When the Princeton football team took the field at Princeton Stadium for the final time last fall, the Tigers defeated Dartmouth and left as Ivy League Champions for the 11th time in school history.
While it is still early in the season for both the men’s and women’s teams, it seems that the underclassmen will be critical to the success of both teams during their 2017 campaigns. Both teams were in action this weekend and both teams were well represented by their freshman and sophomore runners.
The women’s volleyball closed off their final week before Ivy League play with a balanced performance at the American Volleyball Challenge.
Princeton won the Harvard, Princeton, Yale meet with an overall score of 32 points, with all five scorers finishing in the top 10 of the race. The Orange and Black had a strong performance from their first-years.
The Princeton men’s rugby team hosted the Oxford Saracens Thursday. The teams took the pitch together for a scrimmage before heading back to campus to spend some time together as newly discovered friends.
The newly minted Tigers hope to start out the 2017 season on a high note, as the team splits to attend two critical national invitational tournaments hosted at Duke and University of Pennsylvania. It will be a test of strength and confidence for a Princeton team that retains key elements of last year’s stalwart team, despite losses to graduation, and welcomes one of its strongest first-year classes ever.
On Saturday, Princeton football will open its 149th season at home against San Diego (1–1). This will be the start of the Tigers’ battle to defend their Ivy League title last year.
As the rest of the student body returned to campus this past week, the Princeton men’s soccer team commenced its season with a series of non-conference games. The team failed to pick up a win, but its performance leaves much room for optimism for the coming season.
The Princeton women’s soccer team is currently 6-0, having conceded only one goal, and has been ranked 20th nationally in the United Soccer Coaches Poll, the best record Princeton has held since 2004.
The women’s volleyball team finished the Villanova Tournament with a perfect record after completing a 3-1 comeback against the University of Connecticut.
The Princeton women’s field hockey team now stands with a 1-3 record for the season after losing to Penn State on Sunday, Sept. 10.
The women’s lacrosse team had an exciting run in the NCAA Tournament, having defeated Cornell to face Penn State in the quarterfinal round.
Cara Morey, who had been associate head coach of the women’s ice hockey team, has been promoted to head coach of the Tigers.
The 2017 Princeton athletic season will officially come to a close this weekend with the men’s and women’s crew teams traveling across the nation to attend the IRA championships.
On Sunday, the women’s openweight rowing headed down to Cooper River for the 2017 Ivy League Championships.
It’s been another extremely fruitful year for the Princeton track and field program.
For the first time in 12 years, the entire Princeton women’s golf team opened the NCAA regional tournament on Monday at the University of Georgia’s golf course in Athens, Ga. The Tigers’ spot in the competition was a result of earning the Ivy League's automatic bid after a 31-stroke victory over Harvard at the Ivy League Championships, which ended on April 23.
For the second consecutive year, the Princeton women’s softball team has won the Ivy League Championship and earned a coveted spot in the NCAA tournament.
The Princeton men’s track and field team captured its 17th Outdoor Heps title at the 82nd annual Outdoor Heps Championships held May 6 and 7 at Yale. With an entire team effort, the Tigers edged out second-place Cornell 156 to 149 points for its fifth title in the past seven years.
After qualifying 10 athletes for Day Two, the women’s track and field team finished in third place in the Ivy League Heptagonal Championship with 103 points.
