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Princeton University Athletics
Sunday, October 14
New York, N.Y.
3:00 PM
Princeton University
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Columbia
Photo by: Beverly Schaefer
Tigers to Visit Columbia Sunday on ESPNU
October 08, 2018 | Women's Soccer
The teams that received all 16 first-place votes in the Ivy League preseason poll will be on the same field Sunday at 3 p.m. on ESPNUÂ in a pivotal Ivy match.
Princeton at Columbia, Sunday, Oct. 14, 3 p.m. | ESPNU/ESPN3 | Live Stats | Free Admission
The Ivy outlook: Entering the weekend, Penn, Dartmouth and Harvard are all tied atop the league at 2-0-1 with seven points. Columbia is a point back with six at 2-1, and Princeton is three points back at 1-1-1 with four points. Each team has 12 points still on the table, and the Tigers still have to face three of the four teams in front of them with the trip Columbia this week, hosting Harvard next weekend, and hosting Penn on the final weekend after the trip to Cornell.
Columbia, Princeton and the 2017 Ivy League race: Princeton and Columbia met on Oct. 14, 2017 at Roberts Stadium with Princeton rolling, having won 11 of 12 to start the season with the lone loss coming at home to No. 6 West Virginia. The Lions stunned Princeton, winning 2-0 and putting the Tigers in chase mode for the Ivy title with only three weeks to play. Princeton did its part, blasting Harvard 6-1 before shutting out Cornell and Penn 2-0 and 1-0 to finish 6-1. Columbia went on to beat Dartmouth after the Princeton win, but the Lions lost to Yale to keep Princeton's Ivy title hopes alive heading into the final week. After the Tigers beat Penn on the final Saturday to clinch a share of the Ivy title, Columbia, despite outshooting Harvard 39-6 overall and 16-2 on goal, couldn't get one in against the Crimson with the automatic NCAA berth on the line and tied 0-0. That allowed Princeton to claim the Ivy title outright and snag the NCAA automatic berth.
Series with Columbia:Â Princeton leads the all-time series with the Lions 21-8-4 overall and 8-6-2 in New York. Columbia, however, has won the last two against Princeton as well as the last two in New York. Princeton's last win at Columbia came in 2012 with the Lions winning in 2014 and 2016. The Lions list the series record with Princeton at 20 wins as Columbia's varsity timeline begins in 1986, not counting a 10-0 Tiger win in 1985. Though the teams have met annually since '85, Princeton didn't allow Columbia a goal until 1992, winning the first seven meetings a combined 26-0.Â
Mimi Asom is the only current Tiger to have scored a goal against Columbia, doing so in a 3-1 win in 2015 in Princeton. Current Lions to have scored a goal against Princeton include Rachel Alexander, who scored in a 2-0 win in New York in 2016, and Emily Koe, who scored in last year's 2-0 Columbia win in Princeton. This figures to be a rematch between last year's keepers, Sophie Whitehouse for Columbia and Natalie Grossi for Princeton, who has backstopped the last two Princeton-Columbia games for the Tigers.Â
The Tigers have been shut out in their last two games against the Lions, something that has happened only once before in the series, in 2009 and 2010. Princeton has never been blanked by Columbia three times in a row.
Stat rankings: Entering the week, the Tigers ranked ninth nationally in shutout percentage, getting the clean sheet in two-thirds of their games, while Mimi Asom ranked 10th nationally in goals per game (0.83) and 17th in total goals (10).
Milestones and records: With her goal against Brown last weekend, Mimi Asom moved into a fourth-place tie on Princeton's career points list with 90, even with Emily Behncke '06. She is behind only Linda DeBoer '86 (94), Esmeralda Negron '05 (112) and former teammate Tyler Lussi '17 (122) on that list. Lussi and Asom helped Princeton to the 2015 Ivy League title and an NCAA first-round win over Boston College at Roberts Stadium before a second-round loss to USC at Virginia. Asom also moved into a third-place tie on Princeton's career goals list with 41, even with DeBoer and behind only Negron (47) and Lussi (53).Â
Sean Driscoll, the 2015 and 2017 Ivy League Coach of the Year, is 47-13-7 in his three-plus seasons at Princeton, already the third-winningest coach in program history. His .739 winning percentage is the best of any coach in program history, and he's just three wins away from becoming the third coach in program history to reach 50 wins. Only Bob Malekoff, the program's first coach, who had 52 wins from 1980-84, and predecessor Julie Shackford, who had 203 wins from 1995-2014, have more wins.Â
The preseason poll: Princeton earned 15 of the 16 first-place votes in being named the preseason Ivy League favorite in a vote of one media member from each team's area and one for from each of the Ivy's women's soccer athletic communications contacts. If the Tigers are able to fulfill that prediction, it'd be the program's 10th Ivy title and the first back-to-back since winning three in a row from 2002-04.
