Yasser El-Halaby, this year's Daily Princetonian male Athlete of the Year, made attending a squash match this season worthwhile.
After two weeks of spring practice, the football team has gained little except more questions. The team lost 23 seniors to graduation and played spring ball with 17 players out either because of injuries or because they were playing another sport.One of the biggest losses, however, did not fit in either of those categories ? former junior linebacker Zak Keasey, who led the team in tackles the last two seasons, was announced as academically ineligible for the 2003 season on March 26.Head coach Roger Hughes described his defense as a "doughnut" because of the lack of strength in its center ? defensive tackle and linebacker.With Keasey gone along with his fellow starters at linebacker, seniors J.R.
Last year, men's lacrosse traveled to Brown on the last weekend of the regular season needing a win to clinch the Ivy title and get into the NCAA tournament.
Amidst the revelry and festivities of Houseparties on Saturday the women's lacrosse team was all business.
As House Parties weekend begins, many visitors will arrive on campus to celebrate with their Princeton dates.
"If we beat Brown, we're in the [NCAA] tournament," men's lacrosse head coach Bill Tierney said.
Forget Dartmouth. Forget Cornell, Syracuse, Georgetown, Virginia and all the teams that may stand in the way of Princeton lacrosse capturing national titles this season.
Entering this week ranked No. 6 in the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches' Association Poll, the women's lacrosse team did not just win its game against No.
Princeton baseball started its campaign for a return to the Ivy League Championship Series this season by being swept in four games by Richmond, going 4-8 on a brutal Spring Break road trip and dropping two of its first three home games.After 20 games, the Tigers were 6-14 and looked like anything but a contender.There was one important asterisk: Princeton had not started conference play yet.Since the slow start, the Tigers have gone 16-4 in their next 20 games and are suddenly the favorites in the Ivy League.
Under the lights in Jamaica, N.Y., on Tuesday night, the baseball team sunk its teeth into St. Johns, despite missing a couple of bicuspids.
One year ago, the Heptagonal Championships came down to the final event: the 4x400 meter in which Princeton lost to Penn by a single point.
A recent song by recording artist Avril Lavigne asks the question "Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated?"Whether or not you like it or even know it, the song was, for many months, just another icon of the teenybopper pop movement (masking itself as rock), receiving more than its fair share of radio play.
As April turns to May here at Princeton, most students look forward to the end of classes, a chance to relax and spend the day lounging outside or catching up on some reading.
What is it about Heptagonals that so excites the imagination?Is it the strange and illustrious history that it possesses?
In its last chance to rise in the rankings before the league championships, the women's open weight crew team hosts George Washington, Rutgers and Oregon St.
ESPN baseball analyst Peter Gammons quoted Tampa Bay center fielder Rocco Baldelli in a column on ESPN.com as saying that " 'if I had gotten into Princeton, I would have gone there mainly because of Scott Bradley.' No argument here."Gammons is a graduate of the University of North Carolina, the same alma mater as Bradley, the head baseball coach at Princeton."[Gammons] has followed me throughout my career," Bradley said, "and he's always looking out for his fellow Tar Heels."Bradley is on the verge of winning his sixth Lou Gehrig Division title in his six years on the job for the Tigers, though he plays down his role in the process, saying that he "was able to inherit a program that was on pretty solid ground."Bradley played in the major leagues as a catcher with the New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox, Seattle Mariners and Cincinnati Reds from 1984-1992 and then coached in the minor leagues for the Braves and Rockies."I think the first thing you learn [from the major league experience] is that you can never treat your players the same way," Bradley said.
So, when it comes down to it, what's the biggest event during the outdoor track season?H-Y-Ps?
Recently, 'Prince' senior writer Zack Faigen sat down with men's lacrosse's dynamic duo of attackmen senior Sean Hartofilis and junior Ryan Boyle.Prince: Lacrosse isn't exactly the most popular sport yet.
Sophomore attack Leigh Slonaker of the women's lacrosse team kept the Tigers in the running for a share of the Ivy League title last Saturday.With 36 seconds left in regulation and the Big Green salivating for a victory that would automatically give them sole position of the Ivy crown, Slonaker streaked toward the goal and caught the eye of her teammate, sophomore midfielder Elizabeth Pillion, who quickly whipped her the ball.
The men's tennis season closed successfully last Friday. In a duel against Cornell in Ithaca, N.Y., the Tigers leapt from behind to steal an impending victory from the Big Red and capture third place in the Ivy League, behind Harvard and Brown.The match was in effect an Ivy League playoff for third place, as both teams posted identical League records (3-3) going into the match.
