Congratulations.
For what? For anything and everything. It's a Congratulations Thursday here from TigerBlog.
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There were 16 Princeton players who earned the National Field Hockey Coaches' Association's National Academic Squad honors, announced yesterday. This award prioritizes in-season scholastic achievement, which makes it amazing to consider that two-thirds of the Princeton team qualified for the award while also winning an Ivy League championship and advancing to the NCAA tournament quarterfinals.
Nobody at Princeton should ever forget that this is a school where the highest levels academically and athletically can overlap. It's been the backbone for decades and decades of success stories that make up what is known collectively as "Education Through Athletics."
Every time TigerBlog sees an award like this, of course, he's reminded of one of the best Pete Carril lines ever. When told that one of his players had been named Academic All-American with a 3.8 grade point average, Carril immediately said "Yeah? He'd be better off with a 3.6 and more work on his jump shot."
You can agree with the sentiments from two paragraphs ago and laugh at the ones in the previous paragraph. It's okay.
Congratulations to the field hockey players.
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Further congratulations go out to Joanna Dwyer, the Northeast Water Polo Conference Sports Information Director of the Year.
TB pointed out to Dwyer that a year ago, she was a senior at Elon who was looking for her first full-time job and had no idea what water polo was all about. Now look at her.
The accomplishment was well-earned. Dwyer combined her broad content-creation skills with a willingness to, well, dive head first into a sport with which she had no previous experience. When you're good at what you do and you're willing to work hard to learn what you don't know, good things will happen.
Congratulations to Joanna.
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Next up is the men's fencing team, which swept all four of its matches to win the Ivy League championship this past weekend at Penn.
Princeton's closest bout was Sunday's clincher, a 14-13 win over Columbia.
For Princeton, it was the first back-to-back Ivy titles since 2016-17 and the first perfect Ivy run since 2012. The NCAA Regionals will be held March 8 in Teaneck, and the NCAA Championships will be held at Penn State March 20-23.
Congratulations to the men's fencing team.
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Zach Currier is a former Princeton men's lacrosse player. Does it seem that long ago that he was playing as a Tiger?
Since then, Currier has won a World Indoor Championship and championships on the indoor and outdoor professional level. It's hard to imagine he will not be a Hall of Fame inductee when his playing days are over.
TB saw on Instagram that Zach and his wife Eva are expecting their first child. That's worthy of a congratulations on Thursday.
If the new generation has half of the competitiveness of the father, then there will be new fastest Canadian potty-trained baby record.
By the way, this is opening weekend for Princeton men's (at Penn State Saturday at 1) and women's (home against Virginia at 1) lacrosse.
Congratulations to Zach and Eva.
TigerBlog has minimal, minimal experience as a sports photographer. He does know that there's a feeling that a photographer gets in between that moment of snapping a picture and checking to see if came out exactly as was hoped in the moment.
When it turns out that you did get the picture, it bring a great sense of satisfaction. Hey, even TB has gotten to experience that, maybe less than five times ever, but still.
With that in mind, congratulations go out to photographer Caean Couto, who had to smile when he saw the shot he took of Princeton men's basketball player Malik Abdullahi in the Tigers' win over Penn at the Palestra last Friday.
Princeton's men have a big weekend, with games at Brown (tomorrow at 7) and Yale (Saturday at 8). The women's basketball team will be home against the same two opponents, hosting the Bears (6 tomorrow) and Bulldogs (5 Saturday).
Congratulations on the picture Caean.
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