Sports

Men's Volleyball: Tigers suffer tough season

Men's Volleyball: Tigers suffer tough season

Last season, the men’s volleyball team hired head coach Sam Shweisky, who led the squad to an appearance in the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association finals for the first time since 1990. There, the Tigers fell to undefeated Penn State, who would later be defeated by Stanford in the finals of the NCAA tournament. Shweisky was named the 2010 EIVA Bob Sweeney Coach of the Year.

SPORTS | 05/25/2011

Tennis: Tigers fall 1 match short of league title

Following a 4-3 conference finish last spring in which it was in contention for the Ivy League championship during the final weekend of play, the men’s tennis team entered this year looking to build off the success of last year’s strong freshman class and challenge again for the league title. The women’s team faced a different challenge, as it looked to follow up a dominating 7-0 Ivy League championship season last spring.

SPORTS | 05/25/2011

Women's Lacrosse: Terps end Tigers' run

For 20 minutes on Saturday, the women’s lacrosse team gave No. 1 Maryland all it could handle, jumping out to an early 3-1 lead and keeping the hosts’ potent offense at bay. But the Terrapins broke through for seven goals in six minutes late in the half and cruised to a 15-6 victory, ending Princeton’s season in the NCAA quarterfinals.

SPORTS | 05/20/2011

Women's Lacrosse: Princeton prepares to play defending champs

The women's lacrosse team entered 2011 hoping to get back to its winning ways. Three months later, the 12-6 Tigers are three victories away from the national championship entering Saturday’s contest against No. 1 Maryland.

SPORTS | 05/19/2011

Crew: Top-ranked women's teams win at Sprints

The women’s open and lightweight crews were undefeated in the regular season, and both lived up to high expectations at the Eastern championships in Cherry Hill, N.J. Both teams defeated top rivals from around the region to win championships at EAWRC Sprints.

SPORTS | 05/14/2011

Women's Lacrosse: Tigers advance to NCAA quarters, 11-10

The women's lacrosse team upset No. 8-seed James Madison on the road on Saturday afternoon in the first round of the NCAA tournament, holding on in an exciting final minute for an 11-10 victory. The Tigers advance to the quarterfinal round next Saturday, when they will face No. 1 Maryland, which defeated Navy 19-6 in the opening round.

SPORTS | 05/13/2011

Male Athlete of the Year: Kareem Maddox

The 2006-07 season appeared to be the death of Princeton basketball. In just three short years, the team led by head coach Joe Scott ’88 had gone from Ivy League champion to laughingstock of the league. The team finished with 11 total wins and a 2-12 mark in league. Scott resigned. The program had hit an all-time low.In stepped an athletic forward named Kareem Maddox.

SPORTS | 05/12/2011

Crew: Men’s, women’s crews look to avenge past defeats at season-ending regattas

On Sunday, all four Princeton crews will be taking on their toughest competitors in one of their final regattas of the season at the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges and Eastern Association of Women’s Rowing Colleges sprints. The regatta will include all the Ivy League teams, as well as nationally ranked teams including Wisconsin and Navy.

SPORTS | 05/12/2011

Female Athlete of the Year: Kat Sharkey

During a year in which many Princeton athletes had individual and team success, few accomplished as much as junior striker Kat Sharkey of the field hockey team. The most prolific scorer in the country, Sharkey set multiple program records while leading the Tigers to the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament.

SPORTS | 05/12/2011

Column: Blatter, FIFA ruining the beautiful game

Soccer may be the beautiful game, but FIFA, its governing organization, is the ugliest of the lot. FIFA is probably the most corrupt sporting organization in the world, and its president, Sepp Blatter, is an arrogant hack. The duplicitous leader of the world’s most popular sport has made so many public gaffes that he could easily be deposed on this premise alone. Speaking about women’s soccer, Blatter told the media that “women [should] play in more feminine clothes like they do in volleyball,” continuing to inexplicably state that if women played with a “more female aesthetic,” they might gain more international fans.

