Competition within the Ivy League is stiff. Princeton, Harvard and Yale seem to be locked in an endless race to one-up each other in everything from crew regattas and debate tournaments to the U.S.
The ECAC men?s hockey playoffs begin this weekend, but the Tigers won?t be among the eight teams duking it out in four best-of-three series.
Every Saturday during the winter months, Dillon Gym plays host to the town of Princeton?s youth basketball league.
Last Saturday night, men?s Ivy League basketball saw a couple of historic moments. For the first time in 20 years, neither Penn nor Princeton will represent the Ivy League in the NCAA Tournament, but Cornell will.
With the women?s squash team?s national championship victory last weekend, Princeton squash celebrated another highly successful team season.
Haunted by weaknesses in scoring and defense that have crippled it throughout the season, the women?s hockey teams lost to Clarkson two games to one in the first round of the ECAC playoffs.Despite Princeton (14-12-6 overall, 11-8-3 ECAC Hockey) holding a nine-game winning streak against Clarkson (24-8-5, 13-6-3), the Tigers? offense could not find the back of the net.
Though the softball team (1-3) traveled a long way to play in the Patriot Classic in Fairfax, Va., this past weekend, its efforts came up short.
One of the most cliched plot devices in sports movies is a conflict between a team?s wily veterans and young guns.
The men?s tennis team took to the road this weekend for a series of three matches in three days, coming out ahead overall with two wins and a loss.
Having a number next to your team?s name sure makes it a lot more intimidating.This season, the women?s water polo team seems to be having an easy time against unranked opponents.
Keeping its home unbeaten streak alive, the Princeton men?s volleyball team upset No. 11 George Mason 3-1 at Dillon Gym on Saturday, 26-30, 30-25, 30-21, 30-25.
Score 44 runs, win a few games and call it a weekend. That?s just what the baseball team did in its back-to-back doubleheaders at the University of Delaware on Saturday and Sunday, flexing its muscles in an impressive display of offensive firepower in winning three of the four games to launch into its 2008 season on the right foot.Though the Tigers (3-1) ultimately came away from Delaware (3-4) thrice victorious, they suffered an agonizing defeat in their season opener Saturday afternoon, losing 12-11 in seven innings despite leading 11-2 at one point.Princeton led off the game and its season by wasting no time in getting on the scoreboard, sending seven runners across the plate in the first two innings before a single Fightin? Blue Hen base runner had even reached second base.
The women?s lacrosse team started its season in Baltimore on Saturday with a win against Johns Hopkins.
BALTIMORE, Md., March 1 ? New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick accompanied longtime friend Dave Pietramala, head men?s lacrosse coach at Johns Hopkins, on the sidelines Saturday afternoon when the men?s lacrosse team took on the Blue Jays.
On a weekend that celebrated the excellent careers of senior forwards Meagan Cowher and Ali Prichard, the women?s basketball team gave fans a taste of good times to come.
The men?s hockey team finished the best regular season in Princeton history this Saturday, but the Tigers will head into the ECAC Hockey playoffs on a two-game losing streak following tough losses to No.
The Princeton women?s track and field team jumped to victory this weekend at the 2008 Ivy League Heptagonal Indoor Track & Field Championship with freshman Tiffany Liu?s triple jump that sealed the deal.
There was something magical in the air this past weekend as the undefeated No. 18 women?s swimming and diving team clinched its third-straight Ivy League title and qualified five swimmers for the NCAA championships.Princeton has never sent so many swimmers to nationals, with the previous record of four set in 1986, when a Tiger relay qualified.
When they?re not hurling themselves at their foes on the mat, the members of the Princeton wrestling team have devoted themselves to another pursuit.
Playoffs. Home playoff series. First-round bye. Ivy League title.The list of accomplishments achieved by this year?s men?s hockey team is lengthy, but though the 2007-08 Tigers have certainly exceeded expectations, they are nowhere near being satisfied.This weekend, with road games against No.
