Beginning Saturday, the women's soccer team's mediocre non-conference record will no longer matter.
After dropping heartbreaking one-goal losses to nationally ranked Farleigh Dickinson and Akron at Lourie-Love Field over the weekend, the men's soccer team could have been excused if it had entered Wednesday's non-conference matchup against Drexel (1-4-1 overall) in a bit of a funk.
One team has lost 35 straight games. The other is a perennial College Sprint Football League powerhouse.
For the first time since classes started, the field hockey team returns home to Class of 1952 Stadium on Saturday, where the Tigers will attempt to improve their Ivy League record to 3-0.The young Princeton squad has earned itself a spot at the top of the Ivy League standings and has begun to show some of the form that allowed it to win 32 straight Ivy League games between 1999 and 2004.Princeton now gets the chance to extend its current streak against Columbia, as the Tigers square off against Columbia (3-3 overall, 0-1 Ivy League) for the first half of the doubleheader weekend.Six games into the season, the inexperienced Tigers are slowly beginning to find a groove.
The men's water polo team looks to continue its winning ways as it hosts the Eastern Conference Athletic Conference Championship this weekend.
One of the first signs of greatness in a sports team is the ability to beat the best. Then, once a team is itself recognized as the best, it achieves true greatness when it proves it can keep winning against opponents eager to spoil the cream of the crop.Tomorrow afternoon against San Diego (3-0 overall), the football team (1-0) will get a taste of the second phase of this process before it has even had a chance to complete step one.Though the Tigers were picked to finish sixth in the Ivy League preseason media poll and have yet to prove they can hang with the Penns and Harvards of the world, the Toreros will arrive at Princeton Stadium prepared to do battle with what they, at least, consider the most worthy of hosts."I feel like this is the best team we'll see the entire season," San Diego head coach Jim Harbaugh said of Princeton.
In soccer, there are two types of leaders. The first is the one who leads by example on the playing field, always playing with a grim determination and coming through with the big play at the crucial moment.
Most Princetonians arrive on campus with personal sports baggage: hometown pride, high school spirit and perhaps even memories of that school's mascot.
Recently, 'Prince' senior writer Sofia Mata-Leclerc sat down with a pair of men's water polo players, junior center Nick Seaver and freshman driver Brendan Colgan, to discuss nicknames, David Hasselhoff and spandex.Daily Princetonian: What do you think about this season's men's water polo team?Nick Seaver: The team looks much improved from last year.
RICHMOND, Va. ? The plaques and pictures hang from his office walls, celebrating a storied basketball tradition of league titles and NCAA Tournament upsets.But the tradition isn't Princeton's.
The day may never come when representatives of Major League Baseball teams begin to fight corporate recruiters for access to the best and the brightest at Princeton's Career Fair, but the success enjoyed in recent years by former Tigers in professional baseball is at least starting to turn some heads.The bulk of this attention has been garnered by Chris Young '02, a starting pitcher for the Texas Rangers who spent the summer hurling his way onto the short list of candidates for American League Rookie of the Year.But while Young is the lone Princeton alum currently on a big league roster, nine of his fellow former Tigers spent this season earning a living in the minor leagues.
After playing two of the nation's top-10 teams last weekend, the men's soccer team tonight faces Drexel (1-3-1 overall), an unranked opponent far less daunting at first glance.
This weekend, the women's tennis team began its fall season, sending sophomore Ivana King and senior Jessica Siebel to William & Mary for the Tribe Invitational.
A month before the rest of the students would return to campus, the Tigers were suffering though unbearable heat and humidity to play basketball in the un-air-conditioned Jadwin gym with a different set of rules ? a 24-second shot clock instead of the ordinary 30 and a three-point line extended several inches.
With the fourth quarter winding down and Lafayette threatening to steal the lead from the football team Saturday, Princeton was forced to rely on a running back who had entered the game as nothing but a zero ? statistically, that is.Prior to that afternoon in Easton, Pa., sophomore Rob Toresco had never carried the ball in a college game nor registered a single statistic during his Tiger career.
Editor's Note: This is the fifth in a series of postcards that Daily Princetonian sports staff writers wrote about their experiences in the wide world of sports this summer.
Editor's Note: This is the fourth in a series of postcards that Daily Princetonian sports staff writers wrote about their experiences in the wide world of sports this summer.
The women's golf team posted positive finishes in both individual and team events in its first weekend of the fall season.
A summer internship in New York City? Working a retail job in his native Buffalo?No, for senior Steve Coppola, a typical college student summer just wasn't going to cut it.
After Dartmouth knocked the women's field hockey team out of contention for the Ivy League title last year, the first time the Big Green had defeated the Tigers in 15 games, the returning Princeton players have marked Sept.
