For all of the benefits of residing in beautiful New Jersey, the baseball team must annually cope with a significant drawback.
Looking at the women's lacrosse team's early season schedule, one can't help but wonder if the Tigers are gluttons for punishment.
In her first game against Johns Hopkins, Alison Murray did nothing spectacular except play virtually mistake free defense.It turns out that that in itself is spectacular, which is why women's lacrosse head coach, Chris Sailer, has made her one of two freshman starters on the women's lacrosse team."Alison Murray [is] solid on defense [and] was one of our most consistent kids down in Australia" Sailer said.Murray realizes the importance of the trip to Australia in transitioning her game to the college level and its impact on the team in general."It was while we were there playing against the Australian National Team that I began to feel like I could handle this level of play," she said.
We all learn from Tigers' failuresRegarding 'Tigers go out with a whimper' (Wednesday, March 9, 2005):Like many fans of PU basketball, I looked forward to the Joe Scott era and still do.
"Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame." ? William ShakespeareThough the Bard had certainly never heard of the Native American game of lacrosse when he wrote these words, he could well have been describing this year's men's lacrosse team, which pins much of its hopes on a crop of freshmen heralded as the best recruiting class ever to come to Princeton.Saturday's game saw seven freshmen play in their first NCAA game in the then-No.
Senior Carrie Strickland went into last Sunday's finals of the mile at the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) meet hoping to break a trend.In meets in which athletes have to run trials of an event one day and finals the next day, Strickland has a history of running poorly in the finals.
For the men's club hockey team it all comes down to two things: having fun and playing hockey. They don't need fancy warm-ups, they don't want two-a-day practices or any other of the trappings that come with being a varsity athlete.Frustratingly enough for everyone else in the Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Hockey Association League, despite the Tigers' (22-5-1 overall, 15-3-0 MACHA) laid-back attitude, they happen to be pretty good.
After struggling his way to a disappointing fifth place finish at last weekend's Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association championship meet in Annapolis, Md., all junior 197-pound wrestler Jake Butler could do was wait and hope.Butler had entered the weekend with high aspirations, seeded fourth but hoping to claim one of the top three places at the tournament and earn an automatic bid to NCAA championships, which begin on March 17 in St.
In front of a sparse and listless crowd at Jadwin Gym last night, the men's basketball team went out with a whimper.It wasn't the worst the Tigers have played this season, nor was it the best.
The women's water polo team showed no signs of fatigue as the Tigers continued their season-long road trip this past weekend at Salem International University in West Virginia.
Graduate student Mike Austen knows the key to a lady's heart. Ask him why he's up at 8:30 a.m. for Michael Cremone's power yoga class, and he tosses a playful smile at the woman sitting on the yoga mat beside him."My wife," he says.Austen is one of six males in Cremone's 24-member class at Dillon Gym today.
After a timeout late in the fifth game, the men's volleyball team stepped back onto the court ahead, 14-12, against George Mason University.
With 34.1 seconds remaining in last night's men's basketball game against Penn, Quaker center Steve Danley slammed home an emphatic dunk to ice the game and send the crowds heading for the door.
This past weekend was both an exciting and successful one for the men's and women's fencers as they entered the NCAA qualifying rounds at Drew.
Junior Yasser El-Halaby made history this past weekend. With his record-setting third individual national championship, El-Halaby became the first male to ever accomplish that feat before his senior year."This year there was added pressure," El-Halaby said.
It's difficult, in the midst of enormous disappointment, to savor the present.When something goes wrong, it's human nature to fight through it, to get it over with as quickly as possible, to look forward to a brighter future.The five seniors on the men's basketball team will take the court at Jadwin Gym tonight for the final time, and for them, the present is all there is.
After two convincing wins over Dartmouth and Harvard this weekend, the men's basketball team (15-12 overall, 6-7 Ivy League) will be playing tonight to avoid the first losing Ivy League season in Princeton history.After squandering an 18-point lead in the final eight minutes of their first match-up with the Ivy League-champion Penn Quakers (19-8, 12-1) this season ? a game they went on to lose, 70-62, in overtime ? the Tigers will have a chance tonight to send their historically hated rivals off into the NCAA Tournament on a low note.And after pouring in a combined 32 points against the Big Green and the Crimson, senior guard Will Venable will need just one point tonight to become the 26th player in University history to reach the 1,000-point mark for his superb Princeton career.In other words, though Ivy League schedule-makers may have originally envisioned that tonight's game at Jadwin Gym between Princeton and Penn would be a battle for the conference title and a post-season berth, enough is still at stake to make Princeton's final game of the season well worth watching.The opportunity to see Venable, senior center Judson Wallace and their fellow classmates play in the final game of their collegiate careers will be among the most compelling reasons to watch."It'll be a good way to go out having the opportunity to play Penn in the final game," Venable said.
For senior Justin Chiles, one-hundredth of a second was the difference between being an EISL champion or being just another runner-up.
The softball team opened its season with four straight shutout wins in round-robin play at the East Carolina Pirate Clash in Greensboro, N.C., this weekend.
It's cold and wet up in New England, but it was a dry streak that doomed the women's basketball team this past weekend.Against the No.
