The women's soccer team has been nearly perfect against its traditional East Coast rivals this fall, outscoring its opponents 18-1 on the way to a 6-0 record.But a world does exist outside of the Ivy League.
People always come running for two-for-one deals, a fact attested to by the long line running out the door at Thomas Sweets on Two for Tuesdays.But when the Yale women's cross-country team took on twin runners Kate and Laura O'Neill, it had no idea what a bargain it got.The junior duo led Yale to a seventh-place finish in the NCAA championships last year and both were named to the All-American team in the process.
The football team dominated Columbia last week, winning 44-11 in its most complete game since Roger Hughes took over as head coach last season.
In a week of firsts for the Tigers, this Saturday will be the first time that Princeton's determination will be questioned.
Princeton and Rutgers have been neighbors for a long time. For the most part, they have gotten along well, as neighbors should.But every now and then, representatives from these two staid institutions put on uniforms and meet on a playing field.
In a physical battle between the Terps and Tigers, a questionable call early in the second half put the Tigers at a disadvantage they couldn't overcome.In only the second meeting between the two schools, Maryland (3-3-1) got the early jump on Princeton (3-1-2 overall, 2-0-1 Ivy League) with a goal from the right side by Wes Kirk on a high cross from Sumed Ibrahim at 16 minutes, 49 seconds in the first half.The score remained 1-0 until Ibrahim got his second assist, this one a cross to center leading to a goal by Siba Mohammed.Five minutes later, Princeton got its game going as freshman Adrian Melville deflected a high pass from Ryan Rich past Terp goalkeeper Noah Palmer.Princeton looked poised to even the score when one play changed the course of the game.
Recently, 'Prince' staff writer Austin Starkweather sat down with football's junior wide receiver Chisom Opara.'Prince': What was it like to play three sports at Gilman High School?Opara: At a place like Gilman it was great to play.
To put it mildly, Princeton's lacrosse team is good. It has won six of the last 10 national championships and has had more players on the last two National Teams than any other school.
The women's rugby team arrived on campus with its sight set on a national championship, yet it soon found that this season would test not only its physical ability but also its mental toughness.Long-time coach Alex Curtis GS '98, who had led the team to two national championships since he began coaching the Tigers in 1993, resigned as head coach in the spring to take the position of Director of Admissions at the Princeton Day School.Thus, as the Tigers concentrates on practices and their fall schedule, they must also concentrate on the task of finding a coach.
When I was six, I knew everything about baseball. I knew who held all the records in all the categories, and I knew who they passed to get there.
Calling a team 'streaky' usually implies some inconsistency. The word is most often used to describe teams that play well for a time and then fall apart completely.The women's soccer team is streaky.
Most people go to California for three things: wine, cheese and surfing. That, of course, used to be true until this year.
Field hockey. For anyone outside of Europe or the Northeast U.S., the sport has an air of mystery about it.
Coming home from Ithaca last weekend, the sprint football coaching staff wasn't feeling so bad.They came out of the game with a lot of information about their young team.
Despite the absence of top runner, senior Paul Morrison, due to a knee injury, and despite sophomore Tristan Colangelo's broken toe and junior Josh Ordway's cold, the men's cross country team launched into the season on Saturday with a solid start at the Iona Invitational.The Tigers, with a final score of 93, came in second overall out of 25 teams.
A week ago, against Lehigh, sophomore quarterback David Splithoff threw the ball 39 times for the football team.
To those students who required the lure of body-warming ? or numbing as the case may be ? beverages to vacate their toasty rooms and amble a half-mile in the bitter fall air to Prospect Avenue this weekend, members of the Princeton women's golf team offer little sympathy.This past weekend at the Nittany Lion Invitational at Penn State, the Tigers spent upwards of 11 hours on the links shooting three rounds of 18 holes; their perceptive insulation from the cold lay in competitive focus however, not imbibed sensory depressants.In a challenging field, Princeton placed sixth, shooting 933 for three rounds.
In a microcosm of the roller-coaster season the women's volleyball team has had so far, the Tigers went 2-2 in the 19th Annual ASICS Collegiate Volleyball Invitational this weekend, sandwiching two losses with victories to start and end the tournament.
In a league in which more than one quarterback accumulates 3000 yards a season while the running back plays second fiddle, giving a great deal of credit to the running game may appear slightly odd.But it was from this position that Princeton was able to dominate Saturday's game against Columbia, piling up massive yardage on the ground, thereby freeing up the passing attack to make the big plays.Due to junior running back Cameron Atkinson's ability to find the openings and hit them, as well as the offensive line's improvement from the Lehigh game to Columbia, the Tigers were able to control the ball and continue the drives that put 44 points on the board.Last week's game against the Mountain Hawks was not kind to the Princeton offense.
"This is one of the best men's water polo games I've seen in my life," declared an excited fan after the end of the second overtime.
