Last year, junior dave Letourneau helped the men?s squash team to a 13-2 record while earning first-team All-American and first-team All-Ivy honors.
At the end of the 1999 football season, Princeton’s squad was in crisis. The Tigers had just finished the year 3-7 overall and only 1-6 in the Ivy League, their worst finish since 1973’s infamous 1-8, 0-7 team. Head coach Steve Tosches had been in charge longer than some players had been playing the sport, and his last four seasons had been disappointing.
A week and three days after the decision was officially made, the dust surrounding the firing of football head coach Roger Hughes has begun to settle. While the Department of Athletics has not named any of the candidates that it has interviewed thus far, numerous internet reports have surfaced regarding applicants.
Roger Hughes needed to be fired. There is no sugarcoating the issues or dancing around the truth. After 10 seasons as the football head coach, Hughes’ time calling the shots at Princeton had to end.
It says a lot about the men’s soccer team that, despite reaching its first NCAA tournament since 2001, it wasn’t satisfied with how the season went.
Last week’s 23-11 victory over Dartmouth wrapped up the football team’s third consecutive 4-6 season. But there was more to the season than the record. While the 2007 and 2008 seasons panned out nearly identically, with Princeton winning and losing games against the exact same opponents, the 2009 season had a much more complicated plotline.
The 2009 field hockey team was young, but its stellar season proved that it was anything but inexperienced.
The good news is that it’s early. The bad news is that in a year when the men’s hockey team was finally supposed to put it all together, everything has begun to fall apart. To put things in perspective: With its next defeat, Princeton will have lost six games. Last season, the team’s sixth loss didn’t come until Feb. 14.
Though it dropped a tough decision in its first of two contests over Thanksgiving break, the women’s basketball team showed no signs of a tryptophan hangover in its second game, earning a convincing win to improve its record to 4-1.
Last year, the men’s hockey team allowed five goals in a game only four times in the entire season. Less than halfway through its 2009-10 campaign, Princeton (3-5-1 overall, 2-4-1 ECAC Hockey) has already done that six times.
The men’s basketball team headed out west this past Sunday with the hopes of repeating history by pulling off another shocking upset over a California-based team. But unlike in 1996, when Princeton surprised heavily favored UCLA, the Tigers (2-3) never came close, losing to No. 23 California (4-2), 81-60, at the Haas Pavilion in Berkeley, Calif.
Three days after carving turkeys at Thanksgiving, the men’s and women’s fencing teams took to the road to try to carve up some of their strongest competition at the Harvard Invitational.
The women’s ice hockey team split a two-game series against No. 8 Boston University at Baker Rink this past weekend, earning a 3-1 win over the Terriers on Friday before falling, 3-2, the following day.
The undefeated women’s basketball team will look to continue its winning streak over the Thanksgiving recess, as it travels to California to face UCLA and UC Irvine.
For many Princeton students, Thanksgiving morning will be an opportunity to catch up on much-needed sleep.
Coming off three straight games without a win, the men?s hockey team will look to get back on track against a high-powered No.
Princeton simply could not make shots, and it ultimately fell to George Washington by a score of 65-50. But the game was actually closer than it appeared on paper.
Freshman wrestler Garrett Frey followed his first-place finish at the Binghamton Open last weekend with another impressive performance at the Keystone Classic on Sunday. Frey took second in the 125-pound bracket, losing to Jasen Borshoff of American, 5-3, in the final. The tournament was hosted by Ivy rival Penn and held at the Palestra.
From a look at the box score, it would appear that Elena Delle Donne dominated. Delaware’s star forward lit up the women’s basketball team for 35 points and grabbed a game-high nine rebounds.
The men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams had an eerily similar weekend.
