Princeton Men's Lacrosse To Help Open New Meadowlands Stadium

"The first event in the new stadium in the Meadowlands will feature the Princeton men’s lacrosse team. Well, maybe the third event. Either way, it’ll be a big day.

The opening game of the 2010 Princeton men’s lacrosse season, like every game from the 22 seasons before it, will feature a head coach named Tierney. The second game will not.

Chris Bates will open his first season as Princeton head coach on Feb. 27 at home against Hofstra and head coach Seth Tierney, whose uncle Bill Tierney left Princeton for Denver at the end of last season after spending 22 years with the Tigers"

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Princeton To Host English Men's Lacrosse Team, Play At Delaware

M. Lacrosse - NEWS - GoPrincetonTigers.com—The Official Web Site of Princeton University Athletics: "Princeton To Host English Men's Lacrosse Team, Play At Delaware

10/13/09 - Princeton will play two fall events in three days, beginning Thursday night when it hosts the English national team at Class of 1952 Stadium in at 7 pm in a matchup that will be free and open to the public. Princeton will also play at Delaware Saturday, facing the host team at noon and then Loyola at 2:15 on a day that will also include Bucknell-Loyola at noon and Bucknell-Navy at 2:15"

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David Metzbower To Leave Princeton Men's Lacrosse Program

Courtesy: Princeton Athletic Communications

David Metzbower has turned down an offer to become the head men’s lacrosse coach at Princeton and will be leaving the University.

Metzbower has been the top assistant at Princeton for the last 20 years under Bill Tierney and has spent the last seven with the title of Associate Head Coach. Tierney left Princeton earlier this month to become the head coach at Denver.

“The reason I’m leaving is because of the fact that I’m always on the road and have very little time to spend with my family,” Metzbower says. “I feel like I’m at an important juncture of my life. When Bill decided to leave, it shocked me so much, it made me take stock in my life and take a look at what I was or wasn’t able to do for my family. I don’t know my kids’ teachers. I don’t know what they do. I’ve been to about three of their sporting events. I hear other people talk about time they spend with their family, and I get jealous. I feel like I was putting Princeton lacrosse in front of my family.”

Metzbower helped Princeton to a 230-63 record, as well as six NCAA championships and 14 Ivy League championships.

“I want to thank all of the alumni and past and present players,” Metzbower says. “That’s been the hardest part for me, to walk away from Princeton after all the great support I’ve gotten the last few days.”

Princeton was 13-3 and reached the NCAA quarterfinals this past year. The Tigers return six starters, including three All-Americas, though eight seniors who all contributed in huge roles have graduated.

The search for Tierney’s successor will resume immediately.

“Sometimes when you are faced with a tough decision, it focuses your mind,” says Princeton Director of Athletics Gary Walters. “Metz was given the opportunity to succeed Bill and made the decision not to do so for personal and family reasons, and we respect him for that. We’re dedicated to finding the coach who will continue the tradition of Princeton lacrosse that Bill Tierney and David Metzbower did such a great job of sustaining.”

Bill Tierney Leaves Princeton To Become Head Men's Lacrosse Coach At Denver

Courtesy: Princeton Athletic Communications

Bill Tierney, who came to Central Jersey more than two decades ago and built a forgotten program into a six-time NCAA champion and 14-time Ivy League champion, is leaving Princeton University to become the head men’s lacrosse coach at the University of Denver.

“I don’t leave Princeton unfulfilled, unhappy, or disappointed in any way,” Tierney says. “I leave Princeton for an opportunity that I never thought would come my way. I give my deepest thanks to Princeton, to [University President] Shirley Tilghman and to [Director of Athletics] Gary Walters. I thank all of the wonderful players I’ve had here. I thank all of the great men who’ve coached with me, especially David Metzbower and Bryce Chase. I have all the confidence in the world that Princeton will choose the right leadership to follow in my path.”

Tierney went 238-86 as Tiger head coach, including 13-3 in 2009, the last of his 22 seasons at Princeton. Including his three seasons as RIT, Tierney is 272-93 as a college head coach.

His resume also includes leading the United States team to the 1998 World Championship. He is a member of the U.S. Lacrosse Hall of Fame.

In addition to six NCAA championships, Tierney took Princeton to eight NCAA finals, 10 NCAA Final Fours and 16 quarterfinal appearances, including one in 2009. Princeton had never reached the NCAA tournament prior to his arrival.

