After a slow start to its season, the women's hockey team is finally coming into its own.Last weekend, the Tigers (5-3-2, 3-2-0 Eastern College Athletic Conference-North Division) recorded two solid victories over Colgate and Cornell.
Field hockey's freshmen Alexis and Natalie Martirosian, women's soccer's juniors Lynn and Krista Ariss, and freshmen Rochelle and Janine Willis - identical twins all, recently sat down with 'Prince' staff writers Blaire and Chandra Russell to discuss life as twins on and off the field.'Prince': When you first started out playing the sport, did you find you had different skills, leading to your having different roles on the field?AM: Although our styles are similar, Natalie is somewhat more attack-minded.KA: Right when we started playing at age five, Lynn was definitely the more defensive player and I was more aggressive.JW: Well, at the beginning it was hard to tell.
Coming into the season, women's hockey was not suffering from a lack of talent, simply a lack of players.But going into last weekend's contests against league doormats Cornell and Colgate, the Tigers knew that despite being shorthanded, they would have to pick up a pair of victories.After a dominant defensive effort against the Raiders Friday night in which her defense allowed only five shots to reach goaltender Sarah Ahlquist, senior defender Aviva Grumet-Morris turned on her offensive firepower the next night, tallying a pair of assists and her first goal of the season in Princeton's 4-1 win over the Big Red.Grumet-Morris has been the anchor of a very young Princeton defense this season and has performed admirably, even while skating double shifts much of the time.
Women's Soccer's Deerin, Ariss and Willis recognizedIn addition to being named Ivy League Player of the Year before the beginning of the NCAA Tournament, junior midfielder Heather Deerin was named to the All-Mid-Atlantic Region first team by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.
There were no smiles as the women's basketball team walked off the court after last night's game against Lafayette - even though they walked off with the victory.Junior Maureen Lane started the game off with a quick layup - a fancy hook shot from under the hoop - that set the tone for the rest of the game.
Let's make one thing clear: Senior Peter Kelly doesn't like Yale."I just think that they suck as people," the senior men's squash captain said.
Senior fencer Lindsay Campbell is very attached to her epee.For those of you who are thinking of triangular shaped dwellings made of cowhide and wondering how the editors let such an egregious typo slip, the epee is a triangular blade, the heaviest and most similar to the classic dueling sword of the three competitive fencing weapons.
Men's fencing traveled to Rutgers University last weekend to take on Penn State, North Carolina and NYU.Heading into Sunday's quad-meet, the Tigers were looking to avenge last season's lost to perennial powerhouse Penn State."Wehave almost beaten them in the last couple years.
Lehigh is a football powerhouse. The Mountain Hawks are 11-0 overall, including wins over Princeton and Cornell, and are currently in the second round of the Division I-AA playoffs.In men's basketball, however, the Mountain Hawks have been punished by the Ivy League . The Ancient Eight have gone 3-0 against Lehigh with wins by Harvard, Dartmouth and Columbia.The Mountain Hawks are admittedly not the Patriot League's best team.
Offense wins games, but defense wins championships.Most sports fans have heard this clich
After finally tasting success last year, it seems that the wrestling team is ready for the full serving this season.Returning only four starters from last year's lineup, the Tigers still have a great deal of confidence in their lineup.
Playing the role of the underdog, Princeton shocked No. 5 Iowa by taking an early lead in the meet, and almost winning four matches against one of the nation's most historic wrestling programs.In the fourth meet of the season for Princeton (1-3), the Tigers traveled to Blair Academy, in Blairstown, NJ, to face the Hawkeyes.With six of the 10 wrestlers in the lineup for Iowa ranked in the top 15 in the nation, Princeton knew it had a difficult task.
The women's fencing team went into this weekend's meet against Penn State at Rutgers with the goal of seeing where it stands competitively with one of the top teams in the country.
Everything that starts well ends well. The proverb seems to be in Princeton's side in every way possible.
After emerging from last weekend's competition with a win and a tie, the women's hockey team was less than pleased.
Although it took a break from dual meets and EISL competition, men's swimming and diving had a long, busy and productive weekend.
Fifteen minutes. That was how long it took junior co-captain David Yik to defeat Bradley Corona on Saturday in the men's squash match against Brown.This win exemplified the Tigers near-perfect match against the Bears and propelled the Tigers to a 9-0 win.
A major problem for the men's ice hockey team this season has been scoring goals at moments in the game when it really counts.
WASHINGTON, D.C.? Against No. 4 Maryland (5-1) in the seventh annual BT&T Classic, Princeton (1-4) showed what everyone hoped and knew it could do ? play top Division I basketball.
The women's squash team (3-0 overall, 2-0 Ivy) continued its winning ways on Saturday, taking down Brown, 6-3, before steamrolling Franklin & Marshall, 8-1, to remain undefeated on the season.Princeton took on Brown (0-2) first, in the first-official meeting between the teams this season.
