During the course of the regular season, freshmen and sophomores scored the majority of the goals for Princeton's youthful men's lacrosse team.
After last year's disappointing second-place Ivy League finish, the men's basketball team and its corps of young talent began the season with high expectations of capturing the conference title ? and an NCAA tournament berth ? for the fourth time in five years.But a bumpy road ? riddled with unforeseen injuries, consistently inconsistent shooting and a disappointing loss at Yale ? doomed Princeton (19-11 overall, 11-3 Ivy League) to finish as the runner-up to archrival Penn for the second consecutive season.
For the first time since 1996, the men's golf team ? led by senior Judd Pritchard ? will participate in the NCAA West Regional at Riverbend Golf Course in Madera, Calif., May 18-20.The field of 27 teams playing at Riverbend, the home course of Fresno State, includes several Pac-10 teams, including champion Arizona State, Arizona, UCLA and Stanford.
They had their heads turned, hanging down, so they may not have seen. But slinking off the field, they must have heard the screams.It was three weeks ago, and the No.
Since 1970, when the sport of men's cross country held its first Heptagonal championships, the Ivy League schools and Navy have battled for a shot at a Triple Crown.
For the men's lacrosse team, the NCAA selection committee finally got it right. After infuriating the squad in 1999, the group that determines the tournament bracket placed the Tigers in a spot they felt they deserved."I think it's great," junior attackman Matt Striebel said.
The women's tennis team has made winning a habit. Now, for the first time since beginning its undefeated Ivy League season, the team will enter competition as an underdog.
After last year's overtime loss to Stanford, the women's rugby team was hoping it could turn its luck in the national championship game around.Upstart Penn State had other ideas.After the Tigers crushed Illinois, 36-7, to earn a spot in the finals, they found themselves up against a determined Nittany Lions squad.
It was a bittersweet ending for the entire softball team, but especially for Sarah Peterman.The lone Tiger senior had just pitched her last game in an orange and black uniform.
Almost a month later, the lightweight men's crew was still up to the task.Poor weather conditions on Lake Carnegie forced the postponement of its original April 6 race against Georgetown.
The women's lacrosse team was hoping for one of the top four seeds and an accompanying first-round bye in the upcoming NCAA tournament.Princeton was not disappointed.After every other team to make the tournament had been named, the Tigers leapt out of their seats, knowing that they had landed the No.
It had done everything it was supposed to do this season, and yet a certain touch of tension permeated the press room where the men's lacrosse team awaited its seeding for the NCAA tournament last night.Relieving fears of a recurrence of the disappointing placement they received last year, the Tigers (10-2) were rewarded for their season's efforts with a No.
UMass was on a mission for revenge this weekend. And this time, Princeton failed to rise to the occasion.The women's water polo team (25-4 overall, 8-0 Collegiate Water Polo Association) was unable to repeat history, losing 9-6 to Eastern rival UMass for the first time this year as it closed out its seaon at the NCAA tournament this weekend in Bloomington, Ind.Princeton kicked off the weekend with a 13-11 win over Hawaii early Friday morning.
Senior Jay Mitchell had scored the game's first run. Senior Buster Small had hit his first home run since 1998.
The women's rugby team ? which was named Overall and Women's Club Sport of the Year at the club sports banquet Wednesday night ? will head to Tampa, Fla., this weekend for the USARugby Final Four.
By sheer numbers, the baseball team should not win this weekend's Ivy League championship series.
With the Ivy League season out of the way ? and struggles with national powerhouses forged through ? it's about time the men's lacrosse team shoved aside that famous sports cliche, "We'll just take it one game at a time." The Tigers are looking ahead to the NCAA tournament, and, if everything goes according to plan, this weekend's game against Hobart will count for two games at once.Although seeding in the NCAA tournament is not dictated by college lacrosse polls, it is likely that disposing of the Statesmen (7-4 overall, 5-1 Patriot League) will assure Princeton (9-2, 6-0 Ivy League) one of the top four seeds.
As a tune-up for some of the spring season's largest meets coming up, the men's track team hosted the Broadmeade Invitational Wednesday ? and ran away with several winning performances.In the 800, junior Tensai Asfaw was victorious with a time of 1 minute, 52.4 seconds.
Now that it has conquered the East, the women's water polo team (24-3 overall, 8-0 Collegiate Water Polo Association) heads to Bloomington, Ind., this weekend to take on the nation.Competing in the Collegiate National Championships, beginning this morning, Princeton will battle Hawaii in its first round of action.
Going into this past weekend, the softball team needed a lot of help to have a shot at an Ivy title.
