A rivalry will be renewed when the women's soccer team travels to Wisconsin today to take on the Badgers in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.It's not the rivalry between Princeton and Wisconsin, however.
When junior midfielder Linley Gober put the women's soccer team ahead of Penn, 1-0, in the Tigers' final regular season game last Saturday, one couldn't help but feel that the rest of the contest was a mere formality.The reason: Senior goalkeeper Jordan Rettig, who would go on to post a shutout for the sixth time in seven Ivy games.Leaping in the air to intercept crosses and diving to block shots, Rettig dominated the Princeton penalty area as she has done all season.
Trailing 6-2 at halftime in the finals of the Southern Championships at Navy Sunday, the men's water polo team appeared to be on its way to a surprisingly lopsided loss against the always-tough Midshipmen.But this was a Princeton-Navy matchup, and if the Tigers have proven nothing else this year, they have shown that when they get together with their rivals from Annapolis, matters are never settled until the final buzzer.In that second half, Princeton (22-8) battled back with three consecutive goals, and though the Tigers fell short in the end, 6-5, they proved that their rivalry with Navy is as fierce as ever.Princeton has now played three one-goal games with the Midshipmen this year, losing Sept.
The field hockey team will take on Penn State in the first round of the NCAA tournament Saturday in College Park, Md.
VAN CORTLANDT PARK, N.Y. ? Dartmouth snapped Princeton's string of nine consecutive Heptagonal League Championships in cross country and track by winning the men's Heps cross country meet Oct.
The sprint football team had looked forward to its two games over Fall Break as a chance to turn its season around.
The women's hockey team opened its 2000-2001 campaign during Fall Break and found itself involved in a pair of tight contests right from the start.
At Baker Rink on Saturday night, the key word for the men's hockey team was "new."Last year's head coach Don Cahoon was no longer barking orders from behind the bench.
After winning three of its four matches during Fall Break last week, the women's volleyball team is now No.
High hopes came unceremoniously crashing to the ground for the women's cross country team as its quest to surprise the Heptagonal Championships field with an upset ended in a disappointing seventh-place finish.The Tigers hoped this would be the race where they would finally perform to their potential.
With three games in six days, Fall Break was no time for relaxing for the field hockey team (13-3 overall, 7-0 Ivy League). It became, however, a time for celebration as Princeton posted three big wins over UConn, Cornell and Penn, earning its seventh consecutive Ivy championship....Princeton kicked off the week with a 2-0 shutout win over then-No.
As time ticked off the clock late in the women's soccer game against Penn on Saturday night, the offensive mistakes, the sometimes-sloppy play and the missed opportunities of a season were forgotten.All the Tigers (13-4 overall, 6-1 Ivy League) focused on was the fact that if they could hold on to a 1-0 lead for a little longer, this group would be able to accomplish something no Princeton team had done since 1983 ? win an Ivy League Championship..As senior midfielder Julie Shaner and senior forward Amee Reyes froze the ball deep in the Quakers' end of the field, the clock ran out with the score 1-0 and the dream of the Class of 2001 finally came true.The Tigers had finished the season 6-1 in the league to tie with Dartmouth for the championship, but Princeton earned the automatic berth into the NCAA tournament by virtue of a 1-0 win over the Big Green on Sept.
Two plays that never should have happened led to two league losses for the football team during the break.The first proved that the point after is not an afterthought.
The men's soccer team's season had been a disappointment so far. Gone were the Tigers' chances for a repeat as Ivy League champs.
The Dartmouth-Harvard women's soccer game has determined the Ivy League champion for the past six years.This year should be no different.If No.
Both the men's and women's cross country teams are up against tough competition today at the Heptagonal League Championships at Van Cortlandt Park, N.Y.
If it were not for the fact that his team is in first place in the Ivy League, football head coach Roger Hughes would be having a miserable year.His firstand second-string quarterbacks went down with injuries, bringing on the third-string quarterback.
Gianfranco Trippichio felt responsible. In the week before the men's soccer team played Harvard, the freshman midfielder's mind drifted during the day as he dwelled anxiously on the Tigers' terrible inability to score.The Tigers (7-5-1 overall, 1-3-0 Ivy League) had no wins in the Ivy League.
Hoping to continue its ascent in the national field hockey rankings, Princeton (10-3 overall, 5-0 Ivy League) will head to Storrs, Conn., this weekend to take on No.
Rowers spend their lives trying not to stand out from the crowd. As far as sports go, crew is as unglamorous as they come.But every four years, rowers are given the chance to stand out in the spectacle of the Olympics ? standing alongside the world's other great, but more heralded, athletes.A number of Princetonian rowers, past and present, had the chance to compete in the 2000 Sydney Games.
