Anytime collegiate athletes can describe debut performances the way junior Aaron Horvath did, something special must be afoot.
As Johnny trots off the field after football practice, he thinks about the long list of things he has to do that night: Complete the homework for his Advanced Placement classes, work on his college applications, eat dinner and field two or three phone calls from the college football coaches who are recruiting him.
Just four days after the men’s basketball team’s hopes for an Ivy League title died on the court at Columbia, the Tigers closed their season with a 59-56 win at Penn.
When the women’s basketball team stepped off the court at Penn’s Palestra a year ago, it had just suffered an 85-78 loss to the Quakers to end its Ivy League season at 4-10, second from last.
Team U.S.A. wasn’t the only baseball squad that got rolling this weekend. Princeton’s baseball team also turned in impressive performances, winning three of four games against a feisty William & Mary squad in Williamsburg, Va.
With a small roster compared to its opponents’, the softball team needs all of its players to contribute. More importantly, as they demonstrated last weekend at the UNC Tournament in Chapel Hill, N.C., the Tigers need their hitters to come up big in the clutch.
Of the 24 Princeton fencers who participated in the NCAA Mid-Atlantic/South Regional fencing meet at Drew University in Madison, N.J., last weekend, eight competitors are likely to advance to the NCAA Championship in State College, Pa., in two weeks.
After extending its winning streak to a season-high four matches on Saturday, the men’s tennis team was unable to overcome injury and illness, dropping consecutive matches the following day.
After defeating Stevens Institute of Technology on Friday, the men’s volleyball team came up short against George Mason on Saturday, falling in an error-filled Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (EIVA) Tait Division match.
For the men’s wrestling team, the 2008-09 season was one of marked improvement. Unfortunately for Princeton, things didn’t go as planned at the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) Championships at Penn’s Palestra last weekend. No Tiger placed, and all were eliminated by the end of the first day of competition.
With just two minutes, 59 seconds left on the clock, it looked like the women’s lacrosse team had finally earned the win after an exhausting back-and-forth game against Duke.
Correction appendedWhat could have been a season of redemption for the men?s basketball team turned into one of disappointment.
The women?s basketball team continued its winning streak with two triumphant performances against Ivy League rivals Columbia and Cornell last weekend at Jadwin Gymnasium.
The walls of DeNunzio Pool nearly came down this weekend as the No. 17 men’s swimming and diving team clinched the Ivy League title.
They say there?s no rest for the weary. But despite playing three games in nine days, the No. 5 men?s lacrosse team looked anything but weary last weekend, using a pivotal third-period run to squeak past No.
The weather forecast in Williamsburg, Va., calls for clear skies, 70-degree temperatures and little chance of rain for the weekend. That’s good news for the baseball team, which heads south for a four-game series against William & Mary (3-4 overall).
The ecstasy of defeating then-No. 6 Johns Hopkins last Saturday has long worn off for the men?s lacrosse team.
The women’s lacrosse team looks to withstand another test early in its season as the Tigers travel to Durham, N.C., to face off against No. 4 Duke this Saturday.
Princeton is still in the thick of the Ivy League title chase. To turn that dream into a reality, the Tigers will have to rack up three straight road wins against Columbia, Cornell and Penn.
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.
