As the football team prepared to take the field against Lehigh for last year’s season opener, the number of people who knew who would start under center for Princeton was so small that, well, everyone who knew was preparing to take the field.
Coming off a strong performance Wednesday night, albeit a narrow 2-1 loss to undefeated Loyola, the men’s soccer team looks to keep building momentum when it hits the road again this weekend.
Zak Hermans ’13 found himself on a plane to join the Chicago Cubs’ Arizona League affiliate team just one week after graduating from Princeton last spring.
The men’s soccer team put up a strong performance against an undefeated Loyola squad but left the game disappointed after the Greyhounds (5-0-1) overcame an early Princeton (1-3) goal to leave the match with a 2-1 victory.
The Ivy League gets a late start every year, but each women’s soccer team has now played enough games to give us some idea of how this season will shape up.
Women’s volleyballAfter kicking off its season with six matches on the road, the women’s volleyball team (3-4 overall, 0-0 Ivy League) dropped its home opener Tuesday night to Seton Hall (3-5, 0-0 Big East) in three straight sets, 25-15, 25-16, 25-20.
After graduating thrice-honored first-team all-Ivy outside hitter Lydia Rudnick ’13 and losing three straight Ivy matchups at the end of last season, head coach Sabrina King ’01 — herself once a standout member of Princeton women’s volleyball — remains enthusiastic about her team’s prospects.
Coming into the 2013 cross-country season, both the men’s and women’s teams are bolstered by strong packs of freshman recruits.
When the 2013 season opens on Sept. 21, 30 new freshmen will suit up in orange and black as members of the football team.
The last time the sprint football team won an official game, junior wide receiver and defensive back Chris McCord was just eight years old, and it was 1999.
The men’s water polo team will add three recruits from the Class of 2017 to its roster this season to join the 16 returning members. “It is not a huge class,” head coach Luis Nicolao said, “but all [four] will have an impact as freshmen, and we are looking forward to seeing them compete this fall.” The recruits are Curtis Fink, Bret Hinrichs and Jovan Jeremic. Fink will join the team as a utility player after leading his high school team to three consecutive league championships and earning All-CIF Division I and All-Sunset League first team honors in 2011 and 2012, as well as being named a California-Hawaii All-American.
After winning both the Ivy League Championship and the NCAA Championship with a nearly perfect record, the field hockey team (21-1 overall, 7-0 Ivy League last season) has high hopes for the 2013 season and its incoming freshman class. The five freshmen that will join the field hockey team this year — Cat Caro, Ellen Dobrijevic, Annabeth Donovan, Andrea Jenkins and Hailey Reeves — come ready for the challenge. As members of the United States National Team, the Junior Women’s National Indoor Team, the Junior Olympics team, the New South Wales All-Schools Team, the Canada-USA Series and the Disney tournaments and showcases, the rookies know what competitive field hockey looks like. “They have a high level of self-discipline, I would say, across the class,” head coach Kristen Holmes-Winn said.
The women’s soccer team got to the second round of the NCAA Tournament last year, but the Ivy League Champions — who went 14-4-1 overall and 7-0 in the Ancient Eight — hope to make it even further this year. The team will face growing pains, however, given that it lost eight seniors and has a large, nine-player freshman class.
Even having lost Mark Linnville ’13, a superstar center back who graduated with four first-team all-Ivy selections, and two-time first-team all-league selection Matt Sanner ’13, the men’s soccer team has fixed its sights on an Ivy League championship in 2013 and, with the addition of a promising class of freshmen, the squad looks to return to the NCAA Tournament after a two-year absence. Head coach Jim Barlow welcomes seven freshmen to the program: one goalkeeper, two defenders and four midfielders. “Everyone we recruit is a person who we think has the ability to make an impact and compete for a spot right away,” Barlow said. Each freshman is accomplished at the high school and club level.
This graphic shows how many Ivy League championships each Ivy League school won in 2012-13. Princeton leads the pack with 13 championships while Brown and Dartmouth each finished with none.
2013 has been a year of firsts for senior golfer Kelly Shon. Last April, Shon finished at plus-2 to win her first Ivy League Championship and with it, the honor of Ivy Player of the Year.
This week, the ‘Prince’ sat down with sophomore Brad Wachtell of the No. 15 men’s water polo team.
Junior goalkeeper Darcy Hargadon tallied a season-high three saves, including two important snags late in double overtime, allowing the women's soccer team to earn a 0-0 draw against Seton Hall on Friday night in South Orange, N.J.
After an unprecedented winning streak which saw the field hockey team win its first-ever national championship, the No.
The No. 15 men's water polo team opened its season strong this weekend, with four victories in four games to win the Princeton Invitational Tournament.
