Sitting on the fuzzy, peach-colored sofa that wraps around a corner of his 134-square foot Scully Hall single, Dennis Norman chatted with his girlfriend and his mother ? and waited.
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.
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.
After a strong finish to its Ivy League season, the softball team was swept by Boston College Sunday in its final two games of the season.
The Tiger lacrosse team reported that during practice last week, it had difficulty focusing on Saturday's meeting with Hobart because of the ensuing NCAA Championships.
While many Princeton students were trying to defend their livers against the rigors of Houseparties weekend, the men's track team faced a much tougher challenge.
There is no place like home, at least when referring to the Princeton-Georgetown women's lacrosse series.
This was not happening again.The baseball team was starting to feel a little deja vu as freshman third baseman Steve Young stepped up to the plate yesterday in the third and deciding game of the Ivy League Championship Series.
After clinching the Gehrig Division title last Friday, the baseball team did not know whom it would play in the Ivy League championships.
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.
With no more home games left on this season's slate, the softball team traveled down the Jersey Turnpike to South Orange to take on Seton Hall in its second-to-last matchup of the season.Junior pitcher Brie Galicinao, who, as of Wednesday, ranked No.
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.
If the excitement of No. 3 Georgetown versus No. 5 Princeton wasn't enough, this high stakes game for the Tigers will be determinant of their seeding for the upcoming NCAA Tourn-ament.Princeton and Dartmouth tied for the Ivy League championship.
"This is probably the best four classes we've ever had in a row," men's lacrosse head coach Bill Tierney said in an interview earlier in the year with regards to Princeton's past recruiting.Usually, one would think that a statement such as this could mean only positive things ? high national rankings and championships.
Playing softball against Princeton must not be very fun for Penn. The umpires shout, "Play ball!" and the first Quaker batter walks to the batter's box.
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.
Some athletes seem born for the limelight, destined from birth to lead groups of equally talented people to monumental achievments.
After two rounds, there was no reason for great optimism for the men's golf team. After scores of 304 and 303 in the first two rounds of the Rutherford Invitational, Princeton stood 28 strokes behind leader and host Penn State.Then the Tigers came alive.Led by sophomore Cassidy Traub's final-round 66, Princeton fired off a team-record score of 281 to charge up the leaderboard and finish alone in third place behind the Nittany Lions and James Madison.
Qualifying for NCAAs is certainly something to be proud of. Receiving All-America honors is an even greater accomplishment.
The problem with serving souffle for dinner is that it does not always rise. Rumor has it that even the legendary Julia Child refused to tackle the souffle challenge on her cooking show, lest her hard-earned reputation be tarnished by a series of runny failures.Racing in extremely fast conditions in Derby, Conn., this weekend, men's heavyweight crew accomplished a feat commensurate to cooking up a short-order souffle in front of a live television audience.
