After a long break from competition, the men’s and women’s fencing teams are ready to take on 13 teams at the Northwestern Duals this weekend in Evanston, Ill.
The men's basketball team defeated Harvard, 65-61, to remain undefeated in the Ivy League. Relive the game with our live blog transcript.
This weekend, the women’s basketball team will travel to Harvard and Dartmouth to take on the Crimson and Big Green on their courts. Princeton (14-3 overall, 3-0 Ivy League), riding momentum from last week’s victories over Penn and Brown, will be looking to continue a six-game winning streak.
While the rest of their senior soccer teammates have already called time on their competitive careers, forward Josh Walburn and defender Teddy Schneider are getting a chance to play after college. Walburn and Schneider were drafted in the second round of the MLS Supplemental Draft on Jan. 18 by the Philadelphia Union and New York Red Bulls, respectively. Walburn was taken as the 23rd pick while Schneider was selected 30th overall.
It lacks the enclosed, arena-like feel of Penn’s Palestra or Yale’s Amphitheater. Its large size precludes the kind of intimacy found at Dartmouth and Cornell. Even on the day of a big game, a packed row of side bleachers cannot conceal the indoor track in the background, a subtle reminder that basketball is only a small part of its function. But it is home, and the members of the men’s and women’s basketball teams would not prefer to play anywhere but Jadwin Gymnasium.
Superman has been dethroned. For the past few years, Dwight Howard was the most spectacular dunker in the NBA, but anyone paying attention to the league this year realizes that his Lex Luthor is Blake Griffin. After being forced to sit out an entire season due to injury, Griffin came back better than ever and went to town on the league. His greatest dunk this year, literally right over the New York Knicks’ 7-foot-1-inch center, Timofey Mozgov, might be the most iconic moment of this season.
Women’s ice hockey head coach Jeff Kampersal calls standout junior goalie Rachel Weber “a threat.” This description stems not only from Weber’s impressive run in the goal this season, but also from her demeanor and her talents.
Junior fencer Susie Scanlan loves to fight. In fact, the fencer is taking two years off so that she can do just that. Scanlan, an epeeist, will be competing around the world for the next two years, hoping to make the U.S. national team and compete in the 2012 Olympics in London.
I was going to write a column about how nobody pays attention to the Pro Bowl, but then I realized that nobody would pay attention to the column. They might as well just get rid of the Pro Bowl. I don’t think anybody would miss it. But would people miss the NFL and the NBA if they had no seasons next year? Yeah, I’d say that’d be a problem.
The 2007-08 season was a tough one for the men’s basketball team. With a new head coach, Sydney Johnson ’97, the Tigers finished the year 6-23 and at the bottom of the Ivy League. A freshman at the time, Kareem Maddox was a year young for his grade and frustrated in his attempts to help the team.
Sophomore Kila Pickering is probably the only swimmer whose full name, Beau Perkins Kukilakila Pickering, contains more than 10 syllables. Pickering is also the only athlete on the men’s swimming team from Hawaii, where he was the 2009 state champion. As a Junior National Qualifier in high school, he was also an All-America and Scholastic All-American. Pickering and the swim team will face off against nationally acclaimed Navy to defend their perfect all-time record at home this weekend.
When people say that Princetonians are on the fast track, rarely are they referring to the track and field team. But as a result of the Tigers’ performance over Intersession, that may change. At both the Princeton Relays and New York Road Runners, the Tigers distinguished themselves by earning medals in multiple events and leaving the arenas as victors.
After a two-week layoff, the wrestling team traveled to Charlottesville, Va., and took on the Cavaliers to tune up for their Ivy League campaign. Princeton dropped the match at favored Virginia (15-5), 30-6, falling to 3-7 on the season.
Last year, the men’s volleyball team opened the 2010 season with three losses during a California trip over Intersession. Despite last season’s slow start, Princeton fought its way through 10 five-set matches to win the program’s first Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association semifinal since 1998.
The Seattle Seahawks made history this year. As pumped as they were to make the playoffs, they became the first team to advance to the NFL playoffs with a losing record (7-9). They made the playoffs by being the best team in a losing division. The four teams in the NFC West went a combined 25-39, easily earning the title of the worst division in football right now.
The women’s swimming and diving team found historic success at this weekend’s annual double-dual meet with Harvard (6-1 overall, 6-1 Ivy League) and Yale (5-3, 4-2), sweeping all 16 events and securing victories of margins greater than 100 points over both schools. Princeton’s (5-0, 5-0) strong performance extended the team’s dual meet winning streak to 37 and will likely accord the Tigers strong consideration for a national ranking.
The men’s tennis team (1-0) started its season off well this weekend by defeating No. 71 Penn State 4-3 on Saturday at Jadwin Gymnasium. It was a full-team effort, as eight different Tigers earned victories in either doubles or singles.
The No. 19 men’s hockey team traveled to upstate New York to gain a pair of ECAC Hockey league wins over the Intersession weekend. After defeating St. Lawrence 5-3 on Friday, Princeton (14-6-1 overall, 9-4-1 ECAC Hockey) scored nine seconds into the first overtime period to earn a 4-3 overtime victory against Clarkson (12-11-2, 6-6-1).
After defeating Penn with one of its most dominant second halves of the season nearly three weeks ago, the women’s basketball team returned from the long break with two convincing road victories to continue its strong start to the Ivy League season.
For the second consecutive year, the match between the men’s squash team and No. 2 Yale came down to the final shift. While the locale had changed, the result stayed the same. No. 3 Princeton (6-1 overall, 3-1 Ivy League) fell to the Bulldogs, 5-4, in a pivotal match in New Haven, Conn.
