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Princeton University Athletics
Women's Volleyball Hopes For Historic Homestand
October 29, 2004 | Women's Volleyball
Oct. 29, 2004
PRINCETON - If you know Princeton women's volleyball coach Glenn Nelson, you know his interest in this weekend has nothing to do with personal milestones. That being said, if you do know him, you can't help but root for him this weekend.
The Princeton women's volleyball team (14-5, 5-2 Ivy) enters this weekend in third place in the Ivy League. With frontrunners Harvard and Cornell battling tonight, the Tigers could enter tomorrow in a virtual tie with those two teams entering the stretch run of the race.
The Tigers will face Yale (9-8, 3-4) and Brown (7-11, 4-3) this weekend, beginning with a matchup against the Bulldogs Friday night at 7 p.m. Princeton defeated Yale 3-2 on the road this season. That match followed a 3-1 loss at Brown, a defeat Princeton will look to avenge on Saturday at 4 p.m.
If Princeton sweeps, the Tigers will remain in control of their destiny in the Ivy League race. Princeton still has a home match against Cornell and an away match at Harvard; those two matches will go a long way in determining which team represents the Ivy League in the NCAA tournament this season.
But that's looking down the road. This weekend holds great significance to Nelson, who is looking to become the third head coach ever at Princeton to win 500 games. Only former softball coach Cindy Cohen (564) and former men's basketball coach Pete Carril (514) have more wins at the University, where Nelson started at the women's volleyball coach in 1982. Nelson is the only coach in NCAA history to take both a men's and women's volleyball team to the NCAA tournament in the same academic year (1997-98).
Nelson brings a career record of 498-208 into the weekend.