Diego Uribe

This past Sunday, the Princeton chapter of Best Buddies, a non-profit organization that connects individuals with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), hosted 150 community members at their biannual Best Buddies field day on Plummer Field for an afternoon of kickball, baseball, soccer, egg tossing, and much more.

On Sept. 8, ahead of the first home football game of the 2024–25 season against the Howard Bisons, Princeton Athletics and the Princeton Varsity Club (PVC) hosted the annual PVC Youth Sports Clinic on the Finney-Campbell Fields behind Princeton Stadium. The free clinic featured 120 Princeton student athletes across several of Princeton’s 38 varsity sports who taught children from the greater Princeton area the basics of soccer, lacrosse, field hockey, water polo, and more.

Sophomore Matteo Torres vividly remembers visiting Princeton as a middle schooler, though it wasn’t Nassau Hall or Blair Arch that caught his attention. “We drove past the lake with the [crew] team practicing on it,” Torres said. “I said to my family that when I go to Princeton, I wanted to row.” Torres joined the lightweight crew team by walking on rather than going through the traditional recruiting process.