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.
Last year, football's graduating class had two players make NFL rosters ?? Dennis Norman '01 and Ross Tucker '01.This year's best hope to make it to the big leagues plays what is quite possibly the least desired job on the field ?? kicker.Senior Taylor Northrop has had a stellar football career at Princeton.
"The team finished 18th [out of 35] and pretty much ran a terrible race," senior captain Wes Stockard said of the performance of men's cross country this weekend at the NCAA Pre-National Invitational at Furman University in Greenville, S.C.That basically sums it up.First place in the Invitational went to Stanford, with a total score of 56.
Princeton trailed Brown 35-24 with about eight minutes left to play and faced a fourth-and-10 from the Bear 34-yard line.
This one didn't come down to the final minutes, it wasn't a nail-biter, and it wasn't a one-goal game.
Before any competition, a team sets goals for itself. Going into the NCAA Pre-National Invitational at Furman University on Saturday, the women's cross country team aimed to finish in the Top 20 of a field that included Colorado, the No.
The men's golf team came up just short this weekend with their second place finish at the Stabler Invitational.
Women's soccerSophomore Theresa Sherry netted two goals as the Tigers defeated Brown, 4-1, to remain undefeated in Ivy play this season.
If Derek Zoolander, in the new fim of the same name, could make it to the top of the modeling world with only one look and without the ability to turn left, the multi-dimensional field hockey team should be feeling pretty good about its prospects.This weekend, in action against Connecticut and Ivy League rival Brown, the Tigers showed just how many different winning looks they have.
In Saturday's football game with Brown, junior running back Cameron Atkinson had both the Ivy League's longest rushing play as well as the longest kick-off return of the season, but his 287 yard total performance was not enough as Princeton (1-3 overall, 1-1 Ivy League) fell to Brown (2-2, 1-1), 35-24.Both sides of the ball for the Tigers were noticeably weaker due to injuries, and the absence of junior wide receiver Chisom Opara greatly hurt the air attack and wiped out the big passing plays."We need to get our pass protection straightened out a bit if we're going to throw to anyone down there," head coach Roger Hughes said.
What good is a recipe that changes every day? When either the ingredients change or the amounts change it will never give you exactly what you want in the pot.
