Scoring two goals in one soccer game is not typically considered to be a great accomplishment.For Penn State, however, putting two goals past the women's soccer team to win the opening round of the NCAA Div.
Yet again, the top swimming program in the Ivy League was the one that calls DeNunzio Pool home.The women's team continued its dynasty, bringing home a fifth straight perfect regular season and a fourth straight Ivy championship.
In the third year of the Hughes era, the football team saw vast improvement across the board to the point that it became a contender to remove Harvard and Penn from the longstanding positions atop the Ivy League.The Tigers finished the 2002 campaign 6-4 overall and 4-3 in the Ancient Eight, good enough for the middle of the pack.Princeton opened its season against Lehigh.
The softball team packed up its bags and went home this summer feeling content. The Tigers (24-21-1) were steady this season with their second-straight Ivy title and NCAA qualification.Princeton's season began slowly, with a blowout by Georgia Tech.
For one squash team, it was a season to build upon. For the other, it was a season to remember.Despite its youth, women's squash earned an overall winning record this season.
The 2001 season marked the best of times for men's soccer. The team finished the Ivy campaign at 5-1-1, which was good enough for a share of the League title and an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
You know what is probably one of the worst ideas ever?The business of sports.I'm so fed up with professional sports these days, that I can't stand to watch them, let alone read about them.
Baseball won its sixth straight Lou Gehrig Division title this year, and on May 10 and 11, they defeated Harvard, two games to one, in the Ivy League Championship Series to earn the automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament.The Tigers (27-23 overall, 15-5 Ivy League) took on and lost to Auburn Friday, May 30 to begin their third NCAA in four years.
It was a season that began with amazing possibilities for the men's basketball team. While other teams were adding inexperienced freshmen, the Tigers were welcoming back two proven scorers to a team that won a share of the Ivy title.Junior forward Andre Logan was back from a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee that caused him to miss the entire conference schedule.
Success can be measured by different people in different ways. When you are a six-time national champion in lacrosse and your team has played in the last three national title games, many expect that high performance and no less.This season, the men's lacrosse team shared the Ivy League crown, the ninth straight season it has sat atop the Ancient Eight.
President Bush has two college-aged daughters, one of whom attends school in New Haven, Conn. But with the amount of time that the women's lacrosse team has been spending at the White House lately, the majority of the Ivy Leaguers that the president has seen have been swathed in orange.The Tigers (16-4) overcame some early-season adversity to capture their second-straight national championship and to ensure the trip to the White House that goes with it with an 8-7 overtime victory over Virginia.
Since 1994, the field hockey team has dominated the Ivy League.This year was no exception.Under the guidance of head coach Beth Bozman, and with the help of a strong core of senior standouts, the Tigers went undefeated in Ivy League play for the third consecutive season.While Princeton easily took home its ninth-straight Ivy League title, the story of the season as a whole was one of feast and famine.While the Tigers were a perfect 7-0 in Ivy League play, they went only 5-7 in their other contests.
In its first of two games against Cornell this season, the women's basketball team trailed the Big Red at halftime, 37-26.
In late February, Princeton University hosted the Intercollegiate Squash Association Championships.Hosting college squash's version of the NCAA basketball tournament, albeit with far less teams, gave Princeton the unique privilege to witness firsthand the nation's top college squash players.College squash is one of those few sports here at Princeton, according to the humble opinion of this lowly sports writer, where its players are nearly as good as professional ones; where action is seldom dull; and where a day spent literally holed underground in Jadwin Gym's C-Floor, is not wasted.On the final day, for the championship, Princeton matched up with Trinity in a best of nine series.
With a record of 20-9-2, women's hockey had its best season in history. The problem was that the women played in one of the toughest conferences in the country.National powers Harvard (30-3-1) and Dartmouth (27-8-0) stuck a knife through Princeton's plans for a dream season.
Adele McCarthy-BeauvaisFor the last four years, senior Adele McCarthy-Beauvais has been one of the cornerstones of the women's water polo team.In a sport that has only existed at Princeton for a mere six years, McCarthy-Beauvais has certainly written her name into this program's history.In her sophomore season, she made her first mark on the team, setting the all-time scoring record for Princeton University.
Scoring two goals in one soccer game is not typically considered to be a great accomplishment.For Penn State, however, putting two goals past the women's soccer team to win the opening round of the NCAA Div.
Success can be measured by different people in different ways. When you are a six-time national champion in lacrosse and your team has played in the last three national title games, many expect that performance and no less.This season, the men's lacrosse team shared the Ivy League crown, the ninth straight season it has sat atop the Ancient Eight.
Baseball won its sixth straight Lou Gehrig Division title this year, and on May 10 and 11, they defeated Harvard, two games to one, in the Ivy League Championship Series to earn the automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament.The Tigers (27-21 overall, 15-5 Ivy League) will take on Auburn Friday, May 30 to begin their third NCAA in four years.
It was a season that began with amazing possibilities for the men's basketball team. While other teams were adding inexperienced freshmen, the Tigers were welcoming back two proven scorers to a team that won a share of the Ivy title.Junior forward Andre Logan returned from a torn ACL in his left knee that caused him to miss the entire conference schedule.
