As the Tigers look to win the Ivy League title for the fourth consecutive year, they can’t rely on the work they’ve already done.
Q: What was your ?welcome to college? moment? A: My ?welcome to college? moment had to be my first career start as a freshman at Stanford, in front of fairly large home crowd.
After a brutal four-day stretch, the semifinal round was where the show stopped for the members of the women’s tennis team on Tuesday morning. The Tigers traveled to New Haven, Conn., to compete in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Northeast Regional and, despite not returning with a first-place finish, had incredibly strong showings on the weekend.
The women’s volleyball team is currently riding a three-game wining streak, with decisive victories over Ivy League foes Dartmouth, Columbia and Cornell. A large part of its success can be attributed to senior rightside hitter Taylor Carroll. Carroll is currently fifth on the team in kills, with 25, and third with a .144 hitting percentage. Contributor Abby Levene caught up with the ultra-versatile Carroll to discuss quirky teammates, pre-game rituals and everything in between.
Last wednesday evening, driving down Interstate 95 to Citizens Bank Park, I was filled with a sense of indescribable excitement. For a diehard Philadelphia Phillies fan and a huge fan of baseball in general, the circumstances couldn’t have been more perfect: It was Game 5 of the National League Championship Series, and the Phillies were playing the Los Angeles Dodgers. Up 3-1 in the series, the Phillies would be headed to their second straight World Series if they won Game 5.
Dear Hank Steinbrenner, I’m sorry. Sometime in mid-May, I wrote a column lambasting your mismanagement of the New York Yankees. To be fair, at the time I voiced my complaints, your team was stuck in fourth place in the AL East, and catching up to the first-place Red Sox seemed more a pipe dream than a possibility.
To say that the crews had a good weekend would be an understatement. No, none of the rowers were at the Street on Saturday night, but their performance on Lake Carnegie on Sunday at the Princeton Chase regatta was nothing short of dominant.
The women’s ice hockey team avenged its 4-3 loss to Vermont on Friday with a commanding 7-2 victory over the Catamounts on Saturday afternoon. After falling behind early in the first period, the Tigers (1-1 overall) pulled even on a goal from sophomore forward Danielle DiCesare, and, in a one-sided second period, took a 4-1 lead that they never relinquished.
The men’s hockey team played a pair of exhibition games this past weekend, facing Morrisville State on Friday and the University of Windsor on Sunday. Princeton dominated Morrisville, 7-0, with seven different Tigers scoring, but the team came up short against Windsor, falling 5-3.
Fifteen minutes, 31 seconds. That’s how close the sprint football team came to recording its first home win in 11 years. Instead, heavy rain and a systematic Mansfield offense washed away the Tigers’ chance at victory, sending the team to a 26-14 loss at the hands of the visiting Mounties.
The women?s volleyball team has just three returning starters ? two of whom are sophomores ? and a new head coach, so some people might have written off this season as a rebuilding year.
Nine-goal field hockey games are hard to come by, yet the No. 4 Tigers played together well in trouncing league rival Harvard, 9-0, last Saturday. The win keeps the Tigers undefeated in Ivy League competition and atop the Ivy standings.
The men?s soccer team faced an intimidating task last Saturday. With the fate of their season on the line, the Tigers traveled to Ohiri Field to take on No.
The 37-3 loss for the Tigers was their second worst of the season so far, and their worst loss ever to Harvard, a team they have played against since 1877. Harvard has now won 12 of the last 14 matchups.
Harvard?s game against Brown last weekend ended dramatically, with the Crimson scoring two goals in the last 20 minutes for a come-from-behind victory.
Associate sports editor Eben Novy-Williams and senior sports writer Vikram Rao discuss the big Princeton-Harvard weekend. The two touch on football, men's soccer, women's soccer and field hockey.
Fresh off two big wins against Brown and American, the field hockey team is ready to take on its next big Ivy League opponent, Harvard. The No.
The women?s soccer team?s season has been a tale of two storylines. On one hand, the defense has played excellently and coalesced over the course of the season.
The resurgent men?s soccer team meets its toughest test of the season this weekend as it travels to Ohiri Field in Cambridge, Mass., to face Harvard. Princeton (6-5-2 overall, 1-2-0 Ivy League) has convincingly won its last two games with scores of 3-0 on both occasions, but on Saturday it faces the No.
Halfway through its 2009 campaign, the football team hasn?t gotten the results it hoped for at the beginning of the year.
