ITHACA, N.Y. - The Cornell field hockey team will travel to Dartmouth for its final game of the 2019 season.
Game Information
Cornell at Dartmouth
DATE: Saturday, November 9
TIME: 12:00 PM
SITE: Chase Field, Hanover, N.H. (AstroTurf)
RECORDS: Cornell 9-7, 3-3 Ivy League; Dartmouth 4-12, 0-6 Ivy League
SERIES RECORD: Dartmouth leads, 22-17-1
STREAMING:
ESPN+
STATS:
DartmouthSports.com
Cornell game notes
How to Watch
- This game is the last 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
- With a win at Dartmouth, Cornell will finish with its best record since 2015. Just one more game to play and the Big Red is 9-7 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), Bucknell (1-0, 10/15), Lehigh (4-0, 10/23) and Brown (4-0, 10/26).
- Sophomore forward Claire Jones leads the team with 18 points on six goals and six 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, before notching two goals and two assists against Brown and one assist at Syracuse.
- Junior forward Grace Royer follows closely with 17 points on six goals and five assists. She scored goals against Lafayette (2), Penn (2), Colgate and Brown. She notched assists against Syracuse, Lafayette, Colgate, Yale and Lehigh.
- Freshman midfielder Caroline Ramsey follows Jones with nine points on four goals and one assist. She scored goals against Syracuse, Lock Haven, Lafayette and Colgate. She notched one assist against Lehigh.
- Totaling 24 wins in her career, senior goalie Maddie Henry's nine wins on the season have led her to the runner-up position in Cornell's career record list. She needs one more win to tie 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:
- 12th in the nation in save percentage (.765)
- 20th in the nation in saves per game (6.31)
- 25th in the nation in assists per game (1.81)
- 27th in the nation in shutouts per game (.25); tied with Princeton and American
- 1st in the Ivy League in save percentage (.770)
- 3rd in the Ivy League in goals against (31)
- 4th in the Ivy League in corners (89)
National and Individual Rankings
- Maddie Henry ranks 12th in the nation in save percentage (.765)
- Maddie Henry ranks 21st in the nation in saves per game (5.69)
- Maddie Henry ranks 31st in the nation in goalie win-lose percentage (.563); tied with Marlise van Tonder (Massachusetts) and Gianna Glatz (Rutgers)
- Maddie Henry ranks 38th in the nation in goals against average (1.81)
Individual Ivy League Rankings
- Claire Jones
- Ranks #1 in game-winning goals (4)
- Ranks #5 in assists (6); tied with five other people
- Kirsten Pienaar
- Ranks #4 in defensive saves (2); tied with four other people
- Taylor Gladd
- Ranks #5 in assists (6); tied with five other people
Cornell Career Record List
- Maddie Henry
- Ranks second in career wins (24) … Needs two more to pass Kelly Johnson (2014-17)
- Ranks sixth in saves (302) … Needs 21 more to pass Karen Kuhn (1975-77)
- Ranks sixth in goalie shutouts (6); tied with Kaitlin Tierney (2000-03) … Needs one more to be tied for fifth with Kelly Clark (1985-87)
Season Marks
- Claire Jones is tied for 2nd, with six other players, in game-winning goals (4) … Needs one more to be tied for first with Alyssa DePaola (2005).
- Caroline Ramsey needs one more goal to be tied for 13th in freshman records.
Last Week in Review
About Dartmouth
- With six games going into overtime, Dartmouth is 4-12 on the 2019 season. The Big Green has wins against Holy Cross (2-1 (OT), 9/15), Merrimack (4-1, 9/22), UMass Lowell (4-3 (OT), 9/29) and Vermont (3-2, 11/3). Dartmouth closed a seven game losing streak with the win against Vermont.
- Within the Ivy League, the Big Green has a 0-6 record after playing #10 Princeton, Brown, Penn, Yale, Columbia and #15 Harvard.
- Senior forward Katie Spanos leads the team with 21 points on eight goals and five assists. She scored one goal against Vermont.
- Senior forward/midfielder Carmen Braceras follows with 15 points on six goals and three points.
- Sophomore goalkeeper Isabella Santucci has played all but 15 minutes for the Big Green. In 977:12, Santucci has made 132 saves for a .691 save percentage.
The Series vs Dartmouth
- The teams first met in 1979, a 0-0 tie, and Dartmouth won the next five meetings before Cornell snapped the streak in 1985 with a 1-0 victory.
- The series was fairly even from 1985 until 1998 when Dartmouth began an eight-game winning-streak against the Big Red.
- Starting in 2006 Cornell went on a five game winning-streak that was snapped with two consecutive one-goal games in 2011 and 2012.
- The Big Red has won six contests in a row, since 2013, for a series high winning-streak.
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.
