Strategically, football is far from a simple game. Coaches spend their lives figuring out ways to pick apart defenses or shut down offenses.
When junior Emily Eynon learned her freshman year that her twin sister Chrissy walked onto the Penn's cross country team, she had only one thought: "If she can do it, I can do it."But it almost didn't come to be.
The prospects looked bright indeed for the women's volleyball team last night as it headed to Jersey City to face Saint Peter's.
Like nine-year olds hiding dirty laundry under the bed and then forgetting all about it, the Princeton players shoved images of their soiled play into the back of their minds.It was early in the season and the men's soccer team saw a spotless 4-0 record.
In my ongoing attempt to avoid doing work during the first few weeks of school, I have found myself, more often than not, flipping from NBC to MSNBC to CNBC trying to catch bits and pieces of the Sydney Olympics.
Down 1-0 in the second half, you had the feeling that the women's soccer team was destined to score a goal.It just never happened.Against Rutgers last night at Princeton Stadium, the Tigers (5-1 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) seemed on the verge of finally putting a shot past Scarlet Knight goalkeeper Christine Caldwell.
At the end of one half in field hockey's matchup with upstart Darmouth on Saturday, the Tigers already held a 2-0 advantage.In the second half, however, that advantage became a full-fledged rout as Princeton punished the Big Green with three more goals.
"It's all in the Carbo-Force," sophomore defender Emily Townsend said as she crossed a rainy path after her interview with the 'Prince.'Her endorsement of the vitamin supplement seemed either to be a piece of esoteric field hockey wisdom, the secret to field hockey's hitherto undefeated season, or perhaps a chance to have a little fun with a credulous sports reporter.The laughter that followed her quote, however, revealed that Townsend had the latter in mind.
We all know the scene. Your lab screams down the road after your neighbor's Grand Cherokee, bites down on the spinning tire.
Tensai Asfaw is one of the only runners on the men's cross country and track teams to have seen the Tigers lose a Heptagonals championship.It was four years ago.
In the world of water polo, games are usually scrappy affairs where teams fight and claw for every little position in the pool.
A member of Spencer Gloger's family confirmed that the former men's basketball standout had been admitted to UCLA and was on that school's campus yesterday to sign scholarship papers and join the Bruins men's basketball team.Director of Athletics Gary Walters '67 had earlier confirmed that Gloger had been released by Princeton to discuss athletic arrangements with UCLA.
Sometimes size does matter, as the women's volleyball team learned this past weekend in a tough tournament at Rutgers on Friday and Saturday.
With strong finishes from a number of underclassmen at this weekend's Princeton Invitational, both the men's and women's tennis teams expect promising seasons.Competing against Penn, Columbia and Temple, the men's team hit the courts Friday morning for the first round of the tournament.Two wins Friday advanced junior Judson Williams to the singles final Sunday, where he fell, 6-2, 6-4, to Oscar Chow of Columbia.
On a sloppy Lourie-Love Field Saturday afternoon, in a battle of Ivy League titans, only one team could stay on its feet.In the end, the women's soccer team walked away with the win, leaving Dartmouth sprawled in the mud, having lost the battle for balance ? and league dominance.Princeton (5-0 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) defeated the Big Green, 1-0, keeping its perfect record intact.
For the first 33 minutes, 47 seconds of field hockey's game against Dartmouth, Princeton and the Big Green were locked in a scoreless tie.
After six minutes, it looked like another blowout. Only 10 percent of the game had been played, and already the visitors had 10 points.
Jason White watched as the shot floated toward him like a beach ball, sliding slowly through the air from nearly 40 yards away.
Last year some considered it a fluke.The women's soccer team made the road trip to Hanover, N.H., last season having not beaten Dartmouth since 1990 and without a win in Hanover since 1983.But when then-freshman midfielder Alex Fiore connected on a cross from then-junior midfielder Julie Shaner four minutes, 52 seconds into overtime, the Tigers pulled out a 2-1 victory and broke the losing streak.Now Dartmouth makes the trip south to Princeton to try to return the favor."Last year some people said we sort of snuck by them," junior defender and captain Kelly Sosa said.
The men's soccer team must proceed with caution this weekend. All is not what it appears to be.The Tigers (4-0 overall, 0-0 Ivy League) begin their quest to repeat as Ivy League champions tomorrow when they host Dartmouth (2-2, 0-0), a team whose record from last year belies its capabilities.The Big Green finished a disappointing second to last in the Ivy League last season with a record of 2-9-4 ? that's after posting back-to-back 10-win seasons in 1997 and 1998.
