ITHACA, N.Y. — With three consecutive wins and building momentum, the Cornell field hockey team will look to get a signature win when it welcomes No. 14 Princeton to Marsha Dodson Field on Friday, Oct. 4 at 4 p.m. The contest will be broadcast on ESPN+.

GAME INFORMATION
#14 Princeton at Cornell
DATE & TIME: Friday, Oct. 4 at 4 p.m.
SITE: Marsha Dodson Field – Ithaca, N.Y.
RECORDS: Princeton (5-3, 2-0 Ivy League), Cornell (3-5, 1-1 Ivy League)
SERIES RECORD: Princeton leads 37-6-3
LIVE VIDEO: ESPN+
STATS: CornellBigRed.com
DIGITAL PROGRAM: CornellBigRed.com
GAME NOTES: CornellBigRed.com

STORYLINES
• Cornell has outscored its past three opponents 11-2 and has posted a 0.67 goals against average in those contests.
• The offense has been very balanced all season with eight players that have tallied four or more points and 13 with at least one point.
• The Tigers have owned the series with a 37-6-3 edge all-time, including seven straight victories.
• The past four decisions have gone Princeton's way by a single goal, including last season's contest that was decided in a shootout.
• Princeton handed Cornell two of its five losses a season ago, including a 1-0 decision in the Ivy League Tournament semifinals.
• The Big Red's 3-5 start this season is deceiving — four losses have coming to teams ranked in the NFHCA top 20 and four have come by a single goal.
• Cornell entered the 2024 campaign with nine starters and 19 letter winners returning from one of the top teams in program history and has its eyes set on achieving even more.
• The 2023 Big Red set team records for goals (58), assists (62), points (178) and wins (12) a season ago and ranked among the national leaders in scoring defense as well.
• Smith's team was playing its best hockey of the season over the final weeks of 2023, as the Big Red was 7-2 beginning in October with its lone losses coming in one-goal defeats to nationally-ranked Harvard and against perennial Ivy contender Princeton.
• A number of returners will be looking to step up after the graduation loss of two-time All-American Caroline Ramsey, the 2023 Ivy League and ECAC Offensive Player of the Year.

THE SERIES WITH PRINCETON
Overall: Princeton leads 37-6-3, first meeting in 1978
In Ithaca, N.Y.: Princeton leads 16-4-2
Current Streak: Princeton, 7 games
Last Meeting: Princeton, 1-0 (11/3/2023 in Cambridge, Mass.)
Smith vs. Princeton: 0-5 (0-1 at home)
Series Notes: Princeton's 37-6-3 edge is bolstered by its current seven-game win streak that expands to 15-1 since 2008 … Cornell's last win against the Tigers came in 2016, a 3-2 decision in double overtime … the first-ever meeting between the teams came in 1978 in Ithaca, a 4-0 Princeton triumph.

A WIN OVER PRINCETON WOULD ...
• improve Cornell's record to 4-5 (2-1 Ivy League).
• be the fourth top 20 win for the Big Red during head coach Andy Smith's tenure and the first since topping No. 13 Syracuse 2-1 in double overtime on Oct. 15, 2023.
• extend its win streak to four games.
• snap a seven-game losing streak to the Tigers.
• make the Big Red 2-1 at home in 2024 and 17-5 at Marsha Dodson Field the last three seasons.
• give Andy Smith a 44-33 record as head coach of the Big Red.
• make Cornell field hockey 359-387-36 all-time since 1972.

LAST TIME OUT: Cornell 4, Colgate 0 (Sept. 29, 2024)  //  Recap  //  Box Score
• The Cornell field hockey team won its third straight contest, capitalizing on four different goal scorers to claim a 4-0 win over Colgate at Tyler's Field. 
• Julia Ramsey had a goal and an assist to lead seven Cornell players with at least one point to lead the Big Red offense. 
• The visitors held a 20-3 advantage in shots and drew 17 penalty corners from the Raiders without surrendering one itself. 
• Vivienne Mueller was credited with the game-winning goal, while Georgia Kelly and Grace Leahy also found the back of the cage. 
• It was the second consecutive game with a score for Leahy.
• Martha Broderick made three saves in goal while picking up her 15th collegiate win in goal, while Jane McNally played the final 2:14 to assist in the shutout. 

LAST TIME VS. PRINCETON: Princeton 1, Cornell 0 (Nov. 3, 2023)  //  Recap  //  Box Score  //  Gallery
• The Cornell field hockey team clawed all afternoon for a goal that never came, falling 1-0 in a tight contest to third-seeded Princeton at Harvard's Berylson Field in the semifinals of the inaugural Ivy League Tournament on Nov. 3, 2023. 
• Cornell held a 10-7 edge in corners and a 10-6 advantage on shots, but was only able to put one of its shots on cage. 
• The Big Red had four penalty corners in the final 3.8 seconds, but wasn't able to convert and knot the game after Princeton scored early in the third quarter. 
• Princeton's Ottilie Sykes scored the lone goal of the contest 1:51 into the second half on a penalty corner, one of just two shots on cage for the Tigers in the contest. 
• Martha Broderick turned away the other.

