As one team's season came to an end, another's quest for greatness began. Last Saturday, the men's and women's cross country teams traveled to Lehigh for the 69th Mid-Atlantic Regional cross country race.
With an impressive display of depth and talent, the men's and women's swimming and diving teams clinched their season openers Friday night, defeating Oakland University at DeNunzio Pool.The spotlight was definitely on the men's team, as it risked its first-ever home loss to a talented Oakland (2-1 overall) men's team.
One play.According to men's soccer coach Jim Barlow '91, that's the difference between a win and a loss in almost any game ? and the soccer team's 2-0 loss to Yale on Sunday was one of those games.On a chilly Senior Night in Princeton Stadium, the Tigers dominated play for 89 minutes but were unable to capitalize on their chances.
On Sunday, the freshmen women's open crew braved the Belly of the Carnegie and emerged victorious.The A boat finished first in the open division, defeating Dartmouth and Cornell.
The bigger they are, the harder they fall, and this weekend the women's hockey team (3-3-2 overall, 1-3-1 Eastern College Athletic Conference Hockey League) toppled goliath New Hampshire (9-2-0) with a colossal crash.The Wildcats entered the game with an eight-game winning streak and the confidence of a 20-0-1 record against the Tigers over the last 21 seasons.
With the bitter taste of last year cleansed by the start of a new season, the Princeton wrestling team took its first step towards redemption this past Sunday with a successful showing against The College of New Jersey.
It's generally safe to assume that the team that dominates the statistics sheet will also win the game.
Last week the teams of the Eastern College Athletic Conference Hockey League (ECACHL) watched as Princeton jumped out in front of them during the season's opening games.
After his debut as the head coach of the men's basketball team, Sydney Johnson '97 could find little about which to complain.
Nobody said it was going to be easy. The women's basketball team (0-1 overall) opened its season with a 76-52 loss to national powerhouse Maryland (1-0) in College Park, Md., on Friday, hanging tough with the No.
The women's volleyball train kept on rolling over the weekend, boosting its two-month-long win streak to 19 games in historic fashion.On Friday night, Princeton (21-3 overall, 13-0 Ivy League) beat Brown (7-16, 5-8), 3-0, in Providence, R.I., clinching a berth in the NCAA tournament along with the Ivy League title.
The 13,408 fans who attended the football team's homecoming game against Yale on Saturday were greeted with surprises from beginning to end.
When the women's soccer team's seniors walked off the pitch after yesterday's Senior Day game, they did not let the fresh loss tarnish what have been great careers."I have cherished all four years that I have been here and have learned so much from each team I was on," co-captain and goalkeeper Maren Dale said.
With a non-conference schedule that includes No. 4 Maryland and No. 3 Rutgers, the women's basketball team has no choice but to toughen up before the first Ivy League game bounces into Jadwin Gym in January.
The men's basketball team has made 23 NCAA Tournament appearances in its history, but its opponent Sunday has a slightly more recent memory of the Big Dance.
After hosting Central Connecticut and Iona at Jadwin Gym, the men's basketball team will jet to Maui to compete in the EA Sports Maui Invitational for the first time in the program's history.
Last season the women's soccer team fell to Yale, 2-1, in its Ivy League opener, a defeat that started a stretch of four-straight conference losses.