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Princeton University Athletics
Women's Soccer's 2011 Schedule Announced
June 29, 2011 | Women's Soccer
A season-opening visit to California, seven home games and four new opponents are part of the 2011 Princeton women's soccer schedule.
The Tigers will travel to the Golden State for the first time since 2003 to open their season at Long Beach State on Sept. 2 and at Cal State Northridge two days later before returning east for three regional games against Seton Hall, Villanova and William & Mary.
The Tigers resumed the series with Seton Hall at Roberts Stadium a year ago and will make a return trip to South Orange on Sept. 9. It will be the first game back at Seton Hall for newly named Princeton assistant coach Esmeralda Negron '05, who spent four years at Seton Hall before returning to her alma mater.
Villanova, which Princeton last met in 2007, will host the Tigers for the first time since 1994 on Sept. 11 before the Tigers head to William & Mary on Sept. 16. Princeton head coach Julie Shackford's alma mater, William & Mary last hosted the Tigers in 2006.
Roberts Stadium will see its first women's soccer game of the new year on Sept. 18 when Princeton welcomes La Salle to campus for the first time since 2005. Three days later, on Sept. 21, Lafayette will make its first visit to Princeton since 1997 and first appearance on Princeton's schedule since 1998.
A visit from Yale on Sept. 24 will begin Ivy League play for the Tigers, who will also host Columbia on Oct. 15 and Cornell on Oct. 29 in Ivy play. Road Ivy matches for Princeton will include Dartmouth on Oct. 1, Brown on Oct. 8, Harvard on Oct. 22 and Penn on Nov. 5 to close the regular season.
Once Ivy play begins, Princeton will have three more non-league games, two at Roberts Stadium. In Bethlehem, Pa., Lehigh and Princeton will meet for the sixth straight year on Oct. 12 while two new opponents, Francis Marion, a Division I independent, will visit on Oct. 10 and Utah Valley, of the Great West Conference, will come to Roberts Stadium on Oct. 18. Both Francis Marion and Utah Valley, along with Long Beach State and Cal State Northridge, are first-time opponents for the Tigers.
Princeton finished 9-6-1 overall and 4-2-1 in the Ivy League a year ago, taking the Ivy race to the final day against Penn.
Correction: An earlier version of this announcement had the Oct. 12 game vs. Lehigh at home. It is at Lehigh.