This past Saturday, the sprint football team faced Navy at Princeton Stadium. While the game ended in a 62-13 loss, the Tigers continued to show improvement as a group.
If you did not come to the football game on Friday night, shame on you. Not just because you should support Princeton athletics. Not just because it was the home opener for the Tigers. Not just because it was a marquee opponent Princeton had not played since 1923. Not just because it was a game on Friday night, early in the school year.
The football team suffered an agonizing 21-20 defeat to Georgetown (3-1) Friday night, dropping its record to 0-2. The game was closer than expected, with Princeton leading for a majority of the game, but three missed field goals and penalties proved to be too much for the Tigers to overcome.
Mere days after a grueling weekend that included a seven-goal hammering by UCLA and a heartbreaking loss against University of California, Irvine, the women’s soccer team set itself up for a strong run in the Ivy League with a 5-2 pasting of Lafayette on Wednesday evening. The Tigers (3-3-1) will kick off conference games with a trip to Yale (5-3) on Saturday afternoon.
You would never know it from looking at him now, but before he was 6-foot, 4-inches and 270 pounds, senior defensive end Mike Catapano was just a shy kid who was bullied for loving school. Now in his second year as captain of the football team, the Long Island native has shown that he has the talent, and the work ethic, to potentially bring change to a Tigers team that has struggled in recent years.
The football team is looking to rebound from a season-opening loss to Lehigh by taking on Georgetown in a rare Friday night game, the first for Princeton since a 14-9 loss to Penn in 2008.
Despite a strong effort from Princeton (0-2), the football team fell 21-20 in a heartbreaking loss to Georgetown (3-1) as the Hoyas came back from a 14-3 first quarter deficit and escape a hungry group of Tigers on the road.
Four years ago, Sarah Porter had never run competitively. Today, the freshman is ready to make her mark on the women’s cross country team after arriving on Princeton’s campus from sunny Southern California only weeks ago. The ‘Prince’ talked to Sarah about the transition to life at college, her favorite prerace pump-up music and some aspects of competitive running that may come as a surprise.
The women’s soccer team throttled Lafayette on the road Wednesday night, winning 5-2 to bring its record back to .500. The Tigers (3-3-1) were led once again by senior forward Jen Hoy, who netted her second hat trick of the season, scoring three times in the first half.
When head cross country coach Steve Dolan left Princeton in the summer to become the new track and field director at Penn, many worried about the future of the program. With little over a month from the announcement of Dolan’s departure to the start of preseason, the search was on in earnest to find a suitable replacement to guide the two-time Ivy League Triple Crown squad. Just a few weeks later, however, initial anxiety turned into excitement and relief when acclaimed distance coach Jason Vigilante joined the staff.
Tommy Amaker didn’t need Harvard. As John Thompson ’88 and Sydney Johnson ’97 had so recently demonstrated for frustrated Princeton fans, young, ambitious head coaches were supposed to leave the Ivy League, not come to it. Amaker was a strong candidate: a Mike Krzyzewski disciple, a winning, if not a beloved, coach at Seton Hall and Michigan (from which he was fired), still in his early 40s — why would a guy like that accept a job at Harvard, a school with zero basketball tradition? And just as curious: Why would a school like Harvard want a hired gun like Amaker?
Through three weeks of the 2012 season, Princeton is a clear favorite to take home its eighth consecutive Ivy League field hockey title. Can anyone push the Tigers, as several teams did last year? We rank the league’s top contenders here.
Sporting jerseys that read “Los Tigres,” members of the men’s basketball team spent their final week of summer traveling in Spain and playing exhibition games against professional teams.
Even as the Sanner brothers speak earnestly about their yearly Thanksgiving break wrestling matches in their hometown of Indianapolis, they make their brotherly love and deep-rooted chemistry apparent to anyone around them. Reunited once again at Princeton as members of the men’s soccer team, pepper-haired freshman forward Thomas and salt-haired senior forward Matt now share a slightly different dynamic than they once did.
Senior Claire Pinciaro is the starting goalkeeper for the women’s soccer team (2-3-1). Pinciaro has received playing time since her sophomore year and started eight games last season as a junior. This season, she has already logged shutouts against St. Joseph’s and Temple. She recently sat down with the ‘Prince’ to discuss the “Earth Mother,” “Shackisms” and Petr Cech’s helmet.
Dear Class of 2016: Welcome to your second week at Princeton, when things become a lot more normal. As you may or may not have figured out yet, your classwork won’t really matter until about midterms, so put your books down for a quick seminar in a more important subject, TGR 042: History of Princeton Sports. Princetonians have been in sports’ service and in the service of all sports since the 19th century, so today’s lecture focuses on some of the barriers broken and precedents set by Tigers through the years.
Playing its first game of the season at Dillon Gymnasium after opening the season with nine straight matches on the road, the women’s volleyball team fell to Lehigh (3-6) in five sets. After falling behind 2-1, the Tigers (3-7) rallied to force a tie-breaking fifth set before losing 15-25, 25-23, 25-21, 20-25, 16-14.
The women’s volleyball team had mixed results this past weekend, going 1-2 in the George Washington Invitational.
The Princeton men’s soccer team completed one of its season’s quickest and most challenging turnarounds this weekend. The Tigers elevated their overall record to 2-3-0 with an impressive win over the Villanova Wildcats (5-2-0) on Sunday afternoon. The victory came less than 48 hours after a narrow loss at the feet of Georgetown (6-0-1) Friday night.
The men’s water polo team took third place at the North-South Invite this weekend in Cambridge, Mass.
