Junior Avery Kiser, a member of the women's golf team, has hardly felt the pangs of defeat in her time at Princeton.
Twice this weekend, field hockey played an outstanding first half, only to follow it with an inadequate second half effort.
Lawnparties.The word makes any Princeton student's eyes light up ? and rightfully so.
The arrival of wide-eyed freshmen to campus also signifies the arrival of another American tradition ? football.While the rest of campus is finishing up adjustments to dorm rooms and settling in for classes, most of the football team has already been at Princeton for two weeks, practicing for their season opener against Lehigh a week from tomorrow at Princeton Stadium.Defense was supposed to be the strength of this year's team, but suspensions and injuries to key players have shifted the pressure onto the offense to carry the team early in the season."During spring practices I thought that our defense was going to have to play very well to give our offense time to adjust, but now the reverse must happen," head coach Roger Hughes said. QuarterbackThe Tiger offense will be directed at the start of the season by junior quarterback Matt Verbit.
With less than a month to go before Princeton's Ivy League opener versus Columbia, here is a capsule look at the other seven teams in the Ancient Eight, including a brief thought on each from Tiger head coach Roger Hughes. Brown Bears2002 Recap: Typically a contender, Brown is coming off a 2-8 (2-5 Ivy League) season in which four of its five league losses came by a total of 11 points.
Since the end of last season, Princeton has lost three defensive starters ? then-junior linebacker Zak Keasey, then-sophomore cornerback Jay McCareins and then-junior free safety Brandon Mueller ? to academic ineligibility, and the team will get knocked around because of it.When an opponent runs a play against the football team this fall, it looks like it will be either a stop in the backfield or a touchdown.
A little more than a month ago, I noticed a change in, well, the atmosphere around me. Sure, the weather was either unbearably hot or unbearably wet here on the East Coast, but it was not a meteorological change.
Avery Kiser advances to match play of U.S. Women's AmateurPlaying in her second U.S.
The men's water polo team has started practice again, but one might suppose the girls on campus could have been able to tell you that.
Athletes who play a fall sport are accustomed to returning to campus early for pre-season practice.
Never a team to settle for second, women's volleyball has its eye on first prize again this year.For the last two years, Penn has kept the Ivy League championship safely out of Princeton's reach.
In the 40-year history of the 10 clay and 27 hard tennis courts just below Dillon Gym ? known as the Pagoda Courts for the elevated pagoda structure at their center ? there have been, among the thousands who have played there, University presidents (Robert F.
A new head coach. Seven players lost to graduation. Changes of this magnitude are enough to give any team growing pains.But out of the gate with a 2-0 receord after a pair of early-season wins, the field hockey team, which recently welcomed a new head coach while bidding adieu to several star players, has shown growth with relatively little pain.The Tigers opened their season this weekend with a 3-1 win over Virginia, and followed that with a convincing 5-1 win over Drexel.Despite playing both games at home, in the familiar confines of Class of 1952 Stadium, the team had a noticeably different feel to it than last year's Ivy League winning squad.Beth Bozman, head coach for 15 seasons, no longer controlled the sidelines.
The women's soccer team had one of its most successful seasons in its program's history last year, going 13-2-1 in the regular season.
The men's hockey team had an uncharacteristically off-year, finishing 3-26-2 overall and just 2-18-2 in the Eastern College Athletic Conference.
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.
