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Underdog Princeton Heads To Providence, Ready To Challenge For 2017 Ivy League Title
February 14, 2017 | Women's Swimming and Diving
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Check back later this week for a video preview (Wednesday) and a TigerCast interview with Lindsay Temple (Thursday).
The Princeton women's swimming and diving team will board a bus to Providence, R.I., Tuesday afternoon knowing two things:
- They will be underdogs against arguably the deepest, strongest field in Ivy League history.
- They are more than ready to handle the mental grind of a championship weekend that will last longer than ever before.
Princeton (5-4, 4-3 Ivy) won't shy away from the underdog role when it makes its way to the Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center, site of the 2017 Ivy League Women's Championships. The Tigers have been here multiple times before — sometimes their best just hasn't been enough, and other times they've shocked the league en route to one of their league-best 22 Ivy titles.
This particular task will be a daunting one, especially considering three of the top contenders for the Ivy League crown. The group is led by Yale, which ran through the Ivy League in impressive fashion, including its home sweep of the H-Y-P weekend less than two weeks ago. The Bulldogs will again have to deal with the expectations that go with such a dominant regular season; last year, they were unable to follow through and win the Ivy League title.
Harvard was the team that came out of the final weekend with the championship, and it used a dominant diving performance to lead the way to the 2016 crown. The Crimson return a number of those divers this season, and they will certainly look to make an early impact during the 1-meter event Thursday.
You also can't forget about the hosts, which will try to follow their impressive December win in the Brown Open with another strong performance inside its home pool. Brown won its last two meets heading into Ivies, including a four-point thriller over Columbia.
So where does that leave Princeton?
Susan Teeter, entering her final championship weekend to cap a brilliant 33-year career, can't wait to find out. She'll bring a nice mix of veterans into the conference meet, including junior Lindsay Temple (the reigning 200 back Ivy League champion) and tri-captain Maddy Veith (a multiple-time All-Ivy honoree).
But she also has a talented freshman class that has a chance to make a major impact on the weekend. Shaelyn Choi, Christie Chong and Gianna Garcia are just a few of the members of the Class of 2020 that could turn several heads during their first championship meet.
There will also be several new faces in the diving area, and those aren't limited to the divers themselves. New coach Drew Livingston has worked to have his squad ready to peak for this meet, especially since both Harvard and Yale appear to have formidable squads ready to go this weekend.
Sophomore Carolyn MacFarlane debuted last season by making both 'A' finals, while current freshman Natasha MacManus has been one of the top newcomers in the Ivy League.
The 1-meter diving event used to be a highlight on Day 1 of the championship meet; while it will still be a big part of the Thursday scoring, the first day of the Ivy League Championships will now be on Wednesday. For the first time in meet history, the first session will include only two relays, the 200 medley and the 800 free. While those make up only two of the 21 total events, it will give an early insight on how some of the team's top swimmers are competing during the biggest weekend of the year.
That will be a new twist for Teeter, which is saying something. The legendary Tiger head coach, winner of 17 Ivy League championships during her historic run in Orange and Black, has seen it all over her career, and she has spent the last two months guiding her squad through a turbulent winter with one goal in mind — to peak when Princeton has peaked so often before.
If you look at a Top Times chart in the Ivy League heading into the weekend, you won't find many Tiger swimmers listed terribly high. Teeter has always been fine with that. She didn't win her previous Ivy League titles in December or January.
She won them at these championship meets, when swimming fast — and diving well — was all that mattered.
One more thing. If you think there is any pressure on her team to deliver that final title to their retiring coach this weekend, you missed the whole point of Teeter's impact on generation of Tigers. She has asked all of her teams for two things — (1) work hard and trust the preparation on the way to Ivies; and (2) swim your heart out for yourself, your teammates and every Princeton swimmer before you.
This group has already accomplished the former. There is no reason to expect anything less for the latter.
If the latter is good enough, great.
If it isn't, so be it.
