After a heartbreaking overtime loss to Bucknell on the road Sunday in Lewisburg, Pa., head coach Luis Nicolao and the men's water polo team know that they can't afford to make the same mistakes twice.
For the women's soccer team, every Ivy League game now potentially determines the fate of the Tigers' entire season.
The sprint football team (0-2 overall, 0-2 CSFL) is hoping that home field advantage will help it end a pair of losing streaks when it faces Army (1-2, 1-0) at Frelinghuysen Field tonight.The Tigers have lost 37 consecutive games, as well as their last 16 straight contests against the Black Knights.
After swamping Columbia with a wave of Orange and Black last weekend, the football team (3-0 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) will surge toward its next two Ivy League games with an attempt to sink non-conference foe Colgate (2-2).The Tigers' 3-0 start has far exceeded expectations ? beyond simply being undefeated, Princeton has knocked off three previously undefeated squads without trailing even once.But though the Tigers' confidence has grown as a result of their strong start, the team's attitude remains restrained."We just keep harping on the fact that if you remain humble and don't get too full of yourselves, good things are going to happen," head coach Roger Hughes said.Colgate will bring Princeton a few specific challenges that have the potential to shake the Tigers.
It's just the men's soccer team's second Ivy League game of the fall, but while it might not make its season, it can certainly break it.The Tigers, exhausted by their 11th-straight winless match against Rutgers, traveled to Dartmouth last Sunday for their league opener.
Tailgating a Princeton game, it is common to hear questions about how fellow Ivy League schools have started the season.
Despite shooting its best round of the season Monday afternoon, men's golf suffered a disappointing defeat, finishing fifth overall Tuesday at Ball State.As has been the case in many of their previous tournaments, the Tigers started strong but were unable to maintain the advantage.
Halpern and Parros in NHLLast night, Jeff Halpern '99 and George Parros '03 suited up for the National Hockey League's opening night.
It would be a cliché to say they are inseparable.Unfortunately, it also happens to be true.It's difficult not to speak in clichés, though, when talking about the Schmidt sisters.
Senior Jenny Senske could be described as an Energizer Bunny ? she has played in all of the women's volleyball team's games.
Editor's Note: This is the seventh in a series of postcards that The Daily Princetonian sports staff writers wrote about their experiences in the wide world of sports this summer.
Every a capella group, debate club and comedy improv cast faces the daunting task of filling the holes left by the graduation of senior stalwarts and bemoans their loss.
If you watch the Princeton football team during practice any given afternoon, your attention immediately turns to the quarterback airing out the ball, the receivers running their routes and the coaches chewing on their whistles.Easy to overlook is the player wearing number 15, the one working out alone, separate from the rest of the players clothed in Orange and Black.Transition to any Saturday afternoon, and you'll see a wildly different picture.
Similar to political success, sometimes athleticism just runs in the family. From 1999 to the 2004 season, a familial lineage dominated the goalie position for men's soccer.
For senior Andrew Lieu, the Eastern College Athletic Conference Invitational at Flushing Meadows, N.Y., this past weekend was but another stepping stone on the road that he hopes will end with the men's tennis team claiming the Ivy League championship.
Down two games to one with the end in sight, the women's volleyball team knew it needed a win to stay in the match Friday night in Dillon Gym.
Editor's Note: This is the sixth in a series of postcards that The Daily Princetonian sports staff writers wrote about their experiences in the wide world of sports this summer.
I was wrong.Three weeks ago, I predicted a 4-6 season for the football team, writing that "another 5-5 season is the best the Tigers can possibly hope for."Oops.A brief digression before I begin eating my words: Sports writers are often criticized ? and fairly so ? for being quick to second-guess coaches and players.
Led by the record-setting performance of senior Cack Ferrell, the women's varsity cross country team outran Harvard and Yale this past weekend to place first at the annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet held at the Yale Golf Club.The Tigers beat the Bulldogs, 23-36, and cruised over the Crimson, 19-44.
It would have been easy for women's soccer to give up and take a loss Sunday afternoon. Traveling to Hanover, N.H., to play Dartmouth, Princeton faced a team that was riding a four-game winning streak, had home field advantage and, by the end of the first half, had taken nearly twice as many shots as the Tigers.This was the kind of game Princeton (3-4-2 overall, 1-1-0 Ivy League) has been losing all season.
