When the men's basketball team (13-12 overall, 4-7 Ivy League) visited Dartmouth and Harvard on the first weekend in February, it had been four years since it suffered a loss to either opponent.Things have most certainly changed.
Women's basketball will begin a tough road trip this weekend against Harvard (17-7 overall, 9-2 Ivy League) and Dartmouth (14-9, 10-1) to finish its season.
Restraining line. Crease. Box. 2-3-1. 1-4-1. Clear. Ride. Slides. Pole. Crosscheck. Faceoff. Wings.Know what any of those mean?
Twice this season, the women's hockey team has scored first on Yale and put itself in the position to claim a victory.
Last year at this time, men's lacrosse was a team unsure of itself and its capabilities, returning only three starters from the previous year.
During his storied career on the men's lacrosse team, Ryan Boyle '04 was a player of uncommon skill, even on Princeton's high-caliber team.
The "Call on Me" music video and TV parodies of Richard Simmons are about the closest I've come to aerobics classes, so I was a bit nervous when I recently headed to Dillon Gym to join the "Butts and Guts" group fitness class for a day.
Long before Donald Rumsfeld '54 had the world's most advanced military weaponry at his fingertips as U.S.
It should have been in the police blotter, not the sports section: Nehemiah Ingram, 22, assaulted John Bryant, 22, on Tuesday, Feb.
For the past 15 years, the men's Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League Championships might as well have been called the Princeton and Harvard show.True, all eight Ivy League teams and Navy have competed each year.
With funding from the University and a variety of donor organizations, it may seem that Princeton athletics would be more than able to run successfully.
While zero may have negative connotations for some people, it is quickly becoming a favorite number for the men's tennis team (7-2 overall). Zero matches lost this past weekend, zero home losses this season and zero defeats against their past six opponents all add up to something much greater than zero.Saturday morning at Jadwin Gym, the Tigers cruised past George Washington (4-6), notching a 7-0 shutout.
The men's and women's fencing squads finished in second place at this year's Intercollegiate Fencing Association championships, held this weekend in Providence, R.I.
When the football team played in San Diego this September, they didn't make the trip to California alone.
Thanks to a strong defensive effort ? and benefiting from Princeton's error-plagued offensive play ? Rutgers-Newark swept the men's volleyball team on Tuesday night in Dillon Gym.Princeton (2-8 overall, 1-5 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association) was defeated, 30-27, 30-27 and 31-29.The Tigers had hoped to avenge their loss to the Scarlet Raiders (7-5, 4-1), having fallen to them, 3-2, earlier this season.
The women's water polo team matched up against some of the nation's top teams this past weekend, proving in the process that it deserves to be considered among the best.
The University of Virginia spends about $38 million on its 23 varsity athletic teams each year. The University of Michigan has budgeted $59 million this year for its 26 varsity teams.
According to data released by the NCAA yesterday, none of Princeton's varsity athletic teams are in danger of falling below new academic standards that will take effect next season.Princeton's overall "academic progress rate," or APR, of 994 ranked in the top decile of all universities, well above the 948 national average.Based on the 2003-04 school year, the NCAA calculated the APR for each team at all 326 Division-I universities.
Jackie Chan would be proud of me.Well, maybe not.As an Asian, I have often keenly felt the absence of any knowledge of martial arts.
Junior Cack Ferrell traveled to the weekend's Heptagonal Championship at Harvard as the defending champion in both the mile and the 3,000-meter run.
