Princeton University Athletics
Women's Hockey's 2011-12 Schedule Announced
September 02, 2011 | Women's Ice Hockey
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PRINCETON (9/2/11) -- The 2011-12 Princeton women's hockey schedule was recently announced by Princeton head coach Jeff Kampersal. The schedule features 22 ECAC Hockey games and seven non-conference games against teams from the three other college hockey conferences. Princeton went 16-14-1 last season and finished fourth in the ECAC Hockey standings.
After a preseason scrimmage at Brown with Yale, the Tigers will open the regular season with two non-league games at hone on Oct. 21 and 22. Princeton will skate against Northeastern in its season opener for the second straight season and will then face Niagara for the first time since the 2000-01 season.
Princeton will open its league slate a weekend later on the road at Union and Rensselaer as the first two of eight straight league games. Princeton alternates home and away weekends through Thanksgiving as it hosts Brown and Yale, visits St. Lawrence and Clarkson and then hosts Cornell and Colgate.
The Tigers take a break from league action Thanksgiving weekend to play at Boston College and New Hampshire. Princeton closes the first half of the season with four league games, visiting Yale and Brown the first weekend of December and playing a home-and-home with Quinnipiac a week later.
Princeton returns from the holiday break to visit Ohio State on Dec. 30-31, five years after the teams last played in late December of 2006. Princeton continues its intersession schedule at home against Harvard and Dartmouth, and then at Colgate and Cornell during the first two weekends of January before the exam break.
Princeton comes out of the break with its final non-league game of the season, a Monday afternoon contest with Robert Morris on Jan. 30, before three league weekends to close the season. It will be the first ever meeting between the two schools.
The stretch-run to the postseason begins on Feb. 3 and 4 with games at Dartmouth and Harvard. Princeton closes the season with two straight home weekends, hosting Clarkson and St. Lawrence, followed by Rensselaer and Union.
The top-eight ECAC finishers will qualify for the ECAC Tournament, which begins the following weekend with best-of-three quarterfinal series at campus sites.