One of the realities of college athletics is that ? just like every student?s time at school ? teams move in four-year cycles contingent on the strength of a particular class.
As the vast majority of students busied themselves with settling down on campus and preparing for classes, the field hockey team started its 2008 campaign on a tear.
Editor?s note: This is the first in a series of postcards that Daily Princetonian sports staff writers wrote about their experiences in the wide world of sports this summer.
Club sports is a sizeable enterprise, drawing about 1,000 undergraduate participants, but sustaining and managing such a large program hasn?t always been a cinch.Several major problems have plagued club sports in the recent past, including funding issues and an apparent conflict between club sports participants and Cristine McCarthy, the previous coordinator of club and intramural sports, a Daily Princetonian article explained in 2006.Both athletes and administrators alike agreed that the funding allocated by the University was simply not enough to support all 34 club sports teams.
Junior linebacker Scott Britton is projected to be the starting linebacker for the football team this fall.Q: What was your ?welcome to college? moment?A: Freshman week...Q: The greatest highlight of your sports career?A: I?d have to say winning an Ivy League Championship as a freshman.Q: What is the funniest story about a coach?A: My linebackers coach (Don Dobes) once headbutted a player during a game and ending up bleeding all over his forehead.Q: Who is your quirkiest teammate?
Jim Thorpe?s professional baseball contract ? which paid the famed athlete as little as two dollars per game ? got him into a lot of trouble with the Olympics of yesteryear, which took its amateur eligibility rules quite seriously.Compared to today?s athletes, however, the most amateurish thing about Thorpe may have been his business sense.
Down by one with 18 minutes left to play in the women?s soccer team?s season opener against Boston University, senior midfielder and tri-captain Lisa Chinn was blazing down the right sideline.
Hailed as one of the finest college soccer facilities in the country, Myslik Field at Roberts Stadium was christened by the men?s and women?s soccer teams on Sept.
Thirteen current students and alumni ? 12 athletes and one coach ? competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China last month, making Princeton the best-represented Ivy League school at this year?s Games.
As the men?s soccer team faced a seemingly insurmountable 2-0 deficit in the final minutes of Friday evening?s game, sophomore forward Brandon Busch gave Princeton the hope it needed when he scored an unassisted goal to put the Tigers within one.
While most Princeton students are getting acclimated to being on campus, the field hockey team is going to be more used to playing in foreign stadiums than on its home turf at Class of 1952 Stadium.Though it is a challenge for the No.
Down by one with 18 minutes left to play in the women's soccer team's season opener against Boston University, senior midfielder and tri-captain Lisa Chinn was blazing down the right sideline.
As it attempts to win its third-consecutive Ivy League Heptagonal championship, the men's cross country team will also be breaking in a new coach.Athletics Director Gary Walters '67 introduced Steve Dolan as the program's head coach on Aug.
Will Venable '05 was called up by the San Diego Padres from Triple-A Portland on Saturday. He debuted against the Colorado Rockies this weekend, and in the three game series recorded four hits and two RBI in 12 at-bats.
Major League Baseball pitcher Ross Ohlendorf ?05 was traded from the New York Yankees franchise to the Pittsburgh Pirates on Saturday.
Six Princeton rowers will represent their countries in the summer Olympic Games in Beijing this August.
Sophomore Justin Frick won the high jump at the NCAA East Regional Track
As women?s soccer head coach Julie Shackford said, ?It was a season of high highs and low lows.? This was quite true for both the men?s and women?s soccer teams this past fall.The women opened the season with a 0-4-1 record, with two of the games going into double overtime.
The 2007 edition of Princeton?s Ivy League championship field hockey team didn?t look much different from the 2006 edition, at least on paper, but judging by the phenomenal season the 2006 team had, that wasn?t necessarily a bad thing.
