ITHACA, N.Y. -- It's very simple — a win on Saturday afternoon at No. 6 Yale puts the Cornell women's lacrosse team in the Ivy League Tournament. A loss ends its season. That's what's on the line when the Big Red visits the Bulldogs on Saturday, April 26 at 12 p.m. at Reese Stadium in the 2025 regular season finale. The contest will be broadcast on ESPN+.

• The Big Red enters the weekend fifth in the Ivy standings, a game out of second place (Brown, Pen and Yale are all 4-2). 
• A win would give Cornell the tiebreaker over the Bulldogs at 4-3 and qualify the Big Red for its 10th Ivy League Tournament and first since 2022.
• Cornell is in the midst of closing the regular season with four consecutive Ivy games against ranked opponents, a stretch highlighted by a 13-12 victory over No. 21/22 Harvard on Senior Day.
• The Big Red has won seven straight games against the Bulldogs in New Haven, and to make it eight in a row must avenge last year's 21-8 Yale win at Schoellkopf Field.
• The Big Red packs one of the nation's top scoring offenses, ranking in the top 25 nationally in scoring offense (24th, 14.21), shot percentage (19th, .460), assists (10th, 7.8) and points per game (22.0) while reaching double figures in scoring in 12 of its 13 contests.
• Cornell's 109 assists this season is already a single-season school record.
• 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 #6/6 Yale
DATE & TIME: Saturday, April 26 at 12 p.m.
SITE: Reese Stadium - New Haven, Conn.
RECORDS: Cornell 9-5 (3-3 Ivy); Yale 11-3 (4-2  Ivy)
SERIES RECORD: Cornell leads 23-22
BROADCAST: ESPN+
STATS: CornellBigRed.com
DIGITAL PROGRAM: CornellBigRed.com
GAME NOTES: CornellBigRed.com

A WIN OVER YALE WOULD ...
• move the Big Red's record to 10-5 on the season and 4-3 in Ivy League play.
• qualify the Big Red for the Ivy League Tournament for the 10th time in program history and the first time since 2022.
• push Graap's career record at Cornell to 244-173 (.585) and to 265-217 overall (.550).
• mark the highest ranked opponent Cornell has defeated since topping No. 4 USC 11-10 on March 19, 2017 in Boston, Mass.
• up its lead in the all-time series to 24-22.
• be the eighth consecutive victory for Cornell over the Bulldogs in New Haven.
• be the 386th in program history (385-338-4, .532).

LAST TIME VS. YALE
• The No. 10 Yale Bulldogs women's lacrosse team ripped off five goals to begin the game and never looked back in handing Cornell a 21-8 loss at Schoellkopf Field. 
• Senior Bridget Babcock led the charge in her final home game in a Big Red uniform with two goals with a caused turnover and ground ball. 
• Sophomore Ella Wilmot had two goals and Dillyn Patten closed out the top of the sheet with a goal and an assist. 
• Caitlin Slaminko posted a goal and team-high five draw controls.
• Taylor Everson put together a career day with five goals and an assist on six shot attempts to pace Yale to its second 20-plus goal output of the season. 
• Fallon Vaughn (three goals, three assists), Sky Carrasquillo (four goals, one assist), and Chloe Conahgan (two goals, three assists) clocked multi-goal outings.
• Josie Vogel became the 29th player in program history to record 100 points with her goal in the third quarter.

LAST TIME OUT
• Penn broke open an early 2-2 contest behind nine goals from Anna Brandt and 13 saves by Orly Sedransk to capture an 18-10 win over Cornell at Franklin Field. 
• Kylie Gelabert led the Big Red offense with a goal and four assists, while Caitlin Slaminko (goal, two assists) Maggie Pons (goal, assist), Josie Vogel (two goals) and Holly Newman (two goals) each secured multi-point games. 
• Ellie Bergin won six draws and Caitlin Tully caused three turnovers in the loss. 
• Mackenzie Clark and Ellie Horner had two saves apiece for the Big Red in goal.
• Brandt's nine goals came alongside four ground balls and four draw control wins with the senior squeezing off 14 shots. 
• Two of Brandt's goals came on empty-net scores in the final minute to tie the school's single-game school record. 
• Sedransk was comfortable against the Big Red's high-scoring offense, making 13 total saves. 
• Catherine Berkery added a hat trick, Keeley Block had two goals and three assists and Erika Chung was credited with a goal and four helpers.

MILESTONE WATCH
• With 199 goals this year, the Big Red needs one to post the seventh season all-time with at least 200 scores.
• Junior Ella Wilmot is on the verge of scoring 50 points (currently at 48) and would join Kylie Gelabert (53) and Caitlin Slaminko (52) at that milestone. They would become the first trio of teammates to score 50 points in a season since 2000 when Lori Wohlschegel (62), Jaimee Reynolds (54) and Ginny Miles (52) each reached that mark.
• Sophomore Ellie Bergin's 69 draw controls is just four shy of Annie Thomas' record of 73 in 2022.
• Senior Caitlin Slaminko has 39 goals and is one shy of becoming the 16th player in school history to hit 40 in a year. She needs five to join the top 10 at Cornell.
• Slaminko is eight draw controls away from becoming the 11th player in school history to reach 100.
• With 106 career goals, senior Josie Vogel is two 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, where she would join teammate Kylie Gelabert (62).
• Senior Kylie Gelabert's 62 career assists are five shy of reaching No. 5 in school history.
• Gelabert has 30 assists this season (No. 5 all-time at Cornell), and needs  one to reach fourth and four to get to third in a single campaign.
• 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 (13th, 135), Kylie Gelabert (21st, 125), Maggie Pons (27th, 111) and Caitlin Slaminko (30th, 108) 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 13 of its 14 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 12 of 14 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 13 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
• With a win over No. 6 Yale, the Big Red will have qualified for the Ivy League Tournament for the 10th time and will play in the semifinals on Friday, May 2 at either 4 or 7 p.m. at the home of the highest seed.
• The contests will be broadcast on ESPN+, including the championship game on Saturday, May 4 at 12 p.m.
• A loss would conclude the 2025 season.