.png&width=24&type=webp)
Princeton University Athletics
Players Mentioned
Season, Career Finales to Come Saturday for Women's Soccer Against Penn
November 06, 2014 | Women's Soccer
 |
Game 16: Princeton vs. Penn |
 |
| 7-5-3, 3-2-1 |
Team Record | 7-5-3, 2-3-1 |
| 2.20 | Goals Per Game | 1.07 |
| 1.79 | Goals Against Average | 1.08 |
| 17 | All-Time Series Wins (2 ties) | 9 |
Finales All Around: Princeton's nine seniors will close their careers Saturday against Penn, and head coach Julie Shackford will finish her tenure at Princeton after 20 seasons, six Ivy League championships and an Ivy-record eight NCAA tournament appearances, highlighted by the team's run to the 2004 NCAA College Cup semifinals.
Ivy Title Scenarios: Princeton remains alive for a share of the Ivy League title, but three things have to happen in order for Princeton to gain a share:
• Princeton must defeat Penn to finish with 13 points.
• Columbia must defeat Harvard for Harvard to finish with 13 points.
• Cornell must defeat or tie Dartmouth for Dartmouth to finish with 12 or 13 points.
Even if Princeton were to gain a share of the Ivy title, whether in a three-way tie with Dartmouth and Harvard or a two-way tie with Harvard, the Tigers couldn't get the Ivy's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament because of an 0-1-1 record against Harvard and Dartmouth or an 0-1 record against Harvard. Dartmouth would beat out Harvard and Princeton for the auto bid in a three-way tie because of an 1-0-1 record against the group. Dartmouth wins a two-way tie with Harvard because of the Big Green's 2-0 win over the Crimson last weekend. The Columbia-Harvard game will start at 1:30 Saturday with the Dartmouth-Cornell game set for 2:30 and Penn-Princeton set for 3 p.m.
Against the Quakers: Princeton won 10 of the first 11 games against Penn, but since 1997, Penn leads the series 8-7-2. No team has won back-to-back games in the series since Princeton won three straight from 2004-06.
Last Meeting: Penn beat Princeton 3-2 on Nov. 8, 2013 in Philadelphia, with Tyler Lussi scoring both goals to become the highest-scoring Princeton freshman since 1982. Clara Midgley and Erin Mikolai, both back, and Kathryn Barth, now graduated, had Penn's goals, and both goalkeepers are likely to meet once again with Darcy Hargadon for Princeton and Kalijah Terilli for Penn.
203 and Counting: Princeton head coach Julie Shackford recorded her 200th win at Princeton with the Oct. 11 5-0 win over Brown, and she added 201 at Army on Oct. 14, 202 on Nov. 1 at Cornell and 203 Tuesday against N.C. State. She's the second women's soccer coach in Ivy League history to win 200 games at a league school, following Brown's Phil Pincince. Five years and a day earlier than the Brown game this year, Shackford picked up her 200th overall career win, including 42 from her four years at Carnegie Mellon, also against Brown.
In the Ivy Rankings: Princeton leads the Ivy League heading into the weekend in shots overall and per game (231, 15.4), points overall and per game (108, 7.2), goals overall and per game (33, 2.20), and assists overall and per game (42, 2.8).
More Ivy Rankings: Individually, Tyler Lussi enters the weekend No. 1 in the league in shots overall and per game (76, 5.07), points overall and per game (38, 2.53), and goals overall and per game (18, 1.2). Lauren Lazo is No. 1 in assists overall and per game (10, 0.71). The top four players in the Ivy in assists overall and per game are Tigers, including Lauren Lazo, Vanessa Gregoire, Natalie Larkin and Beth Stella.
NCAA Rankings: Through games of Nov. 4, Princeton's best national statistical ranking was in assists per game, standing sixth at 2.8. Tyler Lussi appeared on five statistical lists with a high of No. 2 in the nation at 1.2 goals per game, and Lauren Lazo was on five lists with a high of eighth in assists per game at 0.71. Beth Stella (53rd, 0.43 assists per game), Natalie Larkin (53rd, 0.43 assists per game) and Vanessa Gregoire (69th, seven total assists) were also in national top-100 rankings.
Lussi Making History: Sophomore Tyler Lussi has outpaced any player in program history in scoring goals over her freshman and sophomore years. Her 18 goals on the season give her 28 for her career, surpassing Linda DeBoer '86, who had 24 goals through first two years.
More Lussi: With her 28 career goals, Lussi is in fifth place on Princeton's all-time career list. She's one goal ahead of teammate Lauren Lazo, who has 27. Beyond 28 goals, Jen Hoy '13 is in fourth place at 36, while Emily Behncke '06 is third at 39, Linda DeBoer '86 second at 41, and current assistant coach Esmeralda Negron '05 is the record holder at 47.
Single-season record?: Only Esmeralda Negron '05 (20, 2004) and Jen Hoy '13 (18, 2012) have scored as many goals in a single season than the 18 Tyler Lussi has scored this fall.
Lazo: Princeton senior Lauren Lazo, who is aiming to become the first Tiger since Diana Matheson '08 to earn All-Ivy League honors in all four years, is climbing up the Princeton career goal, assist and point charts. A look at where Lazo, and Tyler Lussi, stand heading into the Penn game:
| Goals | Assists | Points | |||||
| 47 | Esmeralda Negron '05 | 26 | Lauren Lazo | 112 | Esmeralda Negron '05 | ||
| 41 | Linda DeBoer '86 | 26 | Diana Matheson '08 | 94 | Linda DeBoer '86 | ||
| 39 | Emily Behncke '06 | 90 | Emily Behncke '06 | ||||
| 36 | Jen Hoy '13 | 83 | Jen Hoy '13 | ||||
| 28 | Tyler Lussi |
80 | Lauren Lazo | ||||
| 27 | Lauren Lazo |
78 | Diana Matheson '08 | ||||
| 62 | Tyler Lussi |
Play to the Whistle: The Tigers have had three games go into overtime this season, but all went 110 minutes. Unless the Penn game ends during an overtime period, this season will be Princeton's first since 2006 in which no games were decided with a sudden-victory goal.
Rookies: Princeton has seven freshmen this year and all have had a start this season. Alessia Azermadhi is among the three Tigers who have started all 15 of the team's games, and Vanessa Gregoire, Natalie Larkin and Katie Pratt-Thompson have each started every game in which she has played. Five of the six field players in the class have scored points, led by Gregoire's nine points on a goal and seven assists.
Common Foes: Aside from Ivy League teams, Princeton and Penn have had two common opponents this season, both losing to William & Mary and defeating Lehigh. Now that the Ivy League season is a game from being complete, both have faced the other six teams, getting different results against four of them: a Princeton win over Cornell where the Quakers lost, a Princeton loss to Columbia where Penn won, a Princeton tie against Dartmouth where Penn lost, and a Princeton win over Yale where Penn tied.
On the Quakers: With the Quakers standing seventh in the Ivy at 1.07 goals per game and Princeton first at 2.20, the advantage may seem to point to Princeton, but Penn's GAA is only just more then a goal per game and the Quakers have shut out seven opponents this season including two straight. The Quakers will bring a shutout streak of 216:48 into the match, all but two minutes of it coming on the watch of junior keeper Kalijah Terilli. Nine players have scored a goal this season, none more than freshman Juliana Provini, with three.
Between the Posts: Senior Darcy Hargadon picked up the win Tuesday against N.C. State and has started 13 of the team's 15 games. She has accrued a 1.49 GAA while playing 1,084 of the team's 1,410 minutes.