Prior to last season, trips up to Cambridge, Mass., for the men's basketball team had been relatively easy.
Football has the Super Bowl, baseball the World Series, sailing the America's Cup. To find indoor track's ultimate event for Princeton's men and women, look no further than the Heptagonal Championships, which are being held this weekend at Dartmouth's Leverone Field House in Hanover, N.H.Nine teams ? the eight Ivy League schools plus Navy ? compete at Heps, but on the men's side, the Tigers are the team to beat.
Coming off a disappointing homestand, the men's volleyball team hit the road last night and came away with a solid four-game victory over New York University.
Football head coach Roger Hughes will have to do a lot to turn around a program that finished 1-6 in Ivy League play, tied for last place in the conference.First, he has to decide who's going to help him try.While the process of hiring and firing is far from over, some decisions have been made.
In only its third season as a varsity sport at Princeton, the women's water polo team is aiming high.
Peter Yik is the senior No.1 for the men's squash team. David Yik is the freshman No.2 for men's squash.
Ten years after leaving Princeton for a winding professional football career, Jason Garrett '89 is on his way back to New Jersey as a backup quarterback for the New York Giants.
Some athletes stand around talking to themselves. Some eat the same pregame lunch. Some meditate in solitude.However, for Cassie Nichols, women's water polo's sophomore sensation, getting psyched for a game involves warming up to music ? with her team."She is the ultimate team player," head coach Luis Nicolao said.
Both the men's and women's indoor track teams competed in the Princeton Invitational this Saturday at Jadwin Gym.
Lauren Rigney is not the women's basketball team's leading scorer. Nor is she the team's best rebounder.
A Princeton men's ice hockey record was broken Feb. 11 at Union. The occasion was not met with a ceremony or an ovation from the crowd, however.Senior forward Benoit Morin broke the unofficial school mark for career penalty minutes with a roughing call late in the first period against the Dutchmen's Alex Todd.
The men's volleyball team was hoping to use this weekend's matches in the friendly confines of Dillon Gym to climb the standings in the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association before heading on the road for the next five contests.As the Tigers discovered, however, things don't always turn out as planned.Princeton (5-5 overall, 4-3 EIVA) managed to win the first and third matches of the weekend, dropping the second in a heart breaking five-game loss to visiting Juniata (5-6, 2-4). The Tigers pounded a weak Southampton (0-10, 0-4) team Friday, coasting to a three-game win ? 15-5, 15-8, 15-11 ? and rallied from Saturday's loss to beat Springfield College (7-5, 4-3) by scores of 15-4, 15-7, 15-9, Monday.The second game in the match against Southampton opened with several lineup changes on the Princeton side of the net, including a rare substitution for senior setter and captain Jason Morrow."They're not as strong as they've been in the past," head coach Glenn Nelson said.
With the surge of the Princeton women's tennis team to No. 46 in the nation, in particular the rise to No.
Marcus Cowie was tired. Trinity had already claimed the regular-season national squash championship earlier in the afternoon, streaking to a 7-1 lead entering the final match Saturday at Jadwin Gym.Princeton (9-1) had lost, but there was a new battle now transpiring on court No.
With only a few more weeks left in the wrestling season, Princeton is determined to take advantage of every remaining moment.
The 'tables' of the Eastern College Athletic Conference women's hockey standings were set going into this weekend's two away games.Princeton entered the weekend in eighth place in the ECAC and riding high off a two-game winning streak.
If there were any questions about whether or not the young men's basketball team would rebound from the loss to Penn, they were answered this weekend.After shooting a meager 29 percent against the Quakers Tuesday, Princeton lit up Cornell and Columbia with better than 50 percent shooting in both games.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. ? Seniors Blair Irwin and Liz Kelly hoped that when they graduated they would be able to join an elite group of Princeton graduates ? one that has been populated most recently by former members of the men's lacrosse team.
Much like a person rummaging through a lost-and-found bin, the women's basketball team has finally felt the euphoria of locating a long-lost item.This weekend, the team rediscovered its defense en route to its first Ivy League weekend sweep of the season.Friday night in New York City, Princeton (6-17 overall, 3-6 Ivy League) knocked off Columbia (4-16, 3-5) in a 62-44 slugfest.
Before yesterday's game against Dartmouth, men's hockey head coach Don Cahoon figured that three or four goals would be enough for his team to claim a victory.
