ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell field hockey travels to Brown and returns home to face #4 Louisville after a split weekend that included s win over Lock Haven and close battle against #8 Princeton.

Game Information

Cornell vs. Brown
SITE: Goldberger Family Field – Providence, R.I.
DATE and TIME: Friday, October 21 @ 3PM
RECORDS: Cornell (7-6, 2-2 Ivy League), Brown (8-5, 1-3 Ivy)
SERIES RECORD: Cornell leads, 23-17-2
BROADCAST: ESPN+
STATS: brownbears.com
 
Cornell vs. #4 Louisville
SITE: Dodson Field – Ithaca, N.Y.
DATE and TIME: Sunday, October 23 @ 11AM
RECORDS: Cornell (7-6, 2-2 Ivy League), Louisville (12-3, 1-3 ACC)
SERIES RECORD: Never Competed
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 fifth in the country in defensive saves. All eight saves are credited to senior defender Caroline Ramsey. Ramsey ranks second in the nation and first in the Ivy by this mark.
 
• Ramsey also ranks fourth in conference in goals per game with .54.

• Senior goalkeeper Aerin Park ranks third in the Ivy in goals against average (1.67) and fourth in save percentage (.730).
 

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 remaining 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. Brown:

• Saturday's match between the Big Red and the Bears will be the 43rd all-time meeting between the two schools.
• Cornell has won seven of the last eight meetings, dating back to 10/26/2013 when the Big Red bested Brown 3-1 at home.
• The Bears went 6-11 in 2021, including a 2-5 conference record.
• Brown is 8-4 on the season, with a benchmark win over #24 Miami (OH) in overtime in the teams second game of the season.
 

vs. Louisville:

• Sunday's match between the Big Red and Cardinals will be the first meeting all-time for the two schools.
• The Cardinals went 16-4 in the 2021 season this included an appearance in the NCAA tournament first round where they lost to Ivy opponent Harvard.
• Louisville opens its season at 12-3, 1-3 in the ACC. The Cardinals boast five top-25 ranked wins, including a 2-1 victory over Ivy opponent Princeton.
 

Up Next

• The Big Red next travel to #15 Harvard on Saturday, October 29 at 11 a.m. The game will be available to stream via ESPN+.