ITHACA, N.Y. – The #25 Cornell field hockey team is looking to bounce back from a heartbreaking overtime loss against #15 Harvard last week with a home game against the Yale for the chance at 3rd place in the Ivy League.

Game Information

#25 Cornell vs. Yale
SITE: Dodson Field – Ithaca, New York
DATE and TIME: Saturday, November 5 @ 12 PM
RECORDS: Cornell (9-7, 3-3 Ivy League), Yale (9-7, 3-3 Ivy)
SERIES RECORD: Cornell leads, 23-18-1
BROADCAST: ESPN+
STATS: cornellbigred.com
 

About the Big Red

• Cornell stays in the top-25 for the second week in a row at #25.
 
• This marks the first time in team history where Cornell is ranked in the top-25 for back-to-back weeks.
 
• 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 third in the nation and first in the Ivy by this mark.
 
• Ramsey also ranks fifth in conference in goals per game with .50 and in points per game with 1.06.

• Senior goalkeeper Aerin Park ranks second in the Ivy in goals against average (1.46) and leads the conference in save percentage (.747). Her save percentage ranks 24th nationally.
 
• 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 last week 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. Yale:

• Saturday's match between the Big Red and the Bulldogs will be the 43rd all-time meeting between the two schools.
• Cornell last beat Yale in 2019 with a 2-1 victory at Yale.
• The Bulldogs went 9-8 in 2021, including a winning record of 4-3 in the Ivy League, edging out Cornell in the last game of the season.
• Yale is 9-7 on the season, with a 3-3 conference record. Yale has yet to beat a top-25 team this year, with a 1-6 loss against #7 Princeton and a 0-4 loss against #12 Harvard.
• Both Yale and Cornell come into this game with a conference record of 3-3, with both teams looking to end the season with a winning record in the Ivy league.
 

Up Next

• The Yale contest will conclude the 2022 slate, but this season will go down in the Cornell history books as one of the best in the programs 50 year history. A win over Yale would mark just the 12th time Cornell has finished with 10 or more wins in a season. Cornell boasted its first National Player of the Week this year, its third week ever ranked in the national field hockey polls, and a program-first win over a top-5 opponent.