Riding a three-game winning streak and the emotional high of a thrilling last-second victory this past Saturday, No. 9 Princeton hosts two of the conference’s most storied franchises this weekend.
The women’s basketball team may be wearing pink on the court this weekend, but it will aim to maintain its red-hot play of late against Yale and Brown.
Princeton’s campus is filled with historic buildings: Nassau Hall, the University Chapel, Alexander Hall and Chancellor Green come to mind. Yet there is one such building on campus with which surprisingly few students are familiar: Jadwin Gymnasium.
Usually, On Tap focuses on one of Princeton’s many varsity athletes. This week, we’ve decided to focus on the world of intramural sports. Junior Dave Karp, intramural broomball and floor hockey superstar and founder of the intramural dynasty Black Squirrels, answered some burning questions about the glory-filled world of intramurals.
After the media find out that an All-Star MLB player has failed a drug test, the question that immediately arises is, “Will this player be in the Hall of Fame?”
Through the turbulence that has characterized the past few seasons for the wrestling team, Princeton has had a rock. His name is Marty Everin. The 157-pound senior captain has made the most of his final season. Everin currently has 12 wins — tied for first in that category — and has emerged as the team’s leader.
When the top two teams in a sport go head-to-head, it’s a big game. When the teams are undefeated, and the matchup is the latest in a storied rivalry, it’s even better.
The phrase “keeping it in the family” frequently refers to dirty dealings and nefarious schemes, not high school athletics. For the Slovenskis of Brunswick, Maine, however, it applies to the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference pole-vault record.
He is the biggest story in sports these days. After a report last Friday by Sports Illustrated’s Selena Roberts, Alex “A-Roid” Rodriguez, the biggest superstar in baseball, publicly admitted to taking steroids.
After starting its season with six games on the road, the men’s volleyball team returned to the friendly confines of Dillon Gymnasium to play NYU last night. Much like the many fans who arrived late, it took Princeton a while to get started before the team rallied for a 3-1 victory over the Violets (2-9).
Many teams take years to start competing with the best teams in the country. This hasn’t been the case with the Princeton StarCraft team. The newly formed student group Smashcraft Heroes played its first match in the Collegiate StarCraft League — StarCraft’s equivalent of the NCAA — last Saturday.
The women?s basketball team struck back in the Empire State last weekend, rebounding from a pair of heartbreaking losses to Dartmouth and Harvard to defeat both Cornell and Columbia on the road.
At the Princeton Open last Saturday, several regional programs were featured. Yet the track meet quickly turned into a demonstration of Tiger dominance in nearly every event.
At the Ivy League ?South? Competition at Columbia on Sunday, the men?s fencing team defeated Harvard but lost to Penn, 15-12.
The women?s water polo team started its 2009 season by crushing Mercyhurst and Villanova at DeNunzio Pool this weekend.
Last season, the women’s squash team lost two matches in the regular season before winning the team’s second consecutive national championship. This year, Princeton played a perfect season, winning the Ivy League title over the weekend. The men's team also captured its fourth-straight Ancient Eight championship this past weekend.
The wrestling team lost 32-9 to Harvard and 41-3 to Brown in a dual meet in Dillon Gymnasium last Saturday.
After losing 30-28 in the second set against St. Francis on Saturday, the men?s volleyball team faced the possibility of getting swept in the first two Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (EIVA) games of the match.
The men?s basketball team put together its best weekend in a very long time, shocking Ivy League rival Cornell 61-41 on Friday and demolishing Columbia 63-35 on Saturday.Princeton (9-8 overall, 4-0 Ivy League) headed into halftime with a nine-point lead over Cornell (15-7, 5-1), but with 15 minutes, 24 seconds left in the game, Big Red center Jeff Foote scored on a layup to close the gap to 34-31.
The men?s and women?s swimming and diving teams continued their undefeated seasons last Saturday, with the women?s team capping off a perfect season with a 156-123 defeat of Columbia (8-2 overall, 4-2 Ivy League) and the men extending their streak to seven this year with a slim 155.5-145.5 defeat of Navy (17-2 overall).Women roll over Lions
