Of all the obstacles facing the Princeton women's swim team at the Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet this weekend in Cambridge, Mass., no one thought that traffic would be one of them.
After falling to Penn for the first time ever Jan. 26, the women's squash team hoped that a return home would signal the start of a resurgence ? a final push that would propel Princeton to its third consecutive national championship.
Although the wrestling team got swept under the mats once again this weekend, freshman Joe Clarke pulled out a broom of his own, recording an undefeated 3-0 record in the team's losing efforts.For the Tigers, the weekend sweep at the hands of Harvard, Brown and Drexel in Cambridge, Mass., highlighted once again the team's mounting troubles.For Clarke, the weekend sweep of his three 141-pound foes showed the promise of future individual glory.Against Ivy-rival Harvard Friday, the Tigers were crushed to the tune of a 37-3 loss.
Once again, senior sprinter John Mack staked a claim to the title of fastest man on campus. This time, the event was men's indoor track's Penn State-Princeton-Connecticut Triangular meet held Sunday in University Park, Pa.Mack's performance in the 400 meters bettered the previous meet record, posting a time of 48.17 seconds, Mack, who also competes in the 200 and in relays, has been a vital part of Princeton's success over the past few years.
This season for women's basketball has been a search for completeness. Earlier in the year, Princeton struggled to play a complete half without collapse, then a complete game.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. ? Sophomore center Chris Young owned the Yale offense throughout the men's basketball team's game Saturday night, racking up six blocks and generally dominating the middle.
As the indoor track season heads into the most important stretch of the year, including the Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet next weekend, in Cambridge, Mass., and the Heptagonal Championships at the end of the month in Hanover, N.H., both the men's and women's teams are managing to gain valuable meet experience by facing quality competition.The men's and women's indoor track teams were both in action this Saturday, with the women pulling out a close victory over archrival Penn (66-61) at Jadwin Gym and the men facing top-tier competition at the Penn State-Princeton-UConn Triangular meet.
On last year's trek to upstate New York, the men's hockey team opened its Eastern College Athletic Conference campaign with wins over Clarkson and St.
The men's volleyball team hoped that starting the season against some tough competition in California would give it a boost going into its Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association schedule.
'Must-win' time has arrived earlier than anticipated for women's basketball. Expecting to compete for the Ivy League title at the beginning of the season, the Tigers (3-14 overall, 0-3 Ivy) have floundered and need two wins against Brown and Yale this weekend if they are to have any chance of winning the crown.Princeton enters the weekend with three losses in Ivy play.
When the men's hockey team travels to New York this weekend, it will face two opponents that started the season in the same place but have since taken divergent paths.
This weekend, the members of the men's basketball team may learn exactly how tough they really are.With many of its regular starters out with injuries, the team that head coach Bill Carmody will take with him on the road for games against Ivy League foes Brown (6-10 overall, 3-1 Ivy) and Yale (5-11, 3-1) has about as many unknowns as the lineup of baseball's Kansas City Royals."It's a little rough," Carmody said.
Freshmen forward Nikola Holmes doesn't play hockey because it's in her blood. She and her family are originally from California.
Everyone has something nice to say about new head football coach Roger Hughes ? former players, coaches, associates and now current ones, too.
The University of Vermont cancelled its men's hockey season Jan. 14 in the wake of freshman walk-on Corey Latulippe's suit alleging that he was hazed during a team initiation earlier this academic year.According to the Associated Press, the University has acknowledged that players were "coerced into drinking large amounts of alcohol, parading naked while holding one another's genitals and engaging in other degrading activities."Princeton senior captain Darren Yopyk said, "Obviously it's a really serious offense.
In Hanover, N.H., a bonfire is not a very big deal. It's special. But it's also a guaranteed yearly phenomenon.Every single fall during every single Homecoming weekend, Dartmouth's campus flocks to its fabled 'Green' to revel in the glow of a bonfire ? no matter how that year's football team happened to perform.In Princeton, N.J., bonfires are quite a different story ? as Old Nassau's underclassmen may need reminding.
Roger Hughes is the new head coach of football. He recently sat down with senior writer Andrew Funk.P: Were you surprised you got this job?RH: Yes.
Last year, the men's swimming team was sorely disappointed in the Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet, losing to both rivals by over 60 points.
Seventeen games into its season, two games into its Ivy League schedule, the men's basketball team is learning some new things.
While most Princetonians were off campus, relaxing in the sun or the snow, the men's and women's fencing teams were hard at work this Intersession.The double practices all week proved beneficial Sunday when the Tigers dispatched the rest of the competition at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
