It was announced this week that the Princeton women’s basketball team was the first Ivy League squad in history to crack the top 25 of both the USA Today coaches and the Associated Press polls.
After being fired following a tumultuous and unsuccessful tenure as head coach of the New York Jets, Rex Ryan has pretty obviously been holing up at Princeton Stadium, about an hour south of his former team’s home stadium in East Rutherford, NJ. “I feel bad kicking him out, especially because he seems to think nobody’s noticed he’s there,” said Princeton football head coach Bob Surace ’90, who is arguably more likely to receive a head coaching position in the NFL than Ryan. Groundskeepers said they first became suspicious when they discovered a banner reading “Reappoint Ryan!” hanging from a flagpole in the stadium.
Princeton men’s and women’s squash, formally Cucurbita princetoniensis, enter the 2015 season as one of the ripest bunches in the College Squash Association.
The crowd was mostly silent throughout the men's basketball team's ghastly loss to the No.
Early tests for track and field yield success Last season, the Tigers travelled to Annapolis, Md.
As most of us recovered from New Year’s festivities, the Tigers (8-8-1, 6-5 Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference) were hard at work again taking on Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (4-13-2, 2-6-0 ECAC) in their fist game of 2015.
Men’s basketball (5-9 overall) split a quartet of non-conference matchups over winter break. Pairs of away losses bracketed a couple of home wins against opponents relatively unfamiliar to the program.
Women’s basketball remains on fire, extending its season-long winning streak to 15 games over winter break as head coach Courtney Banghart passed her 150th career win.
The past year was a saw major change for the men’s hockey team, perhaps most evident by the transition from former head coach Bob Prier to current skipper Ron Fogarty.
The wrestling team (4-3, 1-2 Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association) kept busy over winter break, competing out of state on three separate occasions as a prelude to the heart of its conference schedule. After falling to Binghamton at home on Dec.
The undefeated women’s basketball team will host the Binghamton University Bearcats this Saturday looking to continue its nine-game winning streak.
The men’s hockey team enters the homestretch of 2014 this weekend as it travels to Minnesota State University for a two-game out-of-conference battle.
After a strong 3-1 finish at the Windy City Duals last weekend, the wrestling team (3-1, 0-0 Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association) will take on conference rival Binghamton University (1-4, 0-0 EIWA) Friday evening for the Tigers’ first home match of the season.
Following a disappointing 60-46 loss to St. Peter’s University (4-6 overall), men’s basketball (3-7) will turn to a full slate of winter break contests.
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We’re quickly approaching your favorite sportswriter’s favorite time of the year, and it doesn’t have that much to do with Christmas (though high on my list is Christmas dinner — the thought of a home-cooked meal has carried me through these last two weeks). December, as some of you may know, is bowl season for college football.
Last year was hailed as the Ivy League’s best-ever postseason.
Notes from Nationals While most of the men and women of Princeton Swimming and Diving were in Rhode Island for the three-day Brown Invitational last weekend, nine of their teammates competed at the USA Swimming AT&T Winter National Championships. Senior Michael Strand; juniors Sandy Bole, Teo D’Alessandro, Byron Sanborn and Nikki Larson; sophomores Sam Smiddy and sophomore Olivia Chan; and freshmen Lindsay Temple and Elsa Welshofer traveled to Greensboro, N.C., to represent Princeton at Nationals. The quartet of Chan, Larson, Temple and Welshofer impressed with a top-20 finish in the 400 medley relay, finishing No.
This past weekend, women’s hockey (7-7-1 overall, 5-4 Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference) took on Ivy League opponents Harvard (6-2-2, 5-1-1 ECAC) and Dartmouth (4-5-1, 2-4-1 ECAC) away on Friday and Saturday, respectively.
