Snow Days

 

So what do you do on your snow day? 

It depends where you're snowbound, TigerBlog supposes.  

If you in Florida with a cancelled flight due to the storm, you do what the women's tennis team did. If you're in Princeton with the 25 or so inches of snow that fell here, you build a giant men's lacrosse snowman. 

The uniform on the snowman belongs to Princeton senior David Smythe, by the way. TigerBlog isn't sure exactly who built it, but hey — that's a tremendous effort, no?  

TigerBlog has never made a great snowman, try as he might have through the years. He has spent plenty of time on beaches, so he gives this point to the women's tennis players.  

The University finally was able to get back to normal operations yesterday. TigerBlog starts today by giving a huge shoutout and thank you to everyone in facilities in Athletics and throughout the campus who was out there getting rid of tons and tons of snow. 

In Athletics, that means: Greg Paczkowski, Brad Cabral, Aaron Ostroff, Ryan Statham, Michael Huggins, David Santoro, Matthew Duker, Andrew Mangone, Tyler Mills, Chris Vance, Seth Sherman, Mark Bartlett, Tim Birch, Craig French, Jay Kubitsky, Josef Lavko, Christopher Maple, Paul Merrow, Robert Nacarella, Adam Salmon and Mike Santoro. 

That's a lot of people who did a lot of heavy lifting to get athletics up and rolling again. If you happen to see them out and about, say thank you. 

As the athletic schedule gets going again, there are two huge events on today's calendar. First, there is women's lacrosse at home tonight at 7 against Rutgers, four days after a 14-10 loss to Loyola Saturday in the season opener. 

That opener was similar to the men's the week before in that the Tigers started slowly and couldn't overcome a tough first half, even if the second half was much better. The men bounced back from that to defeat Maryland 13-12 this past Saturday in Game 2. 

Will the women have a similar rebound? It was an 11-2 Loyola lead at halftime and then an 8-3 Princeton run in the second half. Meg Morrisroe and Jami MacDonald had eight goals between them — on just 10 shots between them. MacDonald also had two assists. 

Rutgers comes to Sherrerd Field with a record of 3-1, with an opening loss to Army followed by wins over Delaware, Monmouth and Villanova. Rutgers has scored at least 12 goals in every game and averages 15.25 per.

The other event today is Day 1 of four of the Ivy League men's swimming and diving championships at DeNunzio Pool. If you're looking for schedules, results and any other possible information, you can find it HERE.

The Princeton men are ranked 20th in Division I heading into this weekend, with a 7-0 run through the Ivy dual meets. The Tigers won their first Ivy swimming and diving championship back in 1965 — one year after Jed Graef's Olympic gold medal in Tokyo in the 200 backstroke.

Most recently, the Tigers won it a year ago, giving them 32 of these titles. No other Ivy program has won more. 

Actually, that last sentence got TB to wondering in how many sports does Princeton have the most Ivy League championships. 

Well, the answer is: a lot of them. 

On the women's side, the Ivy League crowns a champion in 17 different sports. Of those, there are nine different ones where Princeton has the most: basketball, cross country, field hockey, golf, lacrosse, open rowing, swimming & diving, indoor track and field and volleyball. 

On the men's side, you have basketball, cross country, golf, swimming & diving, indoor track and field and outdoor track and field. 

Meanwhile, back at DeNunzio Pool, Princeton's Mitchell Schott was the High Point Scorer of the Meet last year after winning three individual races and being part of winning relay. Aidan Wang is looking for his third straight High Point Diver of the Meet.  

Princeton will still have the all-time Ivy title lead no matter who wins this week. The event runs through Saturday night.