Year-end sports wrap-up
Look to the sports section for two dozen stories detailing athletic teams' performances this year.
Look to the sports section for two dozen stories detailing athletic teams' performances this year.
The morning of the Eastern Sprints Regatta dawned cold, wet and gray, but this did not deter Princeton?s top-ranked men?s and women?s crews.
The Ivy League champion softball team will face off against the host University of Massachusetts Minutewomen tonight at 5 p.m in the NCAA regionals.
I will never forget the day Carlos Delgado became a New York Met. It was February 2006, and ?New York?s other team? was just turning the corner.
AMHERST, Mass. -- The softball team (25-24 overall, 20-2 Ivy League) found only five victories outside of the conference this season, and it failed to find any more this weekend as the Tigers dropped two games and ended their season at the NCAA softball regional in Amherst, Mass.
This fall, women?s basketball and field hockey will each welcome a strong freshman class of recruits, and both programs will offer their newcomers an equally exciting opportunity.
The last time the women?s lacrosse team saw Northwestern, Princeton found itself on the losing end of a quarterfinal match in 2005 that halted the team?s five-year streak of reaching the Final Four.
If you were to see junior Ben Shechet around campus, you probably wouldn?t guess that you were looking at a capable mixed martial artist and dedicated weightlifter.
Fred Samara is currently the William N. Weaver ?34 head coach of the men?s track and field team.
Princeton alumni Brett Goodman ?90, Joe Gesue ?93 and Rebecca Chatman ?94 may be some of the most overlooked contributors to this year?s Summer Olympics in Beijing.
While thousands of Princeton students will be spending their summers at internships, beaches and other universities, a handful will be doing something a little different halfway across the globe.
While we often give these awards to athletes who have made an impact on a school, Ivy League or even national level, our 2008 Women?s Athlete of the Year ? senior midfielder Diana Matheson of the women?s soccer team ? has already made her presence known on the international stage.First consider her performance at Princeton.
The Daily Princetonian?s 2008 male athlete of the year arrived on campus as a freshman to play for a brand new coach and a team that had won only four games the previous season.
As the men and women?s track teams began competition on Saturday, both knew it would take a group effort to capture the Outdoor Heptagonal Championships ? track?s equivalent to an Ivy League Title.
The softball team will travel to the University of Massachusetts - Amherst for its first game in the NCAA tournament, the NCAA announced last night.
The back-and-forth action during the first round of the NCAA women?s lacrosse tournament this Saturday against No.
Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m., the No. 8 women?s lacrosse team will make its 11th-straight NCAA tournament appearance when it faces No.
It?s common knowledge that many Princeton students have a secret talent, be it speaking four languages, being national debate champion or being able to juggle six balls at once that helped separate them from the thousands of other applicants with perfect GPAs and SAT scores.
While typical 18 year olds are in the process of making the adjustment from high school to college life, sophomore thrower Eric Plummer has been there, done that.
As the spring season comes to a close, we wanted to look back on some of the best athletic feats from this academic year.