ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell volleyball team closes its away slate of matches at Dartmouth and Harvard ahead of next weekend's 50 Years of Cornell Volleyball celebration.

Game Information

Cornell vs. Dartmouth
SITE: Leede Arena – Hanover, N.H.
DATE and TIME: Friday, November 4 @ 7:00 PM
RECORDS: Cornell (4-15, 2-8 Ivy League), Dartmouth (14-6, 6-4 Ivy)
SERIES RECORD: Cornell leads, 42-30
BROADCAST: ESPN+
STATS: cornellbigred.com
 
Cornell vs. Harvard
SITE: Malkin Athletic Center – Cambridge, Mass.
DATE and TIME: Saturday, November 5 @ 5:00 PM
RECORDS: Cornell (4-15, 2-8 Ivy League), Harvard (5-13, 4-6 Ivy)
SERIES RECORD: Cornell leads, 45-22
BROADCAST: ESPN+
STATS: cornellbigred.com
 

About the Big Red

• The Big Red opened the 2022 season at 2-1, including a pair of wins on Saturday, September 3 over Kent State and Southern Indiana.
 
• Cornell's two conference victories come from a season sweep over Columbia, including a 3-1 score line in the opening week of conference play and a 3-0 sweep on the road.
 
• Cornell is coming off a 7-15 season in 2021, including a 3-11 record in the Ivy League.

• In the three prior seasons, the Big Red finished in the top three in the conference. In 2021, the team was selected to finish third, but lost 12 of the final 15 matches of the season, leading to a seventh-place finish.

• The Big Red return 12 players from last year's roster, including senior Joanna Chang who notched 149 kills across 19 matches last season. She also recorded 16 aces and 17 blocks. Setter Emma Worthington returns after serving as the team's primary setter while leading the squad in assists (562) in 2021. After opening weekend, she moved from 14^th to 12^th all time, boasting 1,179 assists in just over two seasons. She then moved to 11th all-time after a five-set battle against Penn, where she tallied a career high 54 assists. She currently boasts 1,677 assists to date.
 

Critically Acclaimed

• Freshman Eliza Konvicka received Ivy League honors after her first weekend of collegiate play. She was named the Ivy League Rookie of the Week after tallying 28 kills, three assists, four aces, six blocks, and 25 digs across the weekend at Kent State. She ranks seventh in the Ivy League in kills per set with 2.94. She also ranks seventh in the conference in kills with 188.
 
• Cornell is one of only three schools in the Ivy League to have more than one player in the top-10 in hitting percentage. Sophomore Sammie Engel ranks sixth with a .331 and junior Sydney Moore takes tenth, averaging .295. Princeton tallies three in the top-10, and Dartmouth has two.
 
• Senior Emma Worthington ranks fourth in the Ivy league in assists per set, averaging 8.75. Princeton's Lindsey Kelly leads the league and the nation with 12.06 per set. Worthington also takes third in assists among Ivy players with 604.
 
• Engel ranks 16th in the nation and second across the Ivy in aces per set, averaging .52.
 

Ivy League Preseason Poll

• Cornell was picked to finish seventh in the 2022 Ivy League Volleyball Preseason Poll the conference office announced on August 26.
• Cornell currently sits at sixth overall, with two weekends of play remaining.

• Brown received 14 of the 16 possible first-place votes, finishing with an Ivy League-best 126 points. Princeton recorded the two remaining first-place votes, placing second with 110 points. Yale rounded out the top three with 89 points.

• Harvard (73 points), Dartmouth (70 points) and Penn (52 points) were picked fourth through sixth, respectively, while the Big Red earned 33 points, and Columbia ended with 23.
 

Head Coach Trudy Vande Berg

• The 2022 season marks Vande Berg's eighth year as The Wendy Schaenen '79 Head Coach of Volleyball. It marks her seventh season as the 2020 season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Vande Berg has shaped the Big Red into a team that perennially finishes in the top tier of the Ivy League, finishing third in the conference in three consecutive seasons from 2017-19. The span of three straight third-place Ivy League finishes marks the best seasons for the Big Red since the team won three conference titles followed by a second-place finish from 2003-06.
 

Worldwide

• Cornell has found talent across the globe to fill the roster. Players come from 13 different states/provinces.

• Ohio is the most represented state with three players from the Buckeye State. California, Florida, Illinois, and Texas are all represented by two athletes.

• Indiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, and Virginia are all host one player on the roster.
 
• Doga Ozalp hails from Istabul, Turkey and is one of just nine athletes from outside of the 50 states in 50 years of volleyball at Cornell.
 

vs. Dartmouth:

• The Saturday matchup will be 68th meeting between the Big Red and the Big Green.
• Cornell has lost the four most recent meeting. From 1981-1995, Cornell held an 18-match winning streak over Dartmouth.
• The Green went 15-8 in the 2021 season, including a 7-7 record in Ivy play.
• Dartmouth sits at fourth in the league, posting a 14-6 overall record, while going 6-4 in conference. The Big Green have season sweeps over Harvard and Penn.

vs. Harvard:

• The Saturday matchup will be 72nd meeting between the Big Red and the Crimson.
• Cornell won six of the last seven meetings, dating back to 10/28/2017 when the Big Red secured a five-set win at home.
• Harvard went 10-13 in the 2021 season, including a 7-7 record in Ivy play.
• Harvard sit at 5-13 overall, and 4-6 in conference play this season. The Crimson completed a season sweep over Penn in last weekend's matches.

Up Next

• Following this weekend, the Big Red will close out the season at home with a celebration of 50 Years of Cornell Volleyball against Penn and senior night against Princeton. Both matches will be played at Newman Arena at Bartels Hall. For fans at home, the matches will be available to stream via ESPN+.