Hoping to continue its ascent in the national field hockey rankings, Princeton (10-3 overall, 5-0 Ivy League) will head to Storrs, Conn., this weekend to take on No.
Rowers spend their lives trying not to stand out from the crowd. As far as sports go, crew is as unglamorous as they come.But every four years, rowers are given the chance to stand out in the spectacle of the Olympics ? standing alongside the world's other great, but more heralded, athletes.A number of Princetonian rowers, past and present, had the chance to compete in the 2000 Sydney Games.
In a wide open Ivy League football race featuring several potent offenses and numerous high-scoring games, the quarterback position has become one of utmost importance.Princeton (2-4 overall, 2-1 Ivy League) in particular has benefited from high quality passing this year ? but from multiple sources.While the Tigers have been blessed with tremendous depth at football's most important position, they have been cursed with the misfortune of having to test that depth.Last week against Harvard, the bad karma continued as freshman David Splithoff ? the third quarterback to start for the Tigers ? suffered an injured jaw on the Tigers' final offensive play.
With a 53-3 drubbing of Drexel on Sunday, the men's rugby team earned a spot in the finals of its conference, the Eastern Pennsylvania Rugby Union.
An interesting pattern has developed in the progress of the men's water polo team this season. Early in the season, coming off the high expectations set by last year's 22-3 record and first-place division finish, Princeton felt ready to compete with the best of the East right from the start.Three weekends into their 2000 campaign, however, the Tigers found themselves languishing behind the incredible pace of last year's team, amassing a respectable ? but by no means great ? 8-5 record.
The first time I met women's soccer coach Julie Shackford it was the beginning of September and she was running in after practice.
A new coach and a new attitude were supposed to make all the difference for the sprint football team this season.
Last spring, the men's lacrosse team had one of its youngest rosters in recent memory. Yet despite their inexperience and the loss of their leading goal scorer to a knee injury, the Tigers responded to the adversity by not only winning the Ivy League title, but also reaching the NCAA championship game.This fall, thanks to a blend of veteran leadership and strong freshmen, Princeton is off to a flying start in its fall preseason."We've got a lot of people back that have played a lot of lacrosse," head coach Bill Tierney said.
More than two decades have passed since Cedric Dempsey applied to become the Director of Athletics at Princeton.
Imagine finding out you just rowed the best race of your life 30 minutes after you crossed the finish line.This is exactly what happened to the women's open eight this weekend at the Head of the Charles regatta in Cambridge, Mass.
With the U.S. Open a distant memory and the 2000 professional Grand Slam events now long concluded, the collegiate version of tennis' major individual championships took center stage last week in Pacific Palisades, Calif., at the Riviera Women's All-American Championship.The event, which was the second leg of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Grand Slam, featured most of the nation's top collegiate tennis players ? including Princeton sophomore Kavitha Krishnamurthy.Krishnamurthy, ranked 36th nationally in a preseason poll, won her first two qualifying matches before losing her third match, thus failing to make it into the tournament's 32-player main draw.With a 64-player prequalifying draw held before the 64-player qualifying draw, entrance into the tournament's main draw was a formidable task for those ? like Krishnamurthy ? looking to earn one of four at-large spots into the main draw.
The field hockey team seemed to be on shaky ground entering this weekend's tough matchups with No.
With an Eastern College Athletic Conference Championship crown under its belt, the men's tennis team has little to worry about this offseason other than gaining experience where it can.
It was textbook volleyball as the women's team crushed Penn 15-6, 15-9, 16-14 at Dillon Gym Friday night.
Following a 27-point win over a powerful Brown team last weekend, Princeton's confidence was as high as it had been in years.
After two mediocre wins last weekend, head coach Beth Bozman wondered if her team could put together two good halves of field hockey.
Everyone knew what Harvard was doing. In the second quarter, Harvard had put everyone on the line and converted a fourth and one with a quarterback sneak.
Visiting Harvard was privy to a special treat Saturday evening at Lourie-Love Field ? the men's soccer team at its finest.The Tigers showed more hustle and created more opportunities than they had in any other game this season.
Five minutes into the women's soccer game Friday night, everyone at Lourie-Love Field was thinking the same thing: Who let the dogs out?A yellow lab broke free from his owner and discovered 20 women playing a game of keep-away with a big black-and-white ball, and immediately thought he could join in.
Going into the year, one of the field hockey team's unanswered questions was the play of its inexperienced defense.
