The football team opens its season this Saturday at 3 p.m. against The Citadel at Princeton Stadium. Here is a preview of the key players for that game and Princeton’s nine other opponents this year.
At this point last year, the men’s soccer team was 1-2 and establishing a pattern of close losses and disappointing finishes. What a difference a year makes.
The football team has finished 4-6 in each of the past two seasons, and now only the freshman class from the 2006 Ivy League championship team remains. Princeton returns boatloads of experience in the running game but relatively little in the passing game, and it will break in a new quarterback in sophomore Tommy Wornham.
Former University of Miami assistant coach Megan Bradley replaced Kathy Sell as the head coach of the women’s tennis team. Sell announced June 17 that she would step down from the post so she could move to North Carolina and be closer to her boyfriend and immediate family.
Drexel head coach Chris Bates accepted an offer to become the new head coach of the men’s lacrosse team, the Department of Athletics announced June 29. Bates replaces former head coach Bill Tierney, who announced June 8 that he was resigning to become the head coach at the University of Denver.
The men’s lightweight crew team finished its undefeated season June 6 with a national championship at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) Regatta.
David Hale ’10 grew up outside Atlanta with dreams of playing for his hometown’s Atlanta Braves. This past summer, those dreams came one step closer to becoming a reality.
Greg Hughes ’96 has been named the new heavyweight crew head coach, the University announced July 30. Hughes replaced Curtis Jordan, who retired after 19 years as head coach of the men’s heavyweight crew.
In one of the most significant coaching changes in the sport’s history, men’s lacrosse head coach Bill Tierney announced June 8 that he would leave Princeton to become the new head coach at the University of Denver.
Curtis Jordan will retire after 19 years as head coach of the men’s heavyweight crew, Director of Athletics Gary Walters ’67 announced Thursday.
Drexel head coach Chris Bates has accepted an offer to become the new head coach of the men’s lacrosse team. Bates is expected to bring Greg Raymond and Stephen Brundage, Drexel’s two assistant coaches, with him to Princeton.
Kathy Sell will step down as head coach of the women’s tennis team, becoming the third coach in 10 days to part ways with the University.
Men’s lacrosse associate head coach David Metzbower has declined an offer to succeed former head coach Bill Tierney and said instead that he will leave the program as well. Metzbower was seen as the top candidate to replace Tierney, and many in the lacrosse community assumed he was a shoo-in for the job.
David Hale '10, a pitcher and designated hitter on the baseball team, was drafted by the Atlanta Braves on Tuesday in the third round of the MLB draft. The Arizona Diamondbacks selected right-hander Brad Gemberling ’09 on Wednesday in the 24th round of the draft, and the Toronto Blue Jays picked catcher Jack Murphy '10 on Thursday in the 31st round.
In one of the most significant coaching changes in the sport’s history, men’s lacrosse head coach Bill Tierney announced Monday that he is leaving Princeton to become the new head coach at the University of Denver.
On Sunday, the women?s lightweight and open crew teams will head to the Cooper River in Camden, N.J., to compete in the EAWRC Championships.Last May, the lightweight women went down to the wire in a tight finish against Wisconsin.
At the end of the regular season two weekends ago, the men’s lacrosse team won a share of the Ivy League title with a win over Brown. The Tigers (13-2 overall, 5-1 Ivy League) split the title with Cornell despite falling to the Big Red in Ithaca, N.Y., because Brown had previously beaten Cornell.
The No. 7 women’s lacrosse team has had a taxing schedule so far this season, with games against No. 2 Maryland, then-No. 3 Penn and No. 4 Duke, but the stiffest, most daunting test of all comes tomorrow in the behemoth that is undefeated defending champion No. 1 Northwestern (20-0).
For most collegiate swimmers, five All-America honors in one season would be the ultimate dream. But for senior swimmer Doug Lennox, his NCAA accomplishments did not hold a flame (pun intended) to having the opportunity to compete in the Olympic Games.
The men’s lacrosse team fell 6-4 to Cornell on Saturday in the NCAA quarterfinals at Hofstra University.The women’s lacrosse team also lost its NCAA quarterfinal game on Saturday, falling 16-9 to undefeated Northwestern in Evanston, Ill.
