ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell women's lacrosse team will attempt to shake up the Ivy League standings when it hosts No. 8/7 Princeton on Saturday, April 5 at 12 p.m. at Schoellkopf Field. The contest will be broadcast on ESPN+.

• The Big Red enters the weekend a half-game behind the Tigers and Penn, who both sit atop the Ivy standings at 2-0, with sights set on qualifying for the Ancient Eight tournament.
• Cornell closes the regular season with four consecutive Ivy games, all vs. teams ranked in the top 25 of this week's poll. 
• Head coach Jenny Graap's group will look to rewrite recent history, as it will attempt to top Princeton in Ithaca for the first time since 1988 (a 17-game skid), as well as end a nine-game losing streak against the Tigers overall.
• Cornell improved to 8-3 on the year following its 16-6 victory at New Hampshire on Monday, a game that saw the Big Red score 11 consecutive goals in the first half. 
• Cornell's offense has been explosive, averaging 15.0 goals per game (14th nationally) with 10 of its 11 contests in double figures and two games with 20 or more goals (and one additional with 19).
• 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
#8/7 Princeton at Cornell
DATE & TIME: Saturday, April 5 at 12 p.m.
SITE: Schoellkopf Field - Ithaca, N.Y.
RECORDS: Princeton 8-1 (2-0 Ivy); Cornell 8-3 (2-1 Ivy)
SERIES RECORD: Princeton leads 44-5
BROADCAST: ESPN+
STATS: CornellBigRed.com
DIGITAL PROGRAM: CornellBigRed.com
GAME NOTES: CornellBigRed.com

A WIN OVER PRINCETON WOULD ...
• move the Big Red's record to 9-3 on the season.
• make Cornell 3-1 in Ivy League play.
• narrow the deficit in the all-time series to 44-6 and snap a nine-game Princeton win streak over Cornell.
• be the first win by the Big Red over the Tigers in Ithaca since 1988, snapping a 17-game home skid in the process.
• mark the highest ranked opponent Cornell has defeated since topping No. 4 USC 11-10 on March 19, 2017 in Boston, Mass.
• push Graap's career record at Cornell to 243-171 (.587) and to 264-215 overall (.551).
• be the 385th in program history (384-336-4, .533).

LAST TIME VS. PRINCETON
• The Cornell women's lacrosse team got within one with 58 seconds to go and had the final chance to find the equalizer, but the Big Red could not push the game into overtime, falling 13-12 to the Tigers at Class of '52 Stadium. 
• Senior Caitlin Slaminko led the charge for a Big Red offense that registered more shots (36-30) and shots on goal (21-16) than the home team, registering her first hat trick of the season alongside a team-high six draw controls. 
• Junior Josie Vogel also registered her sixth multi-point outing of the season with two goals and an assist and reserve Dylan Madigan registered the first two goals of her Big Red career. 
• Kylie Gelabert (one goal, three assists) and Ella Wilmot (career-high three assists) closed out the multi-point performances for the Big Red.
• Six Tigers registered two points or more in the win, including five goals for the second time this season by senior attacker Grace Tauckus.

LAST TIME OUT
• The Cornell women's lacrosse scored 11 seconds into the game, then 11 consecutive times in the first half en route to a dominant 16-6 win over New Hampshire at Wildcat Field. 
• Dillyn Patten scored three goals and assisted on another and found the back of the net just 11 seconds into the contest to set the tone for a win that saw Cornell playing much of the contest with a running clock. 
• Seven different players had multi-point efforts and 11 scored a goal as the Big Red's balanced attack proved too much for the Wildcats. 
• Kylie Gelabert scored a goal and added two assists along with three of the visitors' 12 caused turnovers on the day. 
• Cornell held a 16-8 edge in draw controls, including 13-3 in the decisive first half with Ellie Bergin winning six to herself. 
• Lexie Tulley added two goals, two ground balls, two caused turnovers and a pair of draw controls in the victory and Cameron Traveis had a goal, four draws, three ground balls and a caused turnover. 
• The Big Red had a 39-11 edge in shots.

MILESTONE WATCH
• Senior Josie Vogel's 129 points rank 18th all-time at Cornell and needs one to reach 16th and four to reach the top 15.
• With 101 career goals, Vogel is seven 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 (51).
• Senior Caitlin Slaminko is seven draw controls away from reaching the top 15 all-time in that category (currently with 83).
• 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
• Senior Caitlin Slaminko (99) is on the doorstep of becoming the 31st player in school history to reach 100 career points. Three classmates, Josie Vogel (18th, 129), Kylie Gelabert (25th, 111) and Maggie Pons (29th, 103) have all reached the century mark.
• 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 nine of its 10 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 nine of 11 games this season and over 80 percent six 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 nine games this season, junior Ella Wilmot (21 goals, 17 assists) has more than tripled 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.

NOTES ON JENNY GRAAP '86
• Jenny Graap '86 ranks as the 12th active winningest Division I women's lacrosse coach with her 261 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 (273 from 2000-present) and Harvard's Carole Kleinfelder (259 from 1979-2003) as of March 19.
• 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 240 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 closes out its home season when it welcomes nationally-ranked Harvard to town for Senior Day on Saturday, April 12 at 12 p.m.
• The contest will be broadcast on ESPN+.
• The Crimson leads the all-time series 26-19 and has won two straight matchups.
• Cornell is 19-7 in the series since 2000 with its last win a 10-9, double-overtime victory in the 2022 campaign.