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Men's Soccer: Tigers kick off tough slate

Men's Soccer: Tigers kick off tough slate

Uncertainty looms as the men’s soccer team embarks on its 2012 season. Ready to return to the level of play it reached two years ago when head coach Jim Barlow ’91 coached the team all the way to the NCAA tournament’s first round, the Tigers scheduled a series of challenging opponents to open the season.

SPORTS | 09/13/2012

Football Defense: Experienced — and talented — linemen lead recovering unit

Coming off yet another disappointing season, it is clear that the football team must improve in many different ways in order to become relevant in the Ivy League again. The defense is looking to prove that it able to step up to the task.

SPORTS | 09/13/2012

Women's Soccer: Better shooting pays dividends in early action

When a team takes a shade under twice as many shots as its opponents over a 17-game season, you might guess that the team has at the very least tasted significant success, if not challenged for a trophy. The women’s soccer team, however, struggled to a 6-10-1 overall record last year, with strong overall performances undone by poor finishes.

SPORTS | 09/13/2012

Men's Water Polo: Princeton aims to repeat 2011 success

The men’s water polo team faces a difficult task this season, trying to repeat last year’s magic. After winning the Eastern championship and then the third place match against University of California, San Diego in the NCAA Championships, this team will definitely have big shoes to fill and high expectations to meet. Yet, this team is poised for a great run and has the chance to top last year’s success.

SPORTS | 09/13/2012

Football: Ivy League sportswriters poll tabs Harvard as favorite

See the results of our Ivy League sportswriters football poll, which surveyed representatives of all eight student newspapers, including The Daily Princetonian.

SPORTS | 09/13/2012

Princeton in the Pros: Davis ’12 signs with new set of Tigers

Doug Davis ’12 may still be playing for Tigers, but he will be taking the court far, far away from Jadwin Gymnasium and the Orange Bubble. Davis and Devona Allgood ’12 have become the latest Princeton basketball alumni to take their talents to Europe. Over the summer, Davis signed with Walter Tigers Tubingen in Tubingen, Germany, while Allgood joined Telge Basket in Sodertalje, Sweden.

SPORTS | 09/12/2012

London 2012: Small midfielder comes up big

Diana Matheson ’08 has always been the playmaker, able to find and set up one of her teammates with a perfectly positioned ball for a shot on goal. So when Matheson found herself with the ball at the top of the penalty box, with a bronze medal on the line, she passed it just beyond two converging defenders to teammate Sophie Schmidt. As the script was drawn up, the ball would find the back of the net and Matheson would add yet another assist to her record while her teammate got the goal and glory. But not this time. Instead, France's goalie blocked the shot — directly to an attacking Matheson, who instinctively volleyed it into the open net.

SPORTS | 09/12/2012

London 2012: Lawrence, Scanlan take team bronze

Maya Lawrence '02 spent two unforgettable weeks in London this summer, and not just because she and junior Susie Scanlan, along with two other American fencers, took bronze in the women’s team epee.

SPORTS | 09/12/2012

London 2012: Crew quartet continues U. tradition

Princeton has displayed its dominance in the world of rowing at the Olympics at the past 12 Games, and London was no exception. Of the 15 current and former Princetonians who competed at the 2012 Olympics, eight were rowers. Even more remarkably, four Tiger rowers walked away with medals at this year’s Games.

SPORTS | 09/12/2012

London 2012: Blatt '81 leads Russian hoopsters to surprise showing

When Dave Blatt '81 was hired in 2006 as the first non-Russian head coach of the Russian national basketball team, he found he had to earn respect as a head coach. As a Jewish American who has lived in Israel for much of his adult life, winning people over was a challenge. But through a self-described desire to bridge cultural divides through sports, Blatt turned around a struggling basketball team and won the respect of a nation while leading Russia to a bronze medal at the 2012 London Olympics.

SPORTS | 09/12/2012

Field Hockey: With stars back, Tigers’ outlook is bright

After a dominant start to the season, the field hockey team hopes to win its eighth-straight Ivy League championship and possibly earn some larger postseason honors this fall. Coming off of last season’s 10-8 record and NCAA tournament appearance, Princeton welcomes 10 new faces to the field this season: six freshmen and four veterans returning from a year training with the U.S. national team.

