Last year, men's swimming and diving won first place at Easterns, finally knocking Harvard out of first place after playing bridesmaid to the Crimson for seven years.
Riding a streak of 32 straight dual-meet wins over three seasons, the three-time defending Ivy League champion women's swimming team entered the 2002-2003 season full of hope for Ivy League and national success.The squad opened up against Boston College, who the Tigers have soundly defeated in their opening meets the past two years.
The Tiger football team was out of contention for the Ivy title Saturday against Dartmouth, and in the first half they played like a team that merely wanted the season to end.The first winning record in five years was up for grabs, too, though, and in the fourth quarter, senior running back Cameron Atkinson carried the ball ? and the team ? to a 38-30 victory and its first winning record since 1997.Atkinson ran for 196 yards in the second half and 233 on the game.
Junior post Eileen Powers of the women's basketball team lived up to her name this weekend by sinking a basket with one second remaining in overtime to beat Southwest Texas State, 82-81, at the Ferrell Center in Waco, Texas.This was the second game of the two-day tournament at Baylor that launched the Tigers into their pre-season schedule.
Looking to build on its 4-3 victory over Rensselaer, the men's hockey team traveled north this weekend for two games with Eastern College Athletic Conference rivals Vermont and Dartmouth.
Women's hockey traveled to Erie, PA to take on Mercyhurst at the Mercyhurst Ice Center this weekend.The Tigers scored two late goals on Saturday to secure an overtime victory over No.
The men's basketball team came into this season with three major questions that needed to be answered.
Field hockey's goal coming into this season was a very simple one ? to win the national title.While the Tigers fell short of that goal, they still had a successful season, winning their ninth consecutive Ivy title and knocking out the defending national champions, Michigan, in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.Princeton (12-7 overall, 7-0 Ivy League) dominated the rest of the league all season and won the title with ease.
If preseason polls can be trusted, then the women's basketball team should finish second-to-last in the Ivy League this season.The 2002-03 Ivy League Preseason Womens Basketball Poll, a survey of 16 members of the media that cover Ivy League athletics, unanimously chose Harvard as the League favorite, followed by Penn, Dartmouth, Cornell, Yale, and Columbia.
Although the Tigers have been eliminated from Ivy title contention, the game 1 p.m. Saturday against Dartmouth at Princeton Stadium has profound meaning for the football team.After last week's loss to Yale, 7-3, Princeton finds itself in a precarious position as far as its record goes.
The women's basketball team will not be tiptoeing into the 2002-2003 season. With two new assistant coaches, five new freshman players, and a pre-season schedule pitting them against the likes of Stanford, Baylor, and Hofstra, the Tigers are stomping back to the court.Though assistant coach Robin Bostick's departure from the team during the summer was an unexpected loss for head coach Richard Barron and the Tigers, her replacement, Helen Williams, has had no trouble filling that hole.Williams spent the last five years as an assistant coach at Navy, where she helped the Midshipmen earn the 1997-98 Patriot League regular-season title.Gerard Garlic is the other assistant coach who brings seven years of coaching experience, including three years as head coach at Morgan State.
It is often said that the first win is the hardest to get.The men's hockey team, having cleared that hurdle with its 4-3 victory over Rensselaer last Saturday, hopes that this old adage holds true as it travels north this weekend.
Football stands at 5-4 overall and 3-3 in the Ivy League, which already makes it the best statistical year under third-year head coach Roger Hughes.What separates those five wins from the four losses?
The best way to characterize the men's basketball team this year is probably with a question mark.Due to the departure of three starters from last season's team, Princeton is the biggest wild card among the top teams in the Ivy League.However, Princeton also had the greatest "infusion of talent," as head coach John Thompson '88 puts it, of any team in the league.At the heart of this infusion are two juniors ? forward Andre Logan from injury and wing Spencer Gloger off a transfer.Even with the addition of these two players, Princeton finds itself ranked third in most preseason polls behind Penn and Yale.
Men's basketball in the Ivy League has been characterized over the past 30 years by the two-team rivalry of Princeton and Penn.
By many standards, the women's soccer team had its finest season in recent memory. It began the season 12-0-0, the longest the Tigers have remained undefeated, and the squad won the first outright Ivy League title in the program's history.Yet for all their success and accomplishments, this season will also be remembered as 'the year that could have been.'Despite putting a team on the field that was, as head coach Julie Shackford said, "by far the most talented team I have ever coached," the Tigers fell victim to a late season slide and a correspondingly weak seed in the NCAA Tournament.After the 12-0 start, the team finished out the regular season by winning just one of its final four games.
It's not just Wall Street anymore. More and more, Princeton students are emerging from the nerdery and tackling professions that have been typically underrepresented by Ivy League talent.
"Five-dash-two."On October 15, 1995, then-Tampa Bay Buccaneer coach Sam Wyche pronounced each word with relish in front of the gathered media.After three tough years as coach of the worst franchise in pro sports, Wyche's team had finally reached first place in the NFC Central.From that point, the Bucs went 2-7, costing the man once called an "offensive genius" his job.The Princeton football team also started its season five-dash-two (and 4-1). The Tigers looked like they would make a run at the Ivy League title, but losses to Harvard and Penn doomed them to fighting for third place.Now Princeton needs a win in Saturday's 1 p.m.
If only the men's soccer season began in late October.Had the Tigers' season started with their 1-0 homecoming win over rival Harvard, they would be sitting atop a 2-1-1 Ivy League streak right now with very realistic hopes of defending their 2001 Ivy title.
Last night in Dillon Gym, women's volleyball played its last game of the season against Ivy League-champion Penn, and they competed in one of the most exciting matches of the year, which the Quakers took 3-1.After dropping the first two games, Princeton came out with much more emotion in the third game, jumping out to a 17-9 lead, including a 13-5 run that would help extend their season at least another game.
