He saw such a photo on goprincetontigers.com yesterday.
This was a special kind of great sports photo in that it captured a moment perfectly and also was something of a work of art. You can see for yourself:
You could almost see that painted on a canvas instead of taken with a camera. It has everything you could ask for in a sports photo, starting with the exultation of victory but also including great coloring, lighting and perfect expressions from both of the featured subjects.
Well done, Lisa Elfstrum.
The picture is of Princeton's Quincy Monday at last year's NCAA championships, where he finished as the runner-up, along with his Tiger teammate Patrick Glory. There was a story on GPT yesterday about how Monday is the preseason No. 1 at his weight class (157), while Glory is preseason No 2 at 125. You can read the entire story HERE.
By the way, at the first NCAA wrestling championship in 1928, the lowest weight class was 115 pounds. It bounced around a bit, never getting below 114 (for one year, in 1948) or above 123 — and more than half the time it was 115 — until it became its current 125 in 1999.
It cannot be overstated or repeated enough to fully recognize what Chris Ayres, Joe Dubuque, Sean Gray and Nate Jackson have done in building Princeton Wrestling into the national power that has become.
Will Princeton have an individual NCAA champion this year? And if so, in what sport?
You have Monday and Glory who have a legitimate shot in wrestling. You have the defending NCAA indoor and outdoor pole vault champ in Sondre Guttormsen, and his brother Simen, who was fourth in both a year ago.
To that list, you can add Darya Frayman, a senior on the women's tennis team who just completed a remarkable run through the ITA Fall Nationals tournament in San Diego. Frayman defeated four ranked players to reach the final, where she lost a tight three-set match to North Carolina's Fiona Crawley, the 21st ranked player. Frayman came in ranked third.
None of those athletes competes this weekend. Monday and Glory, along with the rest of the wrestling team, are a week away from their opener at Indiana, where Dubuque was a two-time NCAA champion (at 125, in 2005 and 2006).
As for this weekend, it is nevertheless a busy one for Princeton.
The NCAA cross country regionals will be held tomorrow, and Princeton will run at Penn State in hopes of moving through to the NCAA championships Nov. 19 at Oklahoma State. The Tiger men finished first at the Ivy Heps two weeks ago, and the women were second at Heps.
The Princeton men are ranked second in the Mid-Atlantic Region, behind Villanova and ahead of Georgetown and Navy. The women are ranked fifth in the region, behind Georgetown, West Virginia, Penn State and Villanova.
In both races, the top two teams in the region will receive automatic bids to the championship race. There will also be at-large bids and individuals who qualify as well.
The women's basketball team is back in Jadwin tomorrow night to take on Villanova at 7. This game should be a really good one.
It matches two teams who reached the second round of the NCAA tournament a year ago. While Princeton knocked off Kentucky in the opening round and lost by one to Indiana in Round 2, Villanova had a first round win over BYU and then a second round loss to Michigan.
Both teams also won their openers Monday, the Tigers by 18 over Temple and the Wildcats by 22 over Marist.
The men's basketball team plays at Navy at 8:30 tomorrow night as the second game of the Veterans Classic doubleheader that begins with Houston and St. Joe's.
There is also a home weekend series against Syracuse in women's hockey, as well as the field hockey NCAA game against Syracuse at Maryland that TB wrote about yesterday. The men's hockey team is at Yale and Brown, and the men's soccer team ends the regular season at home Saturday at 4 against Penn.
You can see the entire schedule, as always, HERE.
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