With the regular season quickly coming to an end, the men’s lightweight and women’s openweight crew teams are each looking to complete an undefeated season this Saturday.
The men and women’s track teams will host the Elite Meet, the final meet of the season before the Ivy League Championship, this Saturday at Weaver Stadium.
Head coach Sam Shweisky has often touted the strength of his men’s volleyball team’s bench. Junior middle blocker Keenan McCarthy is one of the Tigers’ key contributors off the bench. McCarthy has appeared in 32 sets. Though his appearances have been limited, he has taken advantage of his opportunities, registering 18 kills and a .469 attack percentage.
These days, the NFL is a quarterback’s league: 10 of the 12 playoff teams in 2009 had quarterbacks in the top 13 in the league in QB rating. (The two that didn’t — the Cincinnati Bengals and New York Jets — played each other in the first round. The Jets won that game and then advanced to the conference championship behind a strong defense and running game, and quarterback Mark Sanchez not being too horrible.) The coverage of the NFL draft is no less centered on signal-callers, with an enormous amount of time devoted to Sam Bradford being drafted first despite injury concerns, the surprising falls of Jimmy Clausen and Colt McCoy to the second and third rounds, respectively, and, of course, Tim “Marvolo” Tebow.
In its final midweek game of the season, the baseball team rallied several times for a 12-10 11-inning victory over local rival Rider in a competitive, back-and-forth game. The Tigers (11-27 overall, 5-11 Ivy League) trailed 6-2 after four innings, but the Princeton offense came alive in the second half of the game. Led by freshman outfielder John Mishu and junior designated hitter Brian Berkowitz, the Tigers rallied for a lead, lost it in the ninth inning and then recovered with three runs in the 11th to claim the victory.
Most Major League Baseball players use the offseason to relax. After a grueling summer, they look forward to taking a vacation and spending time with their families, so that they are fresh when the next year begins.
After a playing and coaching career that has spanned nearly three decades, Bob Bradley ’80 will finally get the opportunity to step onto soccer’s biggest stage this June. Bradley, who coaches the U.S. Men’s National Team and coached men’s varsity soccer at Princeton for 12 years, will pace the touchline at the FIFA World Cup in South Africa.
Megan Bradley, the first-year head coach of the women’s tennis team, realized that it would be no small task replacing the successful former head coach Kathy Sell.
Karen Smyers ’83, this year’s Jake McCandless ’51 Princeton Varsity Club speaker, is a world-class triathlete. Smyers won the national championships six consecutive years, the world championships three times and the Hawaii Ironman competition once. She also survived a bike crash with an 18-wheeler truck and thyroid cancer, and sportswriter Rick Reilly named her the “triathlete most likely to be eaten alive by a shark at the Sydney Olympics.”
Last week we discussed the sizzle that Phil Jackson, Tiger Woods and Jerry Jones brought to the steak-filled month of April. This week we have a few more scandals to distract you from actual sporting events that are supposed to be “important” because it’s “playoff time.”
All of Princeton’s four varsity crews competed against some of their closest rivals on Saturday. The women’s open crew took a victory over Penn, Dartmouth and Bucknell for the Class of 1984 Plaque at the Tigers’ own Lake Carnegie, while the women’s lightweights also raced at home, edging out Radcliffe and Bucknell for the Class of 1999 Cup.
The football team held its annual spring game on Saturday at Princeton Stadium. Traditionally the last major practice of the offseason, the spring game provides an opportunity for the team to gauge its progress and set new goals for the months ahead.
As the softball team continued its struggles this weekend, managing just one win in a four-game home series against Penn, senior pitcher Jamie Lettire and senior outfielder Kelsey Quist continued their march through the program’s record books. The fourth-year players are both climbing toward career milestones in RBIs, extra-base hits and home runs.
The men’s and women’s golf teams competed in the Ivy League Championships this weekend, with the women finishing fourth and the men coming in seventh at Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, N.J.
Freshman midfielder Charlotte Davis got the ball from behind the goal with just five seconds left in overtime. The women’s lacrosse team needed every second.
The baseball team got off to a promising start in its four-game series with Penn, coming through with big hits to win the first game in dramatic fashion. But it could not build on that momentum, as the Quakers continued to pound the ball while the host’s bats fell flat. The Tigers stumbled to their third consecutive 1-3 Ivy League weekend and were officially eliminated from postseason contention.
For the first time in 20 years, Harvard managed to get the better of the men’s lacrosse team, as the Crimson (6-5 overall, 2-3 Ivy League) defeated No. 6 Princeton (9-3, 4-1) 11-8 on Saturday afternoon in Cambridge, Mass.
The women’s water polo team did not have enough in the end against Bucknell. After the Tigers defeated Maryland in the Collegiate Water Polo Association semifinals on Saturday, the Bison beat Princeton 11-9 in DeNunzio Pool on Sunday to claim the Southern CWPA Division Championship.
After every point earned this season, the men’s volleyball team has used a coordinated clap to rally for the next play. But that clap was nowhere in sight in Princeton’s (14-9 overall, 5-5 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association) quarterfinal match of the EIVA playoffs against Sacred Heart on Saturday at Dillon Gymnasium.
The men’s and women’s track and field teams had strong showings this weekend at the Penn Relays, which hosts 17,000 athletes and more than 50,000 spectators annually and is the largest, oldest and most prestigious relay meet in the world. With events both on the track and in the field, the Penn Relays attracts the nation’s best runners and throwers at the high school, collegiate and professional levels. This weekend, Princeton showed it fits in well at the top.