While at Denver, Tierney will coach with his son Trevor, an All-America goalie at Princeton who played on the 1998 and 2001 NCAA championships teams, who will be an assistant coach with the Pioneers. Tierney and his wife Helen will also be closer to his youngest daughter Brianne, who is an assistant coach under former Princeton great Theresa Sherry with California’s women’s lacrosse program, and youngest son Brendan, who lives and works in Seattle. His other daughter Courtney will continue to coach at the Pennington School near Princeton.

“The University and the athletic department obviously have bittersweet feelings about Bill's decision to take the head coaching position at Denver,” Walters says. “We understand his interest in being closer to members of his family and working with his son Trevor, while simultaneously taking on the challenge of spreading the lacrosse Gospel to the Western states. We also recognize the extraordinary contributions he has made to Princeton University and the education of our student-athletes for 22 years.”

Tierney inherited a team that won five Ivy League games in the four years prior to his arrival combined. Princeton had not won an Ivy League championship in the 20 years prior to his arrival, in the summer of 1987.

He told his first class of Princeton recruits that they would win a national championship together and then went out and made that happen with a 10-9 double overtime win over Syracuse on Memorial Day 1992.

Princeton followed with NCAA titles in 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998 and 2001. In all, Tierney went 30-12 in NCAA tournament games, making him and Roy Simmons Jr. of Syracuse (with 34) the only coaches with at least 30 Division I NCAA tournament wins. Of Tierney’s six NCAA championships, four were won in overtime.

“Bill has been a great leader of the Princeton lacrosse program and a great ambassador for the athletic department and the game of lacrosse itself,” Walters says. “At the same time, Princeton remains committed to the high quality of its men's lacrosse program, and as such we will now conduct a national search in as timely a manner as possible.”

Tierney inherits a Denver team one year removed from the NCAA tournament. The Pioneers went 7-8 in 2009, their final in the Great Western Lacrosse League as they move to, ironically, the ECAC for 2010.

“The expansion of the game to the West is exciting,” Tierney says. “If we are truly going to make lacrosse a nationwide sport, we need for some programs out there to become great. I think I can help Colorado lacrosse become the launching pad for that movement. Denver University has had a short, ten-year Division I existence.

“I am proud of what we were able to do together at Princeton. This has not been an easy decision for me. I am confident that Princeton lacrosse is in a great position moving forward, and that is extremely important to me.”

Sgalardi Honored By Ivy League; Tigers Still Fifth In Both Polls

Monday Men's Lacrosse: Sgalardi Honored By Ivy League; Tigers Still Fifth In Both Polls; Big City Classic Ahead


Rich Sgalardi added a career week to his career year, and the world outside of Princeton men's lacrosse has started to notice.

Sgalardi had five goals and four assists as Princeton defeated Rutgers and Yale to earn Ivy League Player of the Week honors. Sgalardi is the second Tiger to be honored this year, after Paul Barnes won the first week in March.

Sgalardi began his week with a career-high four points in a 13-6 win over Rutgers. He then bettered that with a five-point afternoon as Princeton opened its Ivy League season with an 11-7 win over Yale"

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Princeton Upends Johns Hopkins 14-8

BALTIMORE -- Bill Tierney began to talk about how hard it can be to play with a big lead. Then he paused and chuckled.

“The only thing harder,” said Princeton’s Hall-of-Fame men’s lacrosse coach, “is to play with a huge deficit.”

Tierney saw both ends of the equation in his last two appearances in the Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic games against Johns Hopkins, and he liked the 2009 version much better.

Jack McBride scored four goals and Tyler Fiorito made 11 saves to lead Princeton to a 14-8 win over Johns Hopkins in the third annual Face-Off Classic at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore. The game was almost a mirror image of the meeting between the teams in the same stadium 52 weeks earlier.

Princeton (ranked ninth in the coaches’ poll and 11th in the media poll) improved to 2-0 on the young season by sprinting past the Blue Jays (ranked sixth and third), who played in the NCAA championship game a year ago and returned almost its entire highly rated defensive unit.

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Box Score

Princeton vs. Canisius

The site Class of 1952 Stadium • Princeton, N.J.

The date Saturday, Feb. 21, 2009 • 1 p.m.

Radio WPRB FM 103.3; www.goprincetontigers.com

The rankings Princeton: No. 12 (USILA)/No. 13 (Inside Lacrosse); Canisius: unranked

The records Princeton: 0-0; Canisius: 0-1

The coaches Princeton: Bill Tierney (25th season overall, 259-90); Canisius: Randy Mearns (11th season overall, 58-78)

The series Princeton leads 2-0

Last meeting Princeton defeated Canisius 13-6 • Feb. 23, 2008

Princeton Men's Lacrosse 2009 - Season Preview

Excerpts Courtesy: Princeton Athletic Communications
Photo Courtesy BKS

The 2009 season will see Princeton shake up its schedule a bit, as for the first time since 1991, there will be no regular-season game against Virginia. Instead, the third weekend of the season will see Princeton travel to UMBC on Friday night and then host Manhattan Sunday afternoon.

