Former Princeton fencing coach Al Peters will return to Jadwin Gymnasium this weekend leading Cornell against women's fencing.
'Prince' senior writer Chandra Russell recently sat down with Ashley Rook, a sophomore and former forward on the women's basketball team.Rook, from Naperville, Ill., played a total of 26 games as a freshman.
The women's fencing team struggled at this weekend's home tri-meet against Columbia, St. Johns and Rutgers.
While many were off skiing, hitting the beach, or just resting and recharging through more mundane means, the Princeton men's and women's track teams were hard at work training and competing in its 31st annual Indoor Relays meet held Jan.
One mention of the word basketball to any Princeton fan and the first things that come to mind are backdoor cuts, ball movement and three-pointers.
While hundreds of millions of people were preparing to see the Tampa Bay Buccaneers demolish the Oakland Raiders in Super Bowl XXXVII, the Princeton women's hockey team shook off its final exam rust by defeating one of Canada's best hockey teams, McGill, 3-1?a team which sports one of the best amateur goalies in the world.Five days later, Princeton blew out Vermont to notch its fifth Eastern College Athletic Conference win and followed that up with a conference loss to Dartmouth, putting Princeton in the doldrums at fifth place in the conference. Taking on one of the bestMcGill (20-5-2) came into Baker Rink Jan.
At last weekend's Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet in Cambridge, Mass., it really didn't take the full two days to figure out the best team in the pool.
While their classmates were skiing, traveling, and sleeping past noon, members of both squash teams were hard at work battling top national competition.Men's and women's squash scheduled several important matches over intersession.
There are only two names that matter in Ivy League fencing: Princeton and Columbia. This weekend those two teams clashed, along with national power St.
Traveling to California last week for its annual trial-by-sunshine, the men's volleyball players had a hard time fitting into their airplane seats and an even harder time winning.Facing the likes of No.
While most people spent the break catching up on some well-deserved sleep, men's hockey battled Dartmouth (11-8-1 overall, 7-6-0 Eastern College Athletic Conference) and Vermont (9-12-3, 6-8-0 ) at Baker Rink.There was no shortage of goals in Friday's 5-2 loss to the Big Green.
Princeton's women's basketball team (6-11 overall, 1-2 Ivy League) won a game over intersession, but it was its least important one.
Men's basketball began intersession by blowing out Ursinus after almost three weeks off. The next two games were a different story, however.
Facing two of the best teams in the region, the Tigers were unable to pull out victories. Princeton wrestled in two meets this past week, facing Lehigh at home Thursday and travelling to Cornell Saturday. Against the Mountain HawksIn the first meet, held in the friendly confines of Dillon Gymnasium, the Tigers surged out of the gate, refusing to back down and be intimidated by Lehigh's top-five national ranking.
As the three-time "defending champion" in U.S. News and World Report's top national universities, the authorities at Princeton clearly do not take lightly to falling behind the competition.
The men's hockey team has only 10 games left to turn its season around to prepare for the Eastern College Athletic Conference playoffs, beginning with a home game against Dartmouth on Feb.
This is the last issue of our board, and the last opportunity for the outgoing sports editors ? Matt Simmons, Kimberly Ruthsatz and Ramesh Nagarajan (from left to right) ? to express what The Daily Princetonian has meant to us.
The time for No. 8 women's hockey to prove its mettle ? if it has not done so already ? has arrived, as the Tigers head into a long stretch of nothing but Eastern College Athletic Conference opponents on the docket for the rest of the regular season.After hosting McGill in an exhibition game Sunday, women's hockey will get back into action with a two-game weekend at the end of Intersession.
"It's nice to be able to wipe the slate clean and say everybody is 0-0," women's basketball head coach Richard Barron said before the team's Ivy League season began with a victory over Penn Jan.
In the depths of reading period, the men's fencing team still found time to slice themselves away from their studies to bolster their record with a resounding victory against Hoboken's Stevens Technical Institute.In what would be a nearly perfect match, the Tigers defeated Stevens Tech 25-2.
