Master Motivator
The women's lacrosse team has won three national championships during head coach Chris Sailer's 19 year tenure.
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.
With eight seniors graduating, including four All-Ivy League honorees, the field hockey team will need to find new leaders next season.
Friday night, on the side court next to the storied main floor of Jadwin Gymnasium, the sports staffs of the two titans of Princeton media ? The Daily Princetonian and WPRB ? waged their annual blood feud of a battle in the 2005 Matt Oxman '01 Classic.Proving that the good guys never win, the loudmouth shock-rockers of WPRB jumped to an early lead and breezed to a 64-49 victory over the oft-frazzled, yet still eloquent, scribes of the 'Prince.'Despite having claimed victory last year, the 'Prince' entered the game as the substantial underdog, and with good reason, after the Benedict Arnold-esque off-season defection of sophomore center Meka Asonye from the 'Prince' to WPRB.
This year's men's lacrosse season hasn't exactly been as epic as some past years, but it certainly ended in poetic fashion.The Tigers (5-7 overall, 4-2 Ivy League) defeated Brown (6-6, 2-4) on Saturday at Class of 1952 Stadium by a score of 13-4.
The 2004 men's soccer team missed a share of the Ivy League title by just one loss, a fate that the six members of the Class of 2009 who will join the squad next season are determined not to repeat."We think it's a really strong class," head coach Jim Barlow said.
His adrenaline pumping, Brian Elbogen hustles down the court at Dillon Gym, shouting instructions to teammates.
Wondering what a difference one new class of freshmen can make? Look no further than the women's basketball team's last season.With the help of a stellar freshman class ? including the Ivy League Rookie of the Year, forward Meagan Cowher ? the Tigers pushed their record from 7-20 in 2003-04 to 13-14 in 2004-05.
The future is looking bright for Princeton's tennis teams, as both squads add promising freshmen in the Class of 2009.After playing to a 3-4 Ivy League record this past season, the men's team will need immediate contributions from its four new players if it is to improve next year.The first new player is Alex Krueger-Wyman of Pasadena, Calif.
For senior catcher Ty Ries and senior centerfielder Melissa Finley, yesterday's doubleheader against Rider was bittersweet.
After missing a chance to play for an Ivy League championship by a single game, the baseball team's season came to an end Wednesday with a solid 5-1 win over Rider.Princeton (17-24 overall, 10-10 Ivy League) used a strong outing by sophomore pitcher Wills Sweney and a three-hit effort from sophomore third baseman Sal Iacono to overcome the Broncos (12-26). Though the Tigers had hoped to use the game as a warmup for the Ivy League Championship series, a weekend split against Cornell relegated Princeton to second place in the Gehrig Division, leaving the team without a post-season.Sweney allowed only four hits and one unearned run over five innings to improve to 2-5 on the year.Rider's lone run came in the top of the second, when centerfielder Mike Poalise reached on a throwing error by junior shortstop Matthew Becker.
For the first time since the fall of the Berlin Wall, men's lacrosse already knows when its season will end.
Whether causing the pitching rubber to shake by sending shivers down the spines of opposing hurlers or by the impact of her own deadly windup, Erin Snyder, junior pitcher and first baseman for the NCAA tournament-bound softball team (35-18 overall, 12-2 Ivy League), raises the expectations for a two-way player in every game she plays.Far from a novelty act, Snyder's ability to consistently secure victories with both her arm and her bat has been the driving force behind the Tigers' successful season.
As Maryland's Brooke Richards emerged from behind the net and scored against senior goaltender Sarah Kolodner in the second sudden-death overtime session, the horn sounded on Princeton's regular season.
All too often, the only time a goalie receives any attention is when he does something wrong. This year, however, senior Peter Sabbatini rightfully gained notoriety for doing something ? many things, in fact ? right.Sabbatini had already amassed an impressive record before this fall's men's water polo season even began.
As the final seconds of the first half expired, freshman goalie Natalie Kim hurled the ball toward Brown's cage.
For twelve straight years, at least one of the women's lacrosse powerhouses of Maryland and Princeton has played in the NCAA final.
In its 111th year, the Penn Relays at Franklin Field in Philadelphia is heralded as America's largest track meet and the world's first relay meet.
A postseason isn't in the cards for the baseball team this year, as it split a four-game weekend series with Cornell.
On a cold and windy day in late November on Lourie-Love Field, senior forward Esmeralda Negron and her teammates on the women's soccer team did the unthinkable.