Who's back, who's new: Princeton returned the scorers of 37 of its 44 goals from last season, but this year, Mimi Asom (10) and rookie Gabi Juarez (four) have scored 14 of the Tigers' 18 goals with no other player scoring more than one. The Tigers had a program-record nine All-Ivy League honorees in 2017, returning first-teamers Mimi Asom, Abby Givens and Courtney O'Brien, second-teamer Lucy Rickerson and honorable mention Natalie Grossi. Asom is a three-time All-Ivy honoree, earning second-team honors in 2015 and 2016, and Givens earned honorable mention in 2016 as the only current Tigers to earn All-Ivy recognition prior to 2017. From those program-record nine honorees a year ago, Princeton took a big graduation hit on the back line, losing Natalie Larkin '18, Mikaela Symanovich '18 and Katie Pratt-Thompson '18, all second-team honorees in 2017, as well as 2017 Ivy League Co-Offensive Player of the Year Vanessa Gregoire '18, who earned the honor as a vital part of Princeton's midfield while scoring three goals and notching eight assists. The Tigers have six rookies this season, all of whom have played, with Gabi Juarez getting four goals to lead the class.
Looking back at 2017: Princeton's only losses in 2017 were to No. 6 West Virginia, Columbia and No. 4 UCLA in a 16-3-1 season where the tie was in the NCAA second round against N.C. State before Princeton advanced on penalty kicks. The Tigers went on to stun No. 2 North Carolina in the round of 16 on the Tar Heels' then-substitute home field, Koka Booth Stadium in Cary, N.C., making the national quarterfinals, where Princeton lost 3-1 to UCLA, for the second time in program history. Princeton won four times in 2004 to make the national semifinals before a 2-0 loss to UCLA. Princeton ended the season ranked No. 7 in the nation by the United Soccer Coaches.
Princeton at Columbia, Sunday, Oct. 14, 3 p.m. | ESPNU/ESPN3 | Live Stats | Free Admission
The Ivy outlook: Entering the weekend, Penn, Dartmouth and Harvard are all tied atop the league at 2-0-1 with seven points. Columbia is a point back with six at 2-1, and Princeton is three points back at 1-1-1 with four points. Each team has 12 points still on the table, and the Tigers still have to face three of the four teams in front of them with the trip Columbia this week, hosting Harvard next weekend, and hosting Penn on the final weekend after the trip to Cornell.
Columbia, Princeton and the 2017 Ivy League race: Princeton and Columbia met on Oct. 14, 2017 at Roberts Stadium with Princeton rolling, having won 11 of 12 to start the season with the lone loss coming at home to No. 6 West Virginia. The Lions stunned Princeton, winning 2-0 and putting the Tigers in chase mode for the Ivy title with only three weeks to play. Princeton did its part, blasting Harvard 6-1 before shutting out Cornell and Penn 2-0 and 1-0 to finish 6-1. Columbia went on to beat Dartmouth after the Princeton win, but the Lions lost to Yale to keep Princeton's Ivy title hopes alive heading into the final week. After the Tigers beat Penn on the final Saturday to clinch a share of the Ivy title, Columbia, despite outshooting Harvard 39-6 overall and 16-2 on goal, couldn't get one in against the Crimson with the automatic NCAA berth on the line and tied 0-0. That allowed Princeton to claim the Ivy title outright and snag the NCAA automatic berth.
