Amie Knox was an 11-letter winner between field hockey, squash and tennis who graduated in 1977. Martha Russo was a field hockey/lacrosse player who graduated in 1985.
Was she just any field hockey/lacrosse player? Uh, no. Russo is widely considered to be as fine an athlete as there was in the first 20 or so years of women's athletics at Princeton. She was a speed demon — at least until she suffered two devastating knee injuries.
Instead of competing in the 1984 Olympics with the U.S. field hockey team, Russo's athletic career was over.
The two athletic legends will be at the Art Museum today at 2 for a screening of the documentary "Time And Other Materials." Russo turned to art after her injuries and today is a highly regarded sculptor. Knox went into a career in television and film production.
The documentary, according to the website:
"is a captivating look at what it means to live a life devoted to
creativity. Through a series of intimate studio sessions, the
documentary film explores the inner worlds and artistic processes of
five women artists working in animation, ceramics, installation,
large-scale sculpture, and more. Following the screening, Martha Russo ’85, a former student of the artist Toshiko Takaezu
and one of the artists featured in the film, will join director Amie
Knox ’77 in a discussion moderated by Lecturer in Visual Arts Dani
Levine."
For more information, click HERE.
You can read more about the two in TigerBlog's book on the first 50 years of women's athletics at Princeton, which you can get HERE.
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The women's lacrosse team is home tomorrow, which itself is news. The Tigers have played seven games to date, only one of which has been on Sherrerd Field.
The opponent tomorrow will be Yale, who is ranked No. 9 in the current Kane Inside Lacrosse media poll, the same poll that has Princeton at No. 19. If you go by RPI, the teams are much closer, with Princeton at No. 14 and Yale at No. 15.
Princeton averages 14.29 goals per game, which is about three times as many as Yale, who leads Division I in scoring defense at 5.39, allows. Yale is 2-0 in the league with wins over Columbia and Brown, while Princeton is 1-0, with a win over Harvard. Penn is the only other unbeaten in the league at Dartmouth.
The opening draw tomorrow is at noon.
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You can see a lot of Princeton-Brown tomorrow in Providence if you happen to be there.
The men's lacrosse team will be there tomorrow at noon to take on the Bears. About 100 yards away, the Princeton baseball team will be playing a doubleheader, with first pitch tomorrow at 11:30. There will also be a third game (baseball, not lacrosse) Sunday at noon.
The men's lacrosse team will look to rebound from its 13-11 loss to Cornell a week ago, which ended a five-game winning streak and evened the Tigers' Ivy record at 1-1. Princeton has won 11 straight Ivy games against teams other than Cornell but is 0-3 against the Big Red in that same stretch.
The last Princeton loss to an Ivy team other than Cornell? That would have been the last trip to Brown, where the Bears won 13-12 after jumping out to a 6-0 lead back in 2024.
The baseball team won its first two league games last weekend against Cornell before falling in Game 3. Penn is the only team that swept its opening baseball weekend and so is the lone 3-0 team, while Princeton, Brown and Columbia all went 2-1.
The top four teams in the league in both sports will reach the Ivy League tournament in May.
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Did you see the Grant Hill-Rick Pitino piece on the 1992 Duke-Kentucky game, which is widely considered to be the greatest college basketball game ever?
TigerBlog covered that game back in his newspaper days and was seated directly behind the Kentucky bench, about five feet away from Pitino. During the final timeout, TB's only memory of the then-Kentucky coach is that he held his hands up and said "no fouls; don't foul" over and over.
So what did Pitino say when Hill asked him about it? Exactly what TB remembered that he said.
Vindication is always fun.
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As more than one person pointed out to TB yesterday, Carla Berube did promise to do a karaoke duet with him. Now that she's heading to Northwestern, TB resolves to hold her to that some day.
Meanwhile, again, HERE is the complete weekend schedule.
And if you can, get over to the art museum today.
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