This is the team that knocked Princeton out of sole possession of first place at the end of last season.
LAWRENCE, Kan. Over winter break the men's basketball team learned it can play with any team in the nation.
During the past two weeks, the women's basketball team has played two of its best games of the season.
The theme of the men's hockey team's two-game series with Notre Dame was 'shorthanded.' In South Bend, Ind., Dec.
NEWARK ? The streak is over.Penn State's run of seven straight Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association championships came to a screeching halt as the second-seeded Nittany Lions fell to the men's volleyball team in three straight games last night, 15-7, 15-13, 16-14, at the Golden Dome in Newark.Princeton (15-8 overall) knew that its road to the EIVA championship ? and to the Final Four in Hawaii ? would go through Penn State, but it had expected to meet the Nittany Lions in the finals.
Goga Vukmirovic, starting goalie for the women's water polo team, is reticent when discussing herself.
It was the bottom of the second, the score was tied at one and the pouring rain threatened the future of the game.
Then the softball team takes the diamond at 1895 Field tomorrow it will face a dual threat from Harvard in sophomore hitting sensation Deborah Abeles and current Ivy League Pitcher of the Week Tasha Cupp.Princeton (18-2 overall, 2-2 Ivy) must shut down Abeles and find a way to solve Cupp in order to defeat Harvard (18-17, 4-0) and keep any hope of winning the Ivy championship alive."(Harvard is) definitely one of our top competitors in the league," senior pitcher Alyssa Smith said.A shortstop and the Ivy League Player of the Week for the second consecutive time, Abeles has batted 15 for 27 for the past six games, with a .556 average.
Christian Cook expected to face one of the toughest assignments of his lacrosse career last Saturday in the men's lacrosse team's game against Harvard.
The women's tennis team's spring record currently stands at 12-0. The last time Princeton started off with 12 straight wins was in 1973, when current head coach Louise Gengler '75 was only a sophomore.But the Tigers (14-2 overall, 4-0 Ivy League) still have a daunting task to overcome ? winning this weekend's matches against Dartmouth and Harvard.
Past glory and future hopes don't mean anything to a golf course.The bunkers don't care that Mary Moan '97 was the best eastern collegiate female golfer ever.The fairways don't even consider the prospects of a young team on the verge of greatness.The women's golf team will face its rivals at the second-ever Ivy Championships this weekend.
In the blink of an eye, senior attack Melissa Cully put women's lacrosse ahead of Delaware, 1-0, with a goal seven seconds into the game.
Two rounds, one season.These elements lay in the balance for the men's golf team this weekend as it heads into the 24th Ivy League Championships in Bethpage, N.Y.From 1992 to 1995, Princeton dominated the competition at Ivies.
There are certain events in the athletic world in which it seems only super-humans can compete ? the Ironman triathlon, for instance ? and there are other sports that are decried for not being demanding enough.
Senior midfielder Mark Whaling has already won four Ivy League championships in his career at Princeton and will win a fifth if the men's lacrosse team can sweep its remaining three league contests.And no, Whaling is not violating any NCAA rules.While most members of the lacrosse team play fall ball and develop team chemistry throughout the autumn months, Whaling is chasing quarterbacks and batting down passes.
Like typical freshmen, Andrew Hanson, Casey Hildreth and Max Krance entered college with anticipatory doubts about what they would find.
After the women's rugby football club's performance two weekends ago, many might have wondered why the team did not make it to the nationals this spring as it did for the last three years.
There's no place like home, at least for the men's tennis team.Entering yesterday's match with Army, Princeton's last home loss was March 7 against Penn State.By winning five of six singles matches, the Tigers (10-6 overall, 5-1 Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis Association) won their sixth consecutive match, downing the Black Knights yesterday, 6-1, at Lenz Tennis Center.
After allowing the game-winning home run in the softball team's loss to Cornell Friday, junior pitcher Lynn Miller was more than anxious to get back on the mound and back on track.When presented with the opportunity to redeem herself, Miller capitalized.
The women's tennis team moved from No. 61 to No. 43 in the Rolex Collegiate Rankings in the most recent poll.
