Sometimes size does matter, as the women's volleyball team learned this past weekend in a tough tournament at Rutgers on Friday and Saturday.
With strong finishes from a number of underclassmen at this weekend's Princeton Invitational, both the men's and women's tennis teams expect promising seasons.Competing against Penn, Columbia and Temple, the men's team hit the courts Friday morning for the first round of the tournament.Two wins Friday advanced junior Judson Williams to the singles final Sunday, where he fell, 6-2, 6-4, to Oscar Chow of Columbia.
On a sloppy Lourie-Love Field Saturday afternoon, in a battle of Ivy League titans, only one team could stay on its feet.In the end, the women's soccer team walked away with the win, leaving Dartmouth sprawled in the mud, having lost the battle for balance ? and league dominance.Princeton (5-0 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) defeated the Big Green, 1-0, keeping its perfect record intact.
For the first 33 minutes, 47 seconds of field hockey's game against Dartmouth, Princeton and the Big Green were locked in a scoreless tie.
After six minutes, it looked like another blowout. Only 10 percent of the game had been played, and already the visitors had 10 points.
Jason White watched as the shot floated toward him like a beach ball, sliding slowly through the air from nearly 40 yards away.
Last year some considered it a fluke.The women's soccer team made the road trip to Hanover, N.H., last season having not beaten Dartmouth since 1990 and without a win in Hanover since 1983.But when then-freshman midfielder Alex Fiore connected on a cross from then-junior midfielder Julie Shaner four minutes, 52 seconds into overtime, the Tigers pulled out a 2-1 victory and broke the losing streak.Now Dartmouth makes the trip south to Princeton to try to return the favor."Last year some people said we sort of snuck by them," junior defender and captain Kelly Sosa said.
The men's soccer team must proceed with caution this weekend. All is not what it appears to be.The Tigers (4-0 overall, 0-0 Ivy League) begin their quest to repeat as Ivy League champions tomorrow when they host Dartmouth (2-2, 0-0), a team whose record from last year belies its capabilities.The Big Green finished a disappointing second to last in the Ivy League last season with a record of 2-9-4 ? that's after posting back-to-back 10-win seasons in 1997 and 1998.
The Roger Hughes era started not with a bang, but a whimper last Saturday. Princeton looked disjointed against a Lafayette team that is quite possibly the weakest on the 2000 football schedule.
Recently, it's been a tradition.Dartmouth brings a women's team to Princeton for a big matchup each season, and the game ends up being an instant classic.On Feb.
LAWRENCEVILLE ? In yesterday's battle for Rt. 206 men's soccer supremacy, it was only fitting that a New Jersey native figured heavily in the outcome.Junior forward Mike Nugent, who grew up in nearby Cranbury, scored a pair of goals in the first half to lead the Tigers (4-0) to an easy 3-0 win over Rider.
Though the outcome of the game was decisive, field hockey's battle with Columbia may have given Princeton just the test it needed.The Tigers (4-0 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) turned their second Ivy League game into a victory yesterday when they brought down the Lions (3-1, 0-2), 3-1.
The defense should be the story of the women's soccer team's season so far.Four games have passed and the team has yet to give up a goal.A newly re-juvenated offensive unit, however, has been the key to the Tigers' (4-0 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) success so far and played an important role in Wednesday afternoon's 2-0 victory over Lehigh (3-4) in Bethlehem, Pa."Our goal was not to let Lehigh get into the game and I think we did that," senior captain and midfielder Julie Shaner said.
When a friend of mine read about the football team's newly-installed Unity Council, he turned to me and asked, "Is Coach Hughes running a football team or an episode of 'Survivor?' "After thinking about who I would vote off the starting lineup, I began to think about what the council and the other feel-good innovations brought to the Tigers by head coach Roger Hughes mean to members of the team when they step on the field.
The Department of Athletics recently announced that Erin McDermott has been named to the newly created three-year position of Assistant Director of Athletics at Princeton.
The men's basketball team's standout sophomore guard Spencer Gloger may have already returned to his native California, but his place in the UCLA basketball program is far from certain.According to UCLA's Academic Records Services Unit, Gloger has contacted that university intending to register as a student.But Princeton's Registrar's Office reports that Gloger has not transferred or withdrawn from the University.
The Princeton men's water polo team was teetering on a cliff, barely maintaining its balance while the 'sharks' below began to circle.After being thoroughly defeated by national powers UCLA and Long Beach by the scores 13-3 and 14-7 respectively in the first games of a West Coast trip, the Tigers were in the midst of squandering a 5-0 first-half lead against La Verne.
With the arrival of a new football coach, thousands of questions arise. Fans wonder whether the coach will use a new offensive set.
Freshman attack Claire Miller was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week after leading the field hockey team to convincing victories over Drexel and Yale.
After claiming its 11th Ivy League title with a decisive victory over Harvard in last year's championship match, women's volleyball has plans to bring home a 12th.
