Sometimes when one is watching the women's basketball team effortlessly sink a perfect basket or sneak a sly pass past the opposition, it is hard to imagine that the Tigers have not been playing basketball forever.
When athletes make the jump from college or high school to the professional ranks, their lives are bound to change.
Reeling from a surprising loss to George Mason Friday to open its Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association season, the men's volleyball team reinvented itself for last night's matchup against NYU.A new lineup and a more aggressive attitude produced the change head coach Glenn Nelson and the Tigers were looking for as they rebounded with a 3-1 victory over the Violets.Princeton (2-3 overall, 1-1 EIVA) dominated visiting NYU (2-4, 2-3) early in the match, winning the first three points on its way to a quick 3-0 lead.
It was not a big problem for most Princeton student-athletes. No one was ever prevented from playing.
If you look at the score sheet after the game you probably won't see his name.Actually, if you look at all the score sheets for the entire season, you still won't see his name.
There's an interesting fact about Ivy League men's basketball ? one that only the conference's closest followers are aware of: Since 1992, the league's representative in the NCAA Tournament has never lost a league game to a team whose name does not begin with 'P.'Either Princeton or Penn has advanced to the NCAAs every year.
The theme to this year's men's basketball season thus far has been injuries. The almost plague-like spread through the team has gutted the starting lineup, and head coach Bill Carmody has been forced to look for help from an unfamiliar place: the bench.And maybe somewhat surprisingly, the reserves have demonstrated that they can not only contribute minutes on the court, but points on the scoreboard as well."Everyone is working hard, and we're trying to just forget about the injuries because, like I told my players, 'I recruited you because I thought you could play, and now you're playing,' " Carmody said last week.Sophomore forward Ray Robins is one of the players making those injuries a little easier for the Tigers to deal with.Robins, a six-foot, seven inch forward from Paso Robles, California, literally erupted on the Princeton basketball scene Jan.
Punxsutawney Phil may have recently seen his shadow, indicating six more weeks of dark winter days.
As the wrestling team prepares to compete in Pittsburgh for the first time, Pennsylvania pride is showing itself in full force.
Harvard is always the thorn in the side of the men's swim team. No matter how much Princeton strategizes and takes full advantage of the weak spots in the Crimson lineup, Harvard's talented swimmers just seem to be able to exploit their advantages more so than the Tigers.This was especially the case this past weekend at the Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet in Cambridge, Mass., where, despite strong early efforts by the Tiger squad, Harvard was able to rally and defeat Princeton by the score of 192.5 to 160.5, thereby clinching the Ivy League title.
An hour before the men's squash match against Yale, Dan Rutherford and Peter Yik were exchanging fears.
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.
