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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

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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

The Daily Princetonian

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

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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

The Daily Princetonian

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

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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

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