The men’s squash team continued a strong start to its 2012-2013 season with an exciting 7-2 victory against No. 5 Rochester at Jadwin Gymnasium on Saturday.
For the third time in as many home games, the men’s basketball team let an early lead slip away at Jadwin Gymnasium on Saturday night. This time the beneficiary was Drexel, which overcame a double-digit deficit to beat Princeton 64-57, snapping a two-game losing streak.
With 16.6 seconds remaining at Delaware on Sunday, the women’s basketball team was hanging on to a slim 58-57 lead. But on the Blue Hens’ final possession, guard Lauren Carra found a lane on the left side of the court and took the ball to the hoop, scoring the game-winning basket.
Only five minutes and 34 seconds into Friday night’s ECAC men’s hockey matchup, Quinnipiac forward Jeremy Langlois keenly snatched the puck from sophomore defender Aaron Ave in the corner. Cutting into the middle and across the goalmouth, from left to right, Langlois’ slick forehanded shot knocked the puck past Princeton senior goaltender Mike Condon, giving the Bobcats an early 1-0 lead. Langlois’ goal would set the tone for the weekend, during which No. 13 Quinnipiac defeated Princeton 3-1 and 3-0 on consecutive nights.
For a team to be great, it must have great coaches. Without excellent leadership, even the most talented athletes can struggle to reach their potentials as individuals and as a unit. Throughout history, from Vince Lombardi’s Packers to Herb Brooks’ “Miracle on Ice” Olympic hockey team, the best teams have relied on great coaching.
Three weeks after a frustrating loss to Rutgers, the men’s basketball team returns to Jadwin Gymnasium on Saturday to face Drexel. The Tigers (3-4) had a shaky November but showed signs of gaining their footing this past Saturday, starting the month of December with a strong 62-50 victory at Kent State. The Tigers hope they can keep the momentum going from a strong end to their four-game road stretch, particularly when it comes to maintaining early leads.
Senior Kelly Cooke, a forward from Andover, Mass., scored three goals in two games last weekend for the women’s hockey team. The Tigers (5-7-2 overall, 2-6-2 ECAC) will host Quinnipiac (10-7-2, 6-3-1) this afternoon and visit the Bobcats on Saturday. Before the weekend series, Cooke sat down with the ‘Prince’ to discuss road trips, leadership and Christmas music.
The men’s hockey team will face its toughest challenge of the season this weekend, squaring off in a home-and-home series against No. 13 Quinnipiac on Friday and Saturday. The matchup pits the streaking Bobcats (10-3-2 overall, 6-0 ECAC), who have not lost in over a month, against a shaken Tiger squad that relinquished third-period leads and emerged with ties in both of its last two games.
Thirteen members of the women’s rugby team flew to Texas last weekend to play in the USA Rugby College Sevens National Championship in College Station, Texas. The Tigers repeated their 2011 success and placed third in the tournament with a 17-7 win over Texas.
Last year’s men’s basketball team finished one victory over Harvard shy of capturing a share of its second straight Ivy League championship, after completing an impressive 10-4 season in Ivy League play (20-12 overall). To do so, the Tigers relied heavily on critical production from guard Doug Davis ’12, who contributed an average of 33 minutes and 13.8 points to each game.
The women’s basketball team left another traditionally tough matchup into the dust, defeating Hofstra 84-54 last night. Princeton opened the match with a 19-point unanswered streak, giving the Tigers a large point cushion that they would defend all match. The win brings the Tigers to 6-2 overall, while knocking down the Pride to 1-6.
When wide receiver Plaxico Burress accidentally shot himself in the leg in November 2008, the New York Giants were 10-1 and defending Super Bowl champions. They had the look of a dynasty in the making, and on the few occasions that Burress’ self-inflicted wound has come to my mind since, it has always been within that context: He ruined something potentially great.
After three weekends of ECAC men’s hockey play, some familiar teams are near the top, but there are surprises as well. How will the rest of the wide-open conference play out? We break it down here.
Forward Kareem Maddox ’11 was named the British Basketball League’s Player of the Month in November. And junior midfielder Tom Schreiber was named a first-team preseason All-America for the 2013 season on Tuesday by Inside Lacrosse.
A few weeks after wrapping up her career in the most successful fashion possible, leading the field hockey team to its first NCAA championship, senior midfielder Katie Reinprecht has made Princeton history again, winning the Honda Sports Award for Field Hockey on Monday evening.
The women’s basketball team has a chance to extend its win streak to three games when it hosts Hofstra in Jadwin Gymnasium tonight at 7 p.m.
There are still 26 days left in 2012 — maybe 16, depending on your belief in Mayan prophecies — but that doesn’t mean it’s too early to look back at the year as a whole. Princetonians have already won 11 Ivy League titles, four national championships and eight Olympic medals, making 2012 one of the most memorable calendar years in the Tigers’ athletic history. With the final classes of the fall winding down, we look back at some of the highlights.
The swimming and diving teams, as well as the squash teams, continued flawless starts to their seasons this weekend.
In May 1992, when Bart Kalkstein ’92 and I announced Princeton’s dramatic overtime win over Syracuse on WPRB, giving Princeton its first national championship in lacrosse, we assumed that would be our final Princeton sports broadcast.But a few weeks ago, I was reading the local newspaper and was surprised to discover that Princeton was returning to the Cleveland area to play against Kent State, a perennial powerhouse in the Mid-American conference. Since we graduated from Princeton 20 years ago, Bart and I had often talked wistfully about the possibility of broadcasting another game together. Here was our chance!
Brian Leung ’12 has had his fair share of injuries. When he was healthy, the former cross country co-captain was an All-America, leading the Tigers to a 12th-place finish at the NCAA Championships in 2010. But plagued by lower-leg stress fractures during his collegiate career like many distance runners, Leung has had to cut short, or even entirely miss, multiple seasons. With athletic eligibility still remaining at the end of his senior year, Leung was faced with the decision many Ivy League athletes make each year — whether to go to graduate school and give it a shot for one more year.
