Just like that, it's the first Princeton Athletics Game Week for 2026-27.
As TigerBlog has been reminding you, the women's soccer team will be home Thursday night at 7 against Loyola. And yes, that's a real game.
There will be nearly 700 events between the game Thursday and the NCAA track and field championships in June. What is in store for the 2026-27 Tigers?
In the meantime, TB hopes you enjoyed Friday's Princeton Athletics "Double Jeopardy" round. Coming soon will be "Final Jeopardy."
For today, here are the "Double Jeopardy" questions:
JOHN MACK
$400 - John Mack is the first Princeton Director of Athletics to have competed in this sport as an undergraduate.
What is track and field?
$800 - Before becoming Princeton's Ford Family Director of Athletics, John Mack worked in this profession.
What is law?
$1200 - He grew up in New Haven, the one in this state, not the one with all those Bulldogs.
What is Michigan?
$1600 - He shared the 2000 Roper Trophy with squash player Peter Yik and this Hall of Fame lacrosse player.
Who is Josh Sims?
$2000 - John Mack's first job after graduation was in Princeton's Department of Athletics. His second job was at this Big Ten school.
What is Northwestern?
PRO TIGERS
$400 - He has 141 career points in nine NHL seasons; for a hint, his name was recently engraved on the Stanley Cup.
Who is Eric Robinson?
$800 - He was the winning pitcher in Game 1 of the 2015 World Series, when he won the first of his two rings (the other came as a general manager).
Who is Chris Young?
$1200 - Winning seems to follow this Princeton women's basketball alum wherever she goes, including in this, her second year in the WNBA.
Who is Kaitlyn Chen?
$1600 - He is the only player ever to win the Most Valuable Player Award in both Major League Lacrosse and the Premier Lacrosse League.
Who is Tom Schreiber?
$2000 - He has two Super Bowl rings after helping build the Giants' teams that took down Tom Brady.
Who is Marc Ross?
OLYMPIC TIGERS
$400 - Princeton had two gold medalists at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics — swimmer Jed Graef and this other alum.
Who is Bill Bradley?
$800 - She was the first Princeton woman to win an Olympic medal, a bronze in rowing in 1976.
Who is Carol Brown?
$1200 - This fencer won an individual NCAA championship and Olympic gold medal.
Who is Maia Weintraub?
$1600 - This sport has produced more Princeton Olympic medalists than any other.
What is rowing?
$2000 - This member of the Class of 1897 won four medals (two gold, two silver) at the first modern Olympics.
Who is Robert Garrett Jr.?
ROPER TROPHY WINNERS
$400 - The 2005 Roper Trophy was shared between fencer Soren Thompson (who would become an Olympian) and this two-sport athlete who is currently the front-runner for a major Major League award.
Who is Will Venable?
$800 - Football quarterbacks Chad Kanoff (2018) and John Lovett (2019) were back-to-back Roper winners. This player was the most recent quarterback to win the award prior to that after he led the team to an Ivy League championship.
Who is Jeff Terrell?
$1200 - The 1988 Roper Trophy was shared by two-time Olympic medal-winning rower Doug Burden and this super football player.
Who is Dean Cain?
$1600 - This 1952 Roper Trophy winner did not win the Heisman Trophy; his classmate Dick Kazmaier did but didn't win the Roper.
Who is John Emery?
$2000 - This very first Roper winner back in 1936 was also part of the only father-son duo ever to win the award.
Who is Hugh A. MacMillan?
VON KIENBUSCH WINNERS
$400 - A two-sport athlete, she was the 1991 von Kienbusch winner; she came back to work at Princeton later on.
Who is Mollie Marcoux Samaan?
$800 - This sport has produced more winners of the award than any other, including the most recent winner.
What is field hockey?
$1200 - The long and the short of it: The 2008 von Kienbusch Award was shared by 6-1 women's basketball player Meagan Cowher and this 5-0 tall women's soccer player who went on to win two Olympic bronze medals.
Who is Diana Matheson?
$1600 - The first two von Kienbusch Award winners were also the first two women to compete in varsity athletics for Princeton. The first winner was Helena Novakova in 1972; she was the second winner a year later.
Who is Margie Gengler?
$2000 - The most recent Princeton woman athlete to letter in three sports and take the von Kiensbusch Award was this 1989 winner.
Who is Demer Holleran?
CHAMP STAMP
$400 - The men's lacrosse team won the 2026 national championship, giving it this many NCAA titles in program history.
What is seven?
$800 - The 2017 Princeton men's basketball team went 14-0 during the Ivy season and then won both games in the first Ivy tournament, and that team remains the only Ivy men's basketball team to go 16-0; he was the first Ivy League tournament Most Outstanding Player.
Who is Myles Stephens?
$1200 - Julia Ratcliffe, a future Olympian for New Zealand, was the 2014 NCAA champion in this track and field event.
What is the hammer throw?
$1600 - The women's open rowing team won the first varsity 8 NCAA championship in 2006 and again in 2011, with a combined four future Olympic medalists in those two boats, including this rower who won Olympic gold in 2008 and 2012.
Who is Caroline Lind?
$2000 - This Princeton alum is the only four-time men's intercollegiate squash national individual champion.
Who is Yasser El Halaby?
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