The four seniors of the women’s basketball team will play the final two home games of their careers in Jadwin Gymnasium tonight and Saturday evening.
For the past month, the world has been focused on New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez and his use of banned substances.
That the women?s lacrosse team hosted Rutgers on Wednesday ? the Tigers were originally scheduled to visit the Scarlet Knights ? should not have immediately fazed the squad.
Q: What was your ?welcome to college? moment?A: Our assistant coach at the time was [former] national champion Troy Letters, fresh off his senior season [at Lehigh]. During a practice early in my freshman year, he scored a bunch of points against me without using his hands.
In late November, only 10 games into his collegiate hockey career, freshman defenseman Derrick Pallis took a pass from junior forward Mark Magnowski and scored the first goal of his Princeton career.
The women’s lacrosse team had planned to take a short road trip up Route 1 to face Rutgers, but instead the Scarlet Knights will come down to Princeton. The two squads will meet tonight for the 15th time since the series between the two schools began in 1975.
Though thunderstorms wiped out three of the softball team’s five scheduled games last weekend, sophomore pitcher Michelle Tolfa proved that every cloud has a silver lining. With the departure of Kristen Schaus ’08, the Tigers (1-1 overall) were left with a gaping hole in their pitching staff.
While I can accept the statistical explanations behind certain chance events — flipping a coin that only lands on heads, birthing five children who are all female — I draw the line with sports.
In college baseball, summer leagues are a good way for ballplayers to get recognized by professional scouts. As far as summer leagues go, the Cape Cod Baseball League is at the top. Conveniently, that’s where junior righthander Dave Hale found himself this summer, throwing for the Chatham Athletics.
The women’s lacrosse team will take the notion of finding strength in numbers to a whole new level in 2009. This season, the Tiger squad will have nine returning players in its indomitable senior class.
For the last few seasons of Princeton men’s lacrosse, Princeton’s defense was paced by goalie Alex Hewit ’08 and defenseman Dan Cocoziello ’08. Teammates since their days together at the Delbarton School in Morristown, N.J., Hewit and Cocoziello graduated as two of the best athletes to play for head coach Bill Tierney.
To say that a team finished in second place in a basketball game is to say that the team lost. But a second-place finish at a track meet, where several squads compete for one trophy, is a different story. The men’s and women’s track teams both came up just short last weekend at the indoor Heptagonal Championships.
Princeton sent 10 players to the national squash singles tournament last weekend, but none of them came away with a national championship.
The No. 19 women?s swimming and diving team came out of the Ivy League Championship meet with nine Ivy League individual titles, six school records and 10 NCAA provisional qualifying times.
For the men’s lacrosse team, 2008 didn’t go exactly as planned. After the 2007 season was characterized by heartbreaking losses, the Tigers sought to send off superstars defenseman Dan Cocoziello ’08 and goalie Alex Hewit ’08 in style. Instead, Princeton finished 7-6.
“Every game is our biggest game,” women’s lacrosse head coach Chris Sailer said. “I think that’s one [defining] thing about our team: We won’t overlook anyone.” Princeton made good on Sailer’s promise in the first test of its season last weekend, as the Tigers defeated No. 13 Johns Hopkins, 13-9. The game was tied at nine in the second half when Princeton scored the game’s final four goals, two of which came from junior attack Kristin Morrison.
As members of the team that won the 2006 Ivy League title, the current seniors on the baseball team know what it’s like to win big. Those memories are providing motivation as they prepare to lead the squad through a season they hope will end with another Ivy title and a trip to the NCAA regional tournament.
Last year, the softball team relied on something old: veteran Kristen Schaus ’08, a three-time All-Ivy first-team selection and one of the most dominant pitchers in Princeton history. The team also benefited from something new — rookie head coach Trina Salcido. The Tigers borrowed a winning formula from the power-hitting 1927 Yankees, and by the end of the Ivy League season something was (black and) blue: Harvard’s bruised ego following a Princeton sweep in the Ivy League Championship Series. In all, Salcido’s pairing with the Tigers proved to be a match made in heaven.
It was a good weekend for Princeton tennis, as the women’s team swept Virginia Commonwealth and William & Mary, and the men’s team followed suit with consecutive victories over St. Johns and the College of Charleston.
If you looked at the fourth-set score from Saturday’s men’s volleyball game, you could be forgiven for thinking it was perennial power No. 3 Penn State visiting Dillon Gymnasium. It wasn’t. It was Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (EIVA) rival Springfield College.
