Despite losing 15-7 in the Ivy League Tournament final, the men's lacrosse team received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament on Sunday night. Princeton will face No. 5-seed Virginia on the road at 1 p.m. Sunday.
As the school year comes to a close, the ‘Prince’ will bring you the best of Princeton sports in the 2011-12 season. Today, we begin our countdown of the year’s top 10 head coaches. Stay tuned as we complete this list Wednesday, name the top 10 games Friday and unveil our Athletes of the Year next week.
The men's track and field team closed the final chapter of a perfect season. After struggling through the frozen slush and snow of the freak October storm and fending off Cornell’s last desperate push at the indoor championships, Princeton finally pulled away to win its second straight triple crown Sunday as the Tigers shut the door on second-place Cornell, 193–161.75.
The No. 10 men’s lacrosse team has earned the top-seed in this weekend’s Ivy League Tournament after capturing an unshared and undefeated regular-season Ivy League title for the first time since 2001. As a result, it will host the tournament and play the second of two semifinal games on Friday, May 4, facing fourth-seeded Brown in an 8 p.m. contest. The day will begin with second-seeded Cornell battling third-seeded Yale in a 5 p.m matchup in the first semifinal. The winners of each game will face off at noon on Sunday.
Senior Kristen Ward is the starting goalie of the women’s water polo team. After being named Defensive Player of the Week of the Southern Division, the ‘Prince’ sat down with her to hear about what she does to prepare for games, how preparations are going for the team’s upcoming NCAA run and reflections on her four years at Princeton.
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In the coming days, the ‘Prince’ will feature several current and former Princeton athletes in different sports who have turned their focus to the 2012 London Olympics. Their goals may vary — some are hoping to increase Princeton’s medal count to 48, while others are aiming only to reach the Olympic Village — but all have been training to get one step closer to the biggest stage in sports.
As the clock reached zero in the field hockey finals of the Pan-American Games on Oct. 28, the players from Team USA tossed their equipment in the air and hugged in jubilation, celebrating a shocking 4-2 upset of Argentina, the world’s top-ranked team. Not only did the United States become the first team besides Argentina ever to win the Pan-Am games, it clinched the ultimate prize — a guaranteed spot in the 2012 London Olympics.Four current Tigers — Cesan, Reinprecht, senior Katie Reinprecht and senior Kat Sharkey — and Maren Langford ’06 are among the 23 players training with the national team in preparation for the Olympics.
Junior Matija Pecotic and women’s doubles team of senior Hilary Bartlett and freshman Lindsay Graff officially received automatic bids to the NCAA Championships when the list of qualifiers was announced Wednesday afternoon.
Let’s party like it’s 2010: The four teams in this year’s Ivy League Tournament are the same quartet that competed in the first-ever conference playoff two seasons ago. After the end of the regular season round robin, we take a look at how the league performed in 2012.
A confession: I am terrified of tearing my ACL. This fear persists despite having no past experience with knee injuries, no extreme hobbies, no (even mild) athletic activity in months. It’s a completely irrational fear but a nagging one. I’ve dreamed on multiple occasions of experiencing an ACL tear and the subsequent collapse, my leg dangling inert and helpless. So though ACL injuries are one of the most troubling and widespread epidemics in both professional and amateur sports, this is ALL ABOUT ME.
Sophomore golfer Kelly Shon came down with gastroenteritis at perhaps the most inopportune time possible. Though she remained healthy throughout the initial outbreak during the first few weeks of the spring semester, she contracted the virus upon returning from the Low Country Intercollegiate tournament in South Carolina — just the third tournament of the spring golf season — on the last weekend of March.
Both the men’s and women’s track and field teams will be competing in the Heptagonals this weekend in Philadelphia for the Ivy League Championships. The men’s team has won five straight Ivy League titles between cross country and both track seasons and will be looking to continue its strong winning streak this weekend.
The women’s lacrosse team closed out its season with a winning record after earning a 13-12 overtime victory in its final game on Saturday afternoon at No. 8 Penn State. The No. 17 Tigers (8-7 overall, 4-3 Ivy League), though failing to qualify for the postseason conference tournament, finished their season with pride by defeating a top-10 ranked opponent, proving that they can still compete with the best. This was the third game of the season that was decided in overtime, and the first time the result favored Princeton. Close-scoring games were a theme this spring, with nine out of 15 games having a three-goal-or-fewer differential.
Freshman Adam Bragg is a promising pole vaulter on the track team who finished as the runner-up in the Larry Ellis Invitational less than two weeks ago, bettering his previous personal record by about 10 cm to raise his mark to 5.06m. Ahead of the Heptagonals this weekend, the ‘Prince’ talked to Bragg about samurai swords, Hannah Montana and the athlete’s burden of dealing with a phenomenon that can perhaps best be described as the flocking of chicks.
The men’s lacrosse team wrapped up the 2012 Ivy League Championship on Saturday with a 14-9 home victory over Cornell. But Princeton’s season is still far from over — the annual Ivy League Tournament will take place this weekend, and the Tigers’ most recent win earned them home-field advantage throughout the tournament.
The men’s and women’s golf teams braved the weekend’s winds and finished out their season at the Ivy League Championship in Galloway, N.J. Though the men’s team finished fifth, senior Evan Harmeling and sophomore Greg Jarmas earned All-Ivy honors. Sophomore Kelly Shon of the women’s squad also finished with an All-Ivy award despite a rough start as the team took sixth.
On Sunday, the softball team saw its season come to a disappointing close after dropping its four-game homestand with Cornell. With the victories, Cornell kept pace with Penn atop the Ivy League South Division at 15-5, while Princeton finished third at 8-12. Cornell and Penn will duel it out in the first tie-breaking playoff game in Ivy League softball history to decide who will take on 17-3 Harvard, the winner of the North Division.
The men’s and women’s crews wrapped up an important, action-packed weekend on Saturday. On the whole, all four teams had mixed results. The men’s heavyweight team lost to Brown, while the lightweights defeated Yale but placed second to Harvard in the Goldthwait Cup. As for the women, the open team defeated Tennessee resoundingly this weekend, while Radcliffe defeated the lightweight team in the Class of 1999 Cup.
Head softball coach Trina Salcido resigned on Tuesday evening, announcing her departure from the Princeton softball program. Salcido's departure is the third resignation by a Princeton head coach in the last eight days, following the departures of men's tennis head coach Glenn Michibata and women's tennis head coach Megan Bradley-Rose.
