Q: What has been the greatest highlight in your sports career?A: Best moment would have to be last year at our last Ivy League game against Penn.
The numbers are gaudy ? three goals allowed in 10 games, seven clean sheets, a 600-minute goalless streak, a goalie with a .914 save percentage ? but perhaps more impressive than the women?s soccer team?s defensive statistics so far this season are its expectations for the rest of the year.?No goals against for the rest of the season,? senior defender Taylor Numann said.A lofty goal?
Weller Evans ?76 never thought that his summer job as a locker-room attendant, which consisted of handing out cool drinks to tennis players and collecting dirty towels at a tennis club, would someday lead him to his dream job.
The field hockey team was in action last night in its toughest matchup of the season against No. 2 Maryland.
Though rugby may not be the most popular or well-known sport on campus, the athletes on the women?s rugby team certainly regard it as fun and rewarding.Just ask junior co-captain Elaine Bigelow how she feels about rugby.?I had a best friend who played all through college and told me how much fun it was,? Bigelow said.
The men?s water polo team faced off against five top-20 teams this past weekend, including three top-six programs, and finished 11th overall at the annual SoCal Tournament.
Each season, every team has one regular-season game that gets circled on the calendar during preseason, one showdown that could instantly turn the year into a success.
Five members of the men?s tennis team traveled to New York City last weekend for the Columbia Invitational, a 12-team tournament that included Harvard, Penn, Columbia and Cornell.The Tigers posted a mixed performance at the three-day event, with unexpectedly strong showings from two underclassmen, sophomore Parker Preyer and freshman Yohei Shoji, and disappointingly early exits for two of the squad?s top players, senior Alex Vuckovic and junior George Carpeni.
The 2009 Women?s Junior World Cup in field hockey will be hosted at Harvard, where Constance Applebee introduced the game to the United States in 1901.
The sprint football team took on Cornell this past Friday at home on Powers Field. In one of the team?s best overall performances this season, the Tigers scored their first two touchdowns but came out on the losing end of a 40-14 battle.
It has been almost two years and exactly 18 league matches since the women?s volleyball team has lost in the Ivy League.
If head coach Roger Hughes had known before Saturday?s game that the Tigers would outrush Colgate, he would have felt good about the football team?s chances.
A theme has become apparent for the men?s soccer team: close losses.The Tigers were tied or held the lead for nearly 42 minutes in Saturday's game, but a Brown goal with three minutes, 18 seconds left on the clock sealed Princeton?s eighth loss of the season, 3-2.Despite two goals by sophomore midfielder Brandon Busch, the Tigers (2-8-1 overall, 0-1-1 Ivy League) fell short, allowing two second-half goals by Bears midfielder Nick Elenz-Martin.Elenz-Martin?s first came at 60:13 when the midfielder pushed a long throw-in from the far touchline into the net.
Two weeks ago, Princeton was ecstatic after a last-second Connor Louden field goal sealed a 10-7 victory over Lehigh.
The women?s soccer team, often blessed with lucky last-minute opportunities this season, was poised to pull off another heart-stopping win in the closing moments of Saturday afternoon?s game against Brown.
The men?s soccer team came close enough to victory that it could almost taste it. After 90 hard-fought minutes and three more in overtime, the Tigers just couldn?t put the icing on the cake, losing to Adelphi 2-1 in yet another hotly contested loss.After rallying to score a goal in the second half, Princeton (2-7-1 overall, 0-0-1 Ivy League) was called for fouling an attacking Panther in the box.
Colgate?s Jordan Scott is unquestionably the best running back in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), so when the Princeton football team heads to Hamilton, N.Y., for its final non-league game of the season against Colgate (3-2 overall), the Tigers will have to be perfect on both sides of the ball to come away with a victory.The Tigers (2-1, 1-0 Ivy League) are coming off an exciting win in their Ivy opener at Columbia, in which senior quarterback and tri-captain Brian Anderson capped a sensational afternoon with a 52-yard bomb to up-and-coming sophomore wideout Trey Peacock for the go-ahead score late in the fourth quarter.
Fresh off last Saturday?s dominating victory over Penn in its first Ivy League matchup, the women?s volleyball team is looking to stay undefeated in league play as it travels to Columbia and Cornell this weekend.
Beating Brown ? which was recently ranked No. 19 in the College Soccer News poll ? is one of the hardest things an Ivy League soccer team can do.
If there is one thing the No. 15 men?s water polo team has learned in the past two weeks, it?s that the Tigers can hang with just about anyone.
