ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell field hockey team opened its 2022 season with a 2-1 victory over Colgate. The team continues its road trip with away matches at Wagner and UAlbany this weekend.

Game Information

Cornell at Wagner
SITE: Wagner College Field Hockey Complex – Staten Island, N.Y.
DATE and TIME: Friday, September 9 @ 3PM
RECORDS: Cornell (1-0, 0-0 Ivy League), Wagner (2-1, 0-0 NEC)
SERIES RECORD: Cornell leads, 1-0
BROADCAST: NEC Front Row
STATS: wagnerathletics.com
 
Cornell at UAlbany
SITE: Alumni Turf – Albany, N.Y.
DATE and TIME: Sunday, September 11 @ 12PM
RECORDS: Cornell (1-0, 0-0 Ivy League), Albany (2-2, 0-0 America East)
SERIES RECORD: UAlbany leads, 1-8
BROADCAST: America East TV
STATS: ualbanysports.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 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.

• 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. Wagner:

• Friday's match between the Big Red and the Seahawks will be just the second all-time meeting between the two schools. Cornell owns the sole result of the series, who won the 2021 meeting in a 2-0 home contest.
• Wagner went 9-10 in the 2021 season, going 5-2 in the NEC.
• The Seahawks open their season at 2-1, including a 2-1 victory over Ivy opponent Yale.
 

vs. UAlbany:

• Sunday's match between the Big Red and the Great Danes will be the 10th all-time meeting between the two schools. Cornell wont the first match in 1999, but since then has yet to pull off a win. Most recently, the Big Red lost 1-0 at home in the 2021 season.
• UAlbany went 11-9 in the 2021 season, going 6-2 in the America East, and concluding its season in the conference championship, where the team lost to #25 Maine in a shootout.
• The Great Danes open their season at 2-2, including wins over Northeastern and Fairfield. The loses come form #22 Ohio State and #11 Penn State.
 

Up Next

• The Big Red take a longer trip to Michigan next weekend, where they will play a neutral match versus #8 Penn State on Saturday, September 17 at 3 p.m. and an away match against #4 Michigan on Sunday, September 18 at 2 p.m.