ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell women's lacrosse team will attempt to knock off ranked opponents in back-to-back games for the first time since 2016 when it meets No. 16/18 Penn on Saturday, April 19 at 3:30 p.m. at historic Franklin Field. The contest will be broadcast on ESPN+.

• The Big Red enters the weekend tied for third in the Ivy standings with Penn (this weekend's opponent) and Yale (next weekend's opponent) at 3-2 with its sights set on qualifying for the Ancient Eight tournament.
• The Big Red last won consecutive games vs. ranked foes when it topped No. 13 Princeton (10-9 in OT) and No. 12 Penn (11-10) at the 2016 Ivy Tournament — also at Franklin Field.
• Cornell is in the midst of closing the regular season with four consecutive Ivy games against ranked opponents, splitting the first two meetings at home including a 13-12 victory over No. 21/22 Harvard in its home finale.
• The Big Red will now face the Quakers as two of the four teams jockeying for the final two slots in the Ivy Tournament. 
• The contest will be the 26th all-time meeting between Cornell's Jenny Graap (fourth, 243) and Penn's Karin Brower Corbett (second, 275), two of the four winningest head coaches in Ivy women's lacrosse history. Penn has a 17-9 edge in that series dating back to 2000.
• 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) a season ago.

GAME INFORMATION
Cornell at #16/18 Penn
DATE & TIME: Saturday, April 19 at 3:30 p.m.
SITE: Franklin Field - Philadelphia, Pa.
RECORDS: Cornell 9-4 (3-2 Ivy); Penn 7-5 (3-2  Ivy)
SERIES RECORD: Penn leads 33-18
BROADCAST: ESPN+
STATS: CornellBigRed.com
DIGITAL PROGRAM: CornellBigRed.com
GAME NOTES: CornellBigRed.com

A WIN OVER PENN WOULD ...
• move the Big Red's record to 10-4 on the season.
• make Cornell 4-2 in Ivy League play.
• push Graap's career record at Cornell to 244-172 (.587) and to 265-216 overall (.551).
• be the 386th in program history (385-337-4, .533).

LAST TIME VS. PENN
• A six-point performance from junior attacker Kylie Gelabert was not enough for the Cornell women's lacrosse team, as it fell 11-7 to the Penn Quakers on Schoellkopf Field. 
• Gelabert's four goals and two assists paced the Cornell offense. 
• Senior Caitlin Slaminko also had a strong performance with her sixth multi-goal outing to tie her career high of 17 set last season, while Alexa Donahoe had the other goal on the day for Cornell. 
• Junior Josie Vogel also dished out two assists to extend her points streak to 26 consecutive games, and senior midfielder Bridget Babcock had a game-high four caused turnovers and ground balls. 
• Mackenzie Clark, who made her first career start in net, stopped a career-high ten shots. 
• Anna Brandt led the sheet for Penn with her ninth-consecutive multi-goal output with four and tied Babcock for the lead in caused turnovers with four. Niki Miles (three goals, two assists), 
• Senior Kelly Van Hoesen also earned her ninth win of the season with eight saves.

LAST TIME OUT
• Sophomore Ellie Bergin's goal with under 40 seconds to play put the Cornell women's lacrosse team ahead and junior Mackenzie Clark's save at the buzzer gave their senior teammates a final moment of celebration on Schoellkopf Field as the Big Red topped No. 21 Harvard 13-12. 
• Senior Kylie Gelabert tied a single-game school record with six assists, including one on the game-winning shot, as part of a seven-point effort as part of a balanced offense led by her classmates. 
• Maggie Pons recorded four goals, Josie Vogel scored three times and Caitlin Slaminko had a goal and seven huge draw controls in the victory. 
• Ella Wilmot had a goal and four assists as part of a five-point day. 
• Clark made eight saves, all coming in the final three quarters, in picking up the victory in goal.
• Harvard's Caroline Mullahy had two goals and five assists for seven points, while Callie Batchelder scored three times and assisted on another. 
• Both Charlotte Hodgson and Charley Meier had a pair of scores and Grace Mullahy posted a goal and two assists.

