In its first weekend back on North American ice, the women's hockey team knew that things would be different on this side of the Atlantic.
With 14.7 seconds left in overtime, a center having an effective 24-point night and the opposition's two big men sitting on the bench with five fouls apiece, getting one basket in the low post seems like a fairly surmountable task.But it wasn't that easy for the men's basketball team Saturday night.
It all seemed so eerily familiar. A Princeton basketball team falls way behind Penn, then makes a dramatic comeback.This time around, however, there would be no miraculous victory for the female Tigers.
This season has been one of ups and downs for the men's hockey team. Big wins against teams like Yale, currently in second place in the Eastern College Athletic Conference, and Midwestern powerhouse Notre Dame have been coupled with big losses to schools like ECAC bottom-feeder Vermont and Bemidji State, which was recently elevated to Division I.This weekend's results do nothing to break that trend.
This is the team that knocked Princeton out of sole possession of first place at the end of last season.
Lafayette entered this season fresh off its first NCAA tournament appearance since the 1956-57 season.
With two wins this weekend at Brown and Harvard, the men's hockey team could move into first place in the Eastern College Athletic Conference race.With two losses, Princeton could fall to seventh.The Tigers currently reside in a tie for fourth place in the ECAC, as one of seven teams within three points of the lead.
As this summer's World Cup mania proved, women's athletics are gaining interest and recognition throughout the United States.During its winter break European tour, the women's ice hockey team learned that this developing fascination, however, is not a global phenomenon.
Winter break was very hectic for Rob Orr, head coach of the men's swimming team. Not only did he and his family move across town, but his wife decided to get a new dog.
LAWRENCE, Kan. Over winter break the men's basketball team learned it can play with any team in the nation.
During the past two weeks, the women's basketball team has played two of its best games of the season.
The theme of the men's hockey team's two-game series with Notre Dame was 'shorthanded.' In South Bend, Ind., Dec.
Christian Cook expected to face one of the toughest assignments of his lacrosse career last Saturday in the men's lacrosse team's game against Harvard.
Then the softball team takes the diamond at 1895 Field tomorrow it will face a dual threat from Harvard in sophomore hitting sensation Deborah Abeles and current Ivy League Pitcher of the Week Tasha Cupp.Princeton (18-2 overall, 2-2 Ivy) must shut down Abeles and find a way to solve Cupp in order to defeat Harvard (18-17, 4-0) and keep any hope of winning the Ivy championship alive."(Harvard is) definitely one of our top competitors in the league," senior pitcher Alyssa Smith said.A shortstop and the Ivy League Player of the Week for the second consecutive time, Abeles has batted 15 for 27 for the past six games, with a .556 average.
It was the bottom of the second, the score was tied at one and the pouring rain threatened the future of the game.
Goga Vukmirovic, starting goalie for the women's water polo team, is reticent when discussing herself.
NEWARK ? The streak is over.Penn State's run of seven straight Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association championships came to a screeching halt as the second-seeded Nittany Lions fell to the men's volleyball team in three straight games last night, 15-7, 15-13, 16-14, at the Golden Dome in Newark.Princeton (15-8 overall) knew that its road to the EIVA championship ? and to the Final Four in Hawaii ? would go through Penn State, but it had expected to meet the Nittany Lions in the finals.
The women's tennis team's spring record currently stands at 12-0. The last time Princeton started off with 12 straight wins was in 1973, when current head coach Louise Gengler '75 was only a sophomore.But the Tigers (14-2 overall, 4-0 Ivy League) still have a daunting task to overcome ? winning this weekend's matches against Dartmouth and Harvard.
Past glory and future hopes don't mean anything to a golf course.The bunkers don't care that Mary Moan '97 was the best eastern collegiate female golfer ever.The fairways don't even consider the prospects of a young team on the verge of greatness.The women's golf team will face its rivals at the second-ever Ivy Championships this weekend.
In the blink of an eye, senior attack Melissa Cully put women's lacrosse ahead of Delaware, 1-0, with a goal seven seconds into the game.
