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Princeton University Athletics
Princeton University
Brown
October 10, 2009 | Women's Soccer
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- For the second straight match, junior Lauren Whatley had the only goal in a 1-0 Princeton win. This one, however, came with three points in the Ivy standings as the Tigers defeated Brown Saturday in Providence, R.I.
The victory was also the 200th career win for Princeton head coach Julie Shackford as a collegiate mentor. She has won 158 games in 14-plus seasons at Princeton after 42 at Carnegie Mellon from 1991-95. She is the sixth current coach at Princeton to have 200 wins, across all sports, joining Chris Sailer (women's lacrosse), Rob Orr (men's swimming and diving), Luis Nicolao (water polo), Scott Bradley (baseball) and Bob Callahan (men's squash). Among current Division I women's soccer coaches, Shackford is the 33rd with 200 wins as an NCAA coach and just the second current Ivy coach to do so. Coincidentally, Shackford recorded No. 200 against the only other coach to reach that number, Phil Pincince of Brown.
"It's a good moment, but it belongs to all the players who made those wins possible," Shackford said. "It also belongs to my coaching staff with people like Ron Celestin, who has been here with me for all 15 years. Of course, I couldn't have done it without those who gave me the opportunity, both to coach here at Princeton as well as all of the good fortune I've had along the way."
The second straight shutout for the Orange and Black lifted Princeton to within a game of .500, both overall at 5-6-1 and in the Ivy League at 1-2. Yale, Dartmouth, Harvard and Columbia are all tied for first with six points, while Penn, Brown and now Princeton have three. With the loss, Brown fell to 3-6 overall and 1-2 in the Ivy.
Five days after Whatley scored with less than a minute to go in the first half to beat American at Roberts Stadium, her OT winner over Brown came just more than two minutes into the extra period off a pass from sophomore Sara Chehrehsa. Whatley joined Jen Hoy as the only two Tigers with multiple goals in a season that has seen Princeton spread the offense around.
Brown outshot Princeton 11-9 overall, making it only the second time this season, however in each of the last two Ivy games, that an opponent has outshot the Tigers. The previous instance, at Dartmouth, saw a double-overtime loser for the Tigers.
Princeton goalkeeper Alyssa Pont made three saves to earn her fourth shutout of the season, all in the last six matches.
The Tigers will have a midweek trip to Lehigh Wednesday before returning home to face Columbia next Saturday.
