The 53rd Tiger

If you took all 52 members of the NCAA champion Princeton men's lacrosse team, lined them up on the sideline and asked someone who doesn't know anything about any of them to choose the 10 most athletic looking, it's quite possible that some would choose the 53rd.

Ben Heske is not a Princeton men's lacrosse player. He just looks like one. He could pass for a midfielder in a heartbeat. 

Of course, he's not even a Princeton student. He's a Drexel student. As such, he scored no goals, picked up no groundballs, caused no turnovers. He did, though, definitely do his part in the team's success. 

Whatever they're teaching him at Drexel, they're doing a really good job. Heske has been the lead videographer for the Tigers this season, and the content he's produced has been superior. 

Game after game, week after week. There was Ben, camera at the ready, capturing his video and then turning it into social media pieces that have all been highly professional, engaging and inspiring.  

And all of those were just the tuneup for what he produced this week. 

You don't have to take TigerBlog's word for it. Here's what Dan Aburn of Inside Lacrosse had to say about Heske's latest project:

This might be the closest thing college lacrosse has ever gotten to an NFL Films level production. 📽️

Ben Heske, Angelo Scolari, and the Princeton media team have risen the bar on what lacrosse media can be: pic.twitter.com/WtwrH4bMOh

— Dan Aburn (@dan_aburn_) June 3, 2026

The video is more than 13 minutes long. It is 100 percent worth your time. 

It was only posted two days ago and already went past 10,000 views. Of course, it's possible that 1,000 of those have been TigerBlog. Well, maybe not 1,000, but still, he's watched it a bunch of times and can't help but smile each time. 

It's not just the goals. It's the way you can see how the coaches speak, the way the players are in the locker room, the way the crowd was so into it all weekend in Charlottesville.  

Aburn, by the way, is not the only one who has talked about how great this production is. You can go to pretty much any lacrosse Instagram feed and see. 

TB wanted to make sure to call your attention to the video if you haven't seen it. He figured the first Friday in June was a good time. 

This is the second weekend since mid-August of last year where there are no Princeton athletic events. Not to worry of course. The 2025-26 athletic year still has one more weekend to go, next weekend, when nearly 20 men's and women's track and field athletes will compete in the NCAA Championships in Eugene, Ore. 

The only other weekend off was Dec. 13-14, during first semester exams. Other than that, there's been something to see every weekend. 

Right now, plans are in the works to release schedules for the coming fall, or to roll rosters over for 2026-27. The incoming freshmen will be members of the Class of 2030. 

Twenty-thirty? Does that sound as wild to you as it does to TigerBlog? It doesn't really seem all that long ago when saying "twenty-twenty-twenty-one" was tongue-tying. 

TigerBlog was in Florida back on the weekend on Dec. 13-14. When he went back to see what he wrote, he came up with this: 

You know the two things that bother TB about renting a car? First, the first few times he goes back to a parking lot, he's looking for his car, not the one he rented. Second, every car he rents is nicer than his. In this case, that would be a KIA Soul. You know your own car is fairly beaten up and old when you're envious of a KIA Soul. 

He still has the same car. It's actually 10 years old but still going strong. And yet, when he sees a Kia Soul, well, you know. 

Anyway, on that note, enjoy your June weekend. 

And make sure you watch the video.