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Monday TigerBlog - How About That Weekend
November 17, 2025 | Tiger Blog
And just when you thought that a four-Ivy League championship weekend would be hard to beat, along comes this past weekend.
This time, there would only be one Ivy League championship, though it was joined by an Ivy League tournament championship, a win to vault a team into the NCAA tournament Final Four, an NCAA Regional championship and a whole lot of chances for the best photos of them all — the jubo ones.
It started when the men's cross country team went 2-4-5-15-19 to win the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional at Lehigh Saturday to earn automatic qualification into the NCAA championship meet Saturday in Missouri. Princeton was led by Myles Hogan, who passed eight runners over the second half of the 10K race to finish as runner-up in 29:21.2.
The men's cross country team is coached by Jason Vigilante. Remember that last name. TigerBlog will be writing it again in a few paragraphs.
On the women's side, by the way, Anna McNatt and Meg Madison qualified as individuals for the national championship race.
Next up, the women's volleyball socked away another Ivy League championship and earned itself the host role for the Ivy League tournament with 3-0 wins over Harvard and Dartmouth. That's two straight Ivy championships and 21 all time, easily the most in league history.
The tournament will start in Dillon Gym Friday at 4 with the top seed Tigers against No. 4 Brown and then No. 2 Cornell and No. 3 Yale at 7. The winners will meet Saturday at 6, with an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament for the winner.
The women's volleyball team also celebrated Senior Night Saturday, just to add some more jubo to the mix. A Senior Night with an outright Ivy title? That's something the team's three seniors — Luci Scalamandre, Valerie Nutakor and Ella Bunde — won't forget anytime soon.
Oh, and if you're wondering what "jubo" means, it's the Office of Athletic Communications way of saying "jubilation."
Meanwhile, the men's soccer team won the Ivy League tournament on Myslik Field at Roberts Stadium Sunday morning with a 2-0 win over Cornell. The first goal was scored by Sam Vigilante; that name is familiar, no?
Vigilante was a first-team All-Ivy League selection, one of six for the Tigers this year. It got TB to thinking if Princeton has had a head coach who had a son or daughter who became a first-team All-Ivy selection.
This falls under the heading of either no, or someone really obvious whom TB is overlooking.
Princeton's second goal came courtesy of Liam Beckwith, a second-team All-Ivy pick. Once again Princeton's defense did not allow a goal. Hey, it's only allowed five all year, right?
Next up for Jim Barlow's team is today's NCAA Selection Show, which will be at 1 this afternoon. Princeton has a very, very legitimate chance at being the No. 1 overall seed, which would be an amazing tribute to the season the Tigers are having.
Princeton, of course, went 7-0-0 in the Ivy League during the regular season and didn't allow a goal along the way. The tournament championship followed that regular season title, which is one of five this fall for Princeton.
The others? Men's cross country. Women's cross country. Men's soccer. Women's soccer.
One team that did NOT win its Ivy League championship was the field hockey team. Harvard won that one, going 7-0 to the Tigers' 6-1, with a 3-1 Harvard win on Sept. 26 the difference.
The Tigers have made up for it in a big way since. In fact, that Sept. 26 game was the last time Princeton has lost, and that winning streak reached 13 straight yesterday with a dramatic 2-1 win over Syracuse in the NCAA quarterfinals.
This came one week after Princeton won the Ivy League tournament championship with a 2-1 win at Harvard. The game-winner in both games came from the incomparable Beth Yeager, who did so with 1:43 to go against Syracuse, after assisting on Pru Lindsey's goal that had made it 1-0 Tigers late in the third.
The win yesterday sends Princeton to the Final Four at Duke, with the semifinals Friday and the final Monday. And who is going to be meeting Princeton in Durham?
That would be none other than the Crimson. Yes, it'll be Princeton-Harvard III Friday at 2:30, after North Carolina and Northwestern in the other semifinal. Princeton is the only team this year who has beaten Harvard and Northwestern, both of whom have only that one loss.
And that was the weekend in jubo.
You never get tired of them.
