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Feature: Wrestling program on the rebound

Feature: Wrestling program on the rebound

On tuesday, the international Olympic Committee Executive Board voted to remove wrestling from the slate of 25 core sports for the 2020 Olympic Games, ending the Olympic run of an iconic sport that headlined the first modern Olympics in 1896.The decision has sparked debate over wrestling?s merits in both the domestic and international communities, a discussion that hits home for Princeton?s wrestling team.

SPORTS | 02/12/2013

Feature: Up-and-coming runner coaches, trains with Tigers

Robby Andrews is not any ordinary assistant coach for the men?s Princeton track team. In addition to being a part of the program, Andrews ? or ?Coach Bob? as the men prefer to call him ? is one of the top middle distance talents in the country.?Just talking to him, you would never get the sense that he is one of the best runners in the United States or even the world,? senior middle distance runner Russell Dinkins said.

SPORTS | 02/11/2013

Column: The rights, rules, responsibilities of refereeing

Imagine this: Princeton and Harvard are tied with 30 seconds left in a fierce basketball game, with the Ivy League lead on the line.

SPORTS | 02/11/2013

On Tap with ... Brittany Zwirner

Coming off of the start of the women?s water polo season at the Princeton Invitational this past weekend, senior co-captain and attack Brittany Zwirner took time outside of the pool to sit down with the ?Prince? and discuss her music choices, the California lifestyle and her black eye record ? currently a personal best of eight in a year.Q: Where are you from and what is it like there?A: I?m from Orange County, Calif., and it?s really sunny and warm there, even now.Q: So you?re originally from the Philippines?A: I was born in the Philippines.

SPORTS | 02/11/2013

Sports Shorts: Men's Volleyball, Track and Field, Wrestling, Women's Hockey

Men’s Volleyball: Tigers lose EIVA opener The men’s volleyball team had high hopes for the season after an impressive season-opening win over No.

SPORTS | 02/10/2013

Men's Basketball: Princeton suffers first Ivy defeat

The men’s basketball team (11-8 overall, 4-1 Ivy league) split a pair of home games this weekend, extending its undefeated Ivy League record to 4-0 against Brown before falling to Yale by just four points. Saturday’s loss snapped an impressive six-game winning streak for the Tigers, who had outscored their opponents by a convincing 16.7 points per game during that stretch. Following last place Columbia’s 78-63 upset over an undefeated Harvard squad on Sunday, the weekend leaves the Tigers one win behind the league-leading Crimson.

SPORTS | 02/10/2013

Women's Water Polo: Johnson sets single-game saves record in season-opening loss

The No. 10 women’s water polo team kicked off its season by hosting the Princeton Invitational. The Tigers went 4-1 on the weekend, only falling to No. 4 Cal 5-7.

SPORTS | 02/10/2013

Men's Hockey: Princeton ends road woes with two wins

The pair of wins has significant implications for the Tigers in the ECAC standings. Princeton’s four-point weekend brought the Tigers to within two points of second-place Yale, whom Princeton will face at home on Feb. 23. In addition, the victories give the Tigers momentum heading into a crucial four-game home stand at Baker Rink, where Princeton is 6-2 this season.

SPORTS | 02/10/2013

Women's Basketball: Tigers set new team scoring record

The women’s basketball team steamrolled two of its lesser Ivy opponents over the weekend, nearly doubling both Brown’s and Yale’s scores. The Tigers’ 99 points against the Bulldogs set a new record for the program, for which the previous high was 97. It was the second weekend in a row in which the Tigers (14-5 overall, 5-0 Ivy League) defeated two opponents by a combined 77 points.

SPORTS | 02/10/2013

Squash: Women clinch 6th Ivy League title, No. 1 men upended by No. 5 Cornell

The No. 1 men’s squash team headed into last weekend’s matches against No. 5 Cornell and No. 11 Columbia as the unbeaten favorite to win the Ivy League title. They ended Sunday with a decisive 9-0 victory against the Lions in Jadwin Gymnasium. What happened on Friday night against the Big Red, however, unexpectedly changed the Tigers’ course and resulted in a tie for first place in the conference rather than an outright title.

