Princeton University Athletics
Women's Squash Welcomes Howe Cup Competitors To Jadwin
February 16, 2005 | Women's Squash
Feb. 16, 2005
PRINCETON - On 14 different occasions, the Princeton Tigers have traveled home from the Howe Cup championships with the top prize in collegiate women's squash, the national team title. A 15th championship might be the sweetest, though, since it would be the first to not involve a journey back to Princeton.
It would also be one of the sweetest because it would likely involve two significant upsets.
The 2005 Howe Cup championships, being held at the Jadwin Squash Courts for the first time in the event's history, will begin Friday, Feb. 18. Thirty of the top programs in the country will compete in a total of four brackets, with each concluding Sunday.
The A Division, which will crown the national champion Sunday at 1 p.m., will begin Friday with four quarterfinal matches. Defending national champion and current No. 1 Yale will open at 1:00 Friday against Williams College. At the same time, No. 3 Trinity and No. 6 Penn will compete in another quarterfinal.
Following those matches will be the second set of quarterfinals, which are currently slated to begin at 3:30 p.m. No. 2 Harvard will open with No. 7 Brown and No. 4 Princeton will face off against No. 5 Dartmouth. The Tigers defeated Dartmouth 7-2 earlier at Jadwin Gym, with five Tigers winning their matches 3-0. A complete recap of this match can be found here.
The winners of the four semifinal matches will compete at 2 p.m. on Saturday for spots in the national team final, which Yale won in 2004 against Trinity College. The losers will face off in the third-place match, also on Sunday; Princeton won a 5-4 thriller over Harvard in that match last year.
A complete breakdown of the national team tournament can be found here. Results can also be found at this location throughout the weekend.