ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell field hockey team launches conference play with a home game against Dartmouth on Friday, September 23. They round out a weekend of home games with a Sunday, September 25 game against Colgate.

Game Information

Cornell vs. Dartmouth
SITE: Dodson Field – Ithaca, N.Y.
DATE and TIME: Friday, September 23 @ 4PM
RECORDS: Cornell (2-3, 0-0 Ivy League), Dartmouth (3-3, 0-0 Ivy)
SERIES RECORD: Dartmouth leads, 22-19-1
BROADCAST: ESPN+
STATS: cornellbigred.com
 
Cornell vs. Colgate
SITE: Dodson Field – Ithaca, N.Y.
DATE and TIME: Sunday, September 18 @ 2PM
RECORDS: Cornell (2-3, 0-0 Ivy League), Colgate (2-6, 0-0 Patriot)
SERIES RECORD: Cornell leads, 24-17-3
BROADCAST: ESPN+
STATS: cornellbigred.com
 

About the Big Red

• The Big Red opened the 2022 campaign with a 2-1 victory over Colgate at Tyler's Field on Wednesday, September 7.
 
• Cornell followed up the season opener with a second 2-1 win over Wagner, and a 2-1 loss at UAlbany, who scored off a penalty stroke with under two minutes remaining in the match. The team then dropped two matches against top-10 ranked opponents in Penn State and Michigan.
 
• 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.
 

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.

• Caroline Ramsey and Avery Smith both are returning as captains after helping lead the 2021 team. Mahoney is in her first season as captain for the Big Red.
 

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. Dartmouth:

• Friday's match between the Big Red and the Big Green will be the 42nd all-time meeting between the two schools.
• Cornell won the most recent face off, 3-1, at Dartmouth on September 26, 2021.
• The Big Green went 4-13 in the 2021 season, and 0-7 in the Ivy League.
• Dartmouth opens its season at 3-3. The first loss of the Big Green's season comes from a 2-5 game at #22 Maine.
 

vs. Colgate:

• Sunday's match between the Big Red and the Raiders will be the 45th meeting all-time.
• Cornell has won the past five matchups against the Raiders, including a 2-1 victory at Colgate to open the Big Red 2022 season.
• Colgate went 1-13 in the 2021 season, going 0-6 in the Patriot League.
• The Raiders enter the matchup at 2-6 overall. Colgate lost to Ivy opponent Yale last week in a 2-1 match.
 

Up Next

• The Big Red hit the road next for a match at Columbia on Saturday, October 1 with a start time of 10 a.m. Cornell has a quick turnaround with a 2 p.m. home match against Bucknell of Sunday, October 2. Both matches will be available to stream on ESPN+.