With a few minutes remaining in the third quarter and Cornell leading 18-6, freshman sprint football quarterback L.T.
Despite the absence of number one player and team leader sophomore Esty Dwek ? who was home for the weekend in Switzerland attending her brother's Bar Mitzvah ? the women's golf team enjoyed a successful weekend at the Eastern College Athletic Conference Tournament, hosted by Bucknell University.Freshman Avery Kiser shot a second round 72 for a total of 147 to take the individual title this weekend.
For some of you, it's midterms week. We, however, have precious little to do.That's not true.For me, Alex, it's the easiest week yet this year.
To be injured is every athlete's worst nightmare ? especially when, for that athlete, to be an NCAA champion is more than just a dreamer's goal, but a definite possibility.For senior Paul Morrison, previously Princeton's top men's cross-country runner, that nightmare came true.Sept.
Five minutes, 54 seconds into Saturday's women's lacrosse game a familiar sound came out of the public ad-dress system..."Goal scored by Crista Samaras," the announcer boomed.This time, however, Samaras was not wearing orange and black.
Strong defense has been the key to the men's soccer team's success all season, and Saturday's game against American University proved just how important ball control and mistake-free play can be for Princeton.Ranked 17th in the country, and undefeated since Oct.
Senior defensive end Phil Jackman rolls off his blocker as Harvard quarterback Neil Rose drops back.
The score was eight to nothing. In any sport in which the score is tallied one point at a time, that is a blow-out, a sign for the spectators that two uneven teams are on the field.That was the impression that fans at this weekend's Princeton Infiniti Lacrosse Invitational got when Princeton fell behind Towson by the score of eight to nothing at the end of the first quarter.Many were saying that this year's Tigers were simply not going to be as strong as last year's team, which beat Syracuse on Memorial Day to bring home the NCAA Championship.Others accredited the early blow-out to Towson's continuing improvement.
For crew, this time of year is supposed to be the off-season. Autumn days are an opportunity for outdoor training before heading inside for winter workouts.
The Princeton field hockey team (12-2 overall, 4-0 Ivy League) went into this weekend facing two important but very winnable games.
With only seven seconds left in the fourth quarter, Princeton was down by two. The Tigers put their faith in senior place kicker Taylor Northrop, who is in competition to break the Ivy League record for most field goals in a career.
The Princeton coaching career of women's soccer's head coach Julie Shackford, coming into the 2001 season, was far better than average.
A champion has a confident swagger. But if that champion loses three straight league games, that strut dissipates very quickly.
A child could have seen it coming. In a championship match filled with frustration, tension, and officiating that had both head coaches in a frenzy for the duration of the game, what more appropriate culmination could there be than a water fight?With 4 minutes, 22 seconds remaining in a 9-8 loss to Navy in the championship game of the CWPA Crossover Weekend at DeNunzio Pool yesterday, Princeton senior driver Robert Urquhart scored a goal to pull his team within two goals when a fight broke out near the Navy net.Whistles went wild as the Tigers (11-4 overall, 6-1 CWPA) and Midshipmen (11-3 overall) flailed at each other mercilessly, the emotions from a tightly-played game finally spilling over."It was building," Princeton head coach Luis Nicolao saidd, referring to the rising tempers.
There are only five schools in the country that play sprint football. If you venture too far from the campuses of Army, Navy, Cornell, Penn or Princeton, no one has any idea the sport even exists.With such a small set of teams, chances are pretty good you've never seen a sprint football game.
When Princeton and Harvard meet, throw the records out. The two universities compete for the best students, recruits and professors.
Crew isn't typically a fan-friendly sport. A hundred-thousand people don't generally turn out to watch a regatta.
This weekend, the women's soccer team's match against No. 11 Harvard will almost certainly draw fewer spectators than the football team's game against the Crimson.
The cold evening deserved a match that would heat it up. And for that purpose, no game could have been better.
Two Tigers earned Ivy League Player of the Week honors this week as Theresa Sherry of the women's soccer team and Rachael Becker of the field hockey team received the award.Sherry, a sophomore forward, scored three key goals in the past week.