The rest of the schedule is basically the same as a year ago, with most of the sites reversed. Canisius will again come to Princeton, though on Feb. 21, for the earliest lacrosse game in school history. Princeton will participate in the Konica Minolta Face-Off against Johns Hopkins for the third straight year, though Duke-Maryland replaces Syracuse-Virginia as the other game at M&T Bank Stadium.

Princeton actually plays two games at an NFL venue this year, both of which are ESPNU telecasts. In addition to the Hopkins game, Princeton will play Syracuse at Giants Stadium in the Inside Lacrosse Big City Classic, a tripleheader that starts with North Carolina-Virginia and ends with Hofstra-Delaware. Albany comes to Princeton to complete a home-and-home in a game that will also be on ESPNU.

Full story here.

Five storylines to watch this season

1. Can Syracuse repeat?

It's a question that has been "repeated" since 1998 when Princeton capped a run of three consecutive national championships. But if there's a team poised to join those Tigers, it's this year's Orange, which returns six starters and adds a pair of transfers in senior midfielder Scott Kahoe ( Georgetown) and sophomore defenseman John Lade (Villanova) - both of whom are expected to start. If junior attackman Cody Jamieson (122 goals, 237points in two seasons at Onondaga Community College), a transfer, can clear eligibility, watch out. The key could be finding a replacement for faceoff specialist Danny Brennan, who led the nation with a .667 percentage.

2. Maybe this is the year …

… that a school other than the bluebloods - Syracuse, Johns Hopkins, Princeton or Virginia - captures the national title. One of those four programs has taken home the crown each year since 1992. The last team outside those four to win the national championship? North Carolina in 1991. Those Tar Heels, Maryland, Cornell, UMBC and Duke are deserving of mention.

3. Princeton on the rise

For the first time since 2005, the Tigers failed to collect an NCAA tournament invitation, but a repeat is unlikely. Why? Princeton has not spent May at home in back-to-back seasons under coach Bill Tierney since 1988-1989. Graduation took a toll on the defense, but the offense might be even stronger than last year's.

4. Is there a surprise team on the horizon?

Hofstra returns four starters who scored no fewer than 22goals each. Georgetown is still fuming over being left out of the tournament, and Bucknell and Colgate renew a budding rivalry with Navy. Brown might have a say in determining whether Cornell or Princeton takes home the Ivy League title.

5. Go west

All four teams that make up the Atlantic Coast Conference earned a seed, but the Great Western Lacrosse League didn't fare too poorly, sending Notre Dame, Ohio State and Denver to the NCAA tournament. Notre Dame and Ohio State advanced to the quarterfinals, with the Irish on the cusp of upsetting eventual champion Syracuse. Sending those three teams again could be tough, but not impossible.


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Baltimore Sun Division I Pre-season Top 20

The Baltimore Sun Division I Top 20
February 6, 2009

(2008 record in parentheses)

1. Virginia (14-4)

2. Syracuse (16-2)

3. Maryland (10-6)

4. North Carolina (8-6)

5. J. Hopkins (11-6)

6. UMBC (12-4)

7. Cornell (11-4)

8. Duke (18-2)

9. Denver (10-7)

10. Navy (10-6)

11 Hofstra (10-6)

12. Brown (11-3)

13. Colgate (11-6)

14. N. Dame (14-3)

15. Ohio State (11-6)

16. Loyola (7-7)

17. Georgetown (9-4)

18. Princeton (7-6)

19. Bucknell (10-5)

20. Towson (5-9)

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ESPN's 2009 Lacrosse Schedule

