The Princeton coaching career of women's soccer's head coach Julie Shackford, coming into the 2001 season, was far better than average.
A champion has a confident swagger. But if that champion loses three straight league games, that strut dissipates very quickly.
A child could have seen it coming. In a championship match filled with frustration, tension, and officiating that had both head coaches in a frenzy for the duration of the game, what more appropriate culmination could there be than a water fight?With 4 minutes, 22 seconds remaining in a 9-8 loss to Navy in the championship game of the CWPA Crossover Weekend at DeNunzio Pool yesterday, Princeton senior driver Robert Urquhart scored a goal to pull his team within two goals when a fight broke out near the Navy net.Whistles went wild as the Tigers (11-4 overall, 6-1 CWPA) and Midshipmen (11-3 overall) flailed at each other mercilessly, the emotions from a tightly-played game finally spilling over."It was building," Princeton head coach Luis Nicolao saidd, referring to the rising tempers.
Crew isn't typically a fan-friendly sport. A hundred-thousand people don't generally turn out to watch a regatta.
There are only five schools in the country that play sprint football. If you venture too far from the campuses of Army, Navy, Cornell, Penn or Princeton, no one has any idea the sport even exists.With such a small set of teams, chances are pretty good you've never seen a sprint football game.
When Princeton and Harvard meet, throw the records out. The two universities compete for the best students, recruits and professors.
This weekend, the women's soccer team's match against No. 11 Harvard will almost certainly draw fewer spectators than the football team's game against the Crimson.
The cold evening deserved a match that would heat it up. And for that purpose, no game could have been better.
Two Tigers earned Ivy League Player of the Week honors this week as Theresa Sherry of the women's soccer team and Rachael Becker of the field hockey team received the award.Sherry, a sophomore forward, scored three key goals in the past week.
This year, women's club soccer will enter new territory, ? namely, Tuscaloosa, Ala. ? where Princeton intends to compete at the eighth annual National Intramural and Recreational Sports Association Tournament.
The Princeton women's soccer team is off to its best season in years, currently ranked 25th nationally with a record of 9-1-1.
It began as a means to an end, yet running soon became the ultimate end for women's cross country captain ? senior Catherine Casey.Well, almost the ultimate end.
Sometimes you only get one chance. For men's soccer last night, that chance lasted 45 minutes. For the entire first half of the Tigers' game against Loyola, the momentum was decidedly in their favor.
So far this season, junior attack Ilvy Friebe has dominated the headlines for the field hockey team.Last week, her classmate, attack Rachael Becker, jumped into the spotlight and showed that there was more than one Tiger who could dominate a game.The winner of the Eastern College Athletic Conference and Ivy League Player of the Week honors, Becker scored four goals in Princeton's three wins last week, including the game-winning goals in wins against both Delaware and UConn.In the 3-2 win over the Blue Hens, Becker scored the third goal for Princeton to give it the win.Then the Tigers faced off against Brown in Providence, R.I.
This isn't the first time the name Kavitha Krishnamurthy has made headlines. Jumpstarting her freshman year in 1999 as the No.
Everyone knows that we have a field hockey team here at Princeton and that they are pretty good. The rumors drift in from Class of 1952 Stadium that the Tigers beat the defending national champions or pummeled another Ivy League opponent, but what does that really mean?
They play great for a week. They get flat for a week. They play really well the next week. They lose both games the following week.
In 1997, Princeton sprint football defeated Army in one of the most stunning upsets in Collegiate Sprint Football League history.
In one of the most important tournaments of the fall, the seeded women's tennis team made it past the first round, but fell to fourth-ranked Yale in the second round of the Eastern College Athletic Conference championships, held this weekend at the Lenz Tennis Center.In the first round, Princeton swept past Georgetown by a score of 7-0.
Eight wins, one loss and one tie. Three wins and no losses in Ivy League competition. Any way you look at it, that is not a bad way to start a season.
