A new coach and a new attitude were supposed to make all the difference for the sprint football team this season.
Last spring, the men's lacrosse team had one of its youngest rosters in recent memory. Yet despite their inexperience and the loss of their leading goal scorer to a knee injury, the Tigers responded to the adversity by not only winning the Ivy League title, but also reaching the NCAA championship game.This fall, thanks to a blend of veteran leadership and strong freshmen, Princeton is off to a flying start in its fall preseason."We've got a lot of people back that have played a lot of lacrosse," head coach Bill Tierney said.
More than two decades have passed since Cedric Dempsey applied to become the Director of Athletics at Princeton.
Imagine finding out you just rowed the best race of your life 30 minutes after you crossed the finish line.This is exactly what happened to the women's open eight this weekend at the Head of the Charles regatta in Cambridge, Mass.
With the U.S. Open a distant memory and the 2000 professional Grand Slam events now long concluded, the collegiate version of tennis' major individual championships took center stage last week in Pacific Palisades, Calif., at the Riviera Women's All-American Championship.The event, which was the second leg of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Grand Slam, featured most of the nation's top collegiate tennis players ? including Princeton sophomore Kavitha Krishnamurthy.Krishnamurthy, ranked 36th nationally in a preseason poll, won her first two qualifying matches before losing her third match, thus failing to make it into the tournament's 32-player main draw.With a 64-player prequalifying draw held before the 64-player qualifying draw, entrance into the tournament's main draw was a formidable task for those ? like Krishnamurthy ? looking to earn one of four at-large spots into the main draw.
The field hockey team seemed to be on shaky ground entering this weekend's tough matchups with No.
With an Eastern College Athletic Conference Championship crown under its belt, the men's tennis team has little to worry about this offseason other than gaining experience where it can.
It was textbook volleyball as the women's team crushed Penn 15-6, 15-9, 16-14 at Dillon Gym Friday night.
Following a 27-point win over a powerful Brown team last weekend, Princeton's confidence was as high as it had been in years.
After two mediocre wins last weekend, head coach Beth Bozman wondered if her team could put together two good halves of field hockey.
Everyone knew what Harvard was doing. In the second quarter, Harvard had put everyone on the line and converted a fourth and one with a quarterback sneak.
Visiting Harvard was privy to a special treat Saturday evening at Lourie-Love Field ? the men's soccer team at its finest.The Tigers showed more hustle and created more opportunities than they had in any other game this season.
Five minutes into the women's soccer game Friday night, everyone at Lourie-Love Field was thinking the same thing: Who let the dogs out?A yellow lab broke free from his owner and discovered 20 women playing a game of keep-away with a big black-and-white ball, and immediately thought he could join in.
Going into the year, one of the field hockey team's unanswered questions was the play of its inexperienced defense.
Sixteen years ago, Harvard women's soccer coach Tim Wheaton had just completed a great soccer career at Drew University and was looking for a coaching position.When he was offered a job as an assistant for Princeton's women's team, Wheaton jumped at the chance."My wife and my father both went to Princeton, and I have the greatest respect for the place," Wheaton said.The young coach took up residence in an apartment in the Dillon Gym tower and spent a year learning the ropes of coaching.After one year with the Tigers, Wheaton moved up to Massachusetts and became an assistant with the Crimson.Two years later he became head coach and in his 14 years at the helm, Wheaton has led Harvard to a 122-61-19 record and four of the last five Ivy League Championships.Tonight, Wheaton returns to the field on which his career started to take on the Tigers in a contest between the two top teams in the Ivy League."We're just approaching this as another game," Princeton head coach Julie Shackford said.
The Ivy League men's soccer picture is barely recognizable from a year ago.Dartmouth, which finished second to last in the league last year, now rests at the top with also-undefeated Brown.
You don't need a program to know this is a rivalry. Harvard and Princeton compete for students, professors and rankings.
Early yesterday morning, the men's soccer team's game at Loyola was moved from 4 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
With seven minutes, 31 seconds remaining in the first half, and the field hockey team still tied with Delaware (7-9 overall, 4-1 America East) at 0-0, Princeton fans began to worry as they watched the Tigers' leading scorer, senior attack Hilary Matson, limp off the field.The No.
Outside Sabrina King and middle Emily Brown are both senior captains on the women's volleyball team.
