Heptagonals have not always been kind to senior Alexis Tingan. As a freshman, he fell in the preliminaries of the 500-meter dash, failing to qualify for the finals.
Tough losses to Trinity last Saturday marked the end of a disappointing regular season for the men's and women's squash teams.
With numerous Princeton alumni and fans in attendance for the celebration of 100 Years of Princeton Wrestling, the mini-reunion, elaborate luncheon and banquet were surpassed only by the main attraction in Dillon Gymnasium ? the Tigers' match against Franklin and Marshall (3-14).The current Princeton wrestlers did not disappoint, cruising to a 40-8 victory over the Diplomats on Saturday night.
"We are a team that just does not like to lose," freshman forward Brittany Salmon said.
Valentine's Day is here, and I'm girlfriendless once again (shocking, I know).But I have a valentine nonetheless, the same valentine I've had every year for as long as I can remember, the same Valentine I'll have every year for as long as I live.My valentine has everything I could ask for in a relationship.
Last year, close games just didn't seem to go the Tigers' way. This weekend, Princeton women's basketball started to correct its problem with close games in its 78-74 win over Cornell (2-18 overall, 0-7 Ivy League) on Friday."That's a game we would have lost last year," sophomore forward Casey Lockwood said.
When men's basketball head coach Joe Scott '87 was asked late Saturday night if he was relieved to get a win after four consecutive losses, Scott cracked what must have been one of his few smiles in several weeks.At that point, you could hardly blame him.Scott's Tigers (11-10 overall, 2-5 Ivy League) held off Columbia (12-9, 3-5), 63-53, on Saturday at Jadwin Gym, snapping a four-game losing streak for Princeton and helping the Tigers avoid their worst Ivy League start in history.
The men's hockey team made no headway this weekend in its quest to gain home-ice advantage in the first round of the Eastern College Athletic Conference Hockey League playoffs.
Three minutes, three seconds into the second half, with the men's basketball team leading Cornell 39-33, junior guard Scott Greenman caught an airball by sophomore forward Luke Owings and redirected it into the basket ? saving the ball from going out of bounds and his team, temporarily, from embarrassment.Greenman could not, however, prevent what transpired next.
After suffering through a rigorous stretch of six games in 11 days, the women's basketball team travels to Cornell and Columbia this weekend in hopes of snapping a three-game losing skid."Without the chance to really practice, it seemed like our confidence was really shaken," head coach Richard Barron said.
Depending on how the men's basketball team chooses to look at it, a pair of home games this weekend is either a fantastic opportunity or too much, too soon.Just three days after Tuesday's heartbreaking loss at Penn, the Tigers (10-8 overall, 1-4 Ivy League) jump right back into the fray when they host Cornell (9-10, 4-2) and Columbia (12-7, 3-3) on Friday and Saturday night in Jadwin Gym.Having games so soon after what head coach Joe Scott '87 called a "traumatic loss" presents the Tigers with an opportunity to put their shocking three-game losing streak behind them.On Tuesday night, after the loss to Penn, a forlorn-looking Scott stressed the challenging nature of responding to adversity."When you have traumatic events you can either let it bring you down, or you can let it be the low point and do nothing but improve," he said.But for the Tigers to drag themselves out of the Ivy League cellar, they will first need to get past second-place Cornell tonight.
While Princeton fans praise junior goaltender Roxanne Gaudiel as peerless at her position, this weekend's games against Cornell (3-16-3 overall, 3-12-1 Eastern College Athletic Conference Hockey League) and Colgate (12-13-2, 5-7-2) will put that claim to the test.Coming off a split at home this past weekend, the No.
After comparing records and statistics, only the most optimistic of analysts would predict a win for the men's hockey team this weekend.
Save your jokes ? chances are he's heard them all. Sophomore Matt Mielke is a curler from Bismarck, North Dakota, two characteristics that earn him quite a few raised eyebrows and the occasional jibe.Recently, Mielke represented Massachusetts in the U.S.
An old adage states that "every mile is two in winter." For the wrestling team, whose season started back in early December, this winter has been one long, extended road trip from the Berkshires to the Black Hills.
Mark Shapiro '89 has seen the best and worst of the Cleveland Indians in his 14 years with the club.But after several disappointing seasons, he is now happy to say that the team is on the upswing."Our expectations are to win the division," Shapiro said.Two decades ago, when he first arrived at Princeton in 1984 as a history major and an offensive lineman on the football team, a career in baseball didn't appear on the horizon for Shapiro.
With 15 minutes left to play at The Palestra on Feb. 9, 1999, things were looking ugly for the Orange and Black.
The chant reverberates across the deck, spreading from the 50-odd members of the men's swimming team to the DeNunzio crowd."Chiles . . . Chiles . . . Chiles . . . "The meet has come down to the final 4x100-yard freestyle relay.
The women's fencing team defeated four teams in one day, improving its record to 6-3 in the safe confines of Jadwin Gym.Princeton took wins off Haverford, James Madison, Farleigh Dickinson and Cornell.
PHILADELPHIA ? Around 9:30 p.m. last night, with the men's basketball team cruising towards victory, I started to write my column about how Princeton saved its season.Half an hour later, as overtime tipped off, I highlighted a few hundred words and hit delete.
