You may not have seen him, but he was there. Shirking the spotlight, he remained hidden in the background, feeling out what it would be like to be back playing for his former team.
The news of former Boston Celtics coach Rick Pitino's preliminary discussions with Director of Athletics Gary Walters '67 completed an extraordinary two weeks at ESPN.
The lights of the Fleet Center shimmered off his neatly glued strands of hair like the bright sun off the slopes of a snow-covered mountain.
A single bead of sweat hung tantalizingly from a strand of Arnold Malachian's greasy hair. The salty spheroid grew fat with fluid before falling quietly on to the worn carpet below.
Last April, the University Board of Trustees approved the Wythes report, which stated that incoming Princeton undergraduate classes should be increased by 125 students.
The men's and women's fencing teams had meets tucked awkwardly into their reading period schedules.
Early in the season, everyone knows that training hasn't fully sunk in yet, and the team's best performances lie somwewhere in the not-too-distant future.But this did not stop the Princeton track and field team from making itself a major player in the two-day Armory Invitational in New York City this past weekend in both the men's and women's competitions.
In January 1997, Jason Morrow '00 ? then a freshman ? laced up his sneakers, put on his knee pads and stepped onto the court for the first time as the starting setter for the men's volleyball team.
A hockey game lasts for 60 minutes, and the team that plays the best for most of those minutes wins most of the games.
Surprises have been a large part of the men's basketball team's season thus far. But in its Ivy League opening weekend at Jadwin Gym, the Tigers showed that little has changed in the league hierarchy.Playing their final two games with Bill Clinton in the White House, the Tigers ended the term doing exactly what they had been doing for most of it ? winning.
After dropping two more games this weekend, the men's hockey team earned a rematch. The Tigers again play an opponent that has plagued them for a month, buzzing like a gnat around their heads.
In basketball, it is often said that the season is split up into three separate mini-seasons: the pre-conference schedule, the conference games and the postseason.If this is the case, the women's basketball team started off its second season much the same way the first started, and, barring a miraculous turnaround, it seems unlikely the Tigers will even see the third season.Going into this weekend's games, Princeton was looking to snap a dozen-game losing streak.
Despite aggravating his left knee after his sixth match, sophomore Greg Parker fought through two more, placing sixth at the Midlands Tournament in Evanston, Ill., Dec.
They say persistence is a virtue.But according to Webster's, the word "nagging" means "to be a persistent source of annoyance or distraction."Most of the men's basketball team has nagging injuries going into this weekend's games, and the Tigers probably side more with the dictionary in this case than the adage.
A look at the overall record of the men's hockey team is not encouraging for Tiger fans. Currently riding a six-game losing streak, five of which were non-conference affairs, Princeton sits at 5-9-3 ? one of the worst overall records in the Eastern College Athletic Conference.A quick glance at the ECAC standings, however, shows that the Tigers are in third place with a respectable 4-4-2 conference record that gives them 10 points.
The men's and women's swimming teams completed a successful Winter Break as both squads beat Rutgers last Friday and then the men traveled to Hanover, N.H., on Sunday and cruised past Dartmouth, 149-89.In the Tigers' 164-136 win over Rutgers, the women were led by junior Kate Conroy and freshman Lauren Rossi, both of whom won two events ? Conroy in the 100- and 200-meter backstrokes and Rossi in the 100 and 200 breaststroke.
On Jan. 8, senior Melanie Meerschwam became one of 18 players to be named to the U.S. National Team.
For most students, two months may represent the time that remains between now and Spring Break. For the women's hockey team, though, these eight weeks have added meaning.
After scoring only two goals in the first 13 games of the women's ice hockey team's season, forward Gretchen Anderson finally found her scoring touch.
Always within sight but just barely beyond reach, the first win of the season continues to evade the women's basketball team.
