ITHACA, N.Y. -- The newly ranked #24 Cornell field hockey team looks to follow up a successful weekend of wins over Brown and #4 Louisville with a game at #15 Harvard.

Game Information

#24 Cornell vs. #15 Harvard
SITE: Berylson Field – Cambridge, Mass.
DATE and TIME: Saturday, October 29 @ 11AM
RECORDS: Cornell (9-6, 3-2 Ivy League), Harvard (11-4, 4-1 Ivy)
SERIES RECORD: Princeton leads, 30-13-4
BROADCAST: ESPN+
STATS: gocrimson.com
 

About the Big Red

• Cornell breaks into the top-25 at #24 this week, being ranked for the first time since the 2019 season.
 
• 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 ten 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 .53 and fifth in points per game with 1.13.

• Senior goalkeeper Aerin Park ranks second in the Ivy in goals against average (1.43) and leads the conference in save percentage (.753).
 
• Park was named NFHCA National Player of the Week following two weekend shutouts against Ivy opponent Brown and #4 Louisville. She was the first Ivy player to win the honor this season, and the first Cornellian to ever be nationally recognized for POTW.
 
• Park and Claire Jones swept the weekly Ivy awards following the Big Red's upset over #4 Louisville.
 

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. Harvard:

• Saturday's match between the Big Red and the Crimson will be the 48th all-time meeting between the two schools.
• Cornell last beat Harvard in 2015 with a 1-0 victory at home.
• The Crimson went 17-2 in 2021, including a perfect 7-0 conference record. Harvard was the Ivy League champion, earning a bid to the 2021 NCAA tournament that they took to the semifinal where they ultimately fell 2-1 to Northwestern.
• Harvard is 11-4 on the season, with a 4-1 conference record. Harvard has only lost to teams ranked in the top-15 in the nation, while boasting two top-25 wins.
 

Up Next

• The Big Red will close out the regular season at home with a game against Yale, set to begin at 12 p.m. on Saturday, November 5. Attendance to the contest is free, and for fans at home you can tune into the action via ESPN+.