ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell field hockey team hits the road for an away matchup against Columbia, with a quick turn around to face Bucknell at home on Sunday, October 2.

Game Information

Cornell vs. Columbia
SITE: Columbia Field Hockey Stadium – New York, N.Y.
DATE and TIME: Saturday, October 1 @ 10AM
RECORDS: Cornell (4-3, 1-0 Ivy League), Columbia (2-5, 0-1 Ivy)
SERIES RECORD: Cornell leads, 19-6
BROADCAST: ESPN+
STATS: cornellbigred.com
 
Cornell vs. Bucknell
SITE: Dodson Field – Ithaca, N.Y.
DATE and TIME: Sunday, October 2 @ 2PM
RECORDS: Cornell (4-3, 1-0 Ivy League), Bucknell (3-6, 2-0 Patriot)
SERIES RECORD: Bucknell leads, 16-13-1
BROADCAST: ESPN+
STATS: cornellbigred.com
 

About the Big Red

• The Big Red opened Ivy League competition with a 3-1 victory over Dartmouth, and completed a season sweep over Colgate with a 3-1 win over the raiders, bringing Cornell back over .500.
 
• 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 seventh in the country in defensive saves, and all four are credited to senior defender Caroline Ramsey. Ramsey ranks fourth in the nation and first in the Ivy.

• Senior goalkeeper Aerin Park ranks 13th in the nation and leads the Ivy in save percentage. Park tallies a .784 percentage on the season. She also ranks third in the conference and 23rd nationally in saves per game with 5.71
 

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.
 

at Columbia:

• Saturday's match between the Big Red and the Lions will be the 26th all-time meeting between the two schools.
• Cornell won the most recent face off, 5-0, at Dodson Field on October 2, 2021.
• The Lions went 8-9 in the 2021 season, and 1-6 in the Ivy.
• Columbia opens its season at 2-5, 0-1 in the Ivy League. Four of the five losses come from ranked opponents, including a #10 Syracuse team and #14 Harvard.
 

vs. Bucknell:

• Sunday's match between the Big Red and the Bison will be the 31st meeting all-time.
• Cornell has won the last two matchups against Bucknell, including a 4-2 victory at Bucknell in the 2021 season.
• Bucknell went 1-13 in the 2021 season, going 0-6 in the Patriot League.
• The Bison enter the matchup at 3-6 overall. Bucknell is 2-0 in the Patriot league, with wins over Holy Cross and Lafayette.
 

Up Next

• The Big Red will next have a home and away weekend with a Friday, October 7 game against Penn, followed by a Sunday, October 9 contest at Syracuse.