Roger Hughes is the new head coach of football. He recently sat down with senior writer Andrew Funk.P: Were you surprised you got this job?RH: Yes.
Last year, the men's swimming team was sorely disappointed in the Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet, losing to both rivals by over 60 points.
Seventeen games into its season, two games into its Ivy League schedule, the men's basketball team is learning some new things.
While most Princetonians were off campus, relaxing in the sun or the snow, the men's and women's fencing teams were hard at work this Intersession.The double practices all week proved beneficial Sunday when the Tigers dispatched the rest of the competition at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
While its academic strength is unmatched, when it comes to women's basketball, the Ivy League is lightly regarded around the rest of the country.
After opening the season with strong team victories, the men's and women's track teams' post-exam schedule focused solely on individual competition.
There were fewer jokes. Smiles to friends in the gallery were exchanged for serious, quiet stretching as part of a pre-game workout that lasted twice as long as usual.
Had you asked anyone how this men's basketball team would have fared with senior forward Mason Rocca sidelined with ankle problems and junior forward Nate Walton hampered by a broken hand, the prognosis would not have been good.
A tough loss to Columbia disappointed the wrestling team over Intersession, but it may turn out to be just what the Tigers needed to increase motivation and focus as the team heads into the most intense part of its season.Princeton equaled Columbia for individual wins, splitting the 10 bouts down the middle, but Lion heavyweight David Boyuk helped shift the advantage towards Columbia with the only pin of the competition, giving the Lions a 19-15 win."We had to move our weight classes around," head coach Mike New said.
With the league tournament looming just a month away, the women's hockey team did not assert itself this weekend.
There's a first time for everything. This past Wednesday, the women's squash team experienced a first that it did not enjoy, as it lost to Pennsylvania, 5-4.In the 24-year history of Penn's women's squash program, the Quakers, the nation's top-ranked team, had never defeated Princeton (5-1 overall, 2-1 Ivy League) until last week.
While the heart of the women's tennis team's spring season will not arrive until March, the Tigers' freshman phenom Kavitha Krishnamurthy showed the prowess of midseason strength over Intersession by claiming the individual title at the Georgia Invitational Jan.
Although the men's volleyball team's post-exam itinerary included a journey through laid-back California to open its season, Princeton could find no relaxation on the West Coast while facing some of its toughest competition of the year.The Tigers (1-2 overall) opened against defending NCAA Division III champion La Verne (0-6) Jan.
Like a wave on the sea shore, the Princeton women's basketball team crashed upon its opponents this intersession.
After women's swimming head coach Susan Teeter's landmark 100th career win at the women's swim meet this weekend in New York City, there were cheers, celebrating and even a huge orange and black banner, courtesy of the swimmers and their parents, to welcome Teeter into the "Century Club."But Teeter did not receive the traditional push in the water for such a grand accomplishment.The Tigers (8-0 overall, 7-0 Ivy League) dominated Columbia by the score of 138-95, but their coach knew that it wasn't time for a full celebration."Teeter is extraordinarily modest when it comes to this sort of stuff," senior captain Alyson Goodner said.
NEW YORK CITY ? Despite the fact that junior forward Nathan Walton's weekend statistics show just two minutes, two points and two rebounds, those in attendance Saturday night at Levien Gymnasium in New York City would agree his contribution was much greater than those numbers indicate.With the men's basketball team (10-7 overall, 2-0 Ivy League) clinging to a five-point advantage, sophomore center Chris Young's fourth foul with five minutes, ten seconds to play forced head coach Bill Carmody to call on the injured Walton to protect the lead.Walton entered the game and immediately wrestled down an important defensive rebound, despite his broken right hand, which was protected by a clumsy cast.
Chalk it up to traditional post-break rustiness, or perhaps place the blame on old-fashioned poor play.Whatever the reason, the men's hockey team took a step backward in its first three games after a two-week layoff, dropping all three contests to fall to 6-10-3 overall on the season.A 6-2 loss to Rensselaer Friday and a 3-1 loss to Union Saturday at Baker Rink left Princeton tied for seventh in the Eastern College Athletic Conference with a 4-5-3 league record.
In the midst of a 16-day layoff between games, the women's basketball team has done a lot of watching and waiting.
The men's basketball team has seen the scores: Princeton loses at Kansas by 15, and the Jayhawks then blow out Penn by 46.
He is a plainspoken Nebraskan. He is 40 years old. He holds a Ph.D. in exercise physiology. He just came down from Hanover, N.H., and he brought the weather with him.
