During the past three years, winning has proven to be an instinct for the men's cross country team.
After nearly everything that could have gone wrong for new head coach Roger Hughes and the football team during its game Saturday against Lafayette did go wrong, the Tigers somehow found themselves tied with the Leopards, 17-17, with 45 seconds to play.Unfortunately, not everything that could have gone wrong had happened yet.
It was not just conventional wisdom telling Lafayette coach Frank Tavani to kick."Everybody was telling me to kick right away," Tavani said.Nine seconds left, game tied, second and goal on the one yard line.
Last year, the women's soccer team spent 120 minutes trying to defeat Yale, and was unable to come up with the win, settling for a dissatisfying tie.This year, getting the win took only two minutes.Saturday night in New Haven, Conn., the Tigers (3-0 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) scored two goals during a span of 1:59 in the first half, defeating Yale (3-2-1, 0-1) in their first Ivy League contest, 2-0."It feels great to have that first Ivy win behind us," junior defender and captain Kelly Sosa said.
Though the men's team has hogged all the attention when it comes to Princeton cross country, it may not be long before the women's team steps out of the shadows and competes for control of track talk on campus.The main thing to be said about the women's cross country team is that they are a group on the rise.The squad looks to challenge Brown this year for top honors in the Heptagonal Championships, which includes the eight Ivy League teams and Navy.
Playing on grass is always dangerous for the field hockey team.No, it's not the pesticides or the ticks, but the potential for a few odd bounces that makes life difficult for Princeton.Yale was hoping that the home-field advantage would be enough to pull off an upset of the Tigers, winners of six-straight Ivy titles.
When members of Mexico's Olympic team march through the stadium this evening for the Opening Ceremonies, the team will be two members short.Those two members are Mariana Altamirano and Princeton junior Carola Ibanez, who were supposed to have made up one of the two Mexican women's open two-person sculls at the Games.Instead Ibanez is back in school, looking forward to a delayed junior year.Ibanez's story starts before her freshman year when she saw the cover of the admissions booklet with the Princeton crew team rowing down Lake Carnegie.
The play went to the right, and Nathan Podsakoff was there. The opposition, Ben Davis High School ? the No.
After months of preparation, the opening game of Princeton's football season may well resemble a wedding.
With all the attention the men's basketball team has gotten after the loss of head coach Bill Carmody and star center Chris Young, it would be easy to overlook the events that have taken place on the women's side.Coming off a 9-19 (6-8 Ivy League) season, Princeton is hoping that a new coach will help reverse the trend in the win-loss column.
A team's "sparkplug" usually comes in for a short period of time to bring some energy to the team.Senior midfielder Julie Shaner, however, brings that energy to the women's soccer team for all 90 minutes of the game."She seems to be able to run all game," head coach Julie Shackford said.Shaner returns for her second season as Princeton captain, one of three this season for the Tigers, who are also led by junior defender Kelly Sosa and senior defender Jenny Lankford.Shaner, however, is recognized by her peers as the vocal leader of the Tigers.
Softball coaches move around a lot. When a coach has been with one program for 18 years, it has been a serious commitment.
As with any team, the bulk of Princeton football's fans are oblivious to the intricacies of the games, attending merely to fill their Saturday with a few hours of excitement.
On the first day of classes, freshmen often have a tough time finding their way around. But a group of freshmen ? inexperienced but talented ? shined for the field hockey team in a 6-0 rout of No.
Last year, it came down to the wire: Would the women's soccer team make the NCAA tournament?While the answer turned out to be yes, this year's team looks to that nail-biting decision as its personal challenge ? to remove any doubt in the eyes of the tournament selection committee."We want to make it clear that we deserve to be in the tournament, that there is no question," junior midfielder Linley Gober said.With a deeper and more talented team than last year, the Tigers hope to equate their skill with success."Our goal is to win the Ivy League and to make a name for ourselves," Gober said.Princeton's goal will be a difficult one.
When a team finishes its first weekend at 3-1 with three dominating victories, including a thorough beating of a traditional Top-25 team, normally one would say that the weekend was a success.But for the members of the men's water polo team, whose goals this season are to rise into the nation's Top 10 and become the best team in the East, the one loss ? a 12-8 defeat at the hands of St.
When Don Cahoon resigned as men's hockey's head coach April 5, Director of Athletics Gary Walters '67 and an advisory committee began a national search for a new coach to lead the program.Nearly two months later, Walters and the committee returned to the place where they began, handing long-time Tiger assistant Len Quesnelle '88 his first head coaching job.Quesnelle, an all-Ivy defenseman for the Tigers, remained with the program following graduation and had served as an assistant for the past 12 seasons.
The turning point in this year's field hockey season might have come last year, on Oct. 9. Princeton fell to Brown in Providence, R.I., 2-1.The loss was the first Ivy League defeat for any of the players on the team ? the Tigers had gone five years in conference play without a blemish on their record.
For the first two years of Hilary Matson's Princeton field hockey career, she found herself in the company of some of the greatest players in the country.
To the NCAA, it was a minor infraction. To the Ivy League, it was a major offense.Brown's football team was ruled ineligible to win the 2000 Ivy League championship as a result of recruiting and financial aid infractions in July.
