So fresh and so clean. Just as skillfully as Outkast can lay down a beat, so can the Princeton men's water polo team lay down a beating, which it proved during last weekend's play.
Junior captain Avery Kiser is facing some tough competition this year. While no school in the Ivy League has previously been able to produce a player to challenge Kiser's dominance on the links, it seems that this year she may have met her match.Which school has provided such a dominating player?
The football team lost, 28-13, on Saturday. A late-game comeback from the Tigers fell short, and a missed extra point accounted for the strange score.
For a moment, there was hope. The sprint football team was again on the move, as the offense charged forcefully across midfield into Cornell territory.
On Friday night, the field hockey team showed that it can hang with the best.The Tigers (5-2 overall, 3-0 Ivy League) lost a heartbreaking 3-2 game in overtime to No.
Princeton's men's and women's cross country teams took to the road this weekend in their first away meets of the season.
Women's golfFour Tigers finished in the top 15 golfers at the Princeton Invitational this weekend, good enough to keep the first-place trophy at home.The Tigers were led by freshman Sharla Cloutier, who took first place individual honors after shooting a final-round 77 to finish with a seven-over 151 for the tournament.Senior Avery Kiser, Princeton's customary top finisher, shot even par on the first day of the two-day event, but struggled yesterday with an eight-over 80.
On Saturday night the women's soccer team defeated Yale in Princeton Stadium, 4-2, in the Ivy League opener for both teams.
Sports fans love upsets. Whether it is the Patriots over the Rams, Princeton over UCLA, or anyone over the Yankees, the sports world rejoices whenever an underdog comes through and shocks a more powerful foe.
The women's soccer team kicks off the Ivy League season this weekend against Yale (4-2) following a successful trip to California.
It was like Clark Kent played the first and third quarters and Superman played the other two, or so it seemed.
Watch out, field hockey, the train's coming through.That train is No. 3 Maryland (9-0), which has won all nine of its games this season.
First-game jitters. They happen to all athletic teams at one point or another. Feeling pressure to perform, not enough experience or whatever it might be, there is no doubt that teams have come out too cautious or too nervous and not performed up to their potential in their season's opening games.It was these jitters that head coach Roger Hughes referred to in Saturday's press conference following the football team's defeat at the hands of Lehigh, 28-13.As was quoted earlier this week, Hughes said: "We made a lot of first game mistakes."I'd have to say that these mistakes led to one of the worst things that any team must deal with ? an inability to finish.Examples:First drive ? junior quarterback Matt Verbit and the offense march down the field, coming out with an early spark that would not be so evident later in the game.
Philadelphia Eagles fans turn on their team faster than any group of fans in the country. They go from cheering Donovan McNabb to requesting Andy Reid be fired in the matter of a few plays.Princeton football fans have also been unusually fickle in their judgment of the team's performance Saturday night against No.
The men's water polo team had its most important victory of the season Saturday against Navy. The 7-6 overtime win was a step in the right direction, though much work remains to be done.
It may not have been a perfect game, but the women's soccer team did what it needed to do. Junior forward Esmeralda Negron extended her streak of scoring in every game this season as Princeton (5-0-1) defeated visiting Hartford, 3-1, on Lourie Love Field.Negron tallied twice in the second half amidst countless other offensive opportunities for the Tigers.
The women's golf team will be host this weekend, looking to spoil the party at its annual Princeton Invitational played at Springdale Golf Club.After an impressive first tournament, in which the Tigers placed first and junior Avery Kiser took medallist honors, this weekend's tournament is for the Tigers taking, if they so desire.Princeton fell 14 strokes short of the title last season, with Brown winning the Invitational.
Extraordinarily good at sinking Navy in the final moments of a game seems to be the specialty of Dan McKenna, senior two-meter co-captain of the men's water polo team.
"Fall seven times, stand up eight" ? Japanese proverbSince the beginning of its season two weeks ago, the women's volleyball team has had to overcome a host of difficulties, problems which have resulted in a 3-3 record that does not accurately reflect the potential of this squad.
The scenario seems stolen straight from every coach's worst nightmare ? a team must rely on a platoon of two freshmen goalies.Yet field hockey head coach Kristen Holmes-Winn doesn't wake up screaming every morning.
