ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell field hockey team looks to return to the win column with home games against a top-ten ranked Princeton and Second in the A10 Lock Haven.

Game Information

Cornell vs. #8 Princeton
SITE: Dodson Field – Ithaca, N.Y.
DATE and TIME: Saturday, October 15 @ 11AM
RECORDS: Cornell (6-5, 2-1 Ivy League), Princeton (9-4, 3-0 Ivy)
SERIES RECORD: Princeton leads, 34-6-3
BROADCAST: ESPN+
STATS: cornellbigred.com
 
Cornell vs. Lock Haven
SITE: Dodson Field – Ithaca, N.Y.
DATE and TIME: Sunday, October 16 @ 2PM
RECORDS: Cornell (6-5, 2-1 Ivy League), Lock Haven (10-2, 3-1 A10)
SERIES RECORD: Cornell leads, 7-6
BROADCAST: ESPN+
STATS: cornellbigred.com
 

About the Big Red

• The Big Red opened Ivy League competition with a 3-1 victory over both Dartmouth and Columbia.
 
• Cornell is coming off an 8-9 season in 2021, including a 3-4 record in the Ivy League.

• Cornell finished third and fifth in the last two seasons, following a last place finish in 2018.

• The Big Red return 14 letter winners from the 2021 campaign, including Caroline Ramsey, who tallied the most goals and points in a single season in Cornell history with 18 and 40, respectively.
 

Critically Acclaimed

• Cornell is ranked fourth in the country in defensive saves. All seven are credited to senior defender Caroline Ramsey. Ramsey ranks second in the nation and first in the Ivy by this mark.
 
•Ramsey also ranks third in conference in goals per game with .55.

• Senior goalkeeper Aerin Park ranks fourth in the Ivy in goals against average (1.71) and save percentage (.734).
 

Ivy League Preseason Poll

• Cornell was picked to fourth in the 2022 Ivy League field hockey preseason poll with 76 points.

• Harvard was picked to finish top of the league with 122 points and 10 first place votes. Princeton was slated at second with 118 points and the remain six first places. Penn was picked to finish third with 88 points

• Yale (71 points), Brown (42) and Columbia (34) were picked fifth through seventh, respectively, while Dartmouth rounded out the poll with 21 points.
 

Head Coach Andy Smith

• The 2022 season marks Smith's fourth season with the Big Red. It marks his third season as the 2020 season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Smith joined Cornell in May of 2019, and immediate got to work. In 2018, the team finished last in the Ivy League, earning just one conference win. Since Smith took over, he has guided the Big Red to an 18-16 record, including a third-place finish in the Ivy, with at 4-3 record in 2019.
 

Cornell's 2022 Leadership

• Smith named seniors Bridget Mahoney and Caroline Ramsey, and fifth-year Avery Smith as the captains of the 2022 squad.

• Smith enters her fourth year as captain, Mahoney her third, and Ramsey her second.
 

Worldwide

• Cornell has found talent across the globe to fill the roster. Players come from 11 different states/provinces.

• New Jersey is the most represented state with eight players.

• Pennsylvania boasts six student-athletes, followed closely by Connecticut with four, the New York with three. Texas is home to two, and Michigan and Rhode Island round out the continental U.S. with one a piece.
 
• Globally, Cornell welcomes athletes from Ontario and British Columbia, Canada, in addition to the United Kingdom and Ireland.
 

vs. Princeton:

• Saturday's match between the Big Red and the Tigers will be the 44th all-time meeting between the two schools.
• Cornell last beat Princeton in 2016 with a 3-2 overtime victory.
• The Tigers went 10-7 in 2021, including a 6-1 conference record.
• Princeton is 9-4 on the season, with a 3-0 conference record. Three of the Tiger's four loses come from nationally ranked opponents, including a #1 Northwestern, who they lost 1-0 to in overtime.
 

vs. Lock Haven:

• Sunday's match between the Big Red and the Bald Eagles will be the 14th meeting all-time.
• Cornell has won the last two meetings, in 2021 and 2019.
• The Bald Eagles went 5-9 in the 2021 season, and 2-5 in the A10.
• Lock Haven opens its season at 10-2, 3-1 in the A10. The Bald Eagles currently rank second in the Atlantic 10.
 

Up Next

• The Big Red next travel to Brown on Friday, October 21 at 3 p.m. Cornell then returns home to face a #7 Louisville on Sunday, October 23 at 11 a.m. Both games will be available to stream vis ESPN+.