2009 ESPNU COLLEGE LACROSSE REGULAR-SEASON SCHEDULE

Date Time (ET) Game

Fri., Feb. 20	6 p.m.	Siena at Johns Hopkins
Sat., Feb. 21	1p.m.	Georgetown at Maryland
Sun., Feb. 22	6:30 p.m.	*^Towson at Loyola (Md.)
Wed., Feb. 25	4 p.m.	Georgetown at Johns Hopkins (women)
Sat. Feb. 28	12 p.m.	Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic: Princeton at Johns Hopkins
Sat. Feb. 28	2:30 p.m.	Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic: Duke at Maryland
Sat., Feb. 28	5 p.m.	Cornell at Army
Fri., Mar. 6	12 a.m.	*^Princeton at UMBC
Sat., Mar. 7	12 p.m.	Hofstra at Johns Hopkins
Sat. Mar. 7	2 p.m.	*Maryland at Towson
Sat. Mar. 14	12 p.m.	*UMBC at Maryland
Sat., Mar. 14	2 p.m.	Duke at North Carolina
Fri., Mar. 20	3 p.m.	Albany at Princeton
Sat., Mar. 21	2 p.m.	North Carolina at Maryland
Sat., Mar. 21	8 p.m.	*Virginia at Johns Hopkins
Tues., Mar. 24	7 p.m.	Hofstra at Army
Sat., Mar. 28	12 p.m.	Maryland at Virginia (on ESPN2/ESPN2 HD)
Sat., Mar. 28	12 p.m.	*Syracuse at Loyola (MD)
Sat., Mar. 28	2 p.m.	Johns Hopkins at North Carolina
Sat. Apr. 4	12 p.m.	Big City Classic: North Carolina at Virginia
Sat., Apr. 4	2:30 p.m.	Big City Classic: Syracuse at Princeton
Sat. Apr. 4	9 p.m.	*^Albany at Johns Hopkins
Sat., Apr. 11	11:30 a.m.	Day of Rivals: Army at Navy
Sat., Apr. 11	2 p.m.	Day of Rivals: Johns Hopkins at Maryland
Sat., Apr. 11	4 p.m.	Virginia at Duke (on ESPN2/ ESPN2 HD)
Sat. Apr. 11	10 p.m.	*^Hofstra at Towson
Fri., Apr. 17	7 p.m.	Northwestern at Johns Hopkins (women)
Sat., Apr. 18	2 p.m.	*Navy at Johns Hopkins
Sat., Apr. 25	1 p.m.	*Vermont at UMBC
Sat., May 2	1 p.m.	*Loyola (Md.) at Johns Hopkins

*Will co-exist on WMAR-TV (ABC affiliate in Baltimore)

^Tape delay

2009 NCAA DIVISION I MEN’S LACROSSE CHAMPIONSHIP COVERAGE ON ESPN, ESPN2 AND ESPNU

Date Network Time (ET) Game

Sat., May 9	ESPNU/ESPN2	12 p.m.	NCAA First Round – Game 1 (TBD)
	ESPNU	2:30 p.m.	NCAA First Round – Game 2 (TBD)
	ESPNU	5 p.m.	NCAA First Round – Game 3 (TBD)
	ESPNU	7:30 p.m.	NCAA First Round – Game 4 (TBD)
Sun., May 10	ESPNU	12 p.m.	NCAA First Round – Game 5 (TBD)
	ESPNU	2:30 p.m.	NCAA First Round – Game 6 (TBD)
	ESPNU	5 p.m.	NCAA First Round – Game 7 (TBD)
	ESPNU	7:30 p.m.	NCAA First Round – Game 8 (TBD)
Sat., May 16	ESPNU	12 p.m.	Quarterfinal # 1 – Annapolis, Md.
	ESPNU	2:30 p.m.	Quarterfinal #2 – Annapolis, Md.
Sun., May 17	ESPNU	12 p.m.	Quarterfinal #3 – Ithaca, N.Y.
	ESPNU	2:30 p.m.	Quarterfinal #4 – Ithaca, N.Y.
Sat., May 23	ESPN2	12 p.m.	Semifinal #1 – Gillette Stadium (Foxboro, Mass.)
	ESPN2	2:30 p.m.	Semifinal #2 – Gillette Stadium
Mon., May 25	ESPN	1 p.m.	NCAA National Championship – Gillette Stadium

Dartmouth 11, Princeton 9

Source: Princeton Athletic Communications

The Dartmouth men's lacrosse team celebrated as if it had won a championship. The Princeton men's lacrosse team still might. Princeton's 11-9 loss to Dartmouth Saturday afternoon at Scully-Fahey Field carried with it a huge consolation prize for the Tigers: The Ivy League's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament is still Princeton's to lose. With one week to go in the regular season, it's a pretty good prize to still have.

Princeton never led in the loss to the Big Green, and Philip Killian's goal with 10:31 remaining snapped a tie game and thwarted a big comeback attempt as the Big Green defeated the Tigers for the first time since 2003 and the eighth time in 56th all-time meetings.

Cornell, meanwhile, defeated Brown 11-7 in Ithaca, giving the Big Red a share of the Ivy League championship with the winner of next week's game between Princeton and Brown in Providence. A win by Brown would give Cornell the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament; a win by Princeton would give the Tigers the automatic bid. Brown cannot win the automatic bid to the tournament.

