ITHACA, N.Y. - The Cornell field hockey team will start its final three-game regular-season week with a home game against Lehigh on Wednesday (Oct. 23).
Game Information
Lehigh at Cornell
DATE: Wednesday, October 23
TIME: 4:00 PM
SITE: Dodson Field - Ithaca, N.Y. (AstroTurf)
RECORDS: Cornell 7-5, 2-2 Ivy League; Lehigh 5-9, 1-4 Patriot League
SERIES RECORD: Lehigh leads; 25-1-1
STREAMING:
ESPN+
STATS:
CornellBigRed.com
Cornell game notes
How to Watch
- This game is one of 13 out of 17 games on the Big Red's schedule to be broadcast on ESPN+, including all Cornell home games and all Ivy League road games.
- ESPN+ is currently only available to fans in the US for $4.99/month or $49.99/year. (https://plus.espn.com/). A similar international platform is the home for fans outside of the U.S., and will feature both live and archived games.
About the Big Red
- Cornell has a 7-5 start this season with wins against #18 Syracuse (2-1, 9/7), Lock Haven (2OT) (3-2, 9/8), Lafayette (4-1, 9/23), Colgate (4-1, 10/1), Columbia (2OT SO) (1-0, 10/5), Yale (2-1, 10/13) and Bucknell (1-0, 10/15).
- Junior forward Grace Royer leads the team with 14 points on five goals and four assists. She scored goals against Lafayette (2), Penn (2), and Colgate. She notched assists against Syracuse, Lafayette, Colgate and Yale.
- Sophomore forward Claire Jones follows Royer with 11 points on four goals and three assists. The sophomore scored two game-winning goals in the first weekend and has assisted on goals against Penn and Colgate. She later scored two goals against Yale.
- Freshman midfielder Caroline Ramsey follows Jones with eight points on four goals. She scored goals against Syracuse, Lock Haven, Lafayette and Colgate.
- Totaling 22 wins in her career, senior goalie Maddie Henry's seven wins on the season have led her to the runner-up position in Cornell's career record list. She needs four more wins to pass Kelly Johnson (2014-17), who has 25 wins in her career.
Work as a Team, Win as a Team
- The Cornell Big Red field hockey team ranks (national rankings as of 10/15):
- 19th in the nation in saves per game (6.25); tied with Davidson
- 22nd in the nation in save percentage (.750); tied with Ball St.
- 3rd in the Ivy League in save percentage (.757)
National and Individual Rankings
- Maddie Henry ranks 29th in the nation in goalie win-lose percentage (.583); tied with Julia Gluyas (Northeastern)
- Maddie Henry ranks 21st in the nation in save percentage (.750); tied with Sydney Rhodes (Delaware) and Lena Vandam (Rider)
- Maddie Henry ranks 21st in the nation in saves per game (5.50); tied with Brie Barraco (Penn St.)
- Maddie Henry ranks 42nd in the nation in goals against average (1.89)
Individual Ivy League Rankings
- Kirsten Pienaar
- Ranks #3 in defensive saves (2); tied with four other people
- Ranks #4 in defensive saves per game (.30); tied with three other people
- Claire Jones
- Ranks #2 in game-winning goals per game (.231); tied with Allison Smith (Columbia)
- Ranks #2 in game-winning goals (3); tied with Allison Smith (Columbia) and Ali McCarthy (Princeton)
- Grace Royer
- Ranks #8 in assists (4); tied with two other people
- Maddie Henry
- Ranks #1 in shutouts per game (.231)
- Ranks #3 in save percentage (.758)
- Ranks #2 in goals against average (2.031)
- Ranks #4 in saves per game (5.31)
Cornell Career Record List
- Maddie Henry
- Ranks second in career wins (22) … Needs four more to pass Kelly Johnson (2014-17).
- Ranks seventh in saves (277) … Needs 22 more to pass Kristi Bullard (1995-98).
- Ranks seventh in goalie shutouts (5); tied with Kristi Bullard (1995-98), Molly Kauffman (1994-96) and Yanaka Beranl (1987-90) … Needs one more to be tied for sixth with Kaitlin Tierney (2000-03).
Season Marks
- Claire Jones is tied for eighth, with 23 other players, in game-winning goals (3) … Needs one more to be tied for fourth with six other players.
- Caroline Ramsey needs one more goal to be tied for 13th in freshman records.
Last Week in Review
- Coming off a split weekend, the Big Red beat Bucknell, 1-0, on Tuesday, Oct. 15. Senior midfielder Kirsten Pienaar scored the lone goal after the team received a penalty stroke.
- In a rough weekend, Cornell fell to #14 Harvard, 2-0, and #22 UAlbany, 5-0. Though the Big Red was able to have some strong offensive plays the Harvard and Albany goalies would not let the ball passed the goal-line.
About Lehigh
- After beating Rider, 1-0, and Towson, 4-1, to start the season the Mountain Hawks were doing better than they have since 2002. Most recently, Lehigh fell to Patriot League foe, Lafayette (1-0, 10/18), and Sacred Heart (3-2, 10/20).
- Junior forward Drew Pecora leads the team with 25 points on 11 goals and three assists. She has had four multi-goal games, scoring two goals against Towson, Georgetown, Wagner and Bucknell.
- Junior defender/midfielder Lenke Havas follows with 15 points on five goals and five assists. In the last week, she scored one goal against Sacred Heart.
- Freshman goalkeeper Maddie Kahn has played for all but five minutes for Lehigh. In 834:53, Kahn has made 102 saves for a .750 save percentage.
The Series vs Lehigh
- The Big Red first played the Mountain Hawks in 1991, which resulted in a Cornell victory.
- Cornell has dominated the series with a 25-1-1 all-time record. The one loss came in 1993.
- The Big Red has won 23 straight games, including last year's 2-0 win.
National Appeal
- The Big Red has eight different states, as well as Canada and South Africa, represented on the team of 23.
- For the first year New Jersey ties Pennsylvania as the most represented state. Pennsylvania has been the most represented state since 2015. A total of 10 players call New Jersey or Pennsylvania home, five each. The other states with multiple representatives are New York (3) and Texas (2), plus one student-athletes from Connecticut, Maine, Maryland and Texas.
- There are three international student-athletes as well, two from British Columbia, Canada
- and one from South Africa.
- In addition to our athletes, we have two coaches from California (Hurff and Dempsey), one from Delaware (Orozco) and head coach Andy Smith hails from Doncaster, England.
- After serving as the head coach of the field hockey team at the University of the Pacific, Smith was named the head coach of the Cornell field hockey team in May of 2019.
- Smith comes to East Hill after leading the Pacific Tigers to four regular-season conference titles in six seasons. Smith also coached four student-athletes to All-American honors, in addition to five athletes being selected to participate in FIH World level events.
- Smith brings a new staff of assistant coaches to Cornell this season. Laura Hurff and Johnny Orozco joined the Big Red staff as assistant coaches after successful stints in their respective USA National Teams. Taylor Dempsey joins the team as a volunteer assistant coach after a decorated playing career at the University of the Pacific.
Up Next
- After the mid-week game against Lehigh, Cornell will split the weekend with a home game against Brown on Saturday (Oct. 26) and an away game against Syracuse on Sunday (Oct. 27).
