ITHACA, N.Y. – The women's squash team comes off the intersession break this weekend with its first home matches of the season. Cornell returns to Ivy League play when it takes on Yale at 11 a.m. Saturday, then it will look for its first-ever victory against Trinity in a match that begins at noon Sunday. Matches from all six courts at Belkin International Squash Courts will be streamed live through The Ivy League Network.
 
Cornell enters the weekend at 2-2 for the season, having concluded the fall semester portion of its slate with a narrow 5-4 loss to sixth-ranked Columbia in the teams' Ivy opener on Dec. 8. That leaves the Big Red holding steady at #8 in the College Squash Association's national rankings – which, if carried through the remainder of the season – would leave Cornell aligned for the final spot in the field for the Howe Cup, the top flight of the national championships.
 
Senior Sivasangari Subramaniam is off to perfect 4-0 start to the season, having defeated Chan Sin Yuk from Columbia in a lengthy five-game affair between two of the world's top 100-ranked players. Selena Georgieva, Alexis Shatzman and Ania LaDow account for the Big Red's other points against the Lions.
 
Yale has opened the season 3-0 and holding down a national ranking of fourth after victories against Virginia and Brown in November, then a 6-3 defeat of Drexel on Sunday. The Bulldogs had been scheduled to host Stanford on Saturday, but that match was canceled. Trinity is also undefeated at 3-0, holding a ranking of second in the nation after both of its matches scheduled for last weekend – at home against Drexel and Stanford – were not contested.
 
The Big Red has won once in 30 all-time meetings against the Bulldogs, with the lone Big Red victory in the series coming on Jan. 20, 2001 in a 6-3 decision in Ithaca. Cornell has yet to defeat Trinity in 17 clashes, including a 7-2 in the teams' last meeting during the 2019-20 season. Subramaniam and McKenna Stoltz accounted for the Big Red's points in that affair.

Cornell had momentarily added a non-league match against Williams on Wednesday, but that has since been postponed. The teams are exploring a makeup date for that match in the coming weeks.