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Female Athlete of the Year: Niveen Rasheed

Female Athlete of the Year: Niveen Rasheed

Before the 2011-12 season, one question loomed large for fans of the women’s basketball team: How well would junior forward Niveen Rasheed come back from her injury? After dominating the first half of her sophomore season, Rasheed missed all of Ivy League play and the Tigers’ NCAA Tournament appearance due to a torn ACL. After rehabbing throughout the spring and summer, Rasheed was still less than 100 percent as late as September, when head coach Courtney Banghart held her out of exhibition games in France and Senegal.

SPORTS | 05/13/2012

Sports Shorts: Shon shoots plus-6 at NCAA East Regional

Sophomore Kelly Shon competed at the NCAA East Regional this weekend, finishing at plus-six to tie for 29th place in the 126-player field.

SPORTS | 05/13/2012

Crew: Teams find mixed results at Sprints

The decorated Princeton rowing program entered Eastern Sprints hoping to add to their trophy case. The women’s open crew took home the overall team points trophy, though it lost the varsity eight final and official Ivy League championship to Harvard. The other three Princeton crews, despite highlights, came away empty-handed.

SPORTS | 05/13/2012

Male Athlete of the Year: Todd Harrity

Thirteen straight years of domination. Trinity’s name rang out across squash courts everywhere as the national champions for all of those years. And dominate it did, winning an incredible 252 straight matches in that time. Would Trinity’s reign ever end?

SPORTS | 05/13/2012

The Road to London: Swimmers look forward to Trials experience

For this year’s Princeton swimmers, the road to the Olympics seems likely to end before reaching London. However, for the swimmers who have managed to successfully traverse the road to Omaha, Neb., where this year’s U.S. Olympic Trials are being held for the second consecutive time, all that matters is that they swim their best and absorb as much as they can from the whole experience.

SPORTS | 05/13/2012

Women's Water Polo: Tigers finish 6th at NCAA Championships

An impressive season came to an end for the women’s water polo team, which finished sixth at NCAA Championships this weekend. The Tigers lost to No. 3-seed University of Southern California in the quarter-finals on Friday, as the Trojans overpowered Princeton 14-2, leaving the Tigers battling over the weekend for fifth position. Princeton (29-6) won its first consolation bout 9-5 over Iona before falling to Loyola Marymount 15-11 in the fifth-place game.

SPORTS | 05/13/2012

Top 10 games of the 2011-12 season

As the school year comes to a close, the ‘Prince’ brings you the best of Princeton sports in the 2011-12 season. Earlier this week, we listed our coaches of the year; today, we count down the top 10 games. Stay tuned as we unveil our Athletes of the Year next week. From sprints through snowfall to five-overtime slugfests, the Tigers’ seasons were hardly short of highlights.

SPORTS | 05/10/2012

The Road to London: Rowers add to Princeton Olympic streak

Princeton’s presence at the Olympic Games runs deep, as Tigers medaled in all kinds of events since the first games in 1896. Yet no sport is more heavily represented than crew. Of the 128 Princeton competitors at the Olympics, 45 have been rowers. As one of the University’s largest athletics teams, Princeton crew has been represented by a student or alumnus at the past 12 Summer Olympic Games. This year is no exception.

SPORTS | 05/10/2012

Women's Water Polo: No. 10 Tigers head to California for playoff showdowns

While many students will hit the books this weekend before the final stretch of the school year, the women’s water polo team will return to the pool one last time at the NCAA Championships in San Diego to face Southern California in the first round. Princeton’s appearance in the eight-team tournament is the first in program history since water polo became an official NCAA championship sport in 2001.

SPORTS | 05/10/2012

Sports Shorts: Ivy League rejects basketball playoff proposal

In their annual spring meetings, the Ivy League directors of athletics decided not to proceed with a proposal for a postseason basketball tournament, the league announced in a release on Thursday afternoon.

SPORTS | 05/10/2012

Men's Lacrosse: UVA battle looms in NCAAs

The men’s lacrosse team can vouch that anything can happen to the favored team entering a game. Sunday afternoon, the No. 12 Tigers will attempt to recover from a difficult late season against the Virginia Cavaliers, who likely hold similar sentiments. Both teams lost in their respective conference tournaments, and both are ready to avenge unexplained losses as the NCAA Tournament begins.

SPORTS | 05/10/2012

On Tap with ... Will Gillis and Ian Silveira

Sophomore Will Gillis and senior Ian Silveira have established themselves as key parts of the men’s heavyweight crew. Silveira is the captain and stroke seat of the first varsity boat, where he is joined by Gillis. The Tigers have had an up-and-down season thus far, winning the Childs Cup but placing second in the Compton and Carnegie Cups as they head into Sunday’s Eastern Sprints. The 'Prince' sat down to talk with the two of them ahead of the race.

SPORTS | 05/08/2012

Coaches of the year: 5-1

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 complete our countdown of the top 10 head coaches, which started with the first five on Monday. Stay tuned as we list the top games on Friday and unveil our Athletes of the Year next week.

SPORTS | 05/08/2012

The Road to London: Track athletes take varied approaches to training

Talent, hard work and luck. For the few Princeton track and field athletes who hope to qualify for the world’s biggest stage at June’s Olympic Trials, those three attributes will be more important than ever before. In a sport ruled by pain, guts and the will to push the physical limits of their bodies, the dedicated Princeton athletes have left nothing behind in their various roads to the Trials.

SPORTS | 05/08/2012

Women's Water Polo: Sophomore Rigler leads her team home

Sophomore utility Katie Rigler has seen nothing but success in high school and with the women’s water polo team. Rigler has scored nearly 20 percent of No. 10 Princeton’s goals this season, helping to lead the team to its first ever NCAA tournament appearance. A native of Fullerton, Calif., Rigler will be traveling back to southern California at the end of this week for the NCAA championship in San Diego. Her success was recognized late last month, when she was named the Southern Division Player of the Year and won the Eastern Championship MVP award.

SPORTS | 05/08/2012

The Road to London: Epee trio overcomes obstacles to reach Olympics

"It’s not the easiest thing to explain,” Soren Thompson ’05 said of his improbable return to the Olympics. Thompson, currently the ninth-ranked epeeist in the world, competed in the Athens games in 2004 but was essentially out of fencing entirely less than two years ago. Then, he decided he wanted to go to London.

SPORTS | 05/06/2012

Men's Lacrosse: Despite loss to Yale, Tigers make NCAA Tournament

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.

SPORTS | 05/06/2012

Coaches of the Year: 10-6

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.

SPORTS | 05/06/2012

Track & Field: Men dominate Heps, complete 2nd straight triple crown

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.

SPORTS | 05/06/2012

Men's Lacrosse: Ivy quartet vies for NCAA bid

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.

SPORTS | 05/03/2012

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