Women's volleyball in four-way tie for Ivy crown
The first time the women's volleyball team played Penn in 2004, the Tigers topped the Quakers 3-1 in their Ivy opener.
The first time the women's volleyball team played Penn in 2004, the Tigers topped the Quakers 3-1 in their Ivy opener.
On a crisp afternoon in late October, the sea of orange and black-clad homecoming fans watching the football team battle Harvard at Princeton Stadium had reason to cheer.The 4-1 Tigers had jumped to 14-3 first quarter lead against the defending-Ivy champion Crimson.
MIAMI ? Whether it was caused by fatigue, inexperience, missing teammates, poor weather, or simply the stars being improperly aligned, the women's soccer team (0-2 overall) was again held scoreless Sunday, this time in a 3-0 loss to the Miami Hurricanes (3-1).After falling to No.
Senior midfielder Elizabeth Pillion had missed the last three weeks of the regular season with a hamstring injury, but in her first game back yesterday afternoon at home, no one could tell.
Recently, Daily Princetonian senior writer Clarke Smith sat down with senior basketball and baseball standout Will Venable.
With a berth in the Final Four on the line, the women's lacrosse team needed to play a perfect game against No.
The Princeton style of offense is known for its backdoor cuts, but lately it's been producing more of a revolving door effect.Chris Mooney '94, who spent last season as the head coach at Air Force after serving four years as an assistant to current Tiger men's basketball coach Joe Scott '87, has accepted the head coaching position at the University of Richmond.
The men's golf team, seeded No. 26 out of 27 teams in the upcoming NCAA Regionals, is looking to use its underdog status to slip ahead of its opponents and prove skeptics wrong about its ability to compete at a national level.
With seven teams that made last year's NCAA Tournament scheduled to face the women's soccer team next season ? including the UCLA squad that defeated Princeton in the national semifinals ? head coach Julie Shackford will discover early on how her new Tigers compare to last year's unit.At the moment, she can only guess the impact of losing a stellar senior class that includes two-time Ivy League Player of the Year Esmeralda Negron.
An anxious Princeton softball team waits to hear its fate in the next few days as the NCAA Tournament bracket is revealed.
Princeton's men's and women's crews travel to different locations this Sunday for their respective Eastern Sprints regattas, but when all is said and done, they hope to end up in the same place ? atop all of their competitors.
Just 500 meters into the Eastern Sprints men's heavyweight grand final on Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, Mass., on Sunday, it was clear the race would come down to two boats: Princeton and Harvard.Both crews had gone out extremely fast, and by the 1000-meter mark, the Tigers trailed the Crimson by half a boat length with the rest of the field languishing well behind.
Freshman defenseman Dan Cocoziello was honored as the Ivy League Rookie of the Year on Wednesday, the first time in history the award has gone to a defenseman.
Though the women's golf team failed to advance out of the NCAA East Regionals to the NCAA Championships this weekend, the Tigers did improve on their finish from last season.
For generations, Princetonians have risen to the highest levels of success imaginable in their chosen field ? and men's lacrosse head coach Bill Tierney is no exception.
"As a team, Heps are what we look forward to," junior Cack Ferrell said. "It's the culminating meet for our team's season because it's the last time we will all be together."In the final team contest of the season, both the men's and women's track teams failed to send the seniors out in a manner befitting their high expectations.Held at Columbia's Wien Stadium this weekend, Heptagonals brought all of the Ivy League schools together.
The men's lacrosse team may not have had the season it had hoped for this year, but with the combination of young players already on the roster and a strong incoming recruiting class, Princeton shouldn't take long to return to its usual winning ways.The Tigers bring in nine talented players in the recruiting class of 2009.
It has often been said that familiarity breeds contempt, but for the women's lacrosse team, familiarity has bred respect.
The women's lacrosse team has won three national championships during head coach Chris Sailer's 19 year tenure.
The women's lacrosse team swept the Ivy League's top two honors, it was announced Tuesday, the second straight year that Tigers have claimed both the Ivy Player of the Year and the Rookie of the Year awards.Senior attack Lindsey Biles, who led the league with 62 points, shared Player of the Year honors with Dartmouth's Katieanne Christian, while midfielder Katie Lewis-Lamonica nabbed the Rookie of the Year award.Senior midfielder Elizabeth Pillion and junior defender Lauren Vance accompanied Biles on the All-Ivy first team.