Princeton won five of the six races there, including the first varsity 8 race, which the Tigers ran - rowed? - away with by nearly four seconds.
TigerBlog knew that seniors Claire Collins and Emily Kallfelz were four-year members of the first varsity 8, but he didn't know if that was unique or something that regularly happens or something in between. To find out, he emailed women's open rowing coach Lori Dauphiny, who said that there are often freshmen who row in the first varsity 8 but that Collins and Kallfelz are the first two seniors who have rowed in the first varsity 8 all four years and won four Ivy League championships.
That's very impressive stuff.
In other news, TigerBlog has never watched an episode of "Game of Thrones." He has a sense that it's not his kind of show, something that was reinforced when he watched the first five minutes of Episode 1 and gave up.
He'll add that to the list of shows that he just never got into, including "Mad Men" and "Walking Dead."
He was intrigued by two "Game of Thrones"-related tweets though.
One was from Derek Jones, the voice of Princeton men's basketball:
I watched the #GOT finale this morning. I mean, the conclusion felt underwhelming but what do I know? I showed up to the party about four hours late. But it made me think about TV finales. Why are most of them unsatisfying?— Derek Jones (@DerekJones79) May 20, 2019
TigerBlog can tell Derek what the best finales were. That's easy.
In second place? "Breaking Bad." In first place? "Newhart," which can never be matched.
If you never saw "Newhart," you'll have a lot of catching up to do, going back to "The Bob Newhart Show," but if you get to the end, you'll be glad you did, because it was great.
The second tweet came from Princeton women's basketball:
Who cares about #GameOfThrones when you can watch Queen Buckets of House Princeton in the battle of 🏀 tonight?
💻: https://t.co/6EdInzXOTB
📸: @usabasketball pic.twitter.com/nHysyuxnEG— Princeton WBB (@PrincetonWBB) May 19, 2019
This is very clever.
The "Queen Buckets of the House of Princeton" is Bella Alarie, the two-time Ivy League Player of the Year. Alarie was trying out this weekend for the U.S. team for the Pan Am Games, which will be held in Lima, Peru, Aug. 6-10.
There were 35 payers who were invited to the tryout, with the final list of 12 announced yesterday. Alarie, of course, made the team.
TB says "of course" for two reasons: 1) he wouldn't be writing about it had she not made it and 2) that's how good she is.
In fact, here's the breakdown of conferences for the other 11 members of the team:
Big 10 - 3
Pac 12 - 3
Big 12 - 2
SEC - 2
ACC - 1
Alarie already has international experience, having won a silver with the U.S. team at the 2017 U-19 World Championships.
She also has NCAA tournament experience with Princeton the last two years, with one more year to go. She enters her senior year with a chance to become a four-time first-team All-Ivy League selection, something Princeton has never had.
In fact, she's already one of four Princeton women to be first-team All-Ivy three times. Guesses on the other three? TB will tell you at the end.
Alarie will enter her senior year with 1,301 career points, which leaves her 382 away from Sandi Bittler Leland's school record of 1,683. If Princeton plays the same 32 games it played last year, Alarie would need to average 12 per game to break the record. If she matched last year's 22.8 points per game, she'd end up with 2,031 points.
That's a lot.
There will be plenty of time later to talk about Alarie and where she lands historically, in both Ivy women's basketball history and Princeton women's athletic history.
For now, there's the upcoming Pan Am Games and another opportunity for this extraordinary player to represent the United States again.
As for the other three players who have been first-team All-Ivy three times? Here's the list:
Meagan Cowher
Lauren Edwards
Niveen Rasheed
And of course Bella Alarie.
Or as the tweet said, "Queen Buckets of the House of Princeton."
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