, but he was there. Shirking the spotlight, he remained hidden in the background, feeling out what it would be like to be back playing for his former team.
The news of former Boston Celtics coach Rick Pitino's preliminary discussions with Director of Athletics Gary Walters '67 completed an extraordinary two weeks at ESPN.