SPORTS | 05/12/2011

Baseball: Tigers will rest, focus on exams before tournament

After a dramatic win on Sunday to dethrone two-time defending Ivy League champions Dartmouth, the baseball team will have to wait until May 30 to know against whom — and when — they’ll next be playing a game that matters. What to do until then?

SPORTS | 05/12/2011

Women's Lacrosse: Rematch against James Madison looms in first round of NCAAs

On March 16, James Madison University jumped out to an early 5-0 lead against the women’s lacrosse team and never looked back. The Dukes (15-3 overall) held the Tigers (11-6) to just five goals in a 10-5 victory that was Princeton’s worst offensive performance of the year. It was clearly a frustrating game for the Tigers.

SPORTS | 05/12/2011

Feature: Top 10 games of the year

As the school year comes to a close, we take a look back at the 10 most exciting games of the 2010-11 season.

SPORTS | 05/10/2011

On Tap with ... Emma Bedard

Senior Emma Bedard hails from Quebec, Canada and is a member of the No. 1 lightweight women’s crew. The team swept Georgetown on the last weekend of April to complete a perfect 8-0 regular season and now looks ahead to the postseason, starting with the EAWRC Sprints on Sunday.

SPORTS | 05/10/2011

Column: Random facts for a final column

I have literally just completed my last Dean’s Date assignment. This is my last column as a sportswriter for The Daily Princetonian. And all I can think about at the moment is all the weird facts I won’t get to write about. So, because I’ll never write again for this august newspaper, I’m going to list my favorite random sports facts until I run out of space. Freshmen, play intramural sports and enjoy late meal while you can.

SPORTS | 05/10/2011

Golf: Shon participates in NCAA Regional

Freshman Kelly Shon represented Princeton University this past weekend in the NCAA East Regional Tournament, which took place in Daytona Beach, Fla., at the LPGA International course. She finished with an 11-over score in the three-day event, coming in tied for 52nd in the 126-player field.

SPORTS | 05/08/2011

Men's Hockey: Prier named men's hockey head coach

Bob Prier will be the next head coach of the men’s hockey team, the athletics department announced in a release on Monday afternoon.

SPORTS | 05/08/2011

Baseball: Underclassmen lead postseason victories

According to a popular sports cliche, experience wins in the postseason. The baseball team could not have disproven that statement more this weekend, as the young squad took two of three games to claim its first Ivy League championship since 2006.

SPORTS | 05/08/2011

Column: Athletes should be cautious with injuries

A friend of mine recently commented that, if he had the immense athletic talent required to enter any professional sport, he would choose to be a basketball player. The mean salary in the NBA is the highest among American professional sporting leagues, the sport is not as physically taxing as football and the career life of players tends to be long: Usually basketball players work in the NBA for about five years, thanks to how hard it is to be struck with a career-ending injury. Note that many players continue their play abroad after they leave the NBA; former players have found consistent play in Turkey, Israel, Italy and Spain after their American careers have ended.

SPORTS | 05/08/2011

Women's Lacrosse: Tournament victory solidifies NCAA bid

A win in Friday night’s semifinal round of the Ivy League Tournament for the Princeton women’s lacrosse team gave it a spot in Sunday afternoon’s championship game against the Harvard Crimson. The No. 14 Tigers, ranked fourth in the tournament, defeated No. 8 University of Pennsylvania, the host and top seed, 10-8 in overtime after a very close, back-and-forth game with six lead changes and seven ties. Sophomore attacker Jaci Gassaway and junior midfielder Cassie Pyle, who each earned five points, led the Tigers in this game. Senior co-captain and goalkeeper Erin Tochihara was a strong last line of defense for the Tigers on Friday, stopping a total of 10 shots.Then on Sunday, the Tigers earned the Ivy League Tournament title with a 12-10 victory over No. 3-seed Harvard, gaining an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament next weekend against No. 8 James Madison University.

SPORTS | 05/08/2011

Most Popular