The women's lacrosse team entered 2011 hoping to get back to its winning ways. Three months later, the 12-6 Tigers are three victories away from the national championship entering Saturday’s contest against No. 1 Maryland.
The women’s open and lightweight crews were undefeated in the regular season, and both lived up to high expectations at the Eastern championships in Cherry Hill, N.J. Both teams defeated top rivals from around the region to win championships at EAWRC Sprints.
The women's lacrosse team upset No. 8-seed James Madison on the road on Saturday afternoon in the first round of the NCAA tournament, holding on in an exciting final minute for an 11-10 victory. The Tigers advance to the quarterfinal round next Saturday, when they will face No. 1 Maryland, which defeated Navy 19-6 in the opening round.
The 2006-07 season appeared to be the death of Princeton basketball. In just three short years, the team led by head coach Joe Scott ’88 had gone from Ivy League champion to laughingstock of the league. The team finished with 11 total wins and a 2-12 mark in league. Scott resigned. The program had hit an all-time low.In stepped an athletic forward named Kareem Maddox.
On Sunday, all four Princeton crews will be taking on their toughest competitors in one of their final regattas of the season at the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges and Eastern Association of Women’s Rowing Colleges sprints. The regatta will include all the Ivy League teams, as well as nationally ranked teams including Wisconsin and Navy.
During a year in which many Princeton athletes had individual and team success, few accomplished as much as junior striker Kat Sharkey of the field hockey team. The most prolific scorer in the country, Sharkey set multiple program records while leading the Tigers to the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament.
Soccer may be the beautiful game, but FIFA, its governing organization, is the ugliest of the lot. FIFA is probably the most corrupt sporting organization in the world, and its president, Sepp Blatter, is an arrogant hack. The duplicitous leader of the world’s most popular sport has made so many public gaffes that he could easily be deposed on this premise alone. Speaking about women’s soccer, Blatter told the media that “women [should] play in more feminine clothes like they do in volleyball,” continuing to inexplicably state that if women played with a “more female aesthetic,” they might gain more international fans.
After a dramatic win on Sunday to dethrone two-time defending Ivy League champions Dartmouth, the baseball team will have to wait until May 30 to know against whom — and when — they’ll next be playing a game that matters. What to do until then?
On March 16, James Madison University jumped out to an early 5-0 lead against the women’s lacrosse team and never looked back. The Dukes (15-3 overall) held the Tigers (11-6) to just five goals in a 10-5 victory that was Princeton’s worst offensive performance of the year. It was clearly a frustrating game for the Tigers.
As the school year comes to a close, we take a look back at the 10 most exciting games of the 2010-11 season.
Senior Emma Bedard hails from Quebec, Canada and is a member of the No. 1 lightweight women’s crew. The team swept Georgetown on the last weekend of April to complete a perfect 8-0 regular season and now looks ahead to the postseason, starting with the EAWRC Sprints on Sunday.
I have literally just completed my last Dean’s Date assignment. This is my last column as a sportswriter for The Daily Princetonian. And all I can think about at the moment is all the weird facts I won’t get to write about. So, because I’ll never write again for this august newspaper, I’m going to list my favorite random sports facts until I run out of space. Freshmen, play intramural sports and enjoy late meal while you can.
Freshman Kelly Shon represented Princeton University this past weekend in the NCAA East Regional Tournament, which took place in Daytona Beach, Fla., at the LPGA International course. She finished with an 11-over score in the three-day event, coming in tied for 52nd in the 126-player field.
Bob Prier will be the next head coach of the men’s hockey team, the athletics department announced in a release on Monday afternoon.
According to a popular sports cliche, experience wins in the postseason. The baseball team could not have disproven that statement more this weekend, as the young squad took two of three games to claim its first Ivy League championship since 2006.
A friend of mine recently commented that, if he had the immense athletic talent required to enter any professional sport, he would choose to be a basketball player. The mean salary in the NBA is the highest among American professional sporting leagues, the sport is not as physically taxing as football and the career life of players tends to be long: Usually basketball players work in the NBA for about five years, thanks to how hard it is to be struck with a career-ending injury. Note that many players continue their play abroad after they leave the NBA; former players have found consistent play in Turkey, Israel, Italy and Spain after their American careers have ended.
A win in Friday night’s semifinal round of the Ivy League Tournament for the Princeton women’s lacrosse team gave it a spot in Sunday afternoon’s championship game against the Harvard Crimson. The No. 14 Tigers, ranked fourth in the tournament, defeated No. 8 University of Pennsylvania, the host and top seed, 10-8 in overtime after a very close, back-and-forth game with six lead changes and seven ties. Sophomore attacker Jaci Gassaway and junior midfielder Cassie Pyle, who each earned five points, led the Tigers in this game. Senior co-captain and goalkeeper Erin Tochihara was a strong last line of defense for the Tigers on Friday, stopping a total of 10 shots.Then on Sunday, the Tigers earned the Ivy League Tournament title with a 12-10 victory over No. 3-seed Harvard, gaining an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament next weekend against No. 8 James Madison University.
With a strong offensive performance and a tandem of pitchers who kept their opponents’ bats at bay, the baseball team beat Dartmouth (30-12 overall, 14-6 Ivy League) 8-5 at Clarke Field on Sunday afternoon to clinch the Ivy League Championship. After heading into the Ivy League season with a 5-13 record, the Tigers (23-22, 15-5) have now guaranteed themselves a spot in the NCAA tournament.
The men’s and women’s track and field teams had banner days Saturday and Sunday, competing in the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships in New Haven, Conn. Both teams clinched titles late on Sunday afternoon, as the men edged out Cornell by nine points, while the women defeated the Big Red by 19 points.
Every week, The Daily Princetonian sports section puts an athlete “on tap” and asks personal questions to learn more about their lives. Here are some of the best responses we have received this semester.
