The time for lineup tune-ups and rotation roulette has passed. Now, the "preseason" is over."This is what we gear up for," head coach Scott Bradley said.
For the past four seasons, Princeton's men's lacrosse team has moved through the Ivy League season like a construction crew laying a section of interstate highway on a midwestern plain ? show up, flatten and move on to the next task.Tomorrow, the Tigers (3-1 overall) will try to keep pouring asphalt on the rest of the conference when they host Yale (3-2, 1-1 Ivy League) in their Ivy opener at 1952 Stadium.Under the guidance of head coach Bill Tierney, Princeton is poised for another run at the Ivy championship ? which would be the school's sixth consecutive crown.
The referee pushed through bodies, burrowing down through sweaty, kicking legs and linked arms, furiously trying to find the bottom of the human pile.
PISCATAWAY ? The baseball team knew its strength this season would be its pitching. The Tigers returned a cadre of starters and brought in a strong freshman class.
For most of the women's squash team, the beginning of the off-season means a chance to finally relax ? a chance to take some time away from squash after another grueling season.For junior Julia Beaver, however, the "off-season" has an entirely different significance.
So how about those folks over at Sports Illustrated? They just have such a sense of humor, don't they?By picking Boston to win the World Series, they managed to pile the SI cover jinx on top of the Curse of the Bambino, guaranteeing that the Red Sox have about as much chance of winning this year's Fall Classic as I do of marrying Marisa Tomei.Still, mocking New Englanders isn't the only thing this Washingtonian has to look forward to this year.
With the clunk of the driver, a golf ball rises high above the earth. But no matter how high it flies, it cannot escape its silent shadow, which traces the ground all across the sublunary world, tracking its lofted counterpart and waiting for the ball to return.The men's and women's golf teams both come into the spring season leaders of the Ivy League and with their sights set high.
The men's tennis team continued its pattern of decisive wins yesterday at Jadwin. After defeating St.
After two home-opening losses to a mediocre Rider squad a week ago, softball head coach Cindy Cohen realized that the team was not headed in the right direction.
One could say that the playoff bubble that the men's volleyball team was in has now burst. Heading into last night's match at New Jersey Institute of Technology, Princeton needed to win three of its last four matches.
Sophomore Kim Smith of the women's lacrosse team and the field hockey team recently sat down with senior writer Sophia Hollander.'Prince': Is it embarrassing to beat a team 18-0?Kim Smith: It's not embarrassing.
With the dawn of the Ivy League season on the horizon, the men's lacrosse team is facing a sort of identity crisis.
To say that the men's volleyball team is on the bubble would be an understatement.The Tigers (7-9 overall, 3-6 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association) were not so much dominated by Juniata (8-11, 4-7) on Friday in Huntingdon Pa.
Even the goal posts couldn't withstand the strength of the women's water polo team this weekend.The Tigers (14-3 overall, 8-0 Collegiate Water Polo Association) demolished the Mid-Atlantic competition in Washington, D.C., and even broke a goal as they continued their CWPA winning streak.A 16-3 win over Maryland kicked off the tournament Saturday.
While the men's and women's fencing teams combined for a fifth-place finish at last weekend's NCAA Championships in Palo Alto, Calif., one Tiger stole the spotlight for herself.Freshman foil Eva Petschnigg took home the national individual foil title with a thrilling 15-13 win over Stanford's Monique de Bruin in the finals.
Remarkable performances by distance runners over the last three years have played an integral part in building the Princeton's men's track team into the best squad in the Ivy League and a regional powerhouse.
It was the bottom of the seventh inning. The bases were loaded with two outs. The softball team was down by two runs in the championship game of the Princeton Invitational.
Freshman phenom Eva Petschnigg added yet another impressive accomplishment to her Princeton resume this weekend by winning the women's foil individual crown at the NCAA Fencing Championships in Palo Alto, Ca.Petschnigg defeated top-seeded Monique de Bruin of Stanford, 15-13, in the final to complete a weekend where she won 20 of her 25 total bouts.After going 18-5 in round-robin competition ? good for third place overall ? Petschnigg moved on to the national semifinal, where she defeated No.
