With its season having ended earlier than it would have liked, the women’s hockey team came home after a disappointing weekend at No. 4 Harvard in the first weekend of the ECAC quarterfinals.
It was the sort of play that has typified the women’s basketball team this season. Late in the first half, the Tigers forced Columbia star forward Judie Lomax to cough the ball up, and sophomore guard Lauren Edwards outhustled everybody else, diving to control the loose ball. Edwards tossed the ball to a teammate before rolling out of bounds, igniting a fast break that ended with the ball in the hands of freshman forward Niveen Rasheed, who streaked ahead of the pack.
The women’s swimming and diving team emerged victorious from the three-day Ivy League Championship at Harvard to recapture the league title on Saturday. In the consistently close meet, Princeton, Harvard and Yale were all strong contenders entering the final night of competition. Nonetheless, a strong Tiger effort brought the title to Princeton, upholding the team’s solid reputation. Indeed, the women’s swimming and diving team has now won nine of the past 11 Ivy League titles.
For the first time in over a decade, both the men’s and women’s track and field teams came home from the indoor Heptagonal Championships with first-place trophies. The teams, which last swept titles in 1998, did so in convincing fashion this year. The men earned 181 points, besting two-time defending champion Cornell, who came in second with 149 points. The women won 125 points to defeat second-place Columbia, who had 110 points.
The men’s hockey team is winning. Dominating, even. The Tigers were up 3-1 against one of the top teams in the nation. Junior forward Mike Kramer forced a turnover and raced down the ice, decking a diving Yale defender and sending a pass to freshman defenseman Michael Sdao. Sdao gathered the puck and chipped it into the Bulldogs’ net for a commanding 4-1 lead. Baker Rink exploded.
With the abundance of youth on the women’s lacrosse team, the squad has placed significant emphasis on its experienced leaders. On Saturday, they did not disappoint.
The men’s lacrosse team’s highly anticipated game against Hofstra was far more than just a season opener. It was the first test of the Chris Bates era — one that the new head coach passed with flying colors. The Tigers won 17-14.
The rivalry is already brewing for the women’s hockey team as it heads to Cambridge, Mass. — where it pulled off a 2-1 regular-season upset win over Harvard — to play the Crimson in the ECAC quarterfinals this weekend.
Though the NCAA championships are not until June, this weekend’s Heptagonal Championships in Hanover, N.H., are still a major occasion during the track and field season.
After its second conference loss last weekend, the men's basketball team (16-7 overall, 7-2 Ivy League) sits second in the Ivy League behind Cornell (23-4, 9-1). The Tigers will travel to play the Big Red today and will face Columbia (9-15, 3-7) on Saturday.
The women’s squash team looks to win its fourth consecutive national championship in the Howe Cup this weekend. In its last match, No. 4 Princeton (7-4 overall, 4-2 Ivy League) suffered a tough 5-4 loss to No. 2 Trinity (15-1) at Jadwin Gymnasium.
This is it — or might be it. Depending on the outcome of this weekend’s games, the Class of 2010 — the winningest class in the history of the men’s hockey program — may be playing its final games at Baker Rink.
The women's basketball team (21-2 overall, 9-0 Ivy League) returns to Jadwin Gymnasium after a successful weekend in which it beat both Yale and Brown by more than 20 points.
To a certain degree, Jack McBride and Chris McBride are known commodities. You know they’re cousins. You know they attended lacrosse powerhouse Delbarton School in Morristown, N.J. You know they’re more than capable of putting points on the scoreboard, as their first two years at Princeton have shown. But what remains unknown, and what will be revealed this season, is how the pair of junior attackmen will adopt a veteran leadership role when joined together on the Tigers’ first offensive line.
Last season, the men’s lacrosse team fell to Cornell 6-4 in the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament. When the schedule came out for this upcoming season, No. 8 Princeton immediately looked to see when it could earn revenge against the Big Red. The Tigers will play Cornell in a home showdown on Saturday, May 1, the last day of their regular season.
We often think of leaders as being loud and brash. It may come as a surprise to some, then, that the only junior captain of the women’s lacrosse team is quiet, calm and composed — and can deliver when it counts.
When the men’s lacrosse team takes the field at Class of 1952 Stadium against Hofstra on Saturday, a new era in Princeton lacrosse will begin under the leadership of head coach Chris Bates. Bates, the Tigers’ 10th head coach, comes to Princeton after spending 10 years leading the Drexel lacrosse program. Bates built the team to become Top 20 regulars, most recently winning two Colonial Athletic Association championships in the last three years.
The women’s lacrosse team generally plays one of the toughest schedules in the country, and this season will be no different. No. 9 Princeton faces three of the nation’s top-five teams based on the preseason rankings. Boasting their youngest squad in years, the Tigers will have some on-the-job learning to do in games against traditional powerhouses like No. 2 Maryland, No. 3 Penn and No. 5 Duke.
With nine significant players gone from last year, the women’s lacrosse team will begin its season against Johns Hopkins on Saturday with a much younger group of players than in years past.
The pressure is building this weekend for the women’s swimming and diving team to continue their season-long winning streak.
