The Big Three

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Photo: Beverly Schaefer

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Women’s hockey forward SARAH FILLIER ’22 scored goals in four consecutive games — all Princeton wins — and was named the ECAC Hockey Player of the Week in back-to-back weeks. Fillier, the nation’s leading scorer last season, netted both Princeton goals in her team’s 2–1 win over then-No. 5 Clarkson at Baker Rink Nov. 22. She also assisted on five goals — a career high — and scored one in Princeton’s 7-5 win over Colgate Dec. 7.

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MOHAMED HAMZA ’22 finished the 2018-19 season as the No. 1 fencer in the world junior foil rankings. Hamza, who won bronze at the Junior World Championships in April, is taking the year off to compete internationally. He finished in the top 50 at Senior World Cup events in England and Germany in November. Hamza represented Egypt at the 2016 Olympics as a 15-year-old. 

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JULIA CUNNINGHAM ’22 scored 17 points, including a long, buzzer-beating 3-pointer to force overtime, in the women’s basketball team’s 77–75 loss at Iowa Nov. 20. Cunningham, in her first year as a starter, has averaged 9.3 points per game, nearly doubling her output from last year. Through Dec. 7, Princeton was 7–1, outscoring its opponents by an average of 17 points a game.