Q: What was your ?welcome to college? moment?A: The first day of practice freshman year, coach sat [senior] Drew Maliniak and I down during a team lunch and started talking about the next few years.
The landscape of Ivy League football seems a little topsy-turvy right now. In a wild first round of league play, the two favorites to capture the Ivy League crown ? Yale and Harvard ? were toppled by Cornell and Brown, respectively.
Editor?s note: This is the eighth and final in a series of postcards that Daily Princetonian sports staff writers and others wrote about their experiences in the wide world of sports this summer.
As the women?s volleyball team seeks to repeat its historic 14-0 Ivy League-winning 2007 season, the Tigers have the advantage of returning most of their starting players ? except one.
With a maximum capacity of 1,500, Princeton University?s Dillon Gym isn?t what one would consider the most luxurious of sporting venues.
Anderson wins Ivy League Co-Offensive Player of the Week honorIf anyone who?s witnessed the football team in recent weeks believes they?ve just seen the spitting image of former quarterback Jeff Terrell ?07, they don?t necessarily need to have their vision checked.
Editor?s Note: Look for more articles in the coming months featuring Princeton?s club and intramural sports teams.
His freshman year at Princeton, junior running back Jordan Culbreath was a walk-on to the football team.
The women?s soccer team extended its unbeaten streak to seven games Tuesday afternoon as it steamrolled American, 4-0, in Washington, D.C.
It?s official. I hate fantasy football.
Senior co-captain Susannah Aboff added another individual title to her name, and the women?s golf team came back in a big way after an undistinguished showing at the Johnie Imes Invitational, winning the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) championship by an impressive 16-shot margin at the Kiskiack Golf Club in Williamsburg, Va.Aboff has been a consistent performer this season, having notched the top finish among the Tigers in each of their four tournaments this season.
After two challenges this weekend, the field hockey team remains unscathed in the Ivy League and poised for a strong second half.
This past week the women?s tennis team sent three players to attempt to qualify for the Riviera/ITA Women?s All-American Championships.
The sprint football team traveled to West Point last Friday to take on Army. The Black Knights (2-2 overall, 1-0 Collegiate Spring Football League) racked up points in a hurry, scoring eight touchdowns and one field goal.
Spectators will almost never see a solitary Princeton cross-country runner. The women?s cross country team prides itself on pack-running, a strategy that helped it battle through a tough field of 186 runners at the Notre Dame Invitational to claim second place overall.The men?s cross country team, meanwhile, finished 11th overall, with senior Michael Maag posting the eighth-best individual time.On the women?s side, the race featured a deep field that included a dozen nationally ranked teams.
?This game is there for the taking. How bad do you want it??That was the question posed to the football team?s offense by head coach Roger Hughes as it took the field down three points with 10 minutes left in Saturday?s 27-24 victory over Columbia.After a touchdown proved that the offense ?wanted it,? the defense made its stand, forcing a late fumble to preserve the three-point victory.
Last year, the women?s volleyball team clawed its way to a win during a tense five-game Ivy League opener against Penn.
After the women?s soccer team defeated Dartmouth 1-0 on Saturday afternoon, it left the men with a perfect setting for their matchup: beautiful weather, more than 2,000 fans and momentum in the home team?s favor.
Just call them the cardiac cats. For the third-0straight game, the women?s soccer team (6-1-1 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) used a combination of stingy defense, lights-out goalkeeping and offensive opportunism to pull out a hard-fought 1-0 victory against a talented opponent.?It?s a heart attack for me, but they?re finding ways [to win],? head coach Julie Shackford said.
New York, Oct. 3 ? With under nine minutes remaining in the football team?s 27-24 victory over Columbia (0-3 overall, 0-1 Ivy League) on Saturday afternoon, the Tigers (2-1, 1-0) were in dire need of an offensive jolt.
