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.
It was 1996. The Cleveland Indians were undeniably my favorite sports team, and Omar Vizquel was my undisputed favorite athlete (he would soon be usurped by Kerri Strug and Dominique Moceanu of the Magnificent Seven, but that wouldn?t happen for at least a few weeks). I was an avid fan, proudly declaring that the Indians would return to the World Series and that this time they would win it.So when my dad told me that after going to visit my grandparents next spring, he had gotten tickets for an Indians game, I was, as you can imagine, ecstatic.
Q: Welcome to college moment?A: I raced at Princeton my senior year at an open meet in the 5K. This race is hardly run in high school, and I did not really run it very often, though I knew I would be [running it] in college.
At the beginning of the season, the men?s tennis team was optimistic about its chances of winning the Ivy League.
For about 30 minutes, we climbed through straight elevation, and upon finally reaching the fifth checkpoint, suddenly realized that we had missed the second checkpoint.
As Tiger track and field athletes look forward to the Heptagonal Championships next weekend, they can look back at their performances last weekend at the Princeton Elite Meet.
