For the men’s basketball team, Jadwin Gymnasium has served as a welcome abode, where the Tigers are 10-0 thus far. This weekend, the team plays its final regular season games at home, taking on Ivy League foes Cornell and Columbia.
For the men’s lacrosse team, 2010 was an up-and-down season that ended with a resounding thud in an agonizing playoff loss to eventual NCAA runner-up Notre Dame. This season, hopes are high as the No. 8 Tigers open the season this Saturday at Hofstra. The squad returns a number of key players and has added at least one immediate contributor.
Stereotypes are present everywhere, and the Orange Bubble is no exception. While I am aware of the harmful effects that certain stereotypes can have, I am also aware of stereotypes that, in the right context, can be harmless and deliver a small dose of humor.
Coming off of an undefeated dual meet season in the Ivy League, the women’s swimming and diving team is looking forward to hosting the Ivy League Championship this weekend, starting Thursday. All of the Ancient Eight teams will be competing at DeNunzio Pool, with preliminary races beginning in the morning and finals in the evening every day of the meet.
Last season was certainly a rebuilding year for the women’s lacrosse team. When the Class of 2009 graduated, the Tigers lost nearly half of their defense and almost all of the veteran experience which drove Princeton as a perennial powerhouse in the Ivy League and nationally. As the only active Princeton coach to achieve 300 wins and the current record holder for most NCAA Tournament wins in history, Hall of Fame head coach Chris Sailer has known little beyond success at the helm of the team.
On Aug. 23, 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. On July 6, 1957, 16-year-old John Lennon made the acquaintance of 15-year-old Paul McCartney. On July 8, 2010, LeBron James announced that he would be “taking [his] talents to South Beach” to play with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh on the Miami Heat.
I had always wondered what it felt like to be jabbed with a sword. Thanks to my recent experience with sophomore epeeist Hannah Safford, I now know.
The men’s volleyball team fell to Rutgers-Newark in three sets on Tuesday night in Dillon Gymnasium. The loss marked the sixth consecutive defeat for Princeton (1-8 overall, 0-5 EIVA Tait Division), which has yet to win a league match. The Tigers kept things close throughout, dropping the first and third sets by only two points each, but the Scarlet Raiders (10-2, 3-2) controlled play in the third set to earn the victory.
F or a guy who shares the exact same name as another Princeton student, sophomore runner Peter Callahan’s individual accomplishments manage to distinguish him from his senior counterpart. Callahan won the 800m at the Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet two weeks ago with the fourth-fastest time ever in the Ivy League of one minute, 48.66 seconds, earning him the HepsTrack Male Athlete of the Week last weekend. Callahan also ran a personal best in the mile, almost breaking four minutes and posting the fastest Division I time of the weekend. Along with the men’s track team, Callahan will be competing at the Ivy League Heptagonals this weekend for the indoor title.
For the men’s volleyball team, Dillon Gymnasium used to be a haven where five-set matches were consistently won. But in the wake of the Tigers’ 3-1 loss to George Mason University (11-3 overall, 4-0 EIVA) last Friday, they have yet to win a home match.
This past weekend, Princeton received a rare gift for this time of year, customary of a more Southern city whose Macy’s does not have a coat section. While Princeton students enjoyed a rare 60 degree day in the middle of February, Los Angelinos and other residents of Southern California dealt with drizzling rain and temperatures in the 50s. Although I did not envy them for their weather, I do wish I had been in Southern California this past weekend for the NBA All-Star Weekend, which took place from Friday to Sunday in (not-so) beautiful Los Angeles.
Teams across campus are turning up the heat as the winter athletic seasons come to a close. On Saturday, the men’s and women’s track and field teams were no exception.
In its final dual matches of the regular season, the wrestling team fell to No. 23 Hofstra University and Boston University at home in Dillon Gymnasium. The losses, which came despite strong showings from the team’s upperclassmen, marked Princeton’s (4-13) last set of bouts before the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Championships.
Amid their vigorous dual-meet season, the men’s and women’s tennis teams competed at the Eastern College Athletic Conference Championships last weekend. The women’s team played to a second-place finish for a home crowd in Jadwin Gymnasium while the men’s team thrashed Harvard 6-1 on Monday in Cambridge, Mass., to claim a third-place finish.
After a grueling win over Yale on Friday night, the women’s basketball team went back to Jadwin Gymnasium on Saturday night to do it all over again with Brown. Despite a close first half during which, according to head coach Courtney Banghart, the Tigers were experiencing a bit of a “hangover effect” from the previous game, they pulled away in the second period en route to one of their strongest performances on both ends of the court this season.
The women’s hockey team finished out its regular season play this past weekend with a pair of away matches against Brown and Yale. They finished the weekend with a perfect 2-0, beating Brown on Friday 4-2 before proceeding to beat Yale on Saturday 4-1.
Earlier this season, Brown came to Jadwin Gymnasium hoping for a repeat of last year, when the men’s basketball team fell to the Bears at home in the thick of a tight race for the Ivy League crown. The visitors burst out to an early lead, but the Tigers held them off for a win in the conference opener. But on Saturday, Brown did at home what it could not do on the road — take down Princeton, 75-65.
Playing on its home courts in Jadwin Gymnasium, the women’s squash team believed it could pull some upsets at the Howe Cup, the season-ending team tournament. Though the No. 5 Tigers fell to the eventual champion, top-ranked Yale, they upset a pair of higher-ranked foes, beating No. 4 Penn in the opener and No. 3 Trinity in the third-place match.
Despite snapping a four-game winless streak with a win over Brown (7-12-4 overall, 5-10-1 ECAC Hockey) and equalling its combined scoring output from the previous two weekends, the men’s hockey team’s homestand ended in disappointment as No. 3 Yale (22-5-0, 16-4-0) capped off a 5-4 comeback win on Sunday, scoring the game-winner with less than two minutes remaining in the third period.
This week in On the Prowl, Executive Editors for Sports Kevin Whitaker and Kiran Gollakota discuss the men's basketball team's loss to Brown, men's hockey's loss to Yale, and the mixed success of the tennis teams.
