Freshman guard Lauren Edwards of the women?s basketball team earned the Ivy League Rookie of the Week award after a strong collegiate debut in the Tigers? 69-57 comeback win over Fordham on Friday.
The men?s and women?s swimming and diving teams started the 2008-09 season with an impressive performance at the Rutgers Invitational, using fast times and team depth to send a strong message to the rest of the Ivy League.
For the second time in three years, the field hockey team?s season ended with a quarterfinal loss in the NCAA tournament.No.
Just a few inches lower, and junior forward Ben Harms? shot would have been the golden goal. If a single play could sum up the men?s soccer team?s season, Harms? would-be game-winner would certainly fit the bill.Princeton (5-9-3 overall, 2-2-3 Ivy League) played to a 2-2 draw after two overtime periods against Yale (7-7-3, 3-3-1) on a dreary Saturday afternoon.In the 109th minute of an exhausting match, Harms tried his best to put the Tigers over the top and end the season on a high note.
Playing at home for the first time in two weeks, the women?s
Trailing by 11 at the half, the women?s basketball team looked every bit like a squad struggling to establish an identity in the wake of a superstar?s departure.
The wrestling team started its season off with a trip to the Brute Binghamton Open this Saturday. Against a competitive field that included nationally ranked Ivy League honcho No.
As 418 rowdy fans overflowed the stands during the women?s volleyball team?s first game, which was tied 13 times, the tension in Dillon Gym on Saturday night was almost overwhelming.Despite gut-wrenchingly close games, the team was downed by Yale, 3-0.
There are two ways to look at the women?s soccer team?s 2-1 loss to No. 12 West Virginia in the first round of the NCAA tournament Friday night.
Relentlessness around the net paid off for the men?s hockey team this weekend as the Tigers totaled 98 shots in two games for 4-1 wins against RPI on Friday night and Union on Saturday afternoon.
The atmosphere buzzed with excitement Friday night in Jadwin Gymasium. A murmur was making its way through the crowd of 1,750 watching the men?s basketball team open its season against Central Michigan.
The football team traveled to the Yale Bowl on Saturday for the first time since heroic performances by Jeff Terrell ?07 and Brendan Circle ?08 in 2006 led Princeton to one of the most memorable victories in the school?s recent history.
Rain had fallen all night, and several athletes on the men?s and women?s cross country teams called the course a mudbath.
In a weekend that could determine the Ivy League championship, the women?s volleyball team either needs to leave it all on the court or risk forfeiting the title.The pressure will peak as the Tigers (16-3 overall, 10-1 Ivy League) face Ivy League rivals Brown (12-12, 4-8) on Friday at 7 p.m.
?To build a champion, you have to be a champion yourself.?That was how athletics director Gary Walters ?67 opened last night?s Princeton Varsity Club Lecture, a laid-back, 90-minute talk on the world of sports business off the court, field or diamond titled ?Building a Champion.?Walters was speaking of Larry Lucchino ?67, president and CEO of the Boston Red Sox, who, alongside Wyc Grousbeck ?83, managing partner and CEO of the Boston Celtics, returned to Princeton to discuss the road to success in athletics and give advice to those interested in following similar paths.?We are really proud of our ties to Princeton,? Grousbeck said in an interview following the talk.
This season, there is no prospect of bringing home a bonfire when the football team travels to New Haven, Conn., to take on Yale (5-3 overall, 3-2 Ivy League). But Princeton (3-5, 2-3) is still gearing up for a game rife with historical significance.The Tiger-Bulldog matchup, which will take place Saturday at noon, will be the 131st between the two teams.
When the field hockey team squares off against No. 12 Penn State this Saturday in the opening round of the NCAA tournament, the Tigers will be up against more than just a tough opponent.Between 2001 and 2007, the Tigers were a combined 0-8 against Penn State.
The women?s soccer team spent Tuesday night together in front of the TV nervously awaiting the selections for the NCAA tournament.
The men?s hockey team earned its first shutout of the season Tuesday night thanks to junior goaltender Zane Kalemba?s impressive performance between the pipes, as Princeton defeated Quinnipiac 2-0 at the TD Banknorth Center.?[Kalemba] deserves a ton of credit for this one because we really didn?t play our best game,? head coach Guy Gadowsky said.
The men?s and women?s swimming and diving teams are looking to continue their tradition of success as they vie for their 18th and 14th league titles this season, respectively.