Series with Columbia:Â Princeton leads the all-time series with the Lions 21-8-4 overall and 8-6-2 in New York. Columbia, however, has won the last two against Princeton as well as the last two in New York. Princeton's last win at Columbia came in 2012 with the Lions winning in 2014 and 2016. The Lions list the series record with Princeton at 20 wins as Columbia's varsity timeline begins in 1986, not counting a 10-0 Tiger win in 1985. Though the teams have met annually since '85, Princeton didn't allow Columbia a goal until 1992, winning the first seven meetings a combined 26-0.Â
Mimi Asom is the only current Tiger to have scored a goal against Columbia, doing so in a 3-1 win in 2015 in Princeton. Current Lions to have scored a goal against Princeton include Rachel Alexander, who scored in a 2-0 win in New York in 2016, and Emily Koe, who scored in last year's 2-0 Columbia win in Princeton. This figures to be a rematch between last year's keepers, Sophie Whitehouse for Columbia and Natalie Grossi for Princeton, who has backstopped the last two Princeton-Columbia games for the Tigers.Â
The Tigers have been shut out in their last two games against the Lions, something that has happened only once before in the series, in 2009 and 2010. Princeton has never been blanked by Columbia three times in a row.
Stat rankings: Entering the week, the Tigers ranked ninth nationally in shutout percentage, getting the clean sheet in two-thirds of their games, while Mimi Asom ranked 10th nationally in goals per game (0.83) and 17th in total goals (10).
Milestones and records: With her goal against Brown last weekend, Mimi Asom moved into a fourth-place tie on Princeton's career points list with 90, even with Emily Behncke '06. She is behind only Linda DeBoer '86 (94), Esmeralda Negron '05 (112) and former teammate Tyler Lussi '17 (122) on that list. Lussi and Asom helped Princeton to the 2015 Ivy League title and an NCAA first-round win over Boston College at Roberts Stadium before a second-round loss to USC at Virginia. Asom also moved into a third-place tie on Princeton's career goals list with 41, even with DeBoer and behind only Negron (47) and Lussi (53).Â
Sean Driscoll, the 2015 and 2017 Ivy League Coach of the Year, is 47-13-7 in his three-plus seasons at Princeton, already the third-winningest coach in program history. His .739 winning percentage is the best of any coach in program history, and he's just three wins away from becoming the third coach in program history to reach 50 wins. Only Bob Malekoff, the program's first coach, who had 52 wins from 1980-84, and predecessor Julie Shackford, who had 203 wins from 1995-2014, have more wins.Â
The preseason poll: Princeton earned 15 of the 16 first-place votes in being named the preseason Ivy League favorite in a vote of one media member from each team's area and one for from each of the Ivy's women's soccer athletic communications contacts. If the Tigers are able to fulfill that prediction, it'd be the program's 10th Ivy title and the first back-to-back since winning three in a row from 2002-04.
Who's back, who's new: Princeton returned the scorers of 37 of its 44 goals from last season, but this year, Mimi Asom (10) and rookie Gabi Juarez (four) have scored 14 of the Tigers' 18 goals with no other player scoring more than one. The Tigers had a program-record nine All-Ivy League honorees in 2017, returning first-teamers Mimi Asom, Abby Givens and Courtney O'Brien, second-teamer Lucy Rickerson and honorable mention Natalie Grossi. Asom is a three-time All-Ivy honoree, earning second-team honors in 2015 and 2016, and Givens earned honorable mention in 2016 as the only current Tigers to earn All-Ivy recognition prior to 2017. From those program-record nine honorees a year ago, Princeton took a big graduation hit on the back line, losing Natalie Larkin '18, Mikaela Symanovich '18 and Katie Pratt-Thompson '18, all second-team honorees in 2017, as well as 2017 Ivy League Co-Offensive Player of the Year Vanessa Gregoire '18, who earned the honor as a vital part of Princeton's midfield while scoring three goals and notching eight assists. The Tigers have six rookies this season, all of whom have played, with Gabi Juarez getting four goals to lead the class.
Looking back at 2017: Princeton's only losses in 2017 were to No. 6 West Virginia, Columbia and No. 4 UCLA in a 16-3-1 season where the tie was in the NCAA second round against N.C. State before Princeton advanced on penalty kicks. The Tigers went on to stun No. 2 North Carolina in the round of 16 on the Tar Heels' then-substitute home field, Koka Booth Stadium in Cary, N.C., making the national quarterfinals, where Princeton lost 3-1 to UCLA, for the second time in program history. Princeton won four times in 2004 to make the national semifinals before a 2-0 loss to UCLA. Princeton ended the season ranked No. 7 in the nation by the United Soccer Coaches.
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