When you're part of a diving program that has graduated standouts like Erin Lutz '01 and currently boasts senior Danielle Stramandi on the roster, it's hard to excel.
Down 14-11 in the fifth game of women's volleyball's match against Penn, the Tigers were in a familiar position.All year, Princeton (14-8 overall, 8-4 Ivy League) has been unable to close out matches and it seemed like Tuesday's battle would be no different.
Last season, Penn, led by three-time Ivy Player of the Year Diana Caramanico, won the Ivy League title with a perfect 14-0 record.
As the Princeton Tigers dive into yet another swimming season, the men's team will look to senior Kevin Volz for strong performances in the pool, along with leadership for the team.Volz, who has been swimming for most of his life, is set to begin his final season at Princeton in the pool, and he is looking to make it "a very memorable one."There is no doubt that he is more than ready to take on the competition, having swam competitively since age eight.
For their efforts in field hockey's wins in both the first round and the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament last weekend, sophomore Cory Picketts and freshman Ashley Sennett both received Ivy League honors.Picketts was named Ivy League Player of the Week for the first time in her career after scoring the game-winner in Princeton's 2-1 win over Old Dominion on Sunday.Sennett earned Rookie of the Week honors for her two goals in the Tigers' first round win over Northeastern.
True ? the men's basketball team will be without Nate Walton '01, last year's star player, and C.J.
The women's basketball team had a rough season last year. Head coach Liz Feeley left the program in the late summer, leaving the Tigers to dangle vulnerably under interim coach Kevin Morris.
The dual meet against Boston College last weekend marked the beginning of a new season for the women's swimming team.The outcome, a tremendous Tiger victory, seemed to reflect the solidity of past years.
Men's basketball in the Ivy League is like the Cold War. Just as the United States and the Soviet Union competed for supremacy in every way, from nuclear arsenals to ice hockey, Penn and Princeton battle on all possible fronts.
Men's swimming and diving is tired of second place.Actually, the Tigers been tired of second place for a while now ? about six years.Either Princeton or Harvard has won the Easterns title every year since 1973, but the Crimson have won the last six, and nine of the last 10.
Against North Carolina in the NCAA tournament last year, the Tiger starting lineup averaged six-feet, five-inches.
And it all comes down to Saturday. One game to decide the Ivy League Championship. Will it go to Harvard, Brown, or Princeton?
'Prince' staff writers Chandra Russell and Blaire Russell recently sat down with women's basketball's head coach Richard Barron.'Prince': Where did you coach before you came to Princeton?Barron: I coached for nine years total at the University of the South, in Sewanee, Tenn.
At 8:30 p.m. on Monday night, senior guard Ahmed El Nokali was on the phone in his room, which smelled like the dinner from Wendy's that he had not yet eaten.
The field hockey team is used to winning. The Tigers have dominated the Ivy League for several seasons and made three-straight NCAA Final Four appearances from 1996-98.Now add 2001 to the list.But just because it has happened often, does not mean field hockey has done it with ease.With just over five minutes remaining in Princeton's game against top-ranked Old Dominion Sunday, the score was knotted at 1-1.
It takes a special type of person to be a national champion. This status is usually achieved only after a lifetime of hard work and training.
Coming into the winter, the women's swimming team had high hopes for the season.It was ranked No.
Harvard and Yale. For any Tiger, the immediate thoughts upon hearing these words are of rivals and of inferiors.
Women's squash has been played at Princeton for 30 years. In that time, no two players have provided a better one-two punch than Julia Beaver '01 and Meredith Quick '01."Julia and Meredith at one and two are pretty tough to fill.
If placement in cross country were determined by the first four runners alone, then the men's team would have finished higher than third place in Saturday's NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional race at Lehigh University.In the words of junior Jon Bell, "we were ecstatic with the finishes of our top 4 guys." Those four Tigers ? Bell, senior Wes Stockard and sophomores Tristan Colangelo and Ryan Teising ? accomplished what no other team accomplished ? all of them finished in the Top 15.The race started up a long, gradual hill, with Stockard ahead of the Princeton pack.
