The difference between a successful and a disappointing season can be measured in minutes.In the opening minutes of last year's Southern Championships, Navy opened a big lead over Princeton.
The women's soccer team has bigger shoes to fill this upcoming season than ever before. Minus a graduated-star goalie and an injured senior captain, forced to face a perpetually tough Ivy League schedule while defending the legacy of last year's Ivy League champion team, the Tigers welcome one of the nation's top recruiting classes to fill the current void and to begin the uphill march to another title.Senior co-captain Kelly Sosa will be sorely missed after suffering a season-ending tear of her ACL before the start of the season.
For the field hockey team, the first two games of the season could accurately be described as 'The Ilvy Friebe Show." The junior attack hailing from Germany had scored five of No.
Surging from the first whistle, Princeton sent an early message to Fairleigh Dickinson, as the Tigers pushed the Knights all over the field for the first 15 minutes of the game.In a very evenly played game, the Tigers took an early one goal lead, when freshman Adrian Melville tapped in a shot after sophomore Marty Shaw and freshman Ryan Rich drew the Knights goalie away from the net with 35 minutes, 11 seconds left in the first half.
The Princeton-Lafayette football game scheduled for tomorrow night at Princeton Stadium has been postponed as Lafayette has decided to suspend all of its athletic contests through Sunday.
It is an undeniable fact that a chain is only as good as its weakest link. Hang a weight on it, and the weak link snaps, ruining the rest of the chain.
With fewer than ten minutes remaining in the first half against Seton Hall on Oct. 11, a hard slide tackle and bad luck ruined Mike Nugent's junior season, and drastically damaged the Princeton soccer team's offense.Before the season ending injury, Nugent led the Ivy League in goals scored and was headed for his second All-Ivy selection and possibly a second Ivy League championship.
The cards look good this year for the "Magnificent Seven" of men's soccer, though at the end of last season they must have felt that they'd been dealt a rough hand.The seven seniors, given their nickname for being one of the nation's best soccer recruiting classes, helped achieve an outright Ivy League title in 1999 and seemed primed in 2000 for a repeat performance.
Last Spring, Princeton's men's track team and the women's swimming and diving squad obtained considerable success in both the Ivy League as well as NCAA's.
After Tuesday's horrific events in New York and Washington, few on campus thought of the joy and camaraderie of sports.
The men's soccer team kicked off its season in style ? with a thorough 5-0 beating of Monmouth Saturday at Lourie-Love Field.
Stepping onto the field this past weekend for the first time since a season-ending loss to Maryland in the NCAA Tournament last November, the field hockey team made quick work of non-conference rivals Northeastern and Syracuse.The Tigers first dropped the Huskies, 4-2, on Sept.
Last season, the men's water polo team compiled a 24-10 record, reached the finals of the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships, won the Collegiate Water Polo division, and had its first-ever third-team All-American in junior Kevin Foster.Since then, though, the team has lost half of its starters to graduation ? four of whom started each of their four years at Princeton.
Out of the nineteen women on this year's field hockey team there are nine freshmen and no seniors.
Preparation is generally considered the key to success in athletic competition. Being a successful Division I team generally requires months of practice before the first game.
Though coming off of one of the best seasons in its history, after one game it seems that the women's soccer team has nowhere to go but up.In a rescheduled game that took place Sept.
Two old foes marred the women's lacrosse team's otherwise succesful season this year. Dartmouth kept the Tigers from an outright Ivy League title, and perhaps more importantly, Maryland ruined Princeton's run through the NCAA Tournament.In their first Tournament game, the Tigers defeated No.
Capping off a somewhat disappointing season for both teams, men's track finished fourth at the IC4A Championships and women 's track finished 23rd at the ECAC Championships, both of which were held May 17-20 at Weaver Stadium.The men's team began its season expecting to challenge for an IC4A championships, but distance runner Paul Morrison '02 and shot putter Scott Denbo '01 were both hampered by injuries throughout the year, while discus thrower Dennis Norman '01 left the team for the NFL.The depleted squad stumbled into IC4As, having lost to Penn at the Heptagonal Championships May 13-15.
Syracuse was going to win.With the score tied at nine at the men's lacrosse NCAA Championship game in Piscataway, the Orangemen had momentum and recent history on their side.
Playing an opponent with superior size and speed, Princeton's execution needed to be perfect to escape with a victory, but the Tigers came up short.Some missed shots, a slow start, and a severe height disadvantage doomed No.
