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Guard needs release to receive scholarship

Guard needs release to receive scholarship

The men's basketball team's standout sophomore guard Spencer Gloger may have already returned to his native California, but his place in the UCLA basketball program is far from certain.According to UCLA's Academic Records Services Unit, Gloger has contacted that university intending to register as a student.But Princeton's Registrar's Office reports that Gloger has not transferred or withdrawn from the University.

SPORTS | 09/19/2000

Tigers seek to repeat as league champs

After claiming its 11th Ivy League title with a decisive victory over Harvard in last year's championship match, women's volleyball has plans to bring home a 12th.

SPORTS | 09/19/2000

News & Notes

Freshman attack Claire Miller was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week after leading the field hockey team to convincing victories over Drexel and Yale.

SPORTS | 09/19/2000

Hughes-initiated Unity Council helps football team foster family culture

With the arrival of a new football coach, thousands of questions arise. Fans wonder whether the coach will use a new offensive set.

SPORTS | 09/19/2000

Men's water polo shines on California swing

The Princeton men's water polo team was teetering on a cliff, barely maintaining its balance while the 'sharks' below began to circle.After being thoroughly defeated by national powers UCLA and Long Beach by the scores 13-3 and 14-7 respectively in the first games of a West Coast trip, the Tigers were in the midst of squandering a 5-0 first-half lead against La Verne.

SPORTS | 09/19/2000

Men's soccer picks up pair of one-goal wins in Old Dominion tournament

Bob Nye stepped onto the field with the rest of the freshmen, all prepared to begin their first Princeton practice alone.

SPORTS | 09/18/2000

New rowing center almost a reality

For its 25th reunion, the Class of 1887 provided the University funds to build a boathouse. More than 85 years later it seemed that the time had certainly come to give that boathouse a much-needed make-over.Now, almost three years after it was originally proposed to renovate the Class of 1887 boathouse into a more modern and better-equipped facility, the new complex is nearly complete.Slated to be finished in early October, the new rowing center will be named in honor of the late C.

SPORTS | 09/18/2000

Tennis teams face key adjustments

Both the men's and women's tennis teams will be spending the first few weeks of the fall season trying to adjust to several recent changes.

SPORTS | 09/18/2000

Emily Kroshus

For the second consecutive season, the nation of Canada figures to have a major impact on the women's athletic scene at Princeton.Last year, tennis star Kavitha Krishnamurthy of Oakville, Ontario, helped lead the Tiger women's tennis team to an undefeated Ivy League season and NCAA tournament berth.

SPORTS | 09/18/2000

Women's golf fires record 612 at Dartmouth Invitational

Like any other Lawnparties weekend, some people go home empty-handed and some people don't. Such was the case with the men's and women's golf teams.While the women's golf team returned from Hanover, N.H., on Sunday carrying the 2000 Dartmouth Invitational championship trophy, the men returned from Harrisonburg, Va., with a disappointing 13th-place finish and nothing to boast about.

SPORTS | 09/18/2000

M. cross country opens season with second-place finish at Invite

During the past three years, winning has proven to be an instinct for the men's cross country team.

SPORTS | 09/17/2000

Football falls short in first game under Hughes

After nearly everything that could have gone wrong for new head coach Roger Hughes and the football team during its game Saturday against Lafayette did go wrong, the Tigers somehow found themselves tied with the Leopards, 17-17, with 45 seconds to play.Unfortunately, not everything that could have gone wrong had happened yet.

SPORTS | 09/17/2000

Lafayette receivers outsize football's secondary

It was not just conventional wisdom telling Lafayette coach Frank Tavani to kick."Everybody was telling me to kick right away," Tavani said.Nine seconds left, game tied, second and goal on the one yard line.

SPORTS | 09/17/2000

Two-minute scoring flurry lifts women's soccer over Elis

Last year, the women's soccer team spent 120 minutes trying to defeat Yale, and was unable to come up with the win, settling for a dissatisfying tie.This year, getting the win took only two minutes.Saturday night in New Haven, Conn., the Tigers (3-0 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) scored two goals during a span of 1:59 in the first half, defeating Yale (3-2-1, 0-1) in their first Ivy League contest, 2-0."It feels great to have that first Ivy win behind us," junior defender and captain Kelly Sosa said.

SPORTS | 09/17/2000

Freshman Kroshus shines in women's cross country debut

Though the men's team has hogged all the attention when it comes to Princeton cross country, it may not be long before the women's team steps out of the shadows and competes for control of track talk on campus.The main thing to be said about the women's cross country team is that they are a group on the rise.The squad looks to challenge Brown this year for top honors in the Heptagonal Championships, which includes the eight Ivy League teams and Navy.

SPORTS | 09/17/2000

Field hockey dominates Ivy-rival Yale

Playing on grass is always dangerous for the field hockey team.No, it's not the pesticides or the ticks, but the potential for a few odd bounces that makes life difficult for Princeton.Yale was hoping that the home-field advantage would be enough to pull off an upset of the Tigers, winners of six-straight Ivy titles.

SPORTS | 09/17/2000

After year of training with Mexican team, Ibanez has Sydney dream dashed

When members of Mexico's Olympic team march through the stadium this evening for the Opening Ceremonies, the team will be two members short.Those two members are Mariana Altamirano and Princeton junior Carola Ibanez, who were supposed to have made up one of the two Mexican women's open two-person sculls at the Games.Instead Ibanez is back in school, looking forward to a delayed junior year.Ibanez's story starts before her freshman year when she saw the cover of the admissions booklet with the Princeton crew team rowing down Lake Carnegie.

SPORTS | 09/14/2000

Podsakoff sets the tone for the Princeton defense

The play went to the right, and Nathan Podsakoff was there. The opposition, Ben Davis High School ? the No.

SPORTS | 09/14/2000

As the football team's campaign opens, Tigers boast new-look offense, experienced defense

After months of preparation, the opening game of Princeton's football season may well resemble a wedding.

SPORTS | 09/14/2000

Morris named interim w. hoops coach after Feeley's departure

With all the attention the men's basketball team has gotten after the loss of head coach Bill Carmody and star center Chris Young, it would be easy to overlook the events that have taken place on the women's side.Coming off a 9-19 (6-8 Ivy League) season, Princeton is hoping that a new coach will help reverse the trend in the win-loss column.

SPORTS | 09/14/2000

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