When immense excitement and anticipation combine with the pressure of competition, strange events tend to transpire.
Freshman phenom Julia Allison successfully negotiated the hazards of a difficult course and surging competition this weekend to win the William and Mary Invitational in Williamsburg, Va.Her dominating play garnered first-place honors and led the women's golf team to a third place finish.Allison shot two consecutive rounds of 78 Saturday and Sunday to beat out the tournament's tough field.
Baseball head coach Scott Bradley believes in stressing the basics. Hitting. Pitching. Fielding. These are the cornerstones of any winning baseball team.
While students eagerly await the opening of the new football stadium next fall, most overlook the piece of land sandwiched between that site and Jadwin Gym.The opening of the forgotten plot of grass and polyurethane is something the men's track team and head coach Fred Samara have been awaiting for a year and a half.Saturday Princeton will christen the multi-million dollar William M.
Oh, how sweet it is. Redemption at last."The difference was all around the world," senior opposite Scott Birdwell said.Indeed, the team that showed up at Dillon Gym Friday night to take on 13th-ranked Penn State (14-14 overall, 4-1 Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association-Tait Division) was markedly different from the one that faced Penn State Feb.
With the start of the Ivy League season less than two weeks away, the women's track and field team continued its transition from indoors to outdoors Saturday at the Rutgers Invitational.
The real season has yet to begin for Princeton baseball, but if this weekend was any indication, the team has fully shaken off any early season rustiness and looks primed to start Ivy League play.The Tigers (7-3) swept two doubleheaders ? their home opener against Wagner Saturday and at Monmouth Sunday ? to snap a three-game losing streak and earn their first victories against a school not named Elon.Sunday, Princeton never trailed Monmouth (9-11) as the Tigers' offense exploded in the early innings of both games, defeating the Hawks, 7-2 and 11-4.
The women's tennis team held a slim 4-3 overall lead over Penn at Lenz Tennis Center Friday, and was on the verge of dropping the final two doubles matches.The No.
The vaunted attack trio of seniors Jon Hess, Jesse Hubbard and Chris Massey generated goals early and late in the men's lacrosse team's game against Yale Saturday.
If close games are believed to age a person rapidly, this weekend's Princeton Invitational should get the softball team's players thinking about pension plans.After three extra-inning games in round-robin play, Princeton finally managed to avoid another such nail-biter when it defeated Hofstra yesterday, 1-0, in the championship game of the tourney played at 1895 Field.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. ? It was the best chance the men's hockey team had against Michigan.Hit the faster, more skilled Wolverines.
With 22 minutes, 15 seconds remaining in women's lacrosse's critical non-conference showdown with Penn State Saturday, Princeton led, 10-9.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. ? In the week leading up to the men's hockey team's contest against No. 3 Michigan Friday night, numerous factors why Princeton (18-11-7) could not win were raised: the amazing play of Wolverine goalie Marty Turco, the high-powered Michigan offense, the rabid Michigan fans at Yost Ice Arena.But in the end none of this mattered and the only thing that would defeat the sixth-seeded Tigers was themselves.In many ways the loss was a fitting finish to the season that wouldn't end.
The men's hockey team's season this year has been a story of adversity and, finally, astonishing success.
Fresh off one of its most dominant performances in years, the women's lacrosse team enters tomorrow's key regional matchup at Penn State with considerable momentum.
Marty Turco has come a long way since he played his first game as a Wolverine.In his Michigan debut in the 1994 Blue-White game, Turco gave up eight goals,and many fans left wondering whether Turco could fill the shoes of his predecessor, Steve Shields, who had recorded more victories than any other goaltender in NCAA history.Michigan coach Red Berenson didn't like what he saw from his freshman goaltender that night either, and in the Wolverines' first game he started senior netminder Al Loges."Marty did not look good in the Blue-White game," Berenson said.
The No. 3 men's lacrosse team enters tomorrow's game against Yale (1-3) with a record of 3-1. But when Princeton walks onto the turf at 1952 Stadium tomorrow, its record might as well be 0-0.The Tigers view the lacrosse season in three parts: the early season schedule against traditional non-conference powers, the Ivy League slate and, most importantly, the postseason.Last Saturday Princeton finished the first part of its season with a 13-5 drubbing of Penn State.
This weekend it all has to come together for the softball team.After notching a .500 record in its first three tournaments of the season, Princeton (7-7) hosts the Princeton Invitational, the Tigers home opener, this weekend.. Robert Morris, Boston College and Hofstra ? the No.
A way games in stadiums teeming with screaming, hostile fans. Most coaches expect to prepare their teams for such an unfriendly environment at least a few times during the regular season.
In 1997, men's heavyweight crew went undefeated in the regular season for the first time since 1881 and won Eastern Sprints by an open water margin.
