Category: sports/the_princeton_packet

Panthers hoops prep for states By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor   Regardless of how the season ends, this has been quite a turnaround year for the Princeton Day School boys’ basketball team.    The Panthers, who won just three games a year ago, earned their 13th win of this season when they topped West Windsor-Plainsboro North, 47-38,…

Tiger men using solid defense from junior By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor   Jason Briggs is new to the Ivy League games.    The Princeton University junior had played in a pair of Ivy games prior to this weekend, but those came two years ago in a mop-up role.    Briggs played 25 influential minutes as the…

WW-P North’s Trish Reilly finished first in the mile run at the Mercer County meet on Sunday in Toms River. Photo by Dennis Symons Jr.

Princeton Day School ice hockey player Nick Jabs is the Princeton Packet Athlete of the Week, Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski

PHS, South boys qualify in hoops By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor    As the calendar turned from December to January, both Bob Schurtz and Jason Carter had plenty of unanswered questions about their basketball teams.    As the calendar turns from January to February, a lot of those questions have been answered — and in a positive…

Montgomery High’s Kara Dubiel swam to a second-place finish in the 200 freestyle at the Skyland Conference Championships, which were held on Wednesday at Montgomery High. Staff photo by Frank Wojciechowski

At the age of 44, West Windsor resident David Zhuang is still one of the top table tennis players in the world. He is hoping to head to his third Olympic Games later this year in Beijing, China. Staff photo by Mark Czjakowski

Panthers junior finds sabre success with dedication By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor    Phillip Grudzina was familiar with fencing for a while. But it wasn’t until last year that he really found himself immersed in the sport.    ”I got started a few years ago,” said the Montgomery resident, a junior at Princeton Day School. “My brother…

WW resident is champion in table tennis By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor   David Zhuang felt like crawling back to his car after the U.S. national table tennis trials in Philadelphia last month, but he could crawl home happy.    ”After the tournament, for three days I could barely walk,” Zhuang said. “I couldn’t lift my…