Losing streaks are the biggest test of a team's character. How athletes respond when the chips are down and wins are few and far between stands as testament to their toughness.
Another disappointing season ended for the sprint football team Friday, as Penn (3-3) defeated the Tigers, 37-15, at Frelinghuysen Field, leaving Princeton (0-6) with yet another winless season.The Tigers' loss was not without a silver lining, however, as their play in the second half showed a glimpse of what has the chance to become a solid team next year.Unfortunately, the game was already decided by halftime, when the Quakers had built a commanding 30-7 lead.
Another year, another perfect Ivy League season for the field hockey team.With a 3-1 win over Penn (10-7 overall, 3-4 Ivy League) on Friday night, the Tigers (12-5, 7-0) secured their fourth straight undefeated Ivy League season.Scoring was scarce for most of the game, although the Tigers controlled the ball well and created ample opportunities.
On one side of Franklin Field it was sunbaked and calm, somewhere above 60 degrees. On the other side it was shadowed and windy, somewhere below 40.
Penn's Katie Cross, the Ivy League's leading scorer, netted three goals against women's soccer to lead the Quakers to a 3-2 victory Saturday.While the Tigers' defense has been stellar all season, it was rendered powerless by Penn's determined junior."We've never had anyone score three goals on us," junior midfielder Catherine Byrd said.
The women's volleyball team took a big step in its quest for an Ivy League title this weekend by winning back to back road games against Columbia and Cornell.The victory over the Big Red (9-3 Ivy League, 19-4 overall) on Saturday was truly one for the ages, as the match's intensity reached a height previously unseen for the Tigers."It was by far the most exciting game of the season," sophomore outside hitter Lauren Grumet said, "We showed more pride than we ever have before, and that's why we won."The cause of all the intensity and excitement was the fact that Cornell was coming off a victory Friday night against league-leader Penn.
This Saturday the women's volleyball team will travel to Cornell to play what should be one of the most important matches of the season.
Georgia vs. Rice. Pit those two I-A college football programs against each other, and anyone who knows football knows the winner.
Mud on the fields, a nip in the air and a jeer in the stands. It must be time for another Princeton-Penn late-season match-up.The men's soccer team plays its part in this weekend's athletic onslaught against the Quakers tomorrow at 11 a.m.
The women's soccer team will not win the outright Ivy League championship this year. Nor will the Tigers receive the automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament that comes with winning the crown.
The field hockey team ends its regular season this Friday at Penn. In a season which ominously began with a new head coach and was initially marked by the absence of seven players lost to graduation, this final game seems somewhat anticlimactic.The Tigers (11-5 overall, 6-0 Ivy League) clinched their 10th consecutive Ivy League championship last week, so there is not as much on the line in tonight's game against Penn (10-6, 3-3).On Oct.
"What are you going to do today?"For the members of the men's ice hockey team, this question has become a mantra of challenge and inspiration.
"You'll turn left at this little boathouse," a campus guide directs first time visitors.
Not once, but twice, the Princeton men's rugby team was seconds away from winning its semifinal game against West Chester University and qualifying for the Mid Atlantic Rugby Football Union (MARFU) Championship.
The women's hockey team began its season last weekend with two games against the Connecticut Huskies at the UConn Ice Arena.
On Sunday morning, 35,000 people started the New York City Marathon. The winner finished about two hours, 10 minutes later.
As 55,000 fans stood in frenzied anticipation of the next pitch, the decibel level in the stadium climbed from thunderous to ear splitting.
Recently, 'Prince' staff writer Sofia Mata-Leclerc sat down with senior two-meter Dan McKenna of the men's water polo team and his brother and teammate Mike McKenna, a sophomore driver, for a session of questions and answers.'Prince': Being from Pennsylvania, how did you guys start playing water polo?Dan McKenna: We both actually started when each of us was in the eighth grade.
This past weekend wasn't just "Survival Saturday" for the top 25 in Division 1-A football; "Survival Saturday" applied to the Ivy League as well.
For four members of the women's tennis team, Fall Break kicked off with the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Regionals Tournament over the weekend of Oct.
