Non-Ivy wins send message to league
In the final tune-up before a showdown with Penn at the Palestra next Saturday, the women?s volleyball team sent a message to the rest of the Ivy League.It?s back.
In the final tune-up before a showdown with Penn at the Palestra next Saturday, the women?s volleyball team sent a message to the rest of the Ivy League.It?s back.
On first and goal with four minutes, 57 seconds remaining in the first half of the football team?s home opener against Lehigh (1-2 overall), junior running back Jordan Culbreath swept out to the right side of senior quarterback and tri-captain Brian Anderson and rushed into the endzone for a touchdown, knotting the score at seven.Culbreath?s touchdown proved to be Princeton?s (1-1) only visit to the endzone in the game, but three factors enabled the Tigers to eke out a 10-7 win as time expired.
With two seconds left on the clock and the score tied at seven in the football team?s matchup with Lehigh, all eyes were on senior kicker Connor Louden.
A tough early schedule may now be paying off for the men?s soccer team. After losing three consecutive games ? two to highly ranked teams Northwestern and Illinois-Chicago ? the Tigers finally broke through on Sunday, overcoming Farleigh Dickinson, 2-1.Princeton (2-5-0 overall) and the Knights (4-3-0) were set to head to overtime with the score knotted at one with only five minutes remaining in the second half.
Entering the weekend, no player on the women?s soccer team had defeated Yale during her collegiate career.
The field hockey team cruised along on its longest road trip of the season, adding two wins over the weekend.
Though history was against the Tigers, the field hockey team pulled out an impressive 3-2 win at No.
As the women?s volleyball team enters its final weekend of non-conference play, the Tigers are focusing on inching closer to perfection.
Coming off an impressive win against No. 13 Penn State, the field hockey team has a promising outlook for this weekend.
With two tournament-filled weeks under its belt, the No. 19 men?s water polo team will be on the road this weekend facing conference rivals No.
The men?s soccer team?s offensive struggles continued as the Tigers (1-5 overall) fell 1-0 in overtime at Monmouth (4-1-1) on Thursday afternoon.
Princeton head coach Roger Hughes knows that all his players are aware of football?s most basic rules, but heading into this weekend?s home opener ? a 6 p.m.
Soccer is in Devin Muntz? blood.And it is not simply because his father was an All-American at Muhlenberg College, or because his brother played before him, or even because he picked up the game when he was just 3 years old.It is because he has a passion for the game that led him to abandon basketball, baseball and tennis, all the while remaining loyal to soccer.
Throughout the opening games of the 2008 season, the women?s soccer team (3-1-1 overall) made a living by eking out close wins in the final minutes of games.
The field hockey, football and men?s soccer teams have all welcomed fresh faces to the sidelines this season as new assistant coaches have joined each team?s staff.The field hockey team welcomes two new assistant coaches to the staff in Homero Pardi and Allison Nemeth ?07.
Former New England Patriots linebacker Ted Johnson, hockey player Noah Welch and soccer player Cindy Parlow, a starter on the 1999 women?s World Cup championship squad, just became part of the first dozen members of a pretty exclusive club.
I?ve never been a big fan of ?the beautiful game.? My parents signed me up for a kindergarten league at age 5, and I hated it.
While many of you spent the lazy days of June tuning into (or perhaps TiVo-ing) Euro 2008, you may not have realized that something a little closer to home was happening north of the Danube.
Q: What was your welcome-to-college moment?A: It was on my recruiting trip. I made out with a hefty girl that night, and it has become a running joke on the team that has lasted my whole career.Q: What?s your funniest story about a coach?A: At Southern Championships two years ago, we were mid-game, and [head coach] Luis [Nicolao] called a timeout.
Five years ago, in a pregame warm-up before Princeton?s season finale against Dartmouth, linebackers coach Don Dobes was fired up.