ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell field hockey team looks to continue its four-game win streak with a home game against Penn and an away matchup against #11 Syracuse.

Game Information

Cornell vs. Penn
SITE: Dodson Field – Ithaca, N.Y.
DATE and TIME: Friday, October 7 @ 2PM
RECORDS: Cornell (6-3, 2-0 Ivy League), Pennsylvania (2-8, 0-2 Ivy)
SERIES RECORD: Pennsylvania leads, 29-14-2
BROADCAST: ESPN+
STATS: cornellbigred.com
 
Cornell at #11 Syracuse
SITE: J.S. Coyne Stadium – Syracuse, N.Y.
DATE and TIME: Sunday, October 9 @ 2PM
RECORDS: Cornell (4-3, 1-0 Ivy League), Syracuse (10-2, 2-1 ACC)
SERIES RECORD: Syracuse leads, 32-3-1
BROADCAST: ACCNX
STATS: cuse.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 12th in the country in defensive saves, and all four are credited to senior defender Caroline Ramsey. Ramsey ranks fifth in the nation and first in the Ivy.

• Senior goalkeeper Aerin Park ranks ninth in the nation and leads the Ivy in save percentage. Park tallies a .804 percentage on the season. She also ranks third in the conference and 19th nationally in goals against average 1.29.
 

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. Penn:

• Friday's match between the Big Red and the Quakers will be the 46th all-time meeting between the two schools.
• Cornell last beat Penn in 2019 with a 5-2 score line.
• The Quakers went 9-7 in 2021, including a 5-2 conference record.
• Penn is 2-8 on the season, with a 1-4 conference record. The Quakers have faced ranked opponents in seven of ten games so far this season, and lost to Ivy opponents #7 Princeton and #15 Harvard 1-2.
 

at Syracuse:

• Sunday's match between the Big Red and the Orange will be the 37th meeting all-time.
• Syracuse won both 2021 meetings by a combined score of 7-0.
• The Orange went 14-6 in the 2021 season, and 4-2 in the ACC. 'Cuse earned a bid to the 2021 NCAA tournament, where the team won its first-round matchup against #4 Penn State but lost to #5 Maryland in the second round.
• Syracuse opens its season at 10-2, 2-1 in the ACC. Syracuse has lost to Ivy opponent #17 Princeton and #10 Virginia. The Orange boast wins over four ranked opponents this season.
 

Up Next

• The Big Red next host a string of home games with a 11 a.m. matchup against Princeton on Saturday, October 15 and a 2 p.m. game against Lock Haven on Sunday, October 16.