The bad news? The women's basketball team is young this season. The good news? The women's basketball team is young this season.Featuring two seniors, one junior and 10 underclassmen, Princeton has little experience.
Pete Carril. Palestra Miracle. David 43, Goliath 41.Over the last 10 years the men's basketball fans have accrued some great memories.
Head Coach Gail Ramsay has every reason to be happy with her team this season, as women's squash adds five new freshmen to its top nine players.Freshmen Claire Rein-Weston, Ali Pearson, Marilla Hiltz, Genevieve Lessard and Anina Nolan all join one of the most successful squash teams in the country.Last year, six sophomores and one freshman made up seven of the team's top nine.
"Everything I do has a kind of spin, a thought toward preparing us to win the league," men's basketball head coach John Thompson '88 said yesterday, remarking on his team's difficult pre-Ivy League schedule.The first half of Princeton's schedule, which Thompson likes to refer to as the pre-season, is 13 games long, with four of them televised.
The Princeton University Table Tennis Club is reestablishing the name of table tennis here at the University as well as in the wider community.Several years ago, the participation in the club was limited, but under the current leadership of Ivan B
Senior co-captain and midfielder Claire Miller and freshman goalkeeper Allison Nemeth received two of the top Ivy League honors for the 2003 season.After leading the team to its tenth consecutive Ivy League title this year, Miller was named the 2003 Ivy League Player of the Year.
One of the best fencers in the world goes to Princeton. Unfortunately for the fencing team, he ? Soren Thompson ? has decided to take the year off in hopes of qualifying for a spot in next year's Summer Olympics.
If you didn't already know, now you know ? men's water polo ends the season proving yet again that it is a force to be reckoned with.
So much for home ice advantage. The men's hockey team (1-5-1 overall, 1-3-1 Eastern College Athletic Conference) seriously should consider forsaking Baker Rink and moving all its games to Bright Hockey Arena.
Speaking of the women's hockey team's 3-0 loss to No. 9 New Hampshire last Saturday, head coach Jeff Kampersal '92 sounded like the Tigers had been involved in an ultimate fighting match rather than a hockey game."The first goal was like a surprising left jab to the face, the second was a hard right uppercut in the stomach, and the third was a kick to the butt," Kampersal said.
The Boston area received a royal beating when the women's swimming and diving team rolled into town this weekend.
For seniors Jeff Hare, Gianfranco Tripicchio, Marty Shaw, Jason Bell and Vincent Vitale, the past four seasons of playing Ivy League soccer for Princeton have created lasting memories of triumphs, teamwork and tough wins.Unfortunately, this Saturday's season finale against Yale was not a game any Tiger, senior or underclassman, will want to remember.Princeton entered the weekend contest on Lourie-Love Field firmly entrenched in the spoiler's role, trying to upset Yale's chances for a tie for first in the Ivy League.
The women's cross country team achieved a season-long goal this past Saturday, as its second place finish in the Mid-Atlantic NCAA Regional meet in Lock Haven, Pa., qualified the entire team for the NCAA Championship.
Four wins for an Ivy League title. That's easy. Four wins in four games for an Ivy League title. That's pressure.This is what the women's volleyball team was up against entering the final stretch of its season.
Last week the football team considered itself two plays from being 4-1 in the Ivy League. Now the Tigers (2-7 overall, 2-4 Ivy League) are three plays away from being 5-1 after losing Saturday to Yale, 27-24, in double overtime."Take one play away," junior running back Jon Veach said.
For the field hockey team, winning on Saturday would have meant proving that it could be successful outside of the Ivy League.
When the women's soccer team first learned that it would play Villanova in the first round of the NCAA tournament, excitement spread like wildfire.
Julie Shackford, head coach of the women's soccer team, is disappointed to see the Ivy League trophy leave her office for Hanover, N.H., where Dartmouth will hold it.
Don't mess with the Tigers when they are on the prowl. It was only two weeks ago, on Nov. 2, that the men's water polo team demolished the Southern Division Championships and brought home their third Southern title in the team's seven year history.The Tigers, with an overall record of 21-3, will travel to the U.S.
The Class of 1952 Stadium is no stranger to national championship banners. Each spring, the fences are adorned with banners from the renowned lacrosse program.Each fall, on the other hand, the field hockey team inhabits a stadium whose walls are conspicuously bare of any such decorations.Until now, that is.For the past two weeks, new signs proclaiming "2003 National Championships" have adorned the sides of the goal cages at either end of the field.
