Contentment.About 350 years ago a few men settled a town in Massachusetts along the Charles River and gave it that comforting moniker.
February 22, 1980.In the annals of U.S. Olympic performances, there is probably no more important date.
Even the best athletes understand that you can't win all the time. Sports wisdom is full of affirmations of the inherent value of the game, the joy of competition, and the irrelevance of the final score: "It's not whether you win or lose; it's how you play the game."But for women's swimming and diving, Vince Lombardi's maxim that "winning isn't everything ? it's the only thing," probably rings more true.
"Kelly Schaeffer has given us more leadership than anybody on the team as a sophomore," head coach Richard Barron said after Schaeffer's 15-point performance in 31 minutes in women's basketball's game against Dartmouth this weekend.Schaeffer, a 5 foot 11 inch center from Walt Whitman High School in Long Island, New York, has indeed developed into a vital leader of the Tiger squad after less than two years of experience.
After being ranked at No. 60 last year in Division I and finishing 4-3 among the Ancient Eight, the Princeton women's tennis team has not yet established a pattern for the rest of the season.
After struggling to win the first game, the Princeton men's volleyball team caught fire and went on to beat the New Jersey Institute of Technology with solid second and third sets, 30-23, 30-18, 30-15.The victory moves Princeton (5-6 overall, 4-3 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Associa-tion) to above .500 in the EIVA.The Tigers came out sluggish in the opening game.
If Central Michigan and Rutgers were not enough of a challenge for the Princeton wrestling team, the vicious stomach flu became the team's biggest challenge last weekend, with three of the Tigers' top wrestlers feeling the effects of the painful virus.Already disappointed with their dual meet record, the team hoped to get some momentum last weekend leading into their upcoming final Ivy League match against Penn.
Back-to-back matches are always a difficult war to wage, and when the levels of the teams involved differ greatly, it can be even tougher to predict the outcome.The men's tennis team recently encountered both ups and downs early in their spring season as they took an easy victory over Old Dominion only to have it followed by some tough obstacles in a match against Virginia Common-wealth.The Tigers won against Old Dominion 5-2 early in this month when they traveled to Virginia during Intersession.
Maybe the men's hockey team has finally turned the proverbial corner. For several weeks, talk about solid team intensity, great effort and a high level of play has filled the locker room.
On the same day that the men's team was facing Trinity in Jadwin for the NCAA National Championship, the women's squash team was playing Trinity in the Howe Cup semifinals.Princeton (7-4 overall, 6-3 Ivy League) finished fourth at the Howe Cup, the three day tournament that determines the national champion in squash.
To say that the men's volleyball team had a busy week would be a gross understatement. Princeton had its home-opener against Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association rival Concordia last Thursday and then hosted George Mason and St.
The visiting team scored another goal with five minutes 18 seconds to go in the fourth quarter. The faces of the orange and black reflected imminent defeat; the crowd was ready to leave the stadium.
This weekend the women's basketball team extended its losing streak to eight with defeats at the hands of Dartmouth and Harvard.At halftime of both games, the Tigers looked like they could snap their skid, but they came up short in the second half.Friday night, the Tigers built a quick lead on Dartmouth with a barrage of three-pointers, but the Big Green was able to keep it close, converting seven free throws in the first half.Princeton led 34-23 at the break, but surrendered an astonishing 53 points in the second half, while Princeton scored only 57 points in the entire contest.The Big Green shot 19-27 - over 70 percent - in the second period, while the Tigers only made two more baskets than that in the whole game, shooting 21-60."For a ten-minute stretch against Dartmouth, despite calling timeouts, we could not stop the bleeding," head coach Richard Barron said.
On the biggest stage in college squash, with the national championship at stake, the men's squad was playing a team that many call the best ever assembled ? Trinity.
Before the season championships. After the last significant meet of the season. The February Festival, hosted by Princeton, takes place during this awkward dead time in the women's indoor track season, in which everyone's mind is focused on the coming several weeks of Heptagonals, IC4As, and the NCAA championship.The February Festival took place last Saturday, just a week before the all-important Heptago-nal Championships.
The Princeton players placed themselves like pegs along the three-point line, stringing up screens along the perimeter.
After a nine-hour drive, it just would not be fair to leave without a win.Far up the coast in Orono this weekend for two games against Maine, the Princeton women's hockey team salvaged a 3-1 victory Saturday after losing a third-period lead the night before in a 4-4 tie.With the Eastern College Athletic Conference season winding down, the Tigers (14-6-3 overall, 9-3-0 ECAC-North) had, coming into last weekend's action, just six games left to make a last gasp at the Northern division title.
The non-team scored Princeton Invitational, held at Jadwin Gym served several purposes for the men's track team ? a tune up, a last chance qualifier or a last race of season, depending on the individual competitor.With more than 40 athletes representing 12 schools ? including Ivy rival Columbia ? competing, Princeton recorded five first place finishes.Several distance runners who look to play a key role in the point tally at the Heptagonal Championships next weekend were given the weekend off by Coach Mike Brady in order to have an uninterrupted training period prior to the League meet, and to reclaim a fresh desire to race that comes from having time off between meets.Despite missing some of the traditional high scorers, the distance running faction asserted its dominance in the 1000m, where a 1-2-3 Princeton sweep was led by senior Seamus Whelton, who finished with a time of two minutes, 27.97 seconds.Teammates junior Ed Zysick and freshman Tyson Evensen finished within the subsequent second.Sophomore Rob Hulick?in the absence of provisional NCAA qualifiers David Dean and Ryan Smith ? captured the 800m in a time of 1:53.91."The depth of our middle distance program makes Coach Brady's decision as to who gets to represent Princeton at Heps very difficult," sophomore Colin Brown said.Brown raced in the 1000 meters for the Tigers.Senior cross-country captain and All-Ivy distance runner Wesley Stockard, who has been hampered by illness most of the indoor season, entered the men's 5000m with the intent of running a qualifying time for the seeded section of the 5000m at Heps.
Mid-'90s. Minnesota. Somewhere among the vaunted lattice of ponds in the frozen north, two rising stars take to the ice together for the first time.
Water polo, as practitioners of the sport know, is primarily a West Coast fascination. Californian schools such as Stanford and University of California-San Jose have traditionally dominated the game, though the playing field has gradually become more level with the advent of the spread of the sport across the country.Still, perhaps the most telling detail of the disparity involved in water polo lies in the fact that out of all three All-America teams for the 2000-01 season, only one person was not from a California university.That one person was second team All-America Adele McCarthy-Beauvais, a current junior at Princeton.McCarthy-Beauvais is one of the major reasons behind the Tigers' success in past seasons, most recently leading the team to a third consecutive Eastern College Athletic Conference championship as well as a second consecutive Southern Championship.For her efforts she was awarded MVP honors in both tournaments.
