CARY, N.C. ? The women's soccer program did not just take a step in the right direction this year.
CARY, N.C. ? For the first time this season, women's soccer got beat. It wasn't their first defeat of the season, but Princeton (19-3 overall, 7-0 Ivy League) was overmatched for the first time in its 2-0 loss in the national semifinals ?the College Cup ? against UCLA (18-6) on Friday.
Men's hockey faced a difficult road trip this weekend, squaring off against traditional league powerhouses Colgate and Cornell.Though Princeton kept both games close early on, both the Raiders and the Big Red pulled away in the third period to send the Tigers home without a point.Junior Dustin Sproat turned in a stellar performance on Friday night, a practice he has been making rather habitual this season, but it was not enough to prevent Colgate (12-4 overall, 5-1 Eastern College Athletic Conference Hockey League) from dealing the Tigers (4-7-1, 4-6-0) a 4-2 loss.Colgate got its first score three minutes, 42 seconds into the first period when Adam Mitchell picked up the rebound from teammate Darryl McKinnon's shot on goal.The Tigers responded soon after, evening the score at the halfway mark.
It was a tough weekend for the men's water polo team (25-5), which dropped a thriller to second-seeded UCLA (24-3) on Saturday and was edged out, 6-5, against Loyola Marymount (21-11) on Sunday during the Final Four tournament in Palo Alto, Calif.This was the first Princeton appearance at the Final Four in 12 years and the culmination of a fantastic season.
Men's squash (2-1 overall, 1-1 Ivy League) earned its first league win with a 7-2 decision over Brown (0-1, 0-1) on Saturday.
When it comes to stopping flying projectiles, perhaps a wall, a shield, or a Star Wars-like forcefield come to mind.
In an occurence about as rare as Halley's Comet, the men's water polo team and the women's soccer team will both be competing in the Final Four of their respective NCAA tournaments this weekend against the same foe, UCLA.
Women's soccer takes to the road after five straight games and 33 days at home to play 14-seed UCLA (17-6) in the semifinals of the NCAA tournament in Cary, N.C., at 2 p.m.
Men's squash found its footing on Wednesday with an 8-1 match victory over Franklin & Marshall (2-3 overall) for its first win of the season.Princeton (1-1, 0-1 Ivy League) took every match but the No.
Losing every away game for over a year is not an easy stigma for a team to overcome. Yet, with a 63-53 win against Wagner this Wednesday night, the women's basketball team did just that, proving that this year's squad is finally ready to move on to bigger and better things."It's good to get a road win," head coach Richard Barron said.
This weekend, the women's hockey team is looking to get its conference season back on its traditional winning track.The No.
After last weekend's embarrassing loss at the hands of then-winless Yale, the men's hockey team faces No.
Tara Lipinski and Michelle Kwan may have captured the hearts of America at the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano, Japan, but Princeton's Figure Skating Club already holds a few Tiger hearts here in Princeton.The growing club counts among its 25 members skaters who all share the same passion for self-expression on ice."We're pretty typical of club sports," senior Liz Asch said.
Showing the intensity that head coach Joe Scott has hoped to imbue this year, men's basketball used a team effort to hold onto a tenuous lead at Holy Cross (3-1) last night as Princeton (3-2) lifted its record above .500 and finished a five-game road trip with a win, despite missing one of its leading scorers because of injury.With less than three minutes to play, it looked like Princeton had everything taken care of, when junior guard Scott Greenman hit a three-pointer to put the Tigers up by nine, 52-43, following a brief Holy Cross run.
If you know anything about outdoor track, it should not be hard to understand the intricacies of indoor track.
A series of meetings planned by USG to address student concern over the inadequacies of recreational athletic facilities were canceled Wednesday because the student body had not expressed significant interest.Mike Murray, a Class of 2006 Senator, was in charge of organizing the talks but received only seven emails expressing a desire to attend.
If you've ever seen a person around campus throwing a frisbee for no apparent reason at no discernable target, you've probably run across a frisbee golfer.
Some people say that swimming isn't a team sport. Spend a moment talking to senior Stephanie Hsiao, and you might reconsider.Ask her about winning three individual events at last years Ivy League Championships, and she will tell you that she didn't really think about it, since she was so focused on helping the team to its fifth straight title.Ask her about her team, and she will tell you they are a close-knit family bound together by mornings and afternoons of churning out workouts in DeNunzio Pool.They are a family with a proud winning tradition, a tradition influenced over the last three years by Hsiao's winning ways.After her senior year in high school in Irvine, Calif., Hsiao sought a school far from home since she liked the intensity of the East Coast, and the vibe it gave her.
There is a different feeling this year. If you were to ask those affiliated with the women's basketball program about this young season, that's what they would all say.
An extended road trip outside the friendly ? or at least familiar ? confines of the Ivy League has defined the early season of men's basketball.
