Kyle Hagel is intense. Ask anyone ? teammates, coaches, even Hagel himself ? about the senior forward, and the description is bound to come up.
Imagine taking the train to Philadelphia every Monday night during a Princeton career in which you competed for two sports teams ? sprint football and track.
On Tuesday, the men?s volleyball team (3-3 overall, 2-1 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association) hosted its first home game of the season, defeating NYU (7-5, 0-1) 3-1 in an offensive showdown at Dillon Gym.
Fans who attend this weekend?s women?s hockey games at Hobey Baker Rink will witness something never seen before.
Last week?s news may have been dominated by Super Tuesday: John McCain?s ascension and the ongoing battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
Much has been made of two-sport athletes who, a la Deion Sanders, are able to switch mid-season from one sport to another without a noticeable adjustment period.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. ? In a tense battle of league rivals last night at Penn?s Palestra, the men?s basketball team (5-15 overall, 2-3 Ivy League) suffered a 70-65 loss to the host Quakers (8-14, 3-2), with the outcome unclear until the final seconds.
When a team?s stalwarts struggle, help can come from unexpected sources. For tennis, this may mean the last two seeds coming through while the star struggles.Exactly one week after a decisive 7-0 defeat by No.
After opening its season with three tough games against nationally ranked opponents in California, the men?s volleyball team (2-3 overall, 1-1 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association) completed a grueling road trip in Pennsylvania, where it opened EIVA play against Juniata College (4-3, 1-0) and East Stroudsburg University (1-3, 0-2). Spectators at the games could have been convinced that two different Tiger teams took the court those days.
In 1991, Bill Burke ?91 ran the 3,000-meter ?championship? race in seven minutes 58.66 seconds.
I?m going to admit it: Princeton was almost my first choice when I applied to college. And for my first few months at Penn ? when things sometimes got a little overwhelming ? I wondered what it would be like had I made my home-away-from-home in patrician New Jersey.Well, we may not have fancy eating clubs, an all-white graduating class or Dr. Gregory House here; life in West Philly is a little simpler and a lot less pretentious.
O hai.Recently, I was perusing icanhascheezburger.com when I happened upon a LOLcat that is somewhat pertinent to this year?s Penn-Princeton men?s basketball contest.
Coming off a two-game losing streak, the men?s basketball team (5-14 overall, 2-2 Ivy League) travels to Penn (7-14, 2-2) tonight hoping to regain the form that brought it a 2-0 start to its Ivy League season.
Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, your best just isn?t good enough.
Since trouncing Penn in its league opener, the women?s basketball team has struggled due to the absence key players as their opponents field full-strength teams.
While a menacing opponent may seem impossible to defeat, the greatest opponent for the Princeton wrestling team has been injuries.
The men?s and women?s swimming and diving teams clinched their spots as top contenders for the upcoming Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League (EISL) and Ivy League championships with wins against Navy and Columbia.
NEW YORK, N.Y. ? A week after hope was restored to the men?s basketball team?s season, a winless trip through the Ivy League?s toughest road weekend brought the momentarily mighty Tigers (5-14 overall, 2-2 Ivy League) back down to earth.The weekend opened with a battle of Ivy unbeatens, as Princeton looked to build on its season-opening wins over Dartmouth and Harvard with a road upset of league powerhouse Cornell (14-5, 6-0) on Friday night.
Freshman defender Cam Ritchie?s third goal of the season had barely trickled into the net Friday night when a Brown defender smashed his stick on the ice in frustration.
