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Princeton Announces 2023 Women's Lacrosse Schedule
December 16, 2022 | Women's Lacrosse
The opening draw of the 2023 Princeton women's lacrosse season will come on Feb. 18, against a Virginia team that played in the NCAA tournament a year ago in the first of six such non-league opponents on the schedule. The final regular season game will be April 29, at home against Harvard, and the goal is to be playing well past that into May.
In other words, it's business as usual for the Tigers.
First-year head coach Jenn Cook will guide her team through that rough non-league gauntlet and then into the league, in search of an unprecedented eighth straight Ivy title. All eight of Princeton's non-league opponents finished last season in the Top 25 of the Division I RPI, and three (Maryland, Loyola and Rutgers) were in the top nine.
There will be 15 games on the schedule, seven home and eight away, and Cook's team will waste little time in being challenged.
The Virginia game is followed by a trip to Temple Feb. 25 and then a mid-week game at Rutgers, another NCAA team a year ago. The Ivy opener is on March 4, at a Yale team that went 7-0 against the rest of the league last year and 0-2 against Princeton, with games on the final day of the regular season that decided the league championship and then again a week later in the Ivy tournament final, which gave Princeton the league's automatic NCAA bid.
Southern Cal, an at-large team in last year's NCAA field, will be at Sherrerd Field on March 10 at noon (you can go from that game to the Ivy women's basketball semifinals at Jadwin Gym afterwards), and Penn State, who had a rare miss of the NCAA tournament last spring, and Princeton renew their rivalry on March 18, also in Princeton.
There are then three straight road games, at Cornell, Maryland and St. Joe's (another NCAA team) before the Tigers return home against Columbia on April 8 and then Loyola on April 12 in the final non-league game.
The regular season ends with a home game against Brown on April 15, a mid-week trip to Penn on April 19, a trip to Dartmouth on April 22 and then the home game against Harvard.
In other words, it's business as usual for the Tigers.
First-year head coach Jenn Cook will guide her team through that rough non-league gauntlet and then into the league, in search of an unprecedented eighth straight Ivy title. All eight of Princeton's non-league opponents finished last season in the Top 25 of the Division I RPI, and three (Maryland, Loyola and Rutgers) were in the top nine.
There will be 15 games on the schedule, seven home and eight away, and Cook's team will waste little time in being challenged.
The Virginia game is followed by a trip to Temple Feb. 25 and then a mid-week game at Rutgers, another NCAA team a year ago. The Ivy opener is on March 4, at a Yale team that went 7-0 against the rest of the league last year and 0-2 against Princeton, with games on the final day of the regular season that decided the league championship and then again a week later in the Ivy tournament final, which gave Princeton the league's automatic NCAA bid.
Southern Cal, an at-large team in last year's NCAA field, will be at Sherrerd Field on March 10 at noon (you can go from that game to the Ivy women's basketball semifinals at Jadwin Gym afterwards), and Penn State, who had a rare miss of the NCAA tournament last spring, and Princeton renew their rivalry on March 18, also in Princeton.
There are then three straight road games, at Cornell, Maryland and St. Joe's (another NCAA team) before the Tigers return home against Columbia on April 8 and then Loyola on April 12 in the final non-league game.
The regular season ends with a home game against Brown on April 15, a mid-week trip to Penn on April 19, a trip to Dartmouth on April 22 and then the home game against Harvard.
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