PISCATAWAY ? When the final horn blew, it was hard to tell who had won the women's lacrosse game Sunday at Rutgers.In the battle for New Jersey prominence, all of the players had their heads hanging a little low.
Like a rising ocean, the women's basketball team has slowly been climbing up and submerging the Ivy league opposition, teams that had previously defeated it.
At the team level, Princeton squash faced a lot of changes this year. The women's team did not win the national championship for the first time in three years, and the men's team won the Ivy League outright for the first time since 1982.
The playoffs are still a week away for the men's hockey team, but a look at this weekend's games would seem to indicate that playoff intensity has already arrived.With the extreme parity of the Eastern College Athletic Conference this season ? a league in which third-place Rensselaer finished only two games ahead of eighth-place Dartmouth ? the final weekend weighed heavily in the standings.Princeton's first opponent, second-place Colgate, was fighting for the league title and its second foe, Cornell (13-12-2 overall, 10-9-1 ECAC), had home-ice playoff aspirations similar to those of the Tigers.
With 11 minutes, 55 seconds remaining in Saturday night's men's basketball contest at Jadwin Gym, the game just didn't seem to matter anymore.It wasn't because the Tigers were 26 points ahead and cruising to an easy 85-57 victory.Instead, it was due to a seemingly inevitable announcement: Penn 69, Yale 52.Despite the win over Brown, which followed a 56-46 win over Yale on Friday, Princeton will finish behind the Quakers in the Ivy League for the second year in a row.
An entire season hinged on a single weekend. The women's hockey team was on the bubble, and the Tigers needed only two points to gain a berth to the playoffs.Those two points, however, had to be gleaned off Eastern College Athletic Conference leaders Brown and Harvard.
BALTIMORE ? The partisan crowd at the men's lacrosse game at Homewood Field on Saturday had issues.
With the first place in the Eastern Championship out of reach by the time of the 400-meter free relay ? the final event of this weekend ? the Princeton men's swimming and diving team and its legion of fans were anything but defeated as the meet came to its end.The Tigers and their fans, cheering at the top of their lungs, had DeNunzio louder than at any point this weekend as they watched the final swimmer ? senior captain Jamie Holder ? power into the wall ahead of the favored Harvard relay, giving Princeton its first victory in that event at Easterns since 1980."It was just amazing.
With 78 teams and 1,732 athletes, the 79th Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America Championships is the largest and oldest collegiate indoor track meet in the nation.
When the men's hockey team last met Cornell and Colgate Dec. 3-4, sophomore goalie Dave Stathos had possibly the best weekend of his career to lead the Tigers to two victories.This weekend, Stathos might have to do it again to give the Tigers home ice in the first round of the Eastern College Athletic Conference playoffs next weekend.Princeton (10-13-3 overall, 8-8-3 ECAC) sit in a four-way tie for third in the ECAC with Clarkson, Dartmouth and Renssalaer going into this weekend's series.
On most teams, the seniors provide leadership and guidance for the rest of the team, leading by example.The softball team has only one senior, but the example that No.
During the 1990s, the men's lacrosse team enjoyed a decade of dominance. Five national championships, seven Ivy League titles, 10 NCAA tournament appearances.
With the disappearance of last year's defensive unit, the men's lacrosse team must now turn to its inexperienced youth.
In the recent history of Princeton softball teams, rosters have been full of talented players who can 'flat-out play' softball.
There is home-court advantage. And then there is this.It is a known fact that teams play better at home.
Hilary Maddox stepped cheerfully onto the field for her first collegiate lacrosse practice, eager to begin experiencing the differences between a low-key high school environment to playing for a top Division I school.Three miles and several sprints later, she doubled over in the middle of the field and threw up, stumbling to the ground.
After a sound defeat at the hands of Harvard at this year's Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet, the Princeton men's swim team knows what most people expect this weekend at the Eastern Championships at DeNunzio Pool ? the Crimson will be crowned champ for the fifth consecutive year while the Tigers will once again be relegated to runner-up status.But head coach Rob Orr and his swimmers have a different perspective.
For most programs, having a player named preseason second team All-America would be an honor, but for the women's lacrosse team it represents something different.
He's faster than a locomotive. He plays bass in the orchestra. He pinned the 15th ranked wrestler in the nation.
Though team competition has come to an end and the final home matches of the 1999-2000 men's and women's squash seasons have already been played, nine Princeton players have one more shot.Starting Friday, a select group of players from the men's and women's squash teams will compete in the National Intercollegiate Squash Racquets Association Individual Championships and the Women's Intercollegiate Squash Association Individual Championships, respectively, at Williams College in Williamstown, Mass.Highlighting the Tigers' entrants will be defending national champions senior Peter Yik and junior Julia Beaver.Also representing men's squash are sophomore Peter Kelly and freshmen David Yik, Will Evans and Dan Rutherford.
