February surprise

Tigers return to the Ivy’s top two

Published in the Mar. 4, 2009, issue

Picked to finish last in the Ivy League by the conference’s coaches and writers, the Princeton men’s basketball team proved prognosticators wrong in the first half of the season, winning four of its first six Ivy games to move into second place. The Tigers...Read more

Skating toward Vancouver

Keady ’08 and Van Beusekom ’04 vie for Olympic spots

Published in the Mar. 4, 2009, issue

Lizzie Keady ’08 has been close to playing in the Olympics before. Keady, a star on the women’s ice hockey team during her years at Princeton, played 16 games with the U.S. national team in 2005, during a one-year break from Princeton. Nearing Christmas that...Read more

Sports Shorts

Published in the Mar. 4, 2009, issue

  KAREN SMYERS ’83, above, a Princeton swimming star who went on to become one of the most accomplished triathletes in the world, was inducted into the USA Triathlon Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs, Colo., Jan. 17. Smyers, a seven-time national champion, won...Read more