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Women's Soccer Historical Timeline

September 28, 1983
Meagan McMahan scores three goals in a 6-0 win over Wells College, marking the first-ever hat trick in Cornell women's soccer history.

October 3, 1987
Laurie Collier becomes the first Big Red women's soccer player to score four goals in single game, accounting for each strike in a 4-0 Big Red win over Yale. Cornell would claim its first Ivy League championship and Collier would be named an All-American for a third straight year.

September 14, 1991
The Cornell women's soccer team opens the 1991 season with a 2-0 win over Columbia, embarking on an eight-match unbeaten streak to open the year.

November 6, 1991
Cornell earns its second Ivy League title after a 2-0 victory at Penn.

October 18, 1992
For the second consecutive day, Lori Penny registers a hat trick for Cornell, as she scored three times in a 5-0 win over Penn, before answering that performance with three more scores in a 7-0 home win over Bucknell.

September 9, 1994
Cornell defeats first-year varsity program Penn State in overtime, 2-1. The Nittany Lions are led by head coach Patrick Farmer, who later became the fifth head coach in Cornell program history.

October 16, 1994
Cornell defeats No. 4 Hartford, 2-0, leading to the Big Red being ranked No. 14 in the country.

October 22, 1995:
Cornell rolls for a 4-0 home win against Yale, earning its first Ivy League victory since joining the Ivy League ranks a year prior.

November 4, 1995
Cornell wraps up its second undefeated Ivy League season (5-0-2) with a 1-0 victory against Yale. While the Big Red eventually sets a program record with 11 wins that season, it finished second to Harvard (6-0-1) in the Ivy League tables despite playing the Crimson to a scoreless draw.

September 5, 2010
Cornell explodes for seven goals, nearly matching the team's previous season total (8) in a 7-0 blanking of Delaware State.

September 15, 2013
Brenna Mockler scores with 7.8 seconds left in the second half, capping a wild 5-4 victory over UAlbany at Berman Field after the Great Danes tied the game 35 second earlier. Elizabeth Crowell had a five-point game (one goal, three assists) for Cornell.

September 12, 2014
Caroline Growney and Elizabeth Crowell have four-point nights as Cornell blasts VMI, 5-0, to open the 2014 campaign with a 3-0 record, the Big Red's best three-match start in 10 years.

September 27, 2015
Playing its 10th game of the season, Cornell defeats Wagner, 2-1, after conceding its first goal of the year. The Big Red is the last Division I team in the country to surrender a goal after a program-record shutout streak of 1,054 minutes, 19 seconds.

October 29, 2022
Reagan Pauwels scores the go-ahead goal in the 50th minute to give Cornell a 2-1 victory over Princeton, snapping the program's 25-game losing streak to the Tigers.