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Back from Sydney, rowers reflect on an 'amazing' experience

Back from Sydney, rowers reflect on an 'amazing' experience

Rowers spend their lives trying not to stand out from the crowd. As far as sports go, crew is as unglamorous as they come.But every four years, rowers are given the chance to stand out in the spectacle of the Olympics ? standing alongside the world's other great, but more heralded, athletes.A number of Princetonian rowers, past and present, had the chance to compete in the 2000 Sydney Games.

SPORTS | 10/25/2000

'Take four': Splithoff out for season with broken jaw

In a wide open Ivy League football race featuring several potent offenses and numerous high-scoring games, the quarterback position has become one of utmost importance.Princeton (2-4 overall, 2-1 Ivy League) in particular has benefited from high quality passing this year ? but from multiple sources.While the Tigers have been blessed with tremendous depth at football's most important position, they have been cursed with the misfortune of having to test that depth.Last week against Harvard, the bad karma continued as freshman David Splithoff ? the third quarterback to start for the Tigers ? suffered an injured jaw on the Tigers' final offensive play.

SPORTS | 10/25/2000

News and Notes

With a 53-3 drubbing of Drexel on Sunday, the men's rugby team earned a spot in the finals of its conference, the Eastern Pennsylvania Rugby Union.

SPORTS | 10/25/2000

Primed for playoffs, men's water polo opens ECACs against Minutemen

An interesting pattern has developed in the progress of the men's water polo team this season. Early in the season, coming off the high expectations set by last year's 22-3 record and first-place division finish, Princeton felt ready to compete with the best of the East right from the start.Three weekends into their 2000 campaign, however, the Tigers found themselves languishing behind the incredible pace of last year's team, amassing a respectable ? but by no means great ? 8-5 record.

SPORTS | 10/25/2000

A style all her own

The first time I met women's soccer coach Julie Shackford it was the beginning of September and she was running in after practice.

SPORTS | 10/24/2000

Despite rough start, sprint football confident about strong finish

A new coach and a new attitude were supposed to make all the difference for the sprint football team this season.

SPORTS | 10/24/2000

Tigers shine in preseason contests despite looming NCAA rule changes

Last spring, the men's lacrosse team had one of its youngest rosters in recent memory. Yet despite their inexperience and the loss of their leading goal scorer to a knee injury, the Tigers responded to the adversity by not only winning the Ivy League title, but also reaching the NCAA championship game.This fall, thanks to a blend of veteran leadership and strong freshmen, Princeton is off to a flying start in its fall preseason."We've got a lot of people back that have played a lot of lacrosse," head coach Bill Tierney said.

SPORTS | 10/24/2000

Presidential Visit

More than two decades have passed since Cedric Dempsey applied to become the Director of Athletics at Princeton.

SPORTS | 10/23/2000

Women's open crew victorious at Head of the Charles

Imagine finding out you just rowed the best race of your life 30 minutes after you crossed the finish line.This is exactly what happened to the women's open eight this weekend at the Head of the Charles regatta in Cambridge, Mass.

SPORTS | 10/23/2000

W. tennis star Krishnamurthy wins two matches at ITA Championships

With the U.S. Open a distant memory and the 2000 professional Grand Slam events now long concluded, the collegiate version of tennis' major individual championships took center stage last week in Pacific Palisades, Calif., at the Riviera Women's All-American Championship.The event, which was the second leg of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Grand Slam, featured most of the nation's top collegiate tennis players ? including Princeton sophomore Kavitha Krishnamurthy.Krishnamurthy, ranked 36th nationally in a preseason poll, won her first two qualifying matches before losing her third match, thus failing to make it into the tournament's 32-player main draw.With a 64-player prequalifying draw held before the 64-player qualifying draw, entrance into the tournament's main draw was a formidable task for those ? like Krishnamurthy ? looking to earn one of four at-large spots into the main draw.

SPORTS | 10/23/2000

Ilvy Friebe

The field hockey team seemed to be on shaky ground entering this weekend's tough matchups with No.

SPORTS | 10/23/2000

News and Notes

With an Eastern College Athletic Conference Championship crown under its belt, the men's tennis team has little to worry about this offseason other than gaining experience where it can.

SPORTS | 10/23/2000

W. volleyball eases by Penn

It was textbook volleyball as the women's team crushed Penn 15-6, 15-9, 16-14 at Dillon Gym Friday night.

SPORTS | 10/23/2000

Extinguished: Bonfire hopes fizzle as football falls to Harvard

Following a 27-point win over a powerful Brown team last weekend, Princeton's confidence was as high as it had been in years.

SPORTS | 10/22/2000

Field hockey takes two crucial games over Harvard, Penn St.

After two mediocre wins last weekend, head coach Beth Bozman wondered if her team could put together two good halves of field hockey.

SPORTS | 10/22/2000

Growing pains: Inexperience hurts Tigers in second half

Everyone knew what Harvard was doing. In the second quarter, Harvard had put everyone on the line and converted a fourth and one with a quarterback sneak.

SPORTS | 10/22/2000

Men's soccer rights ship with domination of Ivy-rival Harvard

Visiting Harvard was privy to a special treat Saturday evening at Lourie-Love Field ? the men's soccer team at its finest.The Tigers showed more hustle and created more opportunities than they had in any other game this season.

SPORTS | 10/22/2000

Women's soccer dogged by Harvard for eighth-straight year

Five minutes into the women's soccer game Friday night, everyone at Lourie-Love Field was thinking the same thing: Who let the dogs out?A yellow lab broke free from his owner and discovered 20 women playing a game of keep-away with a big black-and-white ball, and immediately thought he could join in.

SPORTS | 10/22/2000

Field hockey's defensive corps proves it is up to the challenge

Going into the year, one of the field hockey team's unanswered questions was the play of its inexperienced defense.

SPORTS | 10/19/2000

Women's soccer looks to overcome Harvard and extend perfect Ivy run

Sixteen years ago, Harvard women's soccer coach Tim Wheaton had just completed a great soccer career at Drew University and was looking for a coaching position.When he was offered a job as an assistant for Princeton's women's team, Wheaton jumped at the chance."My wife and my father both went to Princeton, and I have the greatest respect for the place," Wheaton said.The young coach took up residence in an apartment in the Dillon Gym tower and spent a year learning the ropes of coaching.After one year with the Tigers, Wheaton moved up to Massachusetts and became an assistant with the Crimson.Two years later he became head coach and in his 14 years at the helm, Wheaton has led Harvard to a 122-61-19 record and four of the last five Ivy League Championships.Tonight, Wheaton returns to the field on which his career started to take on the Tigers in a contest between the two top teams in the Ivy League."We're just approaching this as another game," Princeton head coach Julie Shackford said.

SPORTS | 10/19/2000

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