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Tuesday TigerBlog - Schott And Wunder
January 13, 2026 | Tiger Blog
Schott and Wunder.
That sounds like one of the British police detective shows that TigerBlog likes to watch. Season 4 was especially good; that was the one where they realize that the other detective is really a "bent copper" who is on the take and finally take him down after he framed someone else for the murder he committed.
Season 3 was a little slow.
Just kidding. Schott and Wunder aren't fictional detectives. They're not even real ones.
Schott (Mitchell) and Wunder (Issy) are Princeton athletes, both of whom are coming off big weekends.
TB starts with Schott. Here's a pretty cool paragraph:
After winning eight out of his 28 gold medals at the 2008 Olympics, Michael Phelps set a Lejeune Hall record of 1:33.14 in the 200 freestyle just one year later in 2009. That record stood until today, when Mitchell Schott of the No. 22 Princeton University men's swimming & diving team finished in 1:32.72, setting a new pool record and winning the event at a meet that included Navy, Delaware and Kenyon.
That was the way the men's swimming and diving recap began Friday after Day 1 of a meet at the Naval Academy that included Delaware and Kenyon as well.
Breaking a record held by Michael Phelps? It doesn't matter the record. That is something crazy impressive to be able to say you did.
It's something else to add to the already stacked swimming record Schott has put together during his time at Princeton. The senior is already a five-time Ivy League champion, including winning four events a year ago, when he was the High Point Scorer of the Meet.
He's also a two-time Scholar All-American, a multiple time NCAA qualifier and TigerBlog believes the holder of eight school best times. Schott does, of course, have the rest of his senior year to add to all of those totals.
Beyond that, he gets to be "the guy who broke a Michael Phelps record."
Schott's team has moved into the national rankings, at No. 22 in the most recent poll. The Ivy League championships, if you're planning ahead, will be held at DeNunzio Pool Feb. 25-28.
As for Wunder, TB is shifting to frozen water. The Princeton women's hockey team is now up to 11 straight wins, which is the second-longest streak in program history, two off of the all-time record, set 20 years ago.
The Tigers have a chance to equal that this coming weekend, with visits from Harvard and Dartmouth.
The new rankings came out yesterday, by the way, and Princeton currently is ranked No. 9. Princeton's NPI rating, which is used for NCAA selections, stands at No. 8.
Issy Wunder had a great weekend as the Tigers won two more, this time at Union (3-1) and RPI (4-0). How many of those seven goals did Wunder score?
How about five — two against Union and three more against RPI.
19' left, 2nd pd | #9 Princeton 4, RPI 0
— Princeton Women's Ice Hockey (@PWIH) January 10, 2026
Wunder! The hatty! ????
FIVE goals in 4+ periods this weekend!
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Wunder has now played 19 games this season and scored 18 goals, which puts her fourth in Division I in goals per game. Who is fifth?
That would be fellow Tiger Mackenzie Alexander, who now has 17 goals in those 19 games.
Wunder, a senior, began her career with nine goals and nine assists in 31 games and then followed that up with eight goals and 27 assists, leaving her with 17 goals and 36 assists through her first 63 games.
She's played 51 more games, with 44 more goals and 36 more assists. Her first two years had her average 0.84 points per game; since then she's at 1.57 points per game.
It adds up to 61 goals and 72 assists, for 133 points in 114 games. She needs four more assists to tie for 10th all-time at Princeton, and she has an excellent shot of reaching the top 10 in career goals and points.
The sweep last weekend kept the Tigers in first place with 28 points, four ahead of second-place Yale. After that there are five other teams with between 21 and 23.5 points.
