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.
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.
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.
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.
In a game rife with big plays on both sides of the ball, the football team caged the Columbia Lions, 44-11, Saturday night in Princeton Stadium.
Fifty-four penalties, two yellow cards and one red card, and that was just what the referee saw. In its most physical game this season, the men's soccer team was unable to match its strong play from earlier in the season.Still undefeated, the Tigers (3-0-2, 1-0-1) played to a double-overtime 0-0 tie with Columbia on Saturday evening.
At the beginning of the season, the field hockey team is concentrating on winning the Ivy League championship and making a run at the national title.
While a good offense is something to brag about, it is a good defense that wins games. Just look at the women's soccer team.
We live in a world obsessed with ratings, rankings, scores and statistics.Thousands of people spend their days, sometimes their lives, entering even the most obscure sports results into computer programs so that players and fans can have a better understanding of where they and their teams stand.A lot of people apparently feel that sports can be broken down like a science, that if they squeeze enough past performance into some magical formula they'll end up with the truth about a team or player.
Learning from last year's slow start, Princeton survived its first test, beating Dartmouth, 3-0. But this weekend's opponent plays a very different style and the Tigers know that they have not proven anything yet.Tomorrow, Princeton will open its home Ivy League schedule with Columbia ? a big, fast and aggressive team.Princeton (3-0-1 overall, 1-0 Ivy) has started its season just as it hoped, undefeated and tied for first in the Ivy League.
