If it's true that a team is only as good as its weakest link, then the women's golf team is well on its way to greatness.Taking second out of a field of 10 teams during the Johnie Imes Invitational at the University of Missouri, the Tigers managed to topple several highly ranked competitors.
Injury 'Bug' Repellant doesn't really exist, but Candice Arner sure wouldn't refuse a spritz or two if it did.Not only did the junior midfielder for the field hockey team (6-4 overall, 3-1 Ivy League) miss the entire season last year after season-ending knee surgery, but she also missed almost two full years in high school when she tore each of her ACLs.
In the past decade, Princeton athletics have become associated with lacrosse dominance and overall excellence in interscholastic competition.
Friday, April 6, 2007, marked a new experience for then-high school senior Ashley Higginson. She woke up, ran a race and placed second by a margin of more than 10 seconds, an unusual outcome for the standout in her senior season.But when you realize that the race was against collegiate and professional athletes from across the nation, then maybe you'll forgive her.
After last week's forfeit, the sprint football team (0-3) is looking to pull itself up by its bootstraps in time to play the second half of its season.
Bump, set, spike, repeat. These four words sum up the essence of 99 percent of the world's understanding of volleyball.
The men's water polo team (10-5 overall, 2-3 Collegiate Water Polo Association Southern Division) was left with big shoes to fill after losing last year's offensive cannons, Nick Seaver '07 and Eric Vreeland '07.
This weekend, the Tigers will take a trip down to Annapolis, Md., in hopes seeing more than just some nice foliage fall from the trees ? they'd love to see some of their shots fall into the cage as well.The men's lacrosse team will play its first fall ball games of the year against Navy and Maryland this Sunday, Oct.
Life is full of small, poignant moments, and every once in a while, we're lucky enough to actually notice them.
Imagine this: It's one of your first days in the major leagues, and you are on the mound against your team's most storied rival.
For the first time in over 30 years, the men's golf team traveled to New Haven, Conn., to play on Yale's infamous golf course, which was designed by Charles Blair Macdonald.
Up 13 in the locker room at halftime, head coach Roger Hughes told the football team to put its foot on Hampton's throat and close the Pirates out.Instead, the Tigers ran back onto the field and rolled over, failing to convert on a pair of crucial red-zone chances as No.
After a hard-fought victory, it's usually the key attacks or tenacious midfielders who win recognition.
In the football team's wildest game of the season, there were so many big plays that the entire affair seemed scripted for the sake of highlight reels.
Despite a different field and a different year, the result was the same.The men's soccer team dropped a 2-1 overtime decision against No.
It looks like the grueling matchups early in the season are beginning to pay off for the women's soccer team.
The Tigers took away two wins from this weekend, but they also learned never to ease up against Navy, a quick team with the power to sail away.The No.
The Empire State's Ivy League schools brought their volleyball teams to Princeton this weekend.The result: 6-1 in the Tigers' favor and two more wins to push the Princeton hot streak to nine.The women's volleyball team (11-3 overall, 3-0 Ivy League) defeated both of New York's Ivy League squads over the weekend, prevailing against Columbia (3-10, 0-2) on Friday night, 3-1, before dominating defending-champion Cornell (4-8, 1-2) by a 3-0 score Saturday.The Lions, despite their 3-9 record coming into the match, fought with the zeal of a team with a winning record.After Princeton dominated the first game, 30-12, Columbia fought back, starting the second game with a 5-0 run.