Bob Nye stepped onto the field with the rest of the freshmen, all prepared to begin their first Princeton practice alone.
For its 25th reunion, the Class of 1887 provided the University funds to build a boathouse. More than 85 years later it seemed that the time had certainly come to give that boathouse a much-needed make-over.Now, almost three years after it was originally proposed to renovate the Class of 1887 boathouse into a more modern and better-equipped facility, the new complex is nearly complete.Slated to be finished in early October, the new rowing center will be named in honor of the late C.
Both the men's and women's tennis teams will be spending the first few weeks of the fall season trying to adjust to several recent changes.
For the second consecutive season, the nation of Canada figures to have a major impact on the women's athletic scene at Princeton.Last year, tennis star Kavitha Krishnamurthy of Oakville, Ontario, helped lead the Tiger women's tennis team to an undefeated Ivy League season and NCAA tournament berth.
Like any other Lawnparties weekend, some people go home empty-handed and some people don't. Such was the case with the men's and women's golf teams.While the women's golf team returned from Hanover, N.H., on Sunday carrying the 2000 Dartmouth Invitational championship trophy, the men returned from Harrisonburg, Va., with a disappointing 13th-place finish and nothing to boast about.
During the past three years, winning has proven to be an instinct for the men's cross country team.
After nearly everything that could have gone wrong for new head coach Roger Hughes and the football team during its game Saturday against Lafayette did go wrong, the Tigers somehow found themselves tied with the Leopards, 17-17, with 45 seconds to play.Unfortunately, not everything that could have gone wrong had happened yet.
It was not just conventional wisdom telling Lafayette coach Frank Tavani to kick."Everybody was telling me to kick right away," Tavani said.Nine seconds left, game tied, second and goal on the one yard line.
Last year, the women's soccer team spent 120 minutes trying to defeat Yale, and was unable to come up with the win, settling for a dissatisfying tie.This year, getting the win took only two minutes.Saturday night in New Haven, Conn., the Tigers (3-0 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) scored two goals during a span of 1:59 in the first half, defeating Yale (3-2-1, 0-1) in their first Ivy League contest, 2-0."It feels great to have that first Ivy win behind us," junior defender and captain Kelly Sosa said.
Though the men's team has hogged all the attention when it comes to Princeton cross country, it may not be long before the women's team steps out of the shadows and competes for control of track talk on campus.The main thing to be said about the women's cross country team is that they are a group on the rise.The squad looks to challenge Brown this year for top honors in the Heptagonal Championships, which includes the eight Ivy League teams and Navy.
Playing on grass is always dangerous for the field hockey team.No, it's not the pesticides or the ticks, but the potential for a few odd bounces that makes life difficult for Princeton.Yale was hoping that the home-field advantage would be enough to pull off an upset of the Tigers, winners of six-straight Ivy titles.
When members of Mexico's Olympic team march through the stadium this evening for the Opening Ceremonies, the team will be two members short.Those two members are Mariana Altamirano and Princeton junior Carola Ibanez, who were supposed to have made up one of the two Mexican women's open two-person sculls at the Games.Instead Ibanez is back in school, looking forward to a delayed junior year.Ibanez's story starts before her freshman year when she saw the cover of the admissions booklet with the Princeton crew team rowing down Lake Carnegie.
The play went to the right, and Nathan Podsakoff was there. The opposition, Ben Davis High School ? the No.
After months of preparation, the opening game of Princeton's football season may well resemble a wedding.
With all the attention the men's basketball team has gotten after the loss of head coach Bill Carmody and star center Chris Young, it would be easy to overlook the events that have taken place on the women's side.Coming off a 9-19 (6-8 Ivy League) season, Princeton is hoping that a new coach will help reverse the trend in the win-loss column.
A team's "sparkplug" usually comes in for a short period of time to bring some energy to the team.Senior midfielder Julie Shaner, however, brings that energy to the women's soccer team for all 90 minutes of the game."She seems to be able to run all game," head coach Julie Shackford said.Shaner returns for her second season as Princeton captain, one of three this season for the Tigers, who are also led by junior defender Kelly Sosa and senior defender Jenny Lankford.Shaner, however, is recognized by her peers as the vocal leader of the Tigers.
Softball coaches move around a lot. When a coach has been with one program for 18 years, it has been a serious commitment.
As with any team, the bulk of Princeton football's fans are oblivious to the intricacies of the games, attending merely to fill their Saturday with a few hours of excitement.
On the first day of classes, freshmen often have a tough time finding their way around. But a group of freshmen ? inexperienced but talented ? shined for the field hockey team in a 6-0 rout of No.
Last year, it came down to the wire: Would the women's soccer team make the NCAA tournament?While the answer turned out to be yes, this year's team looks to that nail-biting decision as its personal challenge ? to remove any doubt in the eyes of the tournament selection committee."We want to make it clear that we deserve to be in the tournament, that there is no question," junior midfielder Linley Gober said.With a deeper and more talented team than last year, the Tigers hope to equate their skill with success."Our goal is to win the Ivy League and to make a name for ourselves," Gober said.Princeton's goal will be a difficult one.
