A monumental sporting event is taking place in New York City this month. No, dear reader, I refer not to the start of the season for my beloved New York Knicks (though who couldn’t fall in love with the lovable Latvian string bean known as Kristaps Porzingis?). I’m actually talking about the World Chess Championships, hosted in the Big Apple, and it features two of the brightest stars of this generation, Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin. Carlsen has been hailed as “The Mozart of Chess.” The handsome, well-spoken 25-year-old has dazzled his opponents at the board since he was 13 years old.
Princeton Women’s Ice Hockey (3-2-1, 1-2-1 ECAC) began the weekend as an undefeated team, but fell down in their rankings as they lost to both No. 6 St.
The women’s soccer team wrapped up the 2016 fall season with a 1-1 draw against UPenn this past Saturday, November 5, at Roberts Stadium. Princeton was in the lead just seven minutes after the first whistle when senior defender Haley Chow slid and knocked in a corner kick from senior defender and midfielder Jesse McDonough.
The women’s volleyball team split their games this Friday and Saturday, winning their match against Brown after a heart-breaking loss against Yale.
Late Sunday night, the NCAA selection committee awarded the Princeton field hockey team (10-7 overall, 5-2 Ivy) an At-Large bid to the post-season tournament.
Over fall break, the Princeton football team scored two crucial victories to keep themselves firmly in the chase for the Ivy League title.
The men’s water polo team heads north during break to take on MIT and No.
The 2016 men’s soccer season has almost drawn to a close.
The Princeton Tigers will continue their Ivy League schedule over the next two weeks, facing Cornell (3-3, 1-2 Ivy) this Saturday and Penn (4-2, 3-0 Ivy) on Saturday, Nov.
Over a month into the season, Princeton's own men's club ice hockey team has sustained an impeccable start to the season.
The Princeton Women’s soccer team (9-4-1, 1-3-1 Ivy) faced a tough loss against Harvard (8-3-3, 3-0-2 Ivy) this past weekend at Homecoming in Roberts Stadium.
Princeton had more yards and won the turnover battle, but Harvard took the day in a heartbreaking 23-20 overtime victory over the Tigers to stay atop the Ivy League. Both teams entered the day unbeaten and with high expectations: the Tigers (4-2, 2-1 Ivy) were seeking to break the tie for first place in-conference by beating Harvard (5-1, 3-0 Ivy) for the first time since 2013. Once the game began, however, it seemed to be all Harvard.
Princeton field hockey was beat by Harvard in overtime, 3-2. The Tigers started slowly in the first half and saw a sequence of shots on corners, which were blocked by freshman goalkeeper Grace Baylis.
After a disappointing loss against Columbia that placed it in a four-way tie for fourth place in the Ivy League, the Princeton women’s soccer team is scheduled to host long-time rival Harvard this coming Saturday.The Tigers now stand at 9-3-1 and 1-2-1 for the season and Ivy League conference respectively.The Crimson, which is now at 7-3-3 and 2-0-2, is currently sitting in second place behind first-place Columbia.Senior forward Tyler Lussi, who holds the program record for goals scored and accumulated points, described the importance of her team to remain focused for every game of Ivy League play despite the challenges that are presented to them.
It was a tough weekend for the Princeton men’s water polo team last Saturday in Cambridge, as they dropped a heartbreaking 8-7 match to a strong Bucknell squad.
This weekend either the Tigers' or the Crimson’s perfect record in Conference play will end. Along with football and soccer, Princeton field hockey will take on Harvard in what is likely to be its biggest game of conference play this season.
Starting this semester, the Daily Princetonian will publish a weekly feature centered on one of the University’s club sports every Wednesday.
Despite playing well and hard, the ninth-ranked Tigers fell to a determined thirteenth-ranked Bucknell squad in a heartbreaking 8-7 slugfest at Harvard’s Blodgett pool.Earlier in the day, the Tigers played a lighter match against the water polo team of the New York Athletic Club.