Call them outclassed.It's not disparaging in any way; it's simply the term in racing for a horse that takes his shot against a bigger and stronger class of horses and meets with a predictable defeat.
While most Princeton students will be in dreary New Jersey facing exams in January, sophomore Dustin Urban will be in sunny Sydney, Australia battling the world's best freestyle kayakers.
Defense wins Super Bowls and pitching wins World Series, but just what wins a Lord Stanley's Cup and the collegiate hockey equivalent?Hockey players and coaches agree that there is a link between winning games and a team's success on the power play and penalty kill.
Walking on to any varsity sport at Princeton is tough. Walking on to a team that has won three national titles is simply remarkable.Enter junior Diana Zakem.
In recent months, sports fans looking to get their fill of violence have been treated to a relief pitcher chucking a chair into the stands and basketball players brawling with fans.
Cancel winter formals. Something better just came up.For those of you who went home for the holiday weekend to sleep on tryptophan and get fat on stuffing, you missed the latest chapter in one of the most impressive college sports stories of the year.
While countless Americans spent the Friday after Thanksgiving doling out exorbitant sums of paper, metal and plastic money in preparation for the holiday season, the women's soccer team used a less tangible sort of currency ? namely, cohesiveness on both sides of the ball ? to buy themselves a trip to the Final Four.In defeating the University of Washington Huskies, 3-1, in the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament, the Tigers secured a place for themselves in history, becoming the first Ivy League women's soccer squad to advance this far in the postseason."We're really excited that we can represent the Ivy League," senior defender Brea Griffiths said, "and that the country now has to recognize us as a successful program."Princeton will play UCLA, a 1-0 winner over Ohio State on Saturday, in the semifinals next Friday in Cary, N.C.Coming into the game, neither Princeton nor Washington had allowed a goal in the first three games of tournament play.
The women's hockey team (6-4-1 overall, 2-3-0 Eastern College Athletic Conference) rebounded from a loss on Wednesday night to sweep two games over the weekend and finish the break with a 2-1 record.
Stringing together two wins over the same weekend has been impossible for the men's hockey team this year.
The shot clock was working. Neither team resorted to Dean Smith's famed four corners offense. There was no cover on either hoop.And yet, on Saturday in Easton, Pa., the men's basketball team and Lafayette somehow managed to combine for just 78 points, despite presumably trying their best to score.In this low-scoring struggle, the Tigers' offense was a little less bad, and Princeton (2-2 overall) escaped with a 40-38 victory over the host Leopards (1-2).With both teams unable to connect from the field, it was the Tigers' defense that ultimately won the game.
Senior Charlie Wiggins placed eighth in the 157-pound weight class as the wrestling team got its season off to a promising start at the 38th annual East Stroudsburg Open tournament on Saturday.Wiggins dropped his first match of the day, but rebounded to win five consecutive matches before succumbing to Phil Bomberger of Penn State, who finished in fourth place.
Women's soccer is one game away from its first-ever appearance at the NCAA Final Four, referred to in soccer circles as the College Cup.With its 2-0 blanking of Boston College last Saturday, No.
Just two nights shy of Thanksgiving, the Princeton men's hockey team feasted on Yale. In game one of the fifth-annual Thanksgiving time home-and-home series and in the final game of their three-game home-stand, the Tigers roasted the Bulldogs, 6-3.
Men's basketballAfter a disappointing loss to Wyoming on Monday night, the men's basketball team returns to action Saturday afternoon against Lafayette in Easton, Pa.Princeton (1-2 overall) has already defeated one Patriot League squad this year, Bucknell, and, on paper at least, is favored to knock off the Leopards (1-1) as well.
Despite Katy Digovich and Rebecca Brown putting up 15 and 14 points, respectively, for the women's basketball team, Princeton lost to Lehigh 64-15.
The men's and women's swimming teams opened their campaigns to defend their Ivy League titles this weekend in Philadelphia, Pa., with dominating performances over Penn and Cornell.
If the idea that adversity breeds toughness ever needed to be supported with a concrete example, the women's cross country team would illustrate it perfectly.Racing against the best teams in America at the NCAA Championships in Terre Haute, Ind., the Tigers fought their way through both a talented field and difficult conditions to finish in 18th place of the 31 teams competing."As a whole, the team is thrilled," junior Cack Ferrell said.Ferrell covered the six-kilometer course in 20 minutes, 56 seconds ? less than a minute off the lead ? to finish in 13th place of those who qualified as members of a team and 20th overall when individual runners were included.
Just as it did in the 2003-2004 season, the No. 8 women's hockey team split games with Mercyhurst this weekend.
For 44 minutes, senior guard Will Venable did everything he could to keep the men's basketball team (1-2 overall) in the game.
For Princeton's talented runners who often live in the shadow of the cross-country team's top seven, this weekend provided them with a chance to shine.While the women's varsity seven and men's team senior Austin Smith prepared themselves to race at the NCAA Championships in Terre Haute, Ind., the remaining runners took the short trip to New York to compete in the ECAC and IC4A Championships on Saturday.Sophomore Caroline Mullen came up with the Tigers' top finish, covering the five-kilometer course at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, N.Y., in 18 minutes, 52 seconds, which was good for 40th place.Followed by senior Randy Buzzell (46th, 18:57) and sophomore Claire Filloux (50th, 19:00), Mullen led her team to an eighth-place finish out of 15 teams competing.Freshman James O'Toole led the men's team with a 60th-place finish and a time of 26:07 over the five-mile course.