SPORTS | 09/12/2012

London 2012: For one moment, leading in London

Walking into the tunnel to the track in the London Olympic Stadium, Donn Cabral ’12 could feel the thunderous roar of the crowd vibrating in the air. Flashbulbs popped and TV cameras relayed the athletes’ focused faces from country to country — from Cabral’s Glastonbury, Conn., hometown to the screens of eager Princeton fans around the world. Walking out into the night with the rest of the world’s best steeplechasers, Cabral prepared himself for the biggest race of his life so far: the Olympic final.

SPORTS | 09/12/2012

Sports Shorts: Academic scandal puts Harvard basketball in flux

The Harvard men’s basketball team, which won the Ivy League title and was occasionally ranked in the national top 25 in 2011-12, will look very different this season, as key players will reportedly miss the season after being implicated in the university’s academic scandal.

SPORTS | 09/12/2012

Football: As fall camp winds down, QB situation remains unclear

Eight days before the football team opens the 2012 season, Princeton’s coaching staff has not yet determined who its starting quarterback will be in week one. Head coach Bob Surace ’90 said at the team's annual media day that sophomores Quinn Epperly and Connor Michelsen have been “neck-and-neck” since the beginning of the off-season and freshman Kedric Bostic will figure into the signal-calling mix as well.

SPORTS | 09/06/2012

Column: The value of recruiting athletes

While Jack Turnage’s article, “When colleges recruit athletes, everybody loses” (published onForbes.com), circulated around various social media feeds earlier this month, I felt it spoke directly to me. Though I was not one of Princeton’s Olympians, I am a rising sophomore on the men’s water polo team, and I can give you a clear picture of what it means to be a Princeton athlete and say why athletic recruiting is a beneficial part of the admissions process.

SPORTS | 08/17/2012

Football: Dibilio withdraws for season, lowering expectations

The football team received a double-dose of bad news this past week with just over a month until the first game. A 17-person panel of Ivy League media representatives predicted Princeton to finish last in the conference after consecutive 1-9 season. In addition, running back and reigning Ivy League Rookie of the Year Chuck Dibilio officially announced that he would not return to school for the fall season after suffering a stroke in January.

SPORTS | 08/13/2012

Men's Cross Country: Head coach Dolan will not return to Tigers

Men’s cross country coach Steve Dolan, who led Princeton’s distance runners to unparalleled success in the last two seasons, will not return to the Tigers in the fall.Update: Penn announced Thursday that Dolan will take over as the Quakers' Director of Cross Country/Track and Field. Princeton announced Aug. 14 that Jason Vigilante, formerly of Virginia, would replace Dolan as the men's cross country coach and assistant track and field coach.

SPORTS | 07/29/2012

Princeton at the Olympics: Daily Updates

The sports staff is taking over The Prox as we chronicle Princetonians competing at the London 2012 Olympics. Follow the pride of the Orange and Black with daily updates as they perform on the world's biggest athletic stage.Final update, Aug. 12: ‘Olympic perspectives around the globe’

SPORTS | 07/29/2012

A Princeton viewer's guide to the Olympics

A school-record 16 current and former Princeton athletes will take part in the 2012 London Olympics, representing three countries in five different sports. Over the coming weeks, these Tigers will compete against their peers on the world’s biggest stage. Don’t miss a single game or event with our handy viewer’s guide!

SPORTS | 07/24/2012

Men's Track: Donn Cabral earns Olympics bid in Steeplechase

On Thursday evening, 14 athletes prepared for the 3,000m steeplechase final at the Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore. In the middle of storied Hayward Field, filled with over 20,000 screaming fans, these competitors toed the starting line, carrying the hopes of their childhoods and the drive to compete on the world’s largest stage. There at the start with his friends and rivals, Donn Cabral ’12 waited for the chance to earn a ticket to the Olympic Games in London.That pre-game wait fueled Cabral to a 2nd-place finish in the competition and secured a spot on the United States Olympic roster, capping one of the best track seasons of any Princetonian. But before he could take the podium, make plans for London, and sign a contract with Nike, Cabral first had to get over some pre-race butterflies.

SPORTS | 06/29/2012

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