Last weekend, the men's volleyball team undertook the toughest test of its 2004 season. Princeton faced three Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association opponents in as many days, including games against powers Penn State and Juniata.
Fresh off its doubleheader sweep at Fairfield on Tuesday, the softball team woke up Wednesday morning ready to take on Temple at home.
After a less-than-perfect win over Delaware on Tuesday night, women's lacrosse looks to clean up the technical aspects of its game Saturday against Cornell at Class of 1952 Stadium.Princeton (8-0 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) hosts the Big Red (1-6, 0-1) for its second consecutive home game.Both teams have just one other league contest under their belts.
I'll admit it: I'm delusional.Every spring, for as long as I can remember, I've had a dream.
Perhaps some doubt was cast last weekend at the William & Mary Invitational on the women's golf team's plans to reclaim the Ivy League title.
Although the five days of April showers forecasted to ring in the new month will keep most of us holed up inside, women's crew will be out on the water, as usual this weekend.The open novices did exceptionally well last weekend against Brown and Ohio State, while the varsity squad turned in its rendition of Jekyll and Hyde.
This weekend, men's golf finished in second place at the George Washington Golf Invitational. The Tigers completed the tournament with a 23-over-par 599, just three shots behind the host Colonials.Despite this solid finish, Princeton was disappointed with the result."We had our sights set on winning," senior Greg Johnson said.
After splitting its first two doubleheaders of the season, the softball team was looking for a sweep at Fairfield (10-19) on Tuesday in Connecticut.
Following the rousing response to my last column (a record seven hits on the website), I was hoping the 'Prince' would take the torch from WPRB and pay my way to Atlanta for the regional finals of the NCAA tournament last weekend.
When you can play a technically poor game and still wind up with a seven-goal advantage at the final whistle, you know you've got a solid season in the making.The No.
For those of you who were not awake at 5 a.m. yesterday morning ? and your excuse better be good if you weren't ? you missed the New York Yankees take on the Tampa Bay Devil Rays as Major League Baseball kicked off its 2004 campaign in Tokyo, Japan.The game was the lead story yesterday on ESPN's two hit afternoon talk shows, Around the Horn and Pardon the Interruption, but only partly because of the surprising result.
Four men's and four women's fencers set out for Brandeis University's Gosman Sports Center in Waltham, Mass., last week for the NCAA Championships.
We've all had an Olympic dream. I don't care if the heaviest thing you've ever lifted is your violin or if the fastest you've ever sprinted was that time you were late for the bus to the math team competition ? if you've ever seen coverage of an American athlete standing atop a podium, weeping, while the stars and stripes are slowly raised to the rafters, you've wanted to be him, even if just for a second.I've sampled a lot of sports in my quest to realize my Olympic dream.
The members of the women's lightweight crew team didn't have any trouble pulling their own weight this weekend at the Windermere Collegiate Crew Classic in Redwood Shores, Calif.
Heading into this season, the baseball team's biggest question mark was an inexperienced pitching staff.
The sunny skies brought nothing but good tidings for Princeton tennis Saturday, as both the women and the men came out with a victory on their home courts.
When junior center Kathryn Parolin's shot hit the back of the net, putting the women's water polo team up, 7-6, over George Washington on Sunday, it sealed Princeton's fourth win for the weekend and its fifth consecutive win since returning from Spring Break.Over the break, the Tigers (17-7) traveled to the competitive arena of California and played seven teams over the course of six days.Why?
Last weekend the Nassau County (N.Y.) Aquatic Center was filled with tension, excitement, broken records and guys in Speedos.
Aldous Huxley once wrote, "Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead." This weekend, softball helped to confirm this truth, splitting its second set of home games against Boston University after going 1-1 against Rutgers just last Wednesday.Even though the Tigers stumbled in their first game, the weekend was also an excellent example of the defensive abilities and offensive potential that Princeton possesses.
Coming into the toughest weekend of its 2004 season, the men's volleyball team was hoping to finish at least 2-1 in three very important matches.
