2012 Schedule
2012 Schedule (.pdf)

ITHACA, N.Y. – Jenny Graap, the head coach of women's lacrosse, has announced the team's 2012 schedule this morning.  The schedule features four games against NCAA tournament teams from 2011 and six teams who finished the year in the national top 20.

“Our players and coaches are looking forward to the competition that awaits this spring,” Graap said. “Playing in the Ivy League is intense, and we hope to fight our way back to the top of our conference in the months ahead.  We added a few new opponents in 2012, and we welcome the challenge of each and every contest.”

Highlights from the schedule include a two-game trip to Florida in mid-March for games against Notre Dame and Jacksonville. The Notre Dame contest, on March 17, will be held at Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex. The Big Red will travel to Jacksonville for a game on the campus of Jacksonville University three days later.

Cornell's non-conference schedule gets underway with a pre-season scrimmage against Penn State in Ithaca on February 12 followed by the season opener at Rutgers on Feb. 25.  In addition to the Scarlet Knights, Cornell faces two more Big East powerhouses in Syracuse and Loyola. Colgate (March 7) is a familiar regional rival, while both Canisius (March 13) and Binghamton (April 24) are new matchups for the Big Red in New York.

Cornell kicks off its Ivy League schedule on March 3 with a trip to Harvard and then hosts its first conference game the next weekend when Columbia comes to town. The team then takes the next two weeks to play Canisius, Notre Dame and Jacksonville before returning to Ithaca for an Ivy League battle against Penn on March 24.

Conference play continues with a game at Princeton on March 28, and that contest is followed by four consecutive home games. Two of those games – against Dartmouth on April 7 and Yale on April 21, will be crucial in Cornell's quest for another Ivy League title. After the Binghamton game, Cornell closes its regular season conference play at Brown on April 28th.

As May begins, so does the Ivy League Tournament. The four-team field will compete from May 4-6 to determine the conference automatic qualifier to the 2012 NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship.