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Princeton University Athletics
Women's Lacrosse Ranked No. 1 In Preseason Poll
February 13, 2003 | Women's Lacrosse
Feb. 13, 2003
Princeton, N.J. - The Princeton University women's lacrosse team is ranked No.1 in the 2003 IWLCA preseason poll. The Tigers sit atop the national rankings with the nation's longest current winning streak, which culminated in a national title last spring.
The Tigers earned four first-place votes in a very close poll that had No. 2 Duke also receiving four first-place votes. Princeton, however, has 189 total points while Duke has 187. Virginia is ranked third with 184 points and the final two first-place votes. Georgetown, the team Princeton defeated in last season's national championship game, is ranked No. 4.
Princeton is one of four Ivy League teams included in the poll. Cornell, a Final Four team a year ago, is ranked ninth, Dartmouth is No. 12 and Yale is ranked at No. 13. The Tigers play nine teams ranked in the Top 20 this season, including match-ups at No. 2 Duke and No. 3 Virginia in a three-day span (March 16 at Virginia, March 19 at Duke) this March.
Last season, Princeton finished the year ranked No. 1 in the IWLCA poll. The Tigers held the top spot for five straight weeks, longer than anyone else in the nation. Princeton won 19 straight games en route to its second-ever national title and enters this season looking to extend its' program-record winning streak to 20 games when the season commences on March 5 versus Lafayette.
Princeton has now held the top spot in four of the last 10 seasons and during parts of the 1989, 1992, 1994, 1995, 2002 and now 2003 seasons. The Tigers have been ranked in the nation's Top-10 in each of the last 15 seasons.
Division I Women's Lacrosse IWLCA Poll ( ) - first-place votes1 Princeton 189 (4) 2 Duke 187 (4) 3 Virginia 184 (2) 4 Georgetown 173 5 Loyola 146 6 Maryland 136 7 Notre Dame 135 8 Vanderbilt 124 9 Cornell 121 10 UNC 114 11 Ohio State 109 12 Dartmouth 82 13 Yale 71 14 Syracuse 69 15 JMU 66 16 Penn State 65 17 Old Dominion 44 18 Johns Hopkins 33 19 Richmond 20 20 George Mason 11