The women's lacrosse team has not lost four games in a row since head coach Chris Sailer first took the reins in 1987, but the Tigers entered this weekend in danger of doing just that.
Men's tennis came home last night after a disappointing spring break in Southern California. Starting the week off with an 8-2 record, the Tigers return just 9-5.
After taking second at the NCAA wrestling championship tournament last year in the 174-pound weight class, Greg Parker entered his senior season with hopes of bringing home a national title.
It's been a long time since the women's lacrosse team has had to bounce back from a loss. Just about a year, in fact.
While security will no doubt be tight at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, if the Tigers can get their weapons into the academy, they will definitely be competitive in an attempt to usurp the NCAA title from defending national champions Penn State.Though Princeton has consistently struggled in team competition against scholarship schools such as Penn State and St.
Next week's schedule promises to challenge the women's water polo team, making recent midterms seem like a breeze.Over four days, No.
With recent losses to the No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the country, Johns Hopkins and Virginia, the men's lacrosse team is off to a 0-2 start entering spring break, and its schedule won't be getting much easier for a few more weeks.Princeton has away games over the break against two more teams ranked in the Top 15 in this week's United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association poll ? No.
When baseball returns from its spring break tour through North Carolina and Virginia, that goose egg in wins should be history.The Tigers (0-4) play 13 games down south in 10 days from March 14-23, without a day off.
Contender or pretender?This is the question the softball team will attempt to answer over spring break.
Men's and women's tennis will finally escape the confines of Jadwin Gymnasium to compete in the southern California sunshine over spring break.
The women's basketball team, playing in its final game of the season last night at Penn, found itself up nine points midway through the first half.
What the men's volleyball team did this past weekend goes beyond what any typical sports terminology is equipped to handle.
Regardless of what their records may be, the Penn-Princeton game that closes the season is always the big deal.
A quick glance at the score table revealed a three-point deficit and a measly 40 ticks of the clock remaining in the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association wrestling career of senior captain Greg Parker (23-4 overall). Last year's 174-pound champion surged forward, pushing the action and looking for an opening in his opponent's seemingly impregnable defenses.He shot in low on a single leg takedown and flipped his surprised and flailing opponent, driving his inverted shoulders into the mat.
After playing most of its season in a daze, the men's hockey team finally woke up in the past few weeks to see if it could make something of its berth in the Eastern College Athletic Association tournament.
Even though they missed out on this weekend's better-than-average weather, the members of the women's water polo team were not that disappointed.
The results of the women's basketball team's two games this weekend illustrate the unpredictable nature of Ivy League women's hoops.First, on Friday, the Tigers (9-18 overall, 4-9 Ivy League) fell at Cornell, 64-50, even though they had narrowly defeated the Big Red on Feb.
"The boys are back in town." This quote adorns the cover of the 2002-2003 Penn men's basketball media guide.
After splitting the season series with Yale, women's hockey played the Eastern College Athletic Conference quarterfinals like it had something to prove.Princeton more than proved it, blowing out the Bulldogs, 6-2, Friday and 8-0 Saturday to sweep the best-of-three series and advance to the conference semifinals.Trying to make amends for an upset loss on their home ice to Harvard a year ago, the Tigers (20-8-2) got two goals from senior forward Andrea Kilbourne as they cruised to a 6-2 win in game one.Third-seeded Princeton dominated play early, not allowing sixth-seeded Yale (9-20-2) to get a shot on goal until five minutes, 33 seconds had elapsed in the first period.Kilbourne scored her first at 11:59 in the opening period.
"My back," "my foot," "my French horn" ? these were Princeton fencing's real opponents at this weekend's Mid-Atlantic/South Regionals.
