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Nicole Loncar and the Tigers will head to Yale Saturday.
Photo by: Beverly Schaefer
Ivy Opener to Come Saturday for Women's Soccer at Yale
September 20, 2016 | Women's Soccer
Saturday at Yale, 4 p.m.: Free Admission | Live Stats | Live Video (ESPN3) & Live Video (ILDN) | Facility Info
The Ivy League season will begin Saturday for the Princeton women's soccer team when the Tigers head to Yale for a 4 p.m. start.
RPI: The NCAA's first RPI release came Monday, and Princeton checked in at No. 34, 54 spots ahead of the next-closest Ivy League team (Brown, No. 88).Â
Best start: Princeton's 7-1 start is its best since 2004, when the Tigers won 14 of their first 15 games.
Records: Already the owner of Princeton's career goals record and points record, senior Tyler Lussi surpassed Penn alum Katy Cross (50) as the Ivy League's top goal scorer since 1988 with a penalty-kick goal last Sunday at Duquesne, the 51st goal of her career. She now trails only Harvard's Kelly Landry (68) and Sue St. Louis (66) and Brown's Theresa Hirschauer (62), all of whom played in the 1980s, on the Ivy League's all-time goal list. Lussi, with 117 points, needs nine more points to become the league's top point scorer since 1988, trailing Landry at 160, St. Louis at 148, Hirschauer at 131 and Cross at 125.
Rookies: Despite having 10 starters available to return for Princeton, the freshman class has managed to make its mark, with Natalie Grossi starting each of the first eight games in goal and earning Ivy League Rookie of the Week for Week 2 after two shutouts in her first four games. Abby Givens joined Tomi Kennedy as freshmen who've recorded their first career goals already this season, doing so against Monmouth. Olivia Sheppard, Emily Hilliard and Givens have joined Grossi in getting starts this season.
Weekly honors: Tyler Lussi has won two Ivy League Player of the Week honors and Mimi Asom won one, giving Princeton three winners in the league's first four weekends. Natalie Grossi earned Ivy Rookie of the Week honors after the season's second weekend. Lussi's recognitions this year give her nine for her career, extending her Ivy League record.
Stat rankings: Through Monday's games, Tyler Lussi was No. 1 in the nation in shots on goal per game at 3.25, No. 3 in goals per game (1.0), No. 4 in the nation in game-winning goals (four) and No. 5 shots per game. She was also seventh in total goals (eight) and eighth in total points (19).Â
Turning 20: Sean Driscoll, in his second season coaching the Tigers, is the second-fastest coach to 20 wins in program history, going 21-5-1 in his first 27 games through the WVU-Duquesne weekend. That puts him behind only the program's first coach, Bob Malekoff, who won 20 of his first 23 games in 1980 and '81. Malekoff and Driscoll are the only Tiger coaches to reach 20 wins in fewer than 41 games. Driscoll is the first Tiger coach to lead the team to the NCAA tournament in his first year, which he did last season in a run that included a first-round home win over Boston College.
Common foes: Princeton and Yale had no common non-league opponents, and with this being the Ivy League opener, neither has faced the same Ivy team yet either.
Series history: Princeton leads Yale 24-12-2 all-time. Last year's 3-0 Princeton win at Roberts Stadium broke a seven-year losing skid for the home team in the series. Jesse McDonough (2013), Haley Chow (2013), Tyler Lussi (2014, 2016 [2]) and Natalie Larkin (2015) have all scored goals against the Bulldogs. The Tigers will be looking for a three-game win streak in the series for the first time since 2002-04, and the Tigers have opened the Ivy season with Yale annually since 2008.
On Yale:Â Rookie Aerial Chavarin has scored six of the team's 17 goals on the season, scoring in three straight games. The Bulldogs, however, have picked up just one win in six contests (1-3-2) since opening 3-0. Rudy Meredith, now in his 22nd season, is the dean of the current cohort of Ivy League women's soccer coaches, leading the Bulldogs to the NCAA Round of 16 in 2005. Since then, Princeton (2012, 2015) and Harvard (2014) have won a game in the NCAAs, but Yale remains the last team to advance twice in the bracket.
