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Marion Jones highlights stellar list of athletes at Princeton Invite

Marion Jones highlights stellar list of athletes at Princeton Invite

When Marion Jones steps into her blocks Saturday for the Golden Spike Tour Open at Princeton's Weaver Track and Field Stadium, she will not only be staring at the finish line but also at the follow-up season to last year's record-breaking Olympic performance and, further in the distance, at breaking the 100-meter world record held by Florence Griffith-Joyner.Jones ? who was named 2000 Athlete of the Year by the Associated Press, Reuters and ESPN after winning three gold medals and two bronze medals at the Olympics in Sydney ? will run her first 100-meter dash of the season this weekend in Princeton.Though she won Olympic gold last year in the 100, 200 and 4x400 relay and bronze in the long jump and 4x100 relay, Jones said in a conference call interview last week that she has room to improve on her home soil."I haven't been pleased with my individual performances in the U.S.," she said.

SPORTS | 05/10/2001

Eastern Sprints present uphill battle for men's crew teams

The season-long game of King of the Hill in men's heavyweight crew will reach a fever pitch Sunday at the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges Sprints at Lake Quinsigamond near Worcester, Mass.Brown was ranked No.

SPORTS | 05/10/2001

Barron steps in as new coach for women's basketball team

Yesterday, a man who turned a program that had not had a winning season in 10 years into a Division III power was named the new head coach of a team that finished 2-25 last year.Richard Barron, who led the Tigers of the University of the South to a school record 20 wins in the 1999-2000 season, will take the helm as the head coach of the women's basketball team next season.

SPORTS | 05/08/2001

Softball swept by BC to close season

After a strong finish to its Ivy League season, the softball team was swept by Boston College Sunday in its final two games of the season.

SPORTS | 05/08/2001

Shaner's speed, leadership carry both women's lacrosse and women's soccer

Under senior Julie Shaner's picture in the 2001 Nassau Herald sits a quote that describes the whole athletic career of the captain of the women's soccer and lacrosse team."It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog."Despite her small stature, no one has ever questioned the fight in Shaner, who grittily led the lacrosse team to the national finals last year and quarterbacked to the soccer team to back-to-back NCAA appearances.Monday night the scrappy player added one more award to her trophy case when she was named the Daily Princetonian's 2001 Female Athlete of the Year."Being able to excel at two sports at this level is rare," head women's soccer coach Julie Shackford said.

SPORTS | 05/08/2001

Women's track stumbles at Heps, finishes in eighth place

The Princeton women's track team had high hopes before last weekend's Heptagonal Championships. While certainly not one of the favored teams, the Tigers looked to several key individuals for big performances that could have carried the whole squad to a respectable finish.Princeton got some of the individual results it had hoped for, but the team as a whole finished eighth out of nine teams.

SPORTS | 05/08/2001

Norman dominates Ivy sports, sets sights on similar success with Seahawks

Sitting on the fuzzy, peach-colored sofa that wraps around a corner of his 134-square foot Scully Hall single, Dennis Norman chatted with his girlfriend and his mother ? and waited.

SPORTS | 05/08/2001

Men's heavyweight crew drops first race of year to No. 3 Brown

Not all athletes understand the meaning of sacrifice as well as Princeton's rowers do. In the summer of 1986, Leif Shiras '81 had the best tennis tournament of his life, upsetting then No.

SPORTS | 05/08/2001

Men's lacrosse seeded No. 2 in NCAAs

The Tiger lacrosse team reported that during practice last week, it had difficulty focusing on Saturday's meeting with Hobart because of the ensuing NCAA Championships.

SPORTS | 05/06/2001

Penn runs down three-time defending champ men's track at Heps

While many Princeton students were trying to defend their livers against the rigors of Houseparties weekend, the men's track team faced a much tougher challenge.

SPORTS | 05/06/2001

Women's lacrosse falters, still gets No. 5 seed

There is no place like home, at least when referring to the Princeton-Georgetown women's lacrosse series.

SPORTS | 05/06/2001

Baseball takes home league championship over Dartmouth for second straight year

This was not happening again.The baseball team was starting to feel a little deja vu as freshman third baseman Steve Young stepped up to the plate yesterday in the third and deciding game of the Ivy League Championship Series.

SPORTS | 05/06/2001

No matter the opponent, baseball favored to repeat as Ivy champions

After clinching the Gehrig Division title last Friday, the baseball team did not know whom it would play in the Ivy League championships.

SPORTS | 05/03/2001

Weekend schedule

Saturday, May 5 Men's track hosts Heptagonal Championships (all day at Weaver Stadium) Women's track hosts Heptagonal Championships (all day at Weaver Stadium) Baseball at Dartmouth for Ivy Championship, DH (noon in Hanover, N.H.) Men's lacrosse vs.

SPORTS | 05/03/2001

Softball swept by Seton Hall in road doubleheader while Galicinao shines

With no more home games left on this season's slate, the softball team traveled down the Jersey Turnpike to South Orange to take on Seton Hall in its second-to-last matchup of the season.Junior pitcher Brie Galicinao, who, as of Wednesday, ranked No.

SPORTS | 05/03/2001

Men's lacrosse battles doldrums on eve of NCAA tourney seed selection

Princeton did not make it to the NCAA Lacrosse Championships until 1990. Since then, though, the Tigers have been there each of the past 11 years ? compiling the best post-season record, 21-6 ? of any team in the nation, and coming away with five national championships.This Sunday, the NCAA tournament selection committee will meet and announce that Princeton, with its automatic bid from winning the Ivy League, will be going to its 12th straight tournament.

SPORTS | 05/03/2001

Women's lacrosse looks to seal high seed against Georgetown

If the excitement of No. 3 Georgetown versus No. 5 Princeton wasn't enough, this high stakes game for the Tigers will be determinant of their seeding for the upcoming NCAA Tourn-ament.Princeton and Dartmouth tied for the Ivy League championship.

SPORTS | 05/03/2001

Back from attempt at Trials, Harris returns for men's track in top form

When high jumper Tora Harris decided to take a year off halfway through his Princeton career he didn't go gallavanting through Europe or out west to "find himself." His idea of a "year off" involved training for the Olympic Trials while continuing as a part-time student at Texas A&M.Harris' hopes for success at the Trials were kindled by his freshman and sophomore years at Princeton, which were marked by tremendous sucesses.

SPORTS | 05/02/2001

Men's lacrosse too good for its own good: Depth deters several top recruits

"This is probably the best four classes we've ever had in a row," men's lacrosse head coach Bill Tierney said in an interview earlier in the year with regards to Princeton's past recruiting.Usually, one would think that a statement such as this could mean only positive things ? high national rankings and championships.

SPORTS | 05/02/2001

Brie Galicinao — Softball

Playing softball against Princeton must not be very fun for Penn. The umpires shout, "Play ball!" and the first Quaker batter walks to the batter's box.

SPORTS | 05/02/2001

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