Finding a replacement for outgoing men's tennis head coach, David Benjamin, was not an easy task.
After a demanding early season schedule in which the women's lacrosse team played its first four games against teams ranked in the Top 10 in the country, Princeton was in need of a break.They got that break in the form of an 18-0 trouncing of lowly Columbia yesterday afternoon at Wein Stadium in New York.Senior goalie Laura Field made five saves in the first half and was relieved by junior Jennie Platt who saved two shots in her first collegiate action after taking over at the beginning of the second half.The shutout was the first one in the 27-year history of Princeton's program and serves as a good building block going into the Ivy season."We didn't know it was the team's first shutout, but that just makes a win like this extra special," sophomore attack Kim Smith said.This was the opening game on both of the teams' Ivy League slates, and was a good indicator of how the No.
After watching all hopes of salvaging the second game of an afternoon doubleheader against Rider end with a weak force out by sophomore shortstop Kim Veenstra, Princeton softball head coach Cindy Cohen just stood still for a moment on the third base line, as though she hadn't realized the game was over.But the disappointed and exasperated look on her face spoke volumes about what she thought of her team's performance."We just haven't gotten better all season and I am partially to blame," Cohen said.
Many Princeton teams take lengthy road trips to the South and to the West during Spring Break to play against strong competition in preparation for the upcoming season.
Sophomore Chris Young of the men's basketball team and baseball team recently sat down with senior writer Adam Sorensen.P: If you had a chance to choose between basketball and baseball, which one would it be and why?CY: I don't know, I couldn't choose right now.
After capturing its ninth-ever Ivy League Championship Feb. 26, the women's swimming and diving team hoped to top off its successful season with a strong showing on the national level.Thanks to the performance of sophomore diver Danielle Stramandi over Spring Break, Princeton can rest assured that it has achieved that goal.The Tigers sent four representatives to the NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships March 16-18 in Indianapolis ? sophomore swimmer Jenny Macauley, junior diver Erin Lutz and sophomore divers Katherine Mattison and Stramandi.
The men's and women's fencing teams sent a total of 20 competitors to the Mid-Atlantic/Southern Regional portion of the NCAA Championship at Penn State March 12.
The Eastern College Athletic Conference championship ended the fall season of the women's golf team on a disappointing note, with losses to several teams ? worst of all to Ivy rival Yale.
The softball team expected to be tired after its week-long trip to Tallahassee, Fla. The Tigers (5-11) knew going in that they would face a grueling schedule and play doubleheaders and tripleheaders almost every day.
The pressure was on and time was running out. The women's water polo team was on a three-game losing streak and was struggling for a victory.After losing to UC-Davis, 9-4, California, 13-6, and San Jose State, 8-4, the Tigers looked to their final game against Pacific with hopes of a win.
On their annual Spring Break trip to California, the men's and women's tennis teams ended the week with the same results ? two wins apiece ? but took different paths to get there.
The men's and women's fencing teams qualified 12 ? the maximum number ? fencers for Nationals to be held this weekend at Stanford.
Mimi Hammerberg was nervous and rushing and stood all alone last Sunday, cradling the ball and caught in the spotlight.
Coming into the Spring Break road trip, the baseball team faced three teams that had played 41 games between them.
As junior forward Shane Campbell won the faceoff and fired a shot past Clarkson goalie Karl Mattson to give the men's hockey team a 2-0 lead with three minutes, 30 seconds left in the first period, it looked as if the Golden Knights' streak was coming to an end.However, Clarkson, winner of 15 consecutive home playoff games, would not be stopped last weekend by the Tigers.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. ? Not even the return of injured senior forward Mason Rocca could dig the Tigers out of an early hole Wednesday against Penn State, as the Tigers ended their season by bowing out in the first round of the National Invitation Tournament, 55-41.Rocca entered the game with eight minutes, 27 seconds remaining in the first half after having missed the last three regular season games.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. ? For the men's lacrosse team, slowing things down has accelerated its ability to win.During Spring Break, Princeton exhibited an uncharacteristically impatient and sloppy offense in a 15-8 loss to Virginia on Mar.
For the last three years, the men's hockey team has won its first-round Eastern College Athletic Conference playoff series and made the trip to Lake Placid, N.Y., for the semifinals.To make it back for a fourth straight year, Princeton (10-14-4 overall, 8-9-4 ECAC) will have to break an even more impressive streak.Clarkson (15-14-3, 9-8-3), whom Princeton will face in the first round, has won its first-round series for the past 10 seasons and has appeared in the championship game for the last three of those.
Two outs was all the baseball team needed from Jeff Golden '99. It was the final game of the Ivy League Championships, and the Tigers held a two-run lead over archrival Harvard.
One would think that following last Saturday's victory over then-No. 3 Johns Hopkins, the men's lacrosse team would look to play a lesser team this weekend.
