In the midst of a 16-day layoff between games, the women's basketball team has done a lot of watching and waiting.
The men's basketball team has seen the scores: Princeton loses at Kansas by 15, and the Jayhawks then blow out Penn by 46.
He is a plainspoken Nebraskan. He is 40 years old. He holds a Ph.D. in exercise physiology. He just came down from Hanover, N.H., and he brought the weather with him.
If you follow Princeton athletics at all, you know where you were when the Palestra Miracle happened.
I am not an expert on Princeton athletics, by any means. But I have seen my fair share of sporting events in three and a half years as a sports reporter and editor for the Daily Princetonian.Of the countless games, press conferences and road trips, certain moments stick out ? moments I don't think I will ever forget.
After a seven-week national search, the University announced at a press conference Friday morning that the 80 candidates to be its next football head coach had been winnowed down to one ? Roger Hughes, Dartmouth's offensive coordinator.A self-proclaimed "long-shot" candidate to replace Steve Tosches, who resigned Nov.
The men's squash team lost to Harvard, 4-1, Sunday in the finals of the United States Squash and Racquet Association Five-man Team Tournament, ending an impressive run for the Tigers.Princeton had defeated the United States Junior National Team in the semifinals before falling to the Crimson."It was tough coming back from break," senior No.
Last year, it would have been impossible for the men's volleyball team to live up to the expectations set by the previous year's miraculous journey to Hawaii ? and the NCAA Final Four.
This is the most vulnerable time for the Princeton men's and women's swimming teams.Deep in the middle of their most intense training of the season, where tired and worn-out bodies are the norm at practice, both teams had to defend their spotless records against intrastate rival Rutgers this past weekend at DeNunzio Pool.Possible upsets were brewing.But the Tiger swimming teams proved themselves invulnerable to such challenges, continuing their undefeated seasons by defeating Rutgers, 167-121 in men's competition and 178-117 in women's competition.The men's team (6-0 overall, 3-0 Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League), however, thought at first that something might be in the air.
Jason Morrow has always been the center of attention, but the senior setter for the men's volleyball team would be the first to say that he is a star by coincidence and not by design.According to the second-year captain of a team looking for its first Final Four trip since Morrow's sophomore year, leadership is "inherent to being a setter ? it comes with the position."The role of the setter on any volleyball team is to position the ball for the hitters in the front row, a job Morrow has handled with ease since his freshman year."From Day One he stepped in and didn't miss a beat," head coach Glenn Nelson says of the talented Morrow.
In their opening competition of the year 2000, the wrestling team was hoping that the New Year would bring with it a fresh start ? and more promising results on the scoreboard.Unfortunately for Princeton, Saturday's Millersville Invitational did not give the Tigers the strong team showing they were looking for.Out of the 25-team field, Princeton finished a disappointing 16th with a team score of 48.5."It's just a tough time for us," head coach Michael New said.
In its first weekend back on North American ice, the women's hockey team knew that things would be different on this side of the Atlantic.
With 14.7 seconds left in overtime, a center having an effective 24-point night and the opposition's two big men sitting on the bench with five fouls apiece, getting one basket in the low post seems like a fairly surmountable task.But it wasn't that easy for the men's basketball team Saturday night.
It all seemed so eerily familiar. A Princeton basketball team falls way behind Penn, then makes a dramatic comeback.This time around, however, there would be no miraculous victory for the female Tigers.
This season has been one of ups and downs for the men's hockey team. Big wins against teams like Yale, currently in second place in the Eastern College Athletic Conference, and Midwestern powerhouse Notre Dame have been coupled with big losses to schools like ECAC bottom-feeder Vermont and Bemidji State, which was recently elevated to Division I.This weekend's results do nothing to break that trend.
This is the team that knocked Princeton out of sole possession of first place at the end of last season.
Lafayette entered this season fresh off its first NCAA tournament appearance since the 1956-57 season.
With two wins this weekend at Brown and Harvard, the men's hockey team could move into first place in the Eastern College Athletic Conference race.With two losses, Princeton could fall to seventh.The Tigers currently reside in a tie for fourth place in the ECAC, as one of seven teams within three points of the lead.
As this summer's World Cup mania proved, women's athletics are gaining interest and recognition throughout the United States.During its winter break European tour, the women's ice hockey team learned that this developing fascination, however, is not a global phenomenon.
Winter break was very hectic for Rob Orr, head coach of the men's swimming team. Not only did he and his family move across town, but his wife decided to get a new dog.
