What's Left?

Guess what's a little more than four months away? 

That's right. Princeton football season. 

The 2026 schedule was released yesterday, and opening kickoff is Sept 19, in Rhode Island, against Bryant. The home opener is a week later against Albany. The other non-league game is at Wagner. 

If you've never been to a game at Wagner, there is an amazing view across the field to the nearby Verrazzano Bridge. 

TigerBlog is pretty sure he'll have more on Princeton Football as the season gets closer. Still, four months doesn't really seem like that long — though there is that little thing called "summer" between now and then. 

What's left of the 2025-26 athletic year at Princeton? While there might not be much left on the schedule, what there is will be very significant. 

As you probably know, Princeton won both Ivy League lacrosse tournaments this past weekend. If you were wondering, that's only happened once before, in 2014, when Penn won both. 

TB knows this because his colleague Chas Dorman, who used to work at Penn, said that he was the lone constant between those two sweeps. TB will give Chas his due on this one. 

Not that this should shock anyone, but TB will have more lacrosse as the week goes along. For now, there's just a reminder that about the the NCAA draw for both teams: the women are at Maryland against Rutgers Friday at 2, while the men (the No. 1 overall seed) will host the winner of Wednesday's play-in game between Marist and Stony Brook in the first round Sunday at 2:30. 

This week will bring the Ivy League softball tournament to Princeton, who went 19-2 during the regular season to set a record for most regular-season league wins. The event is scheduled now to begin Thursday at Cynthia Paul Field, and hopefully the weather cooperates.  

How did Princeton put together its record-setting season? Well, it helps that the Tigers lead the league in team batting, pitching and fielding.  

Princeton, the top seed, will play fourth-seeded Brown in the first game of the double-elimination tournament at noon, followed by second-seeded Harvard and third-seeded Columbia. There will be three games Friday and then one or two Saturday, with the league's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament for the winner. 

Princeton has won five straight Ivy League softball championships and hosted the league's postseason each of those five years. 

What else is left beyond lacrosse and softball? There is track and field, rowing and NCAA golf. 

There are five Ivy League championships still to be crowned in this calendar year, two in track and field and three in rowing. 

The Ivy League Heptagonal Championships will be held at Weaver Track and Field Stadium next weekend, as both the men and women look to wrap up another Triple Crown. Princeton has tuned up for Heps with the Penn Relays and Larry Ellis Invitational the last two weekends and will be off this weekend. 

TigerBlog's contribution to Heps will be an upcoming feature story on women's soccer player/steeplechaser Pia Beaulieu, which will be on the website at some point next week.

As for rowing, the women's lightweights won yet another Eastern Sprints title, taking both the first varsity 8 race and the overall points championship. Up next is a trip to California at the end of the month for the IRA national championships. 

The three Ivy titles on the table in rowing will also be next weekend, with the Eastern Sprints for the men and the Ivy League championships for the open women. The men's event will be on Lake Quigsingamond in Worcester, Mass.; the women will be on the Cooper River in South Jersey. 

Looking beyond, there will be the NCAA women's rowing championships, the NCAA track and field regionals and the IRAs for men as well, all at the end of the month. There will be the NCAA track and field finals in early June. 

And that'll be it. 

An athletic year at Princeton has somewhere around 700 events. When you get to this point, almost all of those are behind you.

As TB said, though, the ones that are left? They'll all be huge.