ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell women's lacrosse team will look to add to its successful season start when it visits Penn State on Saturday, March 1 at 1 p.m. at Panzer Stadium. The contest will be broadcast on B1G+.

• The Big Red will attempt to snap a seven-game losing streak against the Nittany Lions and improve to 4-1 on the season following a record-setting midweek victory over Niagara.
• Cornell won its second straight home game by blitzing the Purple Eagles, 24-7 on Tuesday afternoon, setting single-game school records for goals (24), assists (17) and points (41) in the process.
• The Big Red answered Niagara's opening goal with an 8-0 run and had more than 39 minutes of running clock action in picking up a win in its first-ever matchup with the Purple Eagles.
• The duo of Kylie Gelabert (seven goals, two assists) and Ella Wilmot (three goals, five assists) posted the second-best single-game totals in goals and points, and assists, respectively.
• Head coach Jenny Graap's team returns five of its top six scorers, a veteran defense composed of four seniors, and its top  two goalkeepers.
• Cornell, picked sixth in the Ivy League's Preseason Media Poll, is coming off a 7-8 campaign (2-5 Ivy) from a season ago.

GAME INFORMATION
Cornell at Penn State
DATE & TIME: Saturday, March 1 at 1:00 p.m.
SITE: Panzer Stadium - University Park, Pa.
RECORDS: Cornell 3-1 (0-0 Ivy); Penn State 2-2 (0-0 Big Ten)
SERIES RECORD: Penn State leads 12-3
BROADCAST:B1G+
STATS: CornellBigRed.com
DIGITAL PROGRAM: CornellBigRed.com
GAME NOTES: CornellBigRed.com

THE SERIES
Overall{ Penn State leads 12-3 
In University Park, Pa.: Penn State leads 5-2    
On neutral fields: N/A
Streak: Penn State, 7
Last 5: Penn State, 5-0
Last 10: Penn State, 9-1
Last meeting: Penn State won 12-11 (3/26/24 at Cornell)
Last Cornell win: Cornell won 10-7 (4/13/16 at PSU)
First meeting: Penn State won 6-5 (4/21/1972 at Cornell)

A WIN OVER PENN STATE WOULD ...
• make the Big Red's record to 4-1 on the season and serve as its third straight victory.
• narrow the Nittany Lions' lead in the all-time series to 12-4 while snapping a seven-game losing skid against PSU.
• push Graap's career record at Cornell to 238-169 (.585). and to 259-213 overall (.549).
• be the 380th in program history (379-334-4, .523).

VS. THE BIG TEN
• Cornell sports a 26-19 (.578) all-time record against current members of the Big Ten Conference, with head coach Jenny Graap's team at 22-16 (.579).
• Penn State (3-12) is the only member of the Big Ten that the Big Red has a losing record against.
• Cornell holds all-time series advantages Johns Hopkins (3-0), Rutgers (16-4) and USC (1-0), while the series with both Maryland (1-1) and Ohio State (2-2) are tied.
• The Big Red has never faced Michigan, Northwestern or Oregon .
• It is the Big Red's only scheduled matchup with a Big Ten school this season.

LAST TIME VS. PENN STATE
• A 5-0 surge over 3:28 put the Big Red within one, but the Cornell women's lacrosse team ran out of time, falling to Penn State, 12-11, at Schoellkopf Field. 
• Senior captain Bridget Babcock led the charge for a Big Red offense that outshot PSU 34-26 in the final scorebook, tallying four goals on eight shots to snag her first career hat trick. 
• Sophomore Dillyn Patten extended her goal streak to four straight contests by having two find the back of the net. 
• Junior Kylie Gelabert and senior Sophie Ward also had a goal and assist each to lead Cornell, who has netted 10 or more goals in five of the last six battles with Penn State.
• Freshman Payton Wainman and senior Kristin O'Neill each had four goals on a combined 10 shots on goal between the two to lead the Nittany Lions.
• Lauren Saltz closed out the top scorers for Penn State with two goals, and Ashley Bowan earned the victory in net with a season-high 10 saves.

MILESTONE WATCH
• Senior Josie Vogel's 118 points ranks 22nd all-time at Cornell and is seven from joining the top 20.
She is also eight goals from becoming the 16th player ever at Cornell to reach 100 career goals.
Seniors Kylie Gellabert (38) and Maggie Pons (37) are both on the verge of joining 11 Big Red players to reach 40 career assists. They are five and six assists away, respectively, from joining the top 10.
With one more win in goal, senior Ellie Horner would jump to seventh in school history with 16, matching Kyla Dambach '12.

LAST TIME OUT
• The Cornell women's lacrosse team set school record for goals (24), assists (17) and points (41) in a dominating 24-7 victory over Niagara at Schoellkopf Field. 
• The Big Red offense was dominant in a game that saw the running clock for nearly 39 minutes of action as the home team had a double-digit lead throughout. 
• The 24 goals was one better than that 23 scored three times previously, while its 17 assists was two more than the previous mark at Jacksonville in 2012. 
• Cornell scored 37 points in that game, a mark surpassed by the 41 on Tuesday afternoon. 
• While 18 different players found the scoring column, it was Kylie Gelabert and Ella Wilmot that shone the brightest. 
• Gelabert's seven goals (on seven shots) and nine points on the day were both one off the single-game school mark, while Wilmot had a hat trick do go along with her five assists - also one off the single-game record. 
• Niagara got a pair of goals from both Maddy Gill and Giordan Peck, while Sydney Huhtala had four ground balls, three caused turnovers and a pair of draw controls.