MILESTONE WATCH
• Senior Caitlin Slaminko (46) and Ella Wilmot (45) are on the verge of reaching 50 points this season, a total reached by just 21 players at Cornell.
• Slaminko is nine draw controls away from becoming the 11th player in school history to reach 100.
• Senior Josie Vogel's 133 points rank 15th all-time at Cornell and needs two to reach 13th.
• With 104 career goals, Vogel is four away from joining the school's top 10 list.
• With 48 assists, Maggie Pons is on the verge of becoming the 10th player in school history with 50 helpers, joining teammate Kylie Gelabert (58).
• Senior Kylie Gelabert's 58 career assists are two shy of reaching No. 6 in school history.
• Gelabert has 25 assists this season (No. 10 all-time at Cornell), needing five to reach the top five in a single campaign.
• Sophomore Ellie Bergin's 61 draw controls this season ranks fifth in a single-season, just 12 shy of Annie Thomas who had 73 in 2022. She is three away from climbing to third and seven from second place.
• Senior Ellie Horner is the fifth Big Red goalkeeper with 20 career wins and is three away from joining the top four.
• With 266 career saves, Horner needs 10 to jump to seventh on Cornell's career list.

NOTES TO KNOW
• Four classmates have reached the century mark in career points — Josie Vogel (15th, 133), Kylie Gelabert (23rd, 120), Maggie Pons (27th, 109) and Caitlin Slaminko (29th, 105) are all over 100 points.
• Senior Maggie Pons tied the school's single-game record for assists with six in the win over Binghamton — a mark hit six times previously, the last by Emily Tripodi against Boston University in 2013.
• The Big Red has reached double figures in goals in 12 of its 13 contests this season with a pair of 20-goal games and another with 19 scores.
• 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.
• Sophomore Ellie Bergin's 13 draw controls against Binghamton established a new single-game school record, surpassing the 12 Annie Thomas '24 recorded against UAlbany in 2022. 
• Bergin followed that up the next game with 10 draws, becoming just the second player in school history to have multiple games with 10 or more draws (Annie Thomas '24 did it four times).
• The Big Red has posted three of the four highest single-game draw control totals in school history, including matching the record of 22 against Columbia.  
• Cornell's offense has put at least 70 percent of its shots on target in 11 of 13 games this season and over 80 percent seven times.
• The defense caused 18 turnovers against Stanford earlier this season, the most by a Big Red team in a game since forcing 19 at Rutgers in 2010.
• In nine contests against unranked opponents in 2025 (8-1), the Big Red offense is averaging 16.4 goals and the defense has allowed just 9.2 goals and posted a .461 save percentage.
• The Big Red is 8-0 this season when leading at the half, keeping up its wild success when leading at the break under head coach Jenny Graap '86 (195-21, .903).
• In 12 games this season, junior Ella Wilmot (23 goals, 25 assists) has quadrupled her career scoring total entering the campaign (12 points).
• Another big trend under Graap — Cornell is 194-25 (.886) when holding opponents to fewer than 10 goals in a game and 93-2 (.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.
• 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 '24, 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 163-85-3 (.654).
• The Big Red has five New York teams on its schedule during the 2025 season – Syracuse (L, 18-10), Colgate (15-6), Niagara (24-7), Binghamton (W, 20-9) and Columbia (19-13).

NOTES ON JENNY GRAAP '86
• Jenny Graap '86 ranks as the 12th active winningest Division I women's lacrosse coach with her 264 career victories. Directly ahead of her in 11th is Joe Spallina of Stony Brook who entered the season 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 (276 from 2000-present) and Harvard's Carole Kleinfelder (259 from 1979-2003) as of April 15.
• 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 243 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
• The Cornell women's lacrosse team closes out the regular season when it visits No. 6 Yale on Saturday, April 26 at 12 p.m.
• The contest will be broadcast on ESPN+.
• Cornell leads the all-time series 23-22, though the Bulldogs have won three of the past four matchups.
• Prior to that, the Big Red had won 12 consecutive games against the Bulldogs.