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.
When a team finishes its first weekend at 3-1 with three dominating victories, including a thorough beating of a traditional Top-25 team, normally one would say that the weekend was a success.But for the members of the men's water polo team, whose goals this season are to rise into the nation's Top 10 and become the best team in the East, the one loss ? a 12-8 defeat at the hands of St.
When Don Cahoon resigned as men's hockey's head coach April 5, Director of Athletics Gary Walters '67 and an advisory committee began a national search for a new coach to lead the program.Nearly two months later, Walters and the committee returned to the place where they began, handing long-time Tiger assistant Len Quesnelle '88 his first head coaching job.Quesnelle, an all-Ivy defenseman for the Tigers, remained with the program following graduation and had served as an assistant for the past 12 seasons.
The turning point in this year's field hockey season might have come last year, on Oct. 9. Princeton fell to Brown in Providence, R.I., 2-1.The loss was the first Ivy League defeat for any of the players on the team ? the Tigers had gone five years in conference play without a blemish on their record.
For the first two years of Hilary Matson's Princeton field hockey career, she found herself in the company of some of the greatest players in the country.
To the NCAA, it was a minor infraction. To the Ivy League, it was a major offense.Brown's football team was ruled ineligible to win the 2000 Ivy League championship as a result of recruiting and financial aid infractions in July.
Jason White remembers offensive players swarming like ants, burrowing through a defense that was left frantically trying to fill the holes.
In any kingdom, when the sitting monarch departs the throne, the question of succession arises. Will the king's favored son rise to power, or will an outsider grab the reins of the empire?
As the 1997-98 season drew to a close, and the men's basketball team put the finishing touches on a 27-2 season, nobody had any delusions around here.
His freshman year, the unthinkable happened to Kevin Griffin, a newly recruited collegiate athlete ? he got injured.Before the men's soccer season even started, Griffin injured his ankle at practice ? tearing ligaments and sidelining himself for the majority of the season.
In addition to the departure of men's basketball head coach Bill Carmody, there were several other coaching changes over the summer.
For a brief time this season, the field hockey team was living a charmed life. This was not supposed to be the Tigers' year ? the incredible talent of the Class of 1999 had departed.
At the beginning of the season, the softball team knew it faced a difficult puzzle. The team had the pieces that could potentially form a championship-winner, but they had to be put together in just the right way.The Tigers were unable to find that perfect combination this season, and the puzzle remained unsolved.Princeton came into the season with the goal of recapturing the Ivy title, which had been missing from 1895 Field since 1996.
New millenium. Same old story. Princeton continued its crew success, garnering its second women's lightweight National Championship and finishing in second, third and sixth place in men's lightweight, men's heavyweight and women's open, respectively.The women's lightweight crew perhaps had the biggest shoes to fill, as it looked to defend its national title ? a title that came only two seasons after women's lightweight crew became a varsity sport at Princeton."We know that we are competitive with the other boats," head coach Heather Smith said.In fact, Princeton was one of the teams to beat and the season evolved into a two-team battle between the Tigers and Wisconsin for the top spot in the East. Cruisin'Princeton sailed past the Badgers early in the year, defeating them in the San Diego Crew Classic on April 2 after Wisconsin caught a crab in the contest.
Following a 1999 campaign in which it went 30-11-1, the women's water polo team (25-6 overall, 8-0 Collegiate Water Polo Association) continued to make its presence felt on the national scene, advancing to the National Collegiate Championship, winning its first-round game against Hawaii and finishing the season at No.
Behind a young and talented women's squad (15-2, 5-0 Ivy League) and a veteran men's team (12-3, 4-0 Ivy), Princeton fencing finished off a successful season as the No.
In most sports it takes one outstanding individual leading a strong supporting cast to win championships.
All the elements for success were there at the start of the 1999-2000 women's swimming and diving campaign.
Syracuse vs. Virginia.It was the matchup that every men's lacrosse fan had been waiting for ? a rematch of the 1999 national championship game and a clash between the top two seeds of the 2000 tournament.But a funny thing happened on the way to the Memorial Day showdown between the Orangemen and Cavaliers.
