Iacavazzi '65 Selected to College Football Hall of FamePrinceton football star Cosmo Iacavazzi was recently named one of 13 inductees to the College Football Hall of Fame for 2002.
Last Saturday, the men's heavyweight and lightweight crew teams raced for the Content and Goldthwait Cups, respectively.The heavyweight men were able to capture the Content Cup from Brown.
Six races, six victories.The women's crew program sent the open team to Lake Carnegie and the lightweights up I-95 to Cambridge, Mass.Every squad returned to Shea Rowing Center victorious, adding even more luster to the Princeton crew name.The open team saw both the Varsity Eight and Varsity Four race to victory at home with a light and variable headwind over Penn and George Washington.
After sealing the Lou Gehrig Division title of the Ivy League, the baseball team will travel to... a place that will be decided today.Brown and Harvard will play today in a playoff for the Red Rolfe Division title in Cambridge, Mass.
When the All-Ivy teams were announced yesterday afternoon, what Princeton knew all along was reaffirmed ? softball is a team game.After finishing with a 13-1 Ivy League record and the most league wins in team history, the Tigers were snubbed in favor of Harvard, which had the most players on the first and second teams.Senior pitcher Brie Galicinao won Ivy League Pitcher of the Year honors for the second year in a row ? the first time in conference history.
One more week to go.With a scant seven days left to prepare, Princeton hosted one last meet in anticipation of the upcoming Heptagonal League Championships.The women's track team competed at Princeton's Larry Ellis Invitational last weekend at Weaver Track and Field Stadium, capping the season with one last meet before next week's Heps.
With the Heptagonal League Championships a week away, and on the weekend of Houseparties, it would have been easy for the men's track and field team to lose focus and let its performance lapse.
Princeton baseball needed three or four wins and some help from Dartmouth this weekend to have a shot at hosting next weekend's Ivy League Championships.
The Princeton men's lacrosse team has done it once again. In the closest Ivy League race in seven years, the Tigers came away with their eighth straight league title by beating a resurgent Brown team, 12-10.With the win, Princeton received an automatic bid to the NCAA National Tournament and was given a No.
Despite facing numerous obstacles during the season, the women's rugby team won its league title and made an impressive showing at the National Tournament.At first, many thought it would be a rebuilding year.
This weekend, the Princeton crew teams will be racing in their last big practice runs before Eastern Sprints.Men's lightweight crew will compete in the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Regatta this weekend in Cambridge, Mass."At H-Y-Ps there is always a lot of emotion," head coach Joe Murtaugh said.
Head coach Scott Bradley and his diamond-duelers are right where they wanted to be heading into the final weekend of regular-season play.
The Ivy League champion will be crowned tomorrow at Stevenson Field in Providence, R.I.The men's lacrosse team travels to Brown this weekend to take on the upstart Bears in a matchup of the two first-place teams in the conference that will decide who gets the league's automatic NCAA bid.Although Brown (7-6 overall, 4-1 Ivy League) has not contended for the league title this late in the season for nearly a decade, the much-improved squad poses some serious threats to the Tigers' (7-4, 4-1) stranglehold on the Ancient Eight."Last season Brown had to deal with a lot of injuries," head coach Bill Tierney said.
In the 9th inning of softball's matchup with St. Joseph's yesterday, the Tigers had bases loaded, no outs.
Hitting the water at speeds of 30 miles per hour from 32 feet above the pool, senior Danielle Stramandi seems to have no problem with hitting things quickly and intensely.Her diving career at Princeton has been, to say the least, one of record-setting magnitudes, and it has been a career that has taken her as far as Beijing this past summer as one of two divers from the United States to compete at the World University Games.Stramandi began diving after training as an elite gymnast.
Esty Dwek came to Princeton last year from Geneva, Switzerland and was a freshman star, leading the Tigers to an Ivy League Championship.She was Princeton's top finisher in three of five tournaments last spring, which included a first place finish at the Jacksonville State Classic.
Imagine your childhood dream. Now imagine it came true.It happened to Princeton head baseball coach Scott Bradley when he made it to the major leagues in 1985 to play for the team he loved as a child.A native of Essex Fells in northern New Jersey, Bradley grew up playing baseball and going to watch the Yankees play in New York."I can remember my dad coming over to the field and calling us up, saying we had tickets to see the Yankees play the Minnesota Twins," Bradley said.
"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift."Words spoken by Steve Prefontaine, perhaps the most talented American runner ever.
Dartmouth, like the rest of the teams Princeton has played this year, was probably trembling in its turf shoes when the attack trio of senior BJ Prager, junior Sean Hartofilis, and sophomore Ryan Boyle got off the bus in Hanover.
With his seventh-inning single to centerfield, senior shortstop Pat Boran became the sole holder of the all-time hits record at Princeton with 203, after taking possession of the runs-scored record when he scored his 141st career run in the top of the third.
