All the leaves are brown. And the sky has been gray. Now that Intersession is over, we're back in the snow to stay.
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.
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.
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.
One word that describe Princeton fencing in the Ivy League: tradition. For years Princeton fencing has always been a major force in the league.
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.
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.
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.
In its past three games, the men's basketball team has resembled a student oversleeping a 10 a.m.
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.
Sometimes, one can feel the momentum of something special in the air at a sporting event in its very first moments.
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.
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.
The thing about journalists, someone once said, is not that they know what they're talking about.
Completely focused and set on starting his run for an NCAA championship, senior Ryan Bonfiglio confidently defeated No.
The Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet is always circled with a big red marker on the men's swimming team's schedule.
For me, it began quite inauspiciously. On a whim, really. Though I was a sports junkie, it was a spur-of-the-moment decision that made me add my name to the sports list for The Daily Princetonian at the freshman Activities Fair.
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.
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.
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.
