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Athlete of the Week -- Emily Behncke

Athlete of the Week -- Emily Behncke

Junior Emily Behncke has made a tough transition this year look easy. After two seasons playing in the Tiger midfield, Behncke moved to forward after the arrival of freshman midfielder Diana Matheson, a member of the Canadian national team.Behncke showed just how comfortable she is in her new position this weekend against Vanderbilt.

SPORTS | 09/15/2004

Smith, w. lightweight crew's first coach, leaves

For the first time in Princeton women's lightweight crew history, somebody other than Heather Smith will grace the decks of the boathouse this season.This July, former head coach Smith announced that she would not be returning for an eighth year.

SPORTS | 09/15/2004

Princeton Stadium: Plenty of quality seats left

If a philosophy major attends a football game at Princeton Stadium, he might find himself considering a challenging question: are the stands half-empty or half-full?In five home games last season, the Tigers drew an average of 13,270 fans, or less than one half of the stadium's 27,800 capacity.

SPORTS | 09/15/2004

Ryan "HRA Golden Boy" Rich tells the world all

Recently, senior writer Daniel Satterfield sat down with senior forward Ryan Rich of the men's soccer team.

SPORTS | 09/14/2004

Receivers will have to fill void

An old sports adage opines that offense wins games while defense wins championships. For Princeton football, the need to win games is a more immediate goal than securing the Ivy League championship.

SPORTS | 09/14/2004

Defense to control fate of Tigers

When head coach Roger Hughes was brought to Princeton in 2000 to restore the program to prominence, he was expected to bring a high-powered West Coast offensive system with him that would modernize the Tiger attack.

SPORTS | 09/14/2004

Keasey, Mueller, McCareins return from academic ineligibility

As painful as last year's 2-8 debacle was for the football team, it may have been even more trying for three teammates who were unable to even suit up.After all, if those three players ? senior linebacker Zak Keasey, senior safety Brandon Mueller, and junior cornerback Jay McCareins ? had been in uniform instead of academically ineligible, things might have gone quite differently.

SPORTS | 09/14/2004

Spicer helps men's soccer blank Drexel

Men's soccer had its home opener against Drexel at Lourie-Love Field last night, revenging last week's loss to Akron with a 3-0 win over Drexel.Both teams entered the game off a loss.

SPORTS | 09/14/2004

Transition from star to role player tough for freshmen

For most college freshmen, the transition from high school to college can be daunting. Adding to the normal angst, Princeton freshmen emerge from accomplished secondary school careers in which their academic, athletic and extracurricular successes were unique among their peers.

SPORTS | 09/14/2004

A breakdown of Princeton's ten 2004 opponents

LafayettePrinceton opens its season with a home night game against Lafayette (2-0 overall), a middle of the pack Patriot league team last year.

SPORTS | 09/14/2004

Football is not quite the same after 135 years

"On Saturday November 6th, Princeton sent twenty-five picked men to play our twenty-five a match game of football."So began the account of the first intercollegiate football game in the Rutgers Targum of November, 1869, and so began intercollegiate football as we know it.Not really as we know it, actually.

SPORTS | 09/14/2004

Mike Williams: between a rock and a bigger rock

It's almost as if they were trying to get it wrong. And this one was so easy to get right.Late last month, the NCAA made its latest misstep when it denied Mike Williams athletic eligibility for the upcoming football season.

SPORTS | 09/13/2004

Kiser looks to pace talented, veteran women's golf squad

The women's golf team will kick off its 2004 campaign with not only a great deal of confidence, but also the weight of lofty expectations on its shoulders.

SPORTS | 09/13/2004

The Streak is over

From the 1986-1987 season to the 2002-2003 season, a team from Princeton won a national championship.

SPORTS | 09/13/2004

Field hockey opens league play with victory over Yale

Former men's basketball coach John Thompson '88 often said that while his teams played many games from October to March, the real season took place within the walls of the Ancient Eight.

SPORTS | 09/13/2004

M., w. cross-country crush weekend competition

Men's and women's cross country both started their seasons this weekend with a spring in their steps.

SPORTS | 09/13/2004

M. golf places sixth in Navy Fall Invite

Men's golf opened its fall season this weekend at the Navy Fall Invitational. Junior Jason Gerken paced the Tigers, finishing tied for second overall as Princeton finished sixth as a team.The Tigers led the tournament after the first of two rounds at the U.S.

SPORTS | 09/13/2004

Princeton finishes 33rd in Directors' Cup standings

While the majority of Princeton's student population know that its school once again resides at the pinnacle of the U.S.

SPORTS | 09/12/2004

Men's water polo stays undefeated

Winning games is not the only trend the men's water polo team (5-0) is starting this year; they are also adding mustaches to their "To Do" list with mixed reviews."We decided to go with team mustaches this year.

SPORTS | 09/12/2004

Bend it Like Behncke

When Villanova and Vanderbilt showed up on the women's soccer's team's schedule, the only 'V' Princeton could think about was victory.After defeating Villanova on Friday in Philadelphia, 1-0, the Tigers set their claws on Vanderbilt in a 3-0 route starring junior forward Emily Behncke."They were coming into the game 0-3, so they had nothing to lose," head coach Julie Shackford said.

SPORTS | 09/12/2004

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