NOTES TO KNOW
• The Big Red has reached double figures in goals in all four contests this season.
• Cornell set team records for goals (24), assists (17) and points (41) in the Big Red's 24-7 victory over Niagara, while its 21 draw controls were tied for the third-most in school history.
• Kylie Gelabert recorded seven goals, two assists and nine points in the win over Niagara, scoring goals on all seven shot attempts. The seven goals and nine points were both one shy of the Big Red single-game records.
• Ella Wilmot's eight-point effort (three goals, five assists) against the Purple Eagles left her one short of the single-game school record for assists and her points total good for ninth all-time.
• Cornell's offense has put at least 70 percent of its shots on target in every game this season and over 80 percent three times.
• In three contests against unranked opponents in 2025, the Big Red defense has allowed just 7.0 goals and posted a .500 save percentage.
• The Big Red is 3-0 this season when leading at the half, keeping up its wild success when leading at the break under head coach Jenny Graap '86 (190-21, .900).
• Another big trend under Graap — Cornell is 191-25 (.884) when holding opponents to fewer than 10 goals in a game and 92-2 (.979) when that is six or fewer.
• Senior Josie Vogel was named to the 2024 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic At-Large All-District Team after sporting a 3.70 GPA in Government.
• In four games this season, junior Ella Wilmot (nine goals, 11 assists) has nearly doubled her career scoring total entering the campaign (12 points).
• Senior Maggie Pons enters the week with 82 points (45 goals, 37 assists) and is within striking distance of becoming the school's 29th 100-point scorer.
• Sophomore defender Julia Ramsey in a two-year letter winner on the field hockey team where she already ranks sixth in school history in career assists (21). Her sister, Caroline '24, is a two-time All-American, Cornell's all-time leading scorer and a member of the Team USA in field hockey.
• One of Ramsey's cousins was Annie Thomas '24, Cornell's all-time leader in draw controls (233).
• Junior midfielder Dillyn Patten joined the England Women's Senior Performance Squad this past December.
• The England Women's Field Lacrosse Team is ranked third in the world and won the Women's European Lacrosse Championship 2024. 
• Patten's sister, Kendall '24, played soccer for the Big Red, as did her mother, Corinne (Cantrall) Patten '92.
• The Big Red has qualified for the Ivy League Tournament 10 times in the 14 years it has been held.
• Senior defender Alessia Packard has a sister (Antonia '25, field hockey) and brother (Charles '34, men's lacrosse) who are recent Big Red graduates and varsity athletes.

THE CAPTAINS
• The Big Red is led by three captains this season: seniors Caitlin Slaminko and Lucy Dwyer along with junior Caitlin Tully. 
• Slaminko returns as a two-time captain, while Tully and Dwyer take on the role for the first time.

NEW YORK STATE OF MIND
• The matchup with Niagara on Feb. 25 was Cornell's 250th all-time game against fellow New York state schools.
• Cornell has traditionally been very successful against collegiate teams from New York state, posting an all-time record of 162-85-3 (.654).
• The Big Red has four New York teams on its schedule during the 2025 season – Syracuse (L, 18-10), Colgate (15-6), Niagara (24-7) and Columbia.

NOTES ON JENNY GRAAP '86
• Jenny Graap '86 ranks as the 12th active winningest Division I women's lacrosse coach with her 258 career victories. Directly ahead of her in 11th is Joe Spallina of Stony Brook with 283 victories.
• Her 28 seasons on the Big Red sidelines makes her the third-longest tenured coach at their school entering the 2025 season, behind only Duke's Kerstin Kimel (1996) and North Carolina's Jenny Levy (1996).
• Graap ranks fourth on the Ivy League's all-time wins list, behind only Princeton's Chris Sailer (433 from 1987-2022), Penn's Karin Corbett (270 from 2000-present) and Harvard's Carole Kleinfelder (259 from 1979-2003) as of Feb. 23.
• In her 28th season, Graap is the longest tenured women's head coach in school history  (in any sport) and is currently the Dean among women's lacrosse coaches in the Ivy League.
• Graap's 237 career wins (and counting) for the Big Red ranks her 12th all-time among Cornell head coaches in all sports and second among women coaches (behind Andrea Dutcher with 346 volleyball wins from 1974-87).

HALL OF FAME
• Jessi Steinberg '12 was inducted into the Cornell Athletics Hall of Fame this past fall.
• A three-time first-team All-Ivy League selection and a three-time IWLCA Northeast All-Region pick, she graduated with the fourth-most points (177), third-most goals (136) and eighth-most assists (41) in school history. 
• Steinberg's senior season total of 65 points was also the third-best single season ever at Cornell.
• The two-time Big Red team captain was the leading scorer for the Israeli national team that competed at the 2017 FIL World Cup and again competed in 2022.

IVY PRESEASON POLL
• The Big Red was chosen sixth in the Ivy League Preseason Media Poll announced in February.
• Cornell finished with a total of 54 points, just behind Harvard (71) and Brown (62) for the coveted fourth spot that will yield a spot in the Ivy League Tournament.
• Yale (125 points, 13 first-place votes), Penn (107 points, two first-place votes) and Princeton (104 points, one first-place vote) were chosen in the top three after making the NCAA Tournament a season ago.
• Dartmouth (54) and Columbia (17) rounded out the field.

NEXT UP
• Cornell begins Ivy League play when it welcomes Brown to Schoellkopf Field in Friday, March 7 at 7 p.m.
• The game will be broadcast on ESPN+.
• The Big Red leads the all-time series 25-18, though the Bears have won three straight and four of the past five contests.
• Cornell's last win came during the 2019 season, a 10-7 Big Red victory in Ithaca.