Teeter and her Tigers will leave with their heads held high. Either way, they'll be ready.
Check back later this week for a video preview (Wednesday) and a TigerCast interview with Lindsay Temple (Thursday).
The Princeton women's swimming and diving team will board a bus to Providence, R.I., Tuesday afternoon knowing two things:
- They will be underdogs against arguably the deepest, strongest field in Ivy League history.
- They are more than ready to handle the mental grind of a championship weekend that will last longer than ever before.
Princeton (5-4, 4-3 Ivy) won't shy away from the underdog role when it makes its way to the Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center, site of the 2017 Ivy League Women's Championships. The Tigers have been here multiple times before — sometimes their best just hasn't been enough, and other times they've shocked the league en route to one of their league-best 22 Ivy titles.
This particular task will be a daunting one, especially considering three of the top contenders for the Ivy League crown. The group is led by Yale, which ran through the Ivy League in impressive fashion, including its home sweep of the H-Y-P weekend less than two weeks ago. The Bulldogs will again have to deal with the expectations that go with such a dominant regular season; last year, they were unable to follow through and win the Ivy League title.
Harvard was the team that came out of the final weekend with the championship, and it used a dominant diving performance to lead the way to the 2016 crown. The Crimson return a number of those divers this season, and they will certainly look to make an early impact during the 1-meter event Thursday.
You also can't forget about the hosts, which will try to follow their impressive December win in the Brown Open with another strong performance inside its home pool. Brown won its last two meets heading into Ivies, including a four-point thriller over Columbia.
So where does that leave Princeton?
Susan Teeter, entering her final championship weekend to cap a brilliant 33-year career, can't wait to find out. She'll bring a nice mix of veterans into the conference meet, including junior Lindsay Temple (the reigning 200 back Ivy League champion) and tri-captain Maddy Veith (a multiple-time All-Ivy honoree).
But she also has a talented freshman class that has a chance to make a major impact on the weekend. Shaelyn Choi, Christie Chong and Gianna Garcia are just a few of the members of the Class of 2020 that could turn several heads during their first championship meet.
There will also be several new faces in the diving area, and those aren't limited to the divers themselves. New coach Drew Livingston has worked to have his squad ready to peak for this meet, especially since both Harvard and Yale appear to have formidable squads ready to go this weekend.
Sophomore Carolyn MacFarlane debuted last season by making both 'A' finals, while current freshman Natasha MacManus has been one of the top newcomers in the Ivy League.
The 1-meter diving event used to be a highlight on Day 1 of the championship meet; while it will still be a big part of the Thursday scoring, the first day of the Ivy League Championships will now be on Wednesday. For the first time in meet history, the first session will include only two relays, the 200 medley and the 800 free. While those make up only two of the 21 total events, it will give an early insight on how some of the team's top swimmers are competing during the biggest weekend of the year.
That will be a new twist for Teeter, which is saying something. The legendary Tiger head coach, winner of 17 Ivy League championships during her historic run in Orange and Black, has seen it all over her career, and she has spent the last two months guiding her squad through a turbulent winter with one goal in mind — to peak when Princeton has peaked so often before.
If you look at a Top Times chart in the Ivy League heading into the weekend, you won't find many Tiger swimmers listed terribly high. Teeter has always been fine with that. She didn't win her previous Ivy League titles in December or January.
She won them at these championship meets, when swimming fast — and diving well — was all that mattered.
One more thing. If you think there is any pressure on her team to deliver that final title to their retiring coach this weekend, you missed the whole point of Teeter's impact on generation of Tigers. She has asked all of her teams for two things — (1) work hard and trust the preparation on the way to Ivies; and (2) swim your heart out for yourself, your teammates and every Princeton swimmer before you.
This group has already accomplished the former. There is no reason to expect anything less for the latter.
If the latter is good enough, great.
If it isn't, so be it.
Teeter and her Tigers will leave with their heads held high. Either way, they'll be ready.
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