No. 9 Princeton Field hockey (16–5) fell to No.1-ranked, defending national champions North Carolina (23–0) in the NCAA National Championship game on Sunday afternoon, by a score of 6–1.
Junior Clare Lenihan put the icing on top of an incredible season with the game-winning kill for the women’s volleyball team — one that punched its ticket to the NCAA tournament.
After two consecutive losses put a damper on a season with a 7–0 start, Princeton football (8–2, 5–2 Ivy) managed to finish the year the way it wanted. On Saturday in Philadelphia, the Tigers scored 28 unanswered points and rushed for 283 yards to win 28–7 over rival Penn (5–5, 3–4 Ivy).
After beating Virginia, Princeton field hockey will advance to the NCAA championship game to face North Carolina
The women’s ice hockey team is ready for the Black Out.
Coach Litvak and the men’s water polo players have been focused on consistency all year long, and they’re not looking to change much going into this weekend as they compete in the Northeast Water Polo Conference Championship.
Princeton women’s basketball’s (4–1 overall, 0–0 Ivy League) first loss couldn’t have come in a more thrilling fashion. Despite a buzzer-beater at the end of regulation to send the game into overtime, as well as several chances at the end of overtime to force double overtime, Princeton fell 77–75 to Iowa (3–1) on Wednesday night.
Last year, No. 11 Princeton wrestling pulled off what head coach Christopher Ayres called “the greatest collegiate athletic turnaround of all time.” The team had spent the year urging their fans to #GetIn: to buy into their program, to hop on board before the bandwagon did. Now Princeton wrestling is back, and the Tigers aren’t satisfied. Getting in isn’t enough. They want to burn the ships.
On Princeton’s biggest eaters sweatshirts, sweatpants, backpacks, and hats are emblazoned two words: Princeton Football. Football players commit themselves to the team’s grueling practice and game schedule; they are expected as well to change their bodies for the good of the game. How do Princeton’s football players manage to pack on the pounds without sacrificing the fitness and dexterity that allowed them to play at the University in the first place?
Princeton women’s basketball will go on the road to face an Iowa team that made the Elite 8 last season.
After losing to Yale in the final game of the season, Princeton women’s volleyball will face the Bulldogs again in the Ivy Playoff game with an NCAA tournament bid on the line.
Women’s hockey defeated Union and RPI this weekend. The Tigers crushed the Dutchwomen 7–2 on Friday and bested the Engineers 4–1 on Saturday.
Princeton women’s basketball overcame injuries to its two best players to win 67–53 against Florida Gulf Coast at Jadwin on Sunday afternoon and remain unbeaten on the season.
Men’s hockey was defeated by Union College after a last-minute overtime goal. The game concluded Princeton’s home-opening weekend.
No. 9 Field Hockey (15–4, 7–0 Ivy) upset the second-ranked UConn Huskies on Sunday afternoon in Storrs, Conn. to advance to the NCAA Final Four. The 2–0 victory was the sweetest form of revenge for the Tigers, who lost to the Huskies in overtime at home in September.
Princeton football suffered its worst loss since 2014 on Saturday, falling 51–14 to Yale.
After picking up its first loss of the season, Princeton football will face another tough test in Yale
They woke up as first-years and seniors, history majors and engineers, Oklahomans and Connecticut natives. They pulled on standard-issue shirts, shorts, socks, strapped on their running watches. Some of them double-checked to make sure their shaves were clean. And somewhere in the walk from each of their dorms to Jadwin Gym, that group of individual students became something else entirely: a platoon of Army cadets.
Princeton men’s hockey will play at Baker Rink for the first time this season, facing RPI and Union College this weekend.
Ultimately, the arguments that defend the status quo in college sports reflect only a single viewpoint. Often, they fail to consider what profiting from one’s own likeness or from ticket sales could do for athletes who may not be able to reach professional level but still face the pressure of supporting their family, maintaining a very limited education, and finding time for physical and mental health.