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The Ivy League season will begin Saturday for the Princeton women's soccer team when the Tigers head to Yale for a 4 p.m. start.
RPI: The NCAA's first RPI release came Monday, and Princeton checked in at No. 34, 54 spots ahead of the next-closest Ivy League team (Brown, No. 88).Â
Best start: Princeton's 7-1 start is its best since 2004, when the Tigers won 14 of their first 15 games.
Records: Already the owner of Princeton's career goals record and points record, senior Tyler Lussi surpassed Penn alum Katy Cross (50) as the Ivy League's top goal scorer since 1988 with a penalty-kick goal last Sunday at Duquesne, the 51st goal of her career. She now trails only Harvard's Kelly Landry (68) and Sue St. Louis (66) and Brown's Theresa Hirschauer (62), all of whom played in the 1980s, on the Ivy League's all-time goal list. Lussi, with 117 points, needs nine more points to become the league's top point scorer since 1988, trailing Landry at 160, St. Louis at 148, Hirschauer at 131 and Cross at 125.
Rookies: Despite having 10 starters available to return for Princeton, the freshman class has managed to make its mark, with Natalie Grossi starting each of the first eight games in goal and earning Ivy League Rookie of the Week for Week 2 after two shutouts in her first four games. Abby Givens joined Tomi Kennedy as freshmen who've recorded their first career goals already this season, doing so against Monmouth. Olivia Sheppard, Emily Hilliard and Givens have joined Grossi in getting starts this season.
Weekly honors: Tyler Lussi has won two Ivy League Player of the Week honors and Mimi Asom won one, giving Princeton three winners in the league's first four weekends. Natalie Grossi earned Ivy Rookie of the Week honors after the season's second weekend. Lussi's recognitions this year give her nine for her career, extending her Ivy League record.
Stat rankings: Through Monday's games, Tyler Lussi was No. 1 in the nation in shots on goal per game at 3.25, No. 3 in goals per game (1.0), No. 4 in the nation in game-winning goals (four) and No. 5 shots per game. She was also seventh in total goals (eight) and eighth in total points (19).Â
Turning 20: Sean Driscoll, in his second season coaching the Tigers, is the second-fastest coach to 20 wins in program history, going 21-5-1 in his first 27 games through the WVU-Duquesne weekend. That puts him behind only the program's first coach, Bob Malekoff, who won 20 of his first 23 games in 1980 and '81. Malekoff and Driscoll are the only Tiger coaches to reach 20 wins in fewer than 41 games. Driscoll is the first Tiger coach to lead the team to the NCAA tournament in his first year, which he did last season in a run that included a first-round home win over Boston College.
Common foes: Princeton and Yale had no common non-league opponents, and with this being the Ivy League opener, neither has faced the same Ivy team yet either.
Series history: Princeton leads Yale 24-12-2 all-time. Last year's 3-0 Princeton win at Roberts Stadium broke a seven-year losing skid for the home team in the series. Jesse McDonough (2013), Haley Chow (2013), Tyler Lussi (2014, 2016 [2]) and Natalie Larkin (2015) have all scored goals against the Bulldogs. The Tigers will be looking for a three-game win streak in the series for the first time since 2002-04, and the Tigers have opened the Ivy season with Yale annually since 2008.
On Yale:Â Rookie Aerial Chavarin has scored six of the team's 17 goals on the season, scoring in three straight games. The Bulldogs, however, have picked up just one win in six contests (1-3-2) since opening 3-0. Rudy Meredith, now in his 22nd season, is the dean of the current cohort of Ivy League women's soccer coaches, leading the Bulldogs to the NCAA Round of 16 in 2005. Since then, Princeton (2012, 2015) and Harvard (2014) have won a game in the NCAAs, but Yale remains the last team to advance twice in the bracket.
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