Coming off a tough loss to Brown on Saturday, the women?s hockey team looks to bounce back this weekend at home against conference foes Colgate and Cornell.
The women?s basketball team (6-11 overall, 1-2 Ivy League) is ready to pick up the pieces after losses last weekend to Harvard (10-7, 2-1) and Dartmouth (8-9, 3-0) by scores of 82-73 and 71-67, respectively.
The men?s hockey team has struggled in 2009, but with a critical two-game road trip to upstate New York looming this weekend, the Tigers have a beautiful opportunity to reassert themselves as one of ECAC Hockey?s toughest teams to beat.
Not since 2004 has the men?s basketball team strung together five consecutive wins. Not since 2004 has the Ivy League Championship banner been raised in the rafters.
Q: What was your welcome-to-college moment?A: My freshman field hockey team in the first game we played, American.
Apparently, bagels ? not Wheaties ? are the true breakfast of Champions. Before joining the women?s water polo team, junior utility Phoebe Champion was a high school standout who ate a bagel or two after each morning practice.The regimen must have been effective, as Champion earned three Junior Olympian All-American honors and played for the U.S.
I don?t have an ex-girlfriend named Fiona, and I don?t think Matt Damon had sex with one of my previous girlfriends on my birthday, but I guess I don?t know.
The women?s water polo team kicks off its 2009 campaign Saturday morning at DeNunzio Pool, hoping to pick up where it left off last year.
The game I watched — riddled with quizzical play-calling, bonehead penalties, questionable officiating and a highly-controversial ending — was far from the best Super Bowl ever. Was it exciting? The fourth quarter was, yes. And was it close? For sure, but no closer than the three other Super Bowls in my lifetime alone that have come down to the final play.
Kathy Sell?s optimism is remarkable even for a head coach: She noted that, for the upcoming season, ?everyone should fear us.?The women's tennis team was ranked 61st in the national preseason poll, higher than any of its Ivy League opponents.
Like the fuzzy yellow ball in a tennis match, the men?s tennis team endured ups and downs in its season-opening competitions this past week in Virginia.Princeton (1-2) began the year by hitting the road for three matches.
Correction appendedThe No. 21 men?s swimming and diving team staged a comeback at Harvard?s Blodgett Pool on Sunday evening, overcoming a six-point deficit to defeat Harvard (6-1 Ivy League) 193-160 and Yale (3-3) 253-100.
The No. 25-ranked women?s swimming and diving team embodied the phrase ?team effort? this past weekend, pushing through several illnesses and injuries to win this year?s renewal of the annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton (HYP) competition.Princeton (6-0 Ivy League) defeated Harvard (6-1) 170-148.5 and Yale (3-3) 209-110 at the tournament, hosted at Harvard?s Blodgett Pool.
A convincing 6-3 victory over No. 2 Penn last Wednesday has put the No. 1-ranked women?s squash team in prime position to regain the Ivy League title it relinquished to the Quakers last season.
Though the wrestling team?s season has been a dramatic improvement from last year?s, a sobering trip to the West Coast over Intersession showed just how far the team has to go.
The end of exams signaled the start of a busy weekend for Princeton fencing. Both the men and the women kicked off Intersession by hosting the first home meet of the season in Jadwin Gymnasium.
Both the men?s and women?s track and field teams had successful outings at the Penn State National Open on Jan.
Fasten your seatbelts: It looks like the seemingly unstoppable men’s basketball team, whose performance over Intersession gave the Tigers their first five-game win streak since 2004, is just getting started.
The men’s volleyball team’s annual Intersession road trip to California is a bit of a homecoming for much of the team. Though eight of the squad’s 15 members hail from the Golden State, it took all four games for the Tigers to settle in: They lost their first three games of the new season before recording a convincing win for the ride back to New Jersey.
With less than one minute left to play in the men’s hockey team’s 5-1 victory over Brown, freshman forward Brodie Zuk stuck his skate out to block a shot. The play had little effect on the outcome of the game.
