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.
The women's soccer team (13-2-2 overall, 5-1-1 Ivy League), coming off the program's best season in its 20-year history, will enter the NCAA tournament on Friday, hosting unranked Loyola-Maryland (9-8-2).Loyola earned its first-ever bid to NCAA Tournament with 1-0 victory over Marist last Sunday in the championship of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.
Several times this season, sprint football has come close, though not necessarily on the scoreboard.
With a chance at winning the Ivy League championship almost within its grasp, the women's volleyball team came into last weekend looking for one more rung on the ladder to grab on to to pull it closer to first place, a position held by Penn.Of course, this is a ladder the team has climbed before, as the two-time defending Ivy League champions.
In the wake of a meeting to identify the team's goals for the season last week, the men's hockey team may have lost sight of another kind of goal ? the kind that is scored on the ice to win games.Princeton's offensive woes this season continued, as the team lost back-to-back road games for the second time this season, falling to Clarkson, 3-2, and St.
Women's cross country wanted to prove a few things this year.They wanted to prove they were top three in their league, but came in sixth at Heptagonals.Then, they wanted to prove they deserved to go to nationals at Saturday's NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional, held at Lehigh, and, again, came in sixth with 157 points ? far away from qualifying for nationals.So, while the Tigers have improved since last year, they didn't meet all of their goals."Certainly the program made a step in the right direction [this season] ? we just didn't quite maximize our potential," head coach Peter Farrell said.
