ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell field hockey team opens its 2022 season this week in Hamilton, N.Y. with a match up against Colgate.

Game Information

Cornell at Colgate
SITE: Tyler's Field – Hamilton, N.Y.
DATE and TIME: Wednesday, September 7 @ 6PM
RECORDS: Cornell (0-0, 0-0 Ivy League), Colgate (2-2, 0-0 Patriot)
SERIES RECORD: Cornell leads, 23-17-3
BROADCAST: ESPN+
STATS: colgateathletics.com
 

About the Big Red

• 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.
 

Out Of The Gates

• Cornell has won four of its last five season openers
 
• Cornell's true season opener last season was postponed, so the Big Red opened with a 2-0 win over Wagner.
 

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.

• All three are returning as captains after helping lead the 2021 team.
 

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. Colgate:

• Wednesday's match between the Big Red and the Raiders will be the 44th meeting between the two schools, with Cornell leading the all-time series 23-17-3.
• Cornell has beaten Colgate in the past four match ups, including a 4-3 victory in 2021 in Hamilton, N.Y.
• Oakland went 1-13 in the 2021 season, going 0-6 in the Patriot League.
• The Raiders open their season at 2-2, including a road victory over Merrimack and a win in their lone home match vs. Bryant.

Up Next

• The Big Red next travel to Wagner College on Friday, September 9 at 3 p.m., and will remain on the road until Friday, September 23 when the team opens its home schedule and conference play against Dartmouth at 4 p.m.