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Women's swimming drops first dual meet of year to Penn State

Women's swimming drops first dual meet of year to Penn State

In swimming, the timing of a team's training can raise it to a higher level. Without careful planning, swimmers can enter meets too exhausted to swim well.Saturday, Penn State showed the importance of this principle for the fans assembled at DeNunzio Pool.

SPORTS | 02/03/1998

Young Tigers shine for men's track at NJ Invite

College track is a team sport, but at its most basic level track is a contest between individuals.Sunday, the men's track team hosted nine schools in Jadwin Gymnasium for the New Jersey Invitational in a meet that was a return to that individual level of competition.

SPORTS | 02/02/1998

Men stumble; Cantlin lost for rest of way

Men's squash would have hoped to kick off the second half of its season in a better way, but a tight loss and the prospect of a season-ending injury marred the team's New England road trip this past weekend.After easily putting away hosts Williams and Dartmouth, 9-0 and 9-0, the Tigers concluded their weekend trip Sunday night at Harvard.

SPORTS | 02/02/1998

Women win over Crimson for first time since '91

All good things must come to an end, even for Harvard. The No. 1 Crimson women's squash team found that out the hard way at home on Sunday.No.

SPORTS | 02/02/1998

Women's track goes to Boston, Harrison qualifies for nationals

Throughout her season, an athlete must use her competitive experiences to gauge her situation and to progress.

SPORTS | 02/02/1998

Women's hockey lacks offensive power; loses weekend games

The women's hockey team entered its two-game road trip last weekend with revenge on its mind.All Princeton ended up with, however, was a pair of losses that dropped the Tigers precariously close to the playoff fringe.After having been embarrassed in their first encounters with both Brown and Providence, the Tigers (9-10-1 overall, 6-8 Eastern College Athletic Conference, 3-5 Ivy League) hoped to have more success in Saturday and Sunday's rematches following a solid 4-0 victory over Bowdoin.Although senior goaltender Tammy Orlow was sensational, Princeton once again lacked the firepower necessary to defeat its Rhode Island rivals, falling to Brown, 3-0, and Providence, 6-4. No lightIn the weekend's initial contest, the Tigers were shut out by perennial-powerhouse Brown (12-5-3, 9-3-2, 5-2) for the second consecutive time.

SPORTS | 02/02/1998

Athlete of the Week

In the 98-year history of Princeton men's basketball only 22 players have ever scored 1,000 points.

SPORTS | 02/02/1998

Men's volleyball struggles against western foes, drops two of three

LOS ANGELES ? For a trip that is usually a whirlwind of victory, family time and carousal, last week's installment of the annual men's volleyball trip to California simply flew by.The Tigers had hoped to get in some solid games before facing eastern foes, but as it turned out, their ratio of time spent on the court to that spent in the hot tub hit an all-time low.Playing the minimum nine games in three matches, No.

SPORTS | 02/01/1998

Pressley leads Tigers on defense, makes career-high seven steals against Columbia

Entering this weekend, the women's basketball team had just finished its first Ivy League weekend sweep in nearly two years, beating both Yale and Brown in mid-January.However, it seemed as though reality was bound to set in on the Tigers, who were playing back-to-back games on the road.But Princeton dominated its opposition this weekend, dispatching both Cornell and Columbia by double digits.

SPORTS | 02/01/1998

Men's hockey cannot top league's top team, blows early lead in loss

The story this weekend was not the men's hockey team, but rather the team it was facing.Princeton's opponent wasn't Clarkson.

SPORTS | 02/01/1998

Goodrich starts 100th, scores 1,000th

Last week started off miserably for Steve Goodrich. First off, the senior center of the men's basketball team suffered through a week-long bout with bronchitis.

SPORTS | 02/01/1998

One-time high-school sub emerges as Princeton's leader, big hitter

The early career of men's volleyball's senior opposite Scott Birdwell wasn't one that included much playing time.

SPORTS | 01/18/1998

Coach to lead Chicago MLS club

Bob Bradley '80 always used to tell his Princeton players that it wasn't so important how a team looked at the beginning of the season so long as they were working to become a good team at the end of the year.This week Bradley will again have the opportunity to emphasize that philosophy to a group of players gathered together for the first time when he begins his journey as head coach of the Major League Soccer's newly formed Chicago Fire.Bradley, who stepped down two years ago as the Tigers' head coach to become an assistant with D.C.

SPORTS | 01/18/1998

After breakout season, Tigers aiming for trip to Hawaii

Fear.For head men's volleyball coach Glenn Nelson, it is not how much other teams respect the Tigers, but how much they fear Princeton.

SPORTS | 01/18/1998

Marrow's status forces Penn to forfeit five wins

When the football team met Penn on Nov. 8, it was the participation of Penn's All-Ivy defensive tackle Mitch Marrow (six tackles, three sacks, one forced fumble) that almost single-handedly secured the Quakers' 20-17 victory.Little did anyone know at the time that Marrow's participation would eventually turn that Quaker win and four others into losses.A Penn academic panel ruled last week that the 22-year-old Marrow, a 6-foot-5, 285-pound fifth-year senior with NFL aspirations, became a part-time student and ineligible under NCAA regulations after dropping one of his three courses Sept.

SPORTS | 01/08/1998

Men's basketball needs Ivy success to earn NCAA berth

The men's basketball team has received a lot of national attention lately. A top-15 ranking in both major national polls, feature stories in yesterday's USA Today and this week's Sports Illustrated, and junior guard Brian Earl's selection as one of 30 finalists for the John R.

SPORTS | 01/08/1998

Julia Beaver

When Katherine Johnson '97 graduated last year, the women's squash team lost its leader and star.

SPORTS | 01/08/1998

Men's swimming rolls past Cadets; Orr stays unbeaten against Army

After just coming off of its Florida training trip, the majority of the men's swimming team was still significantly drained from the intense practice schedule.

SPORTS | 01/08/1998

Earl nominated for award

Junior guard Brian Earl was one of 30 players recently nominated for the John R. Wooden award. The Wooden award is given annually to the top player in men's college basketball.Other players nominated for the award included North Carolina's Antawn Jamison, who Princeton held to six points in the No.

SPORTS | 01/08/1998

Yale, Brown games may set pace for women's hoops' Ivy season

Last Saturday, the women's basketball team began its second season of the year. The Tigers' loss to Penn began their Ivy League season and, with it, a different style of play.Because each game and each win is important for the team's post-season opportunities, the intensity of the games increases.

SPORTS | 01/08/1998

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