Unprecedented Ivy

Remember back in elementary school when you had the dreaded "Show and Tell?"

What was supposed to be an exercise in public speaking and creativity instead was a general nightmare. The bus was going to be there in five minutes, and that's when you remembered: "Oh, no, Show and Tell today."

As such, you'd grab the first thing you could find and try to fake your way through some sort of meaningful presentation that would make it seem like you gave this a lot of thought. Then you'd have to sit through everyone else's attempt to do the same. 

TigerBlog's memories of Show and Tell are all nightmarish. 

All these decades later, it apparently still exists. Now, though, it appears that a letter has been added, as in it's "Show and Tell Letter Day." 

Now you can't just grab something and run after the bus. Now you have to grab something that matches up with that week's chosen letter. 

At least that's how it works at the preschool where little Anja Schermick goes. Her mother Rachel works in the communications office at the Ivy League, and she sent TB an update on Anja's Show and Tell when the letter of the week was "I."

He'll get to that in a moment. Rachel also sent TB a picture of a dry erase board that listed what the kids brought in that day. 

There were 13 children in the class, and there were four who brought in ice cream. Okay. Did it melt? The same holds true for the kids who brought in "ice" and "ice pack." Ice pack? Yeah. That's really grabbing something at the last second. 

There were three "insects." There were two instruments. There was also one "Ishika," which TB supposes was an Indian doll (Ishika is a feminine given name of Indian origin. It may refer to various people and fictional characters, such as a badminton player, a beauty pageant contestant, or a love interest in a film). 

And that left Anja. Rachel's husband Casey is a golf pro. Did Anja bring in an iron? Nope.

Here's what she brought:

Ivy. Now that's perfect. 

This week's letter is "U," which to TB suggests that the order of the alphabet has changed a bit since he was in school. Either that, or they're going out of order. 

If Anja wanted to combine last week and this week, she could have brought in the four Princeton men's soccer players who went in the MLS Super Draft. No Ivy team has ever had that many drafted before. 

What does that make it? 

Unprecedented Ivy. 

Happy @MLS SuperDraft Day, Tigs! 🐅

Congratulations to our record 4️⃣ draftees!#PrincetonSoccer #WhosNext #PrincetonPros pic.twitter.com/RVZbsC3E2n

— Princeton Men’s Soccer (@PrincetonMSoc) December 18, 2025

And that list of four doesn't count Ivy Offensive Player of the Year Daniel Ittycheria, who signed with the Vancouver Whitecaps this week as well. 

His four teammates who were drafted were Jack Jasinksi by the San Jose Earthquakes, Giuliano Fravolini Whitchurch by the Los Angeles Football Club, Bardia Hormozi by the Minnesota United FC and Andrew Samuels by the St. Louis CITY FC. 

Samuels and Hormozi are juniors, so they could opt to return to Princeton next year as seniors. 

The season did not end the way Princeton would have hoped, but it was still obviously a great year for the Tigers, who spent much of it ranked No. 1 nationally in RPI and who ended up with the No. 3 seed in the NCAA tournament. Along the way Princeton ran the table in the Ivy League, and by "ran the table," TB means went 7-0-0 and did not allow a single goal to be scored. 

The Tigers followed that with a second straight Ivy League tournament championship. Beyond all of that, this team was just a lot of fun to watch play. They were clearly a team built on chemistry and talent who loved to play together, something that was evident after watching 10 minutes of any game. 

The fact that there were four MLS draftees plus Ittycheria speak to just how strong the talent on this team was. Getting four selections in one Super Draft? 

Yup. 

Unprecedented Ivy.