SPORTS | 02/10/2013

Squash: Men and women chase opportunity to clinch Ivy League titles

The No. 1 nationally ranked Princeton men’s squash team will travel to Ithaca to face No. 5 Cornell this Friday. The Tigers are 9-0 and look to come out of tomorrow’s match with their unbeaten record intact. Cornell comes into the match with a 13-3 record, with losses to Yale, Trinity and Harvard. Princeton defeated Harvard and Yale in close matches (5-4 and 6-3, respectively) and will close out their regular season against Trinity. The women will open the weekend on Friday against Cornell. Their Saturday game against Trinity was cancelled due to the expected inclement weather.

SPORTS | 02/07/2013

Men's Ice Hockey: End of roadtrip crucial to Tigers' postseason hopes

The men’s hockey team (7-10-4 overall, 5-6-3 ECAC) will wrap up its current four-game road stretch this weekend, facing off in back-to-back road contests against conference rivals Colgate (13-9-4, 5-6-3) and Cornell (8-11-2, 4-8-2) on Friday and Saturday night. Princeton lost two straight games last weekend in road contests against no. 8 Yale and Brown.

SPORTS | 02/07/2013

Men's Basketball: Tigers to face Brown, Yale to end homestand

The men’s basketball team moves into this weekend seeking to do the same thing it did last season in Ivy League play: take down Yale and Brown in successive games at Jadwin Gymnasium. The Tigers (10-7 overall, 3-0 Ivy League) remain undefeated in 2013, having rattled off five straights wins, including victories over their first three Ivy League opponents. They will also be looking to extend their streak of 20 consecutive conference home wins dating back to the 2009-10 season.

SPORTS | 02/07/2013

Women's Basketball: Cagers look to stay atop Ivy League

This weekend, the women’s basketball team will continue its road trip, visiting Brown on Friday and Yale on Sunday. The Tigers (12-5 overall, 3-0 Ivy) have dominated league play so far, defeating each of their three opponents by no fewer than 30 points. It is likely that Princeton will have no trouble defeating Brown (7-11, 1-3) and Yale (6-12, 1-3), two teams in the bottom half of the standings. However, away games always pose an extra challenge, as momentum can easily turn in a hostile environment.

SPORTS | 02/07/2013

Women's Ice Hockey: Riding 3-game winning streak, Tigers to visit ECAC opponents to defend perfect 2013 record

The women’s hockey team, while at times showing flashes of brilliance, struggled through much of the first three-quarters of the season. The Tigers posted a 6-12-2 record and only notched two ECAC conference victories in their first 20 games. Since coming back from a two-and-a-half week hiatus for finals and Intersession, however, the Tigers have looked like a different team. Princeton will face off against Colgate (8-16-3) and fourth-ranked Cornell (19-4) on Friday and Saturday.

SPORTS | 02/07/2013

Football: Reid to play one more season for Tigers

All-America defensive tackle Caraun Reid was granted a fifth year of NCAA eligibility and will return to the football team for the 2013 season. Reid will take the spring semester off and graduate with the class of 2014 in hopes of entering that year’s NFL draft.

SPORTS | 02/06/2013

Men's Volleyball: Tigers look to ride momentum

Princeton will open its conference schedule with George Mason in a rematch of last season’s thrilling regular season finale, which saw Princeton win in Fairfax in five sets to clinch the final EIVA playoff spot.

SPORTS | 02/06/2013

Football: Catapano impresses at shrine game

With a scintillating senior season and an impressive all-star week under his belt, linebacker Mike Catapano is inching closer to his lifelong dream of playing professional football. The medically redshirted senior has been named Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year and toiled his way into the NFL Draft spotlight. Catapano’s league-leading 12 sacks and All-America recognition attracted the attention of pro scouts and earned him an invitation to the next step in his NFL quest: the 2013 East-West Shrine Game on Jan. 19.

SPORTS | 02/06/2013

On Tap with ... Hallie Dewey

Sophomore Hallie Dewey is a player in the top nine of the women’s squash team. Dewey contributed to the team’s fourth-place finish at the Howe Cup last year and will play in the team’s three remaining Ivy League matches this weekend. Greenwich, Conn. is Dewey’s hometown, but attending Deerfield put her at odds with Greenwich Academy. Dewey recently sat down with the ‘Prince’ to discuss sibling rivalry, “Homeland” and Forbesian cockroaches.

SPORTS | 02/05/2013

Feature: Butler '06 goes from financier to fighter

Strange as it may seem, for some there is more freedom in a fighting cage than there is at a trading desk. Such is the story of Jake Butler ’06, a former Princeton wrestler who decided to quit his Wall Street job after just a few years to pursue a career in mixed martial arts.

SPORTS | 02/05/2013

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