Women enjoy successful season, look to take the next step Though they did not compete in the NCAA Division I Championship tournament, the women of Princeton hockey had a unique view of the action.
30-0 in the regular season. The program’s first NCAA Tournament victory. Under head coach Courtney Banghart, this women’s basketball team has achieved high levels of success.
In the 2012 Ivy League finals, Princeton women’s swimming team fell to Harvard. The following year, it topped a competitive 2013 championship field to take a come-from-behind victory in front of a home crowd.
In what surmounted to be a fantastic and memorable season, the men’s swimming and diving team reclaimed the Ivy League Championships.
Men’s Rowing Both the men’s lightweight and heavyweight crew teams started their spring season off with a bang.
The Princeton men’s soccer team completed an excellent season this past fall, tying for first in the Ivy League.
The men’s baseball team (4-17 overall, 1-3 Ivy League) began its Ivy League season by hosting Brown and Yale at Clarke Field in consecutive doubleheaders on Sunday and Monday as it hoped to get its Ivy League season off to a good start after some recent encouraging performances against the US Naval Academy during Spring Break. In its first series of the weekend, the baseball team split its doubleheader against Brown.
After a magical season and an incredibly successful collegiate career, one might think Princeton senior Blake Dietrick would ease up on herself a little, focus on her thesis, and enjoy senior spring.
Cameron Porter ’15, former Princeton men’s soccer star, had a collegiate career filled with triumph after triumph.
This past weekend, the Princeton men’s volleyball team travelled through the state of Pennsylvania, taking on some of the toughest teams NCAA Volleyball has to offer.
The men and women’s tennis teams opened their Ivy League playthis past Saturday. Both teams played against the University of Pennsylvania and secured 6-1 victories.
After a successful Spring Break that saw sophomore Megan Curham compete in the NCAA Indoor Championships, completing the cycle by earning All-America honors in cross country, indoor track and outdoor track and the team winning nine events to place first at the Walt Disney World Open, the women’s track & field team sent its throwers to compete in the Monmouth Season Opener in West Long Branch, N.J.
The Princeton softball team swept a doubleheader against Brown on Saturday, finishing both games with a final score of 1-0.
An unprecedented 30-0 regular season for the women’s basketball team has not only led to plaudits from the sporting world, but has led to Fortune Magazine naming head coach Courtney Banghart as one of the world’s greatest leaders in the magazine’s second annual list. Coach Banghart was ranked 43rd onthe list by Fortune Magazine, making her the highest ranked leader in women’s sports, and the third ranked individual in the sports industry, behind only former Houston Rockets center Yao Ming and four-time NBA MVP LeBron James. Coach Banghart was ranked ahead of well-known names such as Travis Kalanick, CEO of Uber, Jimmy Fallon, host of theTonightShow, and most notably, Adam Silver, the NBA commissioner. It was not enough to be brilliant, admirable, or even supremely powerful.” The magazine stated,"Coach Banghart was a perfect fit for the following description of “effectiveness and commitment and for the courage to pioneer.” Coach Banghart took over an unsuccessful program eight years ago, and in that time, she has earned a 169-67 record and a 92-17 record in the Ivy League.
After a fantastic performance at the Ivy League Championships, the Princeton men’s swimming team will be unable to compete at NCAA Championships, men's swimming head coach Rob Orr said. "While the past 48 hourshave been extremely tough for our team and alumni, I am blown away by their maturity, positive attitude and camaraderie and support that they all have displayed in such difficult moments," Coach Orr stated when reached for comment.
The women’s water polo team has kept up its successful season over the last two weekends, winning seven of their eight games over spring break.
This weekend, the women’s softball team will open up Ivy League play in a doubleheader against Brown on Saturday and will then take on Rider University on Sunday.
Boasting four of the country’s top 20 teams, the Ivy League doubtlessly ranks among college lacrosse’s most challenging conferences.
In their first events of the spring season, both the men’s and women’s golf teams impressed.
Earlier this season, a home win over then-No. 13 Harvard marked just the third time in program history that the Princeton men’s volleyball team (8-7 overall, 4-1 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association) had registered two wins over ranked opponents — its first had come against Cal State Northridge.