STREAKING:
• The Big Red has won three consecutive contests, outscoring opponents 11-2.
• Cornell has scored at least three goals in four of the past five contests, averaging 2.8 goals per contest over that span.
• Defensively, Cornell hasn't surrendered more than a goal in any of its past four contests (0.75 goals against average).
• The Big Red won 17 corners without conceding one in the 4-0 win over Colgate — its most corners won since earning 21 against Columbia in 2019 and simultaneously was the first time shutting out an opponent on corners since a 4-1 win over Vermont in 2016.

RECORD WATCH:
• Junior Grace Leahy's 18 career goals are 14th in school history and is nine shy of reaching the top 10 all-time at Cornell.
• Leahy's six game-winning goals are tied for 12th all-time and one shy of joining the top 10.
• Senior Claire Wolfe is seventh in school history in career assists and is just two shy of the top five, while sophomore Julia Ramsey is eighth with 18 and needs four to also join the top five.
• With her 1.45 goals against average, sophomore Martha Broderick ranks sixth in school history, just behind fifth-place Kelly Clark '88 (1.41).
• Broderick's 15 career wins in goal rank 14th all-time and needs two to reach the top 10.
• Head coach Andy Smith has earned 43 victories in five seasons, good for fourth in Cornell history and four shy of Michelle Tambroni  (1997-2003) with 47. 

TWO NAMED TO NFHCA WATCHLIST:
• Two members of the Cornell field hockey team have been named to the 2024 NFHCA Watchlist. 
• Sophomore goalkeeper Martha Broderick and junior midfielder Grace Leahy were among 29 Ivy League and 171 total players on the list.  
• Broderick captured second-team All-Ivy honors as a freshman in 2023. 
• A three-time Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week, she led the conference in goals against average (1.22) and ranked fifth in save percentage (.720), sitting 15th and 38th nationally. 
• Broderick set a school record with 12 wins in the cage.
• A second-team All-Ivy pick as a sophomore, Leahy was also an NFHCA All-Region second team pick in 2023. 
• She ranked third in the conference (and 20th nationally) in goals behind only teammate Caroline Ramsey '24 with her 11 tallies. 
• In 15 contests, all starts, Leahy registered 22 points and tallied three game-winning goals, including in victories over Yale and nationally-ranked Syracuse. 

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES:
• The Big Red entered the 2024 season picked to finish fourth in the Ivy League Preseason poll.
• Hannah Balleza '14 has been elected to the Cornell Athletics Hall of Fame for induction on Sept. 28 as part of the Class of 2024. The four-time All-Ivy League pick and a two-time second-team NFHCA Mideast All-Region pick is one of 11 former Big Red greats to be inducted this fall and the 20th to be elected with field hockey connections.
• Caroline Ramsey '24 was among the final players that survied to the final cut for the U.S. national team that competed at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, France. 
• Eight members of Cornell's fall 2024 roster to be selected for either a senior national team or a junior selection camp in the past year, with Polly Parsons and Blake Wilks (USA) and Elizabeth and Olivia Friedberg and Grace Leahy (Canada) joining Georgia Kelly (Ireland), Martha Broderick (Scotland) and Annabel Cheveley (England).
• The Big Red coaching staff, led by head coach Andy Smith, was named the 2023 NFHCA Mideast Regional Coaching Staff of the Year after a majority vote of its regional colleagues. Smith, along with assistant coaches Gareth Terrett and Kellie Joyce, helped guide Cornell to a school-record 12 wins and a second-place finish in the Ivy League at 5-2.
• A total of 13 members of the Cornell field hockey team were named to the NFHCA Division I National Academic Squad. It was the fifth consecutive season the Big Red produced at least a dozen members on the team. Given to student-athletes with a cumulative grade-point average of 3.5 or higher through the fall semester of the current academic year, the baker's dozen was among 997 selections to the team. Six members of the Big Red team - Sofia Escalona, Lexie Hausheer, Antonia Packard, Caroline Ramsey, Claire Vaughn and Claire Wolfe - were among 181 players nationally to make the team for the fourth consecutive year. Joining Escalona, Hausheer, Packard, Ramsey, Vaughn and Wolfe are Martha Broderick, Sarah Burns, Annabel Cheveley, Georgia Kelly, Jane McNally, Emma Poplyk and Jenna Villeneuve.
• Three Cornell field hockey players were named to the NFHCA Division I Scholar of Distinction. Martha Broderick, Sarah Burns and Caroline Ramsey were among 260 undergraduate student-athletes nationwide that posted a 3.9 grade point average or better during the fall semester.
• Caroline Ramsey, the program's first two-time All-American, graduated following the 2023 with Cornell single-game records for goals (4), as well as season and career records for goals (55), game-winning goals (14), points (123), and defensive saves (19). 
• The three-year captain was named the 2023 NFHCA Mideast Regional Player of the Year and the Ivy League and ECAC Offensive Player of the Year. 
• As a senior, Ramsey ranked second nationally in goals (24) and points (54), both single-season school records, while leading the Big Red to a second-place finish in the Ancient Eight and a school-record 12 wins. 

UP NEXT:
• The Big Red continues Ivy League play with a key road game at Yale on Friday, Oct. 11 at 6 p.m. at Johnson Field in New Haven, Conn.
• The contest will be broadcast on ESPN+.
• The Big Red will attempt to build on its two-game win streak against the Bulldogs and its 25-19-1 edge in the all-time series.