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Ivy League Crown on the Line as Tigers travel to Dartmouth

Courtesy: Princeton Athletic Communications

The Ivy League men's lacrosse race comes down to this: Princeton, Brown can win the championship outright, any combination of those two plus Cornell can finish as co-champions or all three can finish as tri-champions. And all of this will be resolved by the results of three games.

The first two are this Saturday, when Princeton is at Dartmouth (1, WPRB FM 103.3) and Brown is at Cornell. The third game is next Saturday, when Princeton is at Brown.

Princeton's win over Cornell last weekend left the Tigers and Brown at 4-0 in the league, with Cornell at 4-1. The other four teams have been mathematically eliminated.

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Tigers Tame the Big Red, 11-7

Courtesy: Princeton Athletic Communications

Bill Tierney said he couldn't remember a bigger regular season win for his Princeton men's lacrosse team. With apologies to all of the great wins Tierney's teams have had through his Hall-of-Fame career at Princeton, there haven't been too many that came at a better time.

Princeton fell behind early before taking complete control and rolling to an 11-7 win over No. 3 Cornell in front of 4,053 at Powers Field at Princeton Stadium. The win left Princeton and Brown tied for first place in the Ivy League at 4-0 and ended a four-year losing streak for Princeton against the Big Red.

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Princeton Hosts Cornell 4/19/08 4pm

Source: Princeton Athletic Communications

The site: Powers Field at Princeton Stadium • Princeton, N.J.
The date: Saturday, April 19, 2008 • 4 p.m.
TV: ESPNU
Radio: WPRB FM 103.3; www.goprincetontigers.com
The rankings: Princeton: No. 17 (USILA)/No. 19 (Inside Lacrosse)
Cornell: No. 3 (USILA)/No. 4 (Inside Lacrosse)
The records: Princeton: 6-4 (3-0 Ivy League)
Cornell: 9-2 (4-0 Ivy League)
The coaches: Princeton: Bill Tierney (24th season overall, 258-88)
Cornell: Jeff Tambroni (eighth season overall, 83-28)
The series: Princeton leads 35-30-2
Last meeting: Cornell defeated Princeton 10-6 • April 21, 2007

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McBride Named Ivy Rookie of the Week

...As for McBride, his goal late in the third was his eighth of the week, including six against Penn in a 14-5 win Tuesday night. McBride, who scored his six goals on six shots against the Quakers, broke the school record for goals in a game by a freshman, set by Sean Hartofilis when he scored five against Virginia in the 2000 NCAA semifinals....

Full press release here.

Princeton Wins Overtime Thriller at Harvard, 9-8

Courtesy: Princeton Athletics Communications

Bob Schneider was four years old the last time Harvard defeated Princeton in men's lacrosse. Now 22, Schneider made sure that Princeton's streak against the Crimson didn't end on his watch.

Schneider, a senior captain, scored a career-high four goals, including the game-winner 1:53 into overtime, to lead Princeton to a thrilling 9-8, come-from-behind win over Harvard in front of 1,601 at Harvard Stadium. Schneider's third goal, with 1:20 remaining in regulation, had forced overtime.

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McBride's Six Powers the Tigers Past Penn

courtesy of Princeton Athletic Communications 4/8/08

Dan Cocoziello held Penn's Craig Andrzejewski scoreless, ending the Quakers' leading scorer's streak of 25 straight games with at least one point. Alex Hewit was his All-America self, making 14 saves, several of which were spectacular one-on-one stops. They both picked the wrong night to shine.

Princeton's 14-5 win over Penn Tuesday night had only one star, and it was Tiger attackman Jack McBride, who set a Princeton freshman record with six goals in the win. McBride's six goals came on just six shots.

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Princeton Hosts Penn Tonight (4/8) at 8pm

The Princeton men's lacrosse team is now at the top of the stretch, ready for an all-out sprint. In the case of the Tigers, they'll be traveling a bunch of furlongs before reaching the finish line, which will come up in no time.

Princeton enters its season-ending run of five Ivy League games in 25 days Tuesday night, when it hosts Penn at the Class of 1952 Stadium (8 p.m., WPRB FM 103.3, CBS College Sports). The Tigers will then travel to Harvard Saturday before hosting Cornell and then heading to Dartmouth and Brown.

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Princeton Beats Yale 11-8

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Up next: Princeton travels to Syracuse to take on the Orangemen next Saturday at 3:30pm.