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O'Toole, Antalics pontificate on life

O'Toole, Antalics pontificate on life

Recently, 'Prince' senior writer Sofia Mata Leclerc sat down with two long distance runners, freshman James O'Toole and senior Dan Antalics, to discuss topics ranging from running to Bill Brasky.Daily Princetonian: How is the team doing?James O'Toole: I like the direction that the team is heading because people are starting to take the lifestyle a little more seriously after cross-country.

SPORTS | 02/02/2005

Elis top Princeton

The blizzard that blanketed the East Coast with snow over intersession had a rival in ferocity: Princeton's squash teams.Battling poor travel conditions, injuries and post-exam fatigue, Princeton's squash teams fought their way to a split record in Ivy League competition over the break.The men's team defeated Penn, 6-3, this past Wednesday, and the women routed the Quakers by the impressive tally of 9-0, with all nine wins coming in three games."It was really big to beat Penn as far as getting a good seeding for the national championships this March," freshman No.

SPORTS | 02/02/2005

Tigers kick off season with one win, two losses

After winning its season opener against Georgia State, 5-2, the men's tennis team lost its next two matches by a wide margin.

SPORTS | 02/01/2005

Tigers get wake-up call in loss to Harvard

Harvard and Princeton have dominated Ivy League men's swimming and diving since 1972, the last time a team other than those two powerhouses won the conference championship.The Tigers (4-1 Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League, 6-1 overall) and the Crimson (7-0, 7-0) battled again this past Saturday and Sunday in the annual H-Y-P meet.

SPORTS | 02/01/2005

Tigers dominate in two break meets

While most of the track team spent intersession running circles around weaker opponents, two of the women's team's top distance runners took on the country's best in Boston.Juniors Cack Ferrell and Meredith Lambert ran in the Boston University Invitational on Friday evening and proved to be up to the task.

SPORTS | 02/01/2005

Master Architect

Working in her spacious office in the tower of Dillon Gymnasium, Princeton women's soccer coach Julie Shackford thinks of her team's brilliant run to the national semifinals this past season chiefly as it pertains to the task at hand ? planning for the future of her program.

SPORTS | 02/01/2005

Double-OT heartbreak

Down two points with two seconds to play in the second overtime last night, freshman forward Meagan Cowher stepped to the line to shoot two free throws.

SPORTS | 02/01/2005

Cornell, Columbia crush Tigers

The Princeton wrestling team hit the road this past weekend, traveling to Ithaca, N.Y. to take on Cornell Friday night and then heading south to the Big Apple to face off against Columbia.

SPORTS | 01/31/2005

Tigers' six-year H-Y-P streak snapped

The last time the Princeton women's swimming and diving team lost in Ivy League dual-meet competition, Bill Clinton was President, current senior captain Stephanie Hsiao was a freshman in high school and college students managed to procrastinate without thefacebook.com.Princeton, Harvard and Yale gathered this past Friday and Saturday in a clash of three undefeated swimming powerhouses.

SPORTS | 01/31/2005

Too cold to care about T.O.

Breaking news! Terrell Owens will play in the Super Bowl!Breaking news! We were wrong! He's not playing!Gag me.

SPORTS | 01/31/2005

Men's fencing outspars Lions

The sabers were flying in Jadwin Gymnasium on Saturday when the men's and women's fencing teams squared off against St.

SPORTS | 01/31/2005

Happy Trails

When frustration about the overcrowded Stephens Fitness Center peaks or when the wintry weather conditions abate, many students lace up their sneakers and hit the sidewalks and trails around campus for a great workout.

SPORTS | 01/31/2005

Welcome to a new year at the 'Prince'

I'd like to begin with an important announcement: the Boston Red Sox are no longer the official baseball team of this sports section.With this issue, a new set of editors takes the reins at The Daily Princetonian.

SPORTS | 01/30/2005

Tigers Salvage Split

No one ever accused Mike Stephens of having a complex game.Saturday night, the senior center's ability to keep things simple was just what the doctor ordered for the ailing men's basketball team.

SPORTS | 01/30/2005

W. hoops falls to Bears, tops Elis

For three years, even as her team struggled mightily, Becky Brown has been a pillar of consistency in the middle of the women's basketball lineup.The junior center turned in three more stellar performances over the past week, surpassing 1,000 points for her Princeton career and leading the Tigers (9-6 overall, 1-1 Ivy League) to two victories in three games.With the victories, Princeton exceeded its win total of last year and matched its total of two seasons ago, with nearly half the season still left to be played.The Tigers traveled to Easton, Pa., to face Lafayette (3-17) on Jan.

SPORTS | 01/30/2005

Crimson crushes men's hockey

As much as the men's hockey team has improved under new head coach Guy Gadowsky this season, the Tigers still have a long way to go before they can count themselves amongst the elite teams of the Ivy League.Harvard and Brown drove that point home this weekend, visiting Baker Rink and handing Princeton (6-14-1 overall, 4-10-0 Eastern College Athletic Conference Hockey League) a pair of tough losses.Friday night the Crimson (12-5-2, 9-4-1) unleashed a scoring blitzkrieg, embarrassing the Tigers 7-0.

SPORTS | 01/30/2005

Visiting Brown shocks men's basketball in Ivy season opener

For half a century, when Brown arrived in Princeton to face the men's basketball team, the Bears didn't really believe they could win.Times have changed.Friday night at Jadwin Gym, it was the visitors from Providence who played with the confidence and poise of defending Ivy League champions.

SPORTS | 01/30/2005

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