Today's Title Is Titles

As he has written many times before, TigerBlog has had many different titles during his time with Princeton Athletics.

In fact, he is now on his 11th — Senior Writer/Historian. His first was Manager of Sports Media Relations, and, if he recalls correctly, this is how it went from there:

* Assistant Director of Athletic Communications
* Assistant Director of Athletic Public Affairs for Media Relations
* Sports Information Director
* Interim Director of Athletic Communications
* Director of Athletic Communications
* Assistant Director of Athletics for Communications
* Associate Director of Athletics for Communications
* Senior Associate Director of Athletics for Communications
* Senior Communications Advisor/Historian 

That's a lot of titles. His favorite is his current one, so that's good.

TB mentions this again because his brother is now dealing with a new title of his own: (Interim) Dean of Students at the University of Washington Law School. That's Dean BrotherBlog to you.

Today's subject, therefore, will be "Titles."

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There will be titles on the line this weekend at the EIWA championships, which are being held at Bucknell, and the NCAA Fencing regional, which for Princeton will be at Drew University in North Jersey.

The big prizes are still down the road for both, but these events are huge, since they are the qualifying routes into the NCAA championships. Keep in mind that the Ivy League will begin to host its own wrestling tournament beginning next year, and that will be the NCAA qualifier moving forward.

You can read more about the fencing HERE and the wrestling HERE.

The NCAA indoor track and field titles will be earned this weekend in Boston, and Princeton will be represented by sophomore pole vaulter Tessa Mudd. The Ivy League record holder and the Most Outstanding Field Athlete at the recent Ivy League Heps championships, Mudd is the 13th seed in the NCAA event. 

By the way, there are 16 women in the pole vault at the NCAA meet, and only one school is represented by two athletes: Washington.

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The title on the current lead softball story on goprincetontigers.com is: "Spring Break Trip To California Up Next." You can read that story HERE, including capsules on each opponent.

This week is midterm week at Princeton, and it is followed as always by spring break. For the softball team, that means seven games next week in California. 

Princeton, who is 5-4 on the young season, are not the only team looking to take advantage of the California sun. Another is North Dakota, located in Grand Forks, where the low temps are still in the teens and 20s every night for the next 10 days, with highs somewhere between 30 and 50.

North Dakota has played 22 games so far, all in either Louisiana, New Mexico, Texas or Florida. The trip to California will be the team's fifth plane trip this season to date, and it's only early March. 

UND's home opener isn't until April 6.

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Chris Sailer, you may remember, was Princeton's Hall-of-Fame women's lacrosse coach for 37 years. Last night at Sherrerd Field, she took on a new title: color commentator.

Sailer made her ESPN+ debut on the call of Princeton-Monmouth. As someone who did a podcast with her for several years, TigerBlog was not surprised that she was excellent her first time out. 

For decades, Princeton Lacrosse was defined by Sailer and men's coach Bill Tierney, who won nine NCAA championships between them. Now both of them are at least dipping their toes into the broadcasting pool, as Tierney has been on ESPN as well.

The Princeton women are off to Florida for two games, at Florida this coming Wednesday and then at Jacksonville on Saturday the 16th.

The men are at Rutgers Sunday, and the winner of that game gets a trophy called entitled "The Meistrell Cup." 

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This weekend, apparently Evan Harmeling, Class of 2012, will earn the title of "First Princeton alum to play in a PGA Tour event."

Harmeling, who has played in 169 pro events to date on the Korn Ferry and other tours, qualified for the main event at an event earlier this week in West Palm Beach.

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Looking for a good book to read? It's title is "The Complete Flying Officer X Series."

It's a compilation of essays written by an Englishman named H.E. Bates during World War II. He spent his time on an RAF base, talking to flyers and learning their stories and then writing about them. Apparently, in England, it was a very big part of the war effort and morale.

Not all of the pieces end happily. Most don't, actually. It makes you wonder how he did it.

And, for what it's worth, if you didn't realize it, you'd think the author was John McPhee.