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Women's water polo readies for another run at Nationals

Women's water polo readies for another run at Nationals

When the women's water polo team kicks off its season tonight at DeNunzio Pool against Hawaii, 14 of the 15 Princeton athletes who brought home a victory at the Eastern Championships last spring and reached the second round of the national championships will be available to play.

SPORTS | 02/07/2001

Kixmiller driving force for women's water polo program

In her time at Princeton, Katherine Kixmiller has witnessed and participated in the remarkable growth of a young athletic program.Four years ago, Kixmiller joined women's water polo, in its second season as a varsity sport, as part of an initial class of recruits.An instant contributor, the senior driver quickly established herself as one of the team's primary offensive weapons, tallying 60 goals in her freshman campaign for a young team that earned a berth in the national tournament.Since then the Tigers have improved rapidly, adding talented players and climbing the national rankings ? reaching heights almost unheard of for an east coast school ? with Kixmiller as an important part of that success.Having nearly spanned the inception of women's water polo as a varsity sport to the present, Kixmiller has a unique perspective on the rise of the program."Every game was really rough [freshman year], because the players didn't have the background and the team didn't have the talent level it has now, we really had to fight every game.

SPORTS | 02/07/2001

Men's hoops heads out on the road again

It has been a while since the two have tangled, but they'll get plenty of chances starting Friday.

SPORTS | 02/07/2001

Men's, women's track both fall to Penn State

On Jan. 26th, as most Princeton students were boarding planes, trains, and automobiles, the men's and women's track teams had just their feet to carry them through the National Open at Penn State.This Saturday, as most Princeton students straggled lazily back to campus after a week of vegging in front of the television, lying on the beach, or meandering down ski slopes, the men's and women's track teams were both still cruising in high gear heading into important tri-meets.The men were headed back to Happy Valley where they took on their host and the University of Connecticut.

SPORTS | 02/06/2001

Men's hockey reaps benefits from eight-game losing streak

When a team manages to lose nine out of ten games, including eight in a row, you would think shoddy play is the main culprit.

SPORTS | 02/06/2001

McMahon and the XFL: Why should we care?

So Keith "Wolf" Elias '94 finally got a chance to shine on national television in his home state of New Jersey.It wasn't for the NFL's Jets or Giants.It was for the New York/New Jersey Hitmen of the XFL.

SPORTS | 02/06/2001

M., w. tennis compete in national tournaments

Though their seasons do not begin in earnest until the spring, members of both the men's and women's tennis teams were hard at work over the Intersession break.The men's team started the break by hosting the Farnsworth Invitational at Jadwin Gym, Jan.

SPORTS | 02/06/2001

Men's volleyball team opens season in CA

All the leaves are brown. And the sky has been gray. Now that Intersession is over, we're back in the snow to stay.

SPORTS | 02/06/2001

Tiger Athletes Honored

A number of Princeton athletes were honored over the last week for on and off the field accomplishments.Junior forward Andrea Kilbourne of the women's ice hockey team was recognized for her performance throughout the year, while freshman goalie Megan Van Beusekom, also of women's ice hockey, and freshman forward Andre Logan of the men's basketball team gained weekly awards.

SPORTS | 02/06/2001

Carl Hessler

It is difficult to choose only one performance from the many tremendous showings at this weekend's Harvard-Yale-Princeton swim meet and call it the best.

SPORTS | 02/05/2001

Women's hockey takes two, then falls to No. 1 Dartmouth

One good thing about history is that one can make countless comparisons between it and sports.One recent comparison is between Napoleon's conquest of Europe and the women's ice hockey team's games last week.

SPORTS | 02/05/2001

Men's, women's fencing both tally three wins in difficult weekend meet

One word that describe Princeton fencing in the Ivy League: tradition. For years Princeton fencing has always been a major force in the league.

SPORTS | 02/05/2001

Women's squash falls to Penn, men defeat Yale, Quakers

The men's and women's squash teams were nearly perfect over intersession. The men walked away with a blowout and a narrow victory while the women suffered a close loss before blowing away their next three opponents.Traveling to Yale Saturday, the men's team came away with a 5-4 victory over the Elis (9-2 overall, 3-1 Ivy League) to remain perfect on the season.

SPORTS | 02/05/2001

Parker's five wins lead surging wrestling to three victories in weekend meet

Stunning even his teammates, sophomore Greg Parker added to the list of top wrestlers he has beaten by defeating 10th-ranked Francis Volpe of Harvard.Winning both of his matches over the weekend, Parker wrestled at both 174 and 184 lb.

SPORTS | 02/05/2001

Men's hockey's weekend split ends eight-game losing streak

It was crunch time for the men's hockey team. Going into their first game after a three-week layoff, the Tigers had the unenviable task of trying to end an eight-game losing streak against the Eastern College Athletic Conference's top team.Over the course of a month from December into January, Princeton suffered through its worst stretch of games in recent memory, losing close games to good teams and blowouts to lesser opponents.

SPORTS | 02/04/2001

Men's basketball surges to 4-0 in Ivy League play

In its past three games, the men's basketball team has resembled a student oversleeping a 10 a.m.

SPORTS | 02/04/2001

Women's hoops wins first game of year against Yale in overtime

It was the game the Princeton women's basketball team had been waiting for all season.On Saturday night, the Tigers silenced the crowd in Lee Amphitheater at Yale by beating the home team 61- 60 in overtime.Sophomore forward Maureen Lane led the squad with a game-high 27 points on 9-for-19 shooting from the field.

SPORTS | 02/04/2001

Men's and women's swimming teams win HYP meets

Sometimes, one can feel the momentum of something special in the air at a sporting event in its very first moments.

SPORTS | 02/04/2001

Men's basketball scrimmage capped a year to remember

I wasn't expecting it to be the best sports moment of my time at Princeton. Not when I first started walking toward Jadwin Gym that Saturday afternoon in March.It was the second semester of my freshman year, and as the 1997-98 men's basketball season wound down, head coach Bill Carmody and his team had decided to have an intrasquad scrimmage at Jadwin.

SPORTS | 01/21/2001

Princeton sports provide memories that will endure

Beep, Beep, Beep.The alarm blared loudly in my ear as I rolled over and groaned. My roommate threw a pillow down at me from the bunk above and mumbled, "What the hell are you doing getting up at eight o'clock on Saturday morning?""Good question," I responded while turning off the alarm and slowly crawling out of bed.

SPORTS | 01/21/2001

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