On paper, Princeton?s loss to Penn last night, by a score of 25-17, 25-23, 16-25, 25-21, may look similar to the first match it played against the Quakers this season to open league play.
Not many Princeton teams can say that they made it to the finals of the national championships for the past four years.
A month ago, the men?s soccer team was on a seven-game winless streak and wallowing at the bottom of the Ivy League.
The men?s basketball team lit up Central Michigan for the first game of its season. Against Manhattan?
Coming off a season that saw it post its first victories in more than two years, the wrestling team will look to continue its progress in the 2009-10 campaign.
"Am I a masochist or just plain dumb?” I was about to attempt what would undoubtedly be the most physically demanding activity I’d undertaken during my time at Princeton: try to complete one of the wrestling team’s workouts.
The men?s and women?s fencing teams may be two of Princeton?s best kept secrets. With head coach Zoltan Dudas in his fourth season at Princeton, the teams have the potential to exceed their notable finishes last year.
A common room with two TVs and Xboxes that are constantly running could be in any guys’ college suite. The difference is that the guys playing Call of Duty and Halo all weigh around 270 pounds and are more than six feet tall.
Pete Carroll?s USC Trojans will stumble into their game against rival UCLA on Nov. 28 having lost two of their previous three games to Pac-10 opponents.
Last year, the men’s basketball team came close to toppling Central Michigan, though only one Tiger — now-sophomore guard Doug Davis — had a double-digit scoring night.
If the first meet of the season was any indication, the wrestling team could be primed for a breakthrough performance this winter. Princeton opened its wrestling season at the Binghamton Open in upstate New York. The tournament featured a packed field with wrestlers from every Ivy League school in attendance.
The women’s basketball team dominated its first two games of the season, first beating Stony Brook, 68-43, and then thrashing American, 77-45, last night in Jadwin Gymnasium.
As the women’s volleyball team prepared to receive on match point, everybody on the court knew who was going to get the game’s final set. But that didn’t stop Sheena Donohue: The senior outside hitter drilled the ball off the block and onto the floor, clinching the victory and ending her final match at Dillon Gymnasium.
Writers discuss last weekend's events, including the field hockey team's success in the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament, the football team's impressive victory over Yale and the men's soccer team's blowout of the Bulldogs and upcoming NCAA showdown with Bucknell. The program closes with a preview of the men's basketball team's season.
After fighting hard but falling to Dartmouth, 4-1, on Friday night in Hanover, N.H., the women’s hockey team redeemed itself in impressive fashion Saturday, earning a 2-1 overtime win against Harvard in Cambridge, Mass.
When the Tigers slogged through water up to their knees on Saturday, they didn’t have personal bests on their minds. They were driven by the hunger to beat some of the top teams in the country.
All might not be lost after all. In a season characterized by devastating injuries and blowout losses, the football team (3-6 overall, 2-4 Ivy League) accomplished something it can hang its hat on.
The men and women?s swimming and diving teams have aced their midterms ? their swimming midterms, that is.
The men?s hockey team kept fans on the edge of their seats over the weekend, playing two overtime games at Baker Rink.
After back-to-back four-goal victories at Class of 1952 Stadium this weekend, the field hockey team is headed to the NCAA Final Four.
