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Princeton Hosts Miami (Ohio), Travels To Penn State
September 12, 2024 | Field Hockey
PRINCETON (1-1; No. 15 NFHCA)
vs.
MIAMI (3-1)
Friday, Sept. 13 • 5 pm
Bedford Field • Princeton, N.J.
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A to Z
A - About
The 2024 Princeton field hockey team has 24 players — 15 returnees from last year’s team, seven freshmen, one returnee from the 2022 team (who happened to play in the Summer Olympics this year) and one returnee from the 2022 team who was hurt one minute into Game 2 a year ago (and who happened to be the leading returning goal scorer heading into last season). There are 12 American players and 12 international players (10 from England; one each from Australia and Germany).
B – Beth
Beth Yeager was a first-team All-American and the Ivy League’s Offensive Player of the Year in each of her first two seasons before taking the 2023-24 academic year off from Princeton to compete with the United States national team in Olympic qualifying and then the Olympic Games, where she started every game for the USA. Yeager has 29 goals and 15 assists in 37 career games.
C – Coaches
The 2024 season is Year 9 for Carla Tagliente and Dina Rizzo as the leaders of the Princeton field hockey program. Pattie Gillern is back for her third season, and they are joined by Pat Harris, a veteran of the United States men’s national team and a professional coach and player in Europe for nearly two decades. Jade Hennessey is in her second year as the athletic trainer for the team.
D – Demanding
Princeton has already defeated Louisville (No. 9 in this week’s poll) and lost to North Carolina (No. 2). Princeton still has games remaining against No. 1 Northwestern, No. 5 Maryland, No. 7 Harvard, No. 11 Rutgers and No. 14 Syracuse.
E – Endurance
Goalie Robyn Thompson and defenders Gracie McGowan and Ottilie Sykes played all 120 minutes in the two games at Louisville last weekend. Sykes has now played 19 career games and has has played every minute of every one of those games.
F – Fifteen
Princeton was ranked 15th in the NFHCA pre-season rankings and defeated No. 7 Louisville before losing to No. 2 North Carolina. This week? Princeton was still No. 15.
G – Gladieux
Sophia Gladieux of Penn State was a United States Olympic teammate of Princeton’s Beth Yeager. Gladieux has scored six of Penn State’s eight goals this year, with at least one in every game and three against Delaware in the 5-4 win.
H – Honored
Princeton returns all three of its players from last season’s Ivy League All-Tournament team: Ella Cashman, Gracie McGowan and Ottilie Sykes.
I – Interstate Highway
Penn State plays Friday afternoon at Kent State, which is 210 miles from State College. Princeton heads to Penn State Saturday morning after its game against Miami, and State College is 220 miles from Princeton.
J – Juniors
Princeton has six juniors, including Beth Yeager, who took last year off from school to play for the U.S. national team in the Olympics. The six juniors are: Ava Dempsey (M), Helena Große (D), Ella Hampson (M), Grace Anne McCooey (F), Talia Schenck (F) and Yeager (M). These six have combined for 92 games started.
K – Korners
Okay, penalty corners are technically spelled with a “C,” but in the statcrew program, the code is a “K.” Princeton has attempted five corners (without scoring) in its first two games, all of which were against Louisville. Princeton’s two opponents have had 16 penalty corners, with one goal scored on those 16 attempts.
L – Leaders
Princeton has three captains for 2024: Grace Schulze, Robyn Thompson and Beth Yeager. Schulze and Thompson were also captains a year ago.
M – Miami
Princeton and Miami have met only once before, back in 1984 (a 5-1 Princeton win at home). Miami is 3-1 on the season, with wins over Bucknell, St. Francis and Indiana and a loss to Iowa. Miami has reached the NCAA tournament every year since 2017.
N – Next weekend
After the home game against Miami and the game at Penn State, Princeton will open its Ivy League schedule a week from Friday (Sept. 20) at Penn and then will play at Rutgers a week from Sunday (Sept. 22).
O – Ottilie
Sophomore defender Ottilie Sykes is Princeton’s leading returning goal-scorer from last year, when she was the Ivy League Co-Rookie of the Year and a first-team All-Ivy and All-Region selection.
P – Penn State
Penn State takes a 1-3 record into its game at Kent State, with losses to No. 3 Virginia, No. 14 Syracuse and No. 13 St. Joe’s and a win over Delaware. Princeton and Penn State will meet for the 41st time, and the Nittany Lions have a 27-13 edge to date. The teams have not played since 2021.
Q – Quarterly
There have been three goals scored in the first two Princeton games. All three goals (two by North Carolina, one by Princeton against Louisville) came in the third quarter.
R – Roster
Princeton has 24 players, of whom 12 are Americans and 12 are foreign. The countries represented by the 12 foreign players are England (10 players) and Germany and Australia (one each).
S – Schulze
Grace Schulze had six goals and 12 assists for 24 points in 2022, when she was a second-team All-Ivy League selection. Schulze was Princeton’s leading returning scorer for 2023, but her season ended 45 seconds into the second game of the year with a broken collarbone that required surgery and caused her to miss the rest of the year.
T – Titles
Princeton field hockey has won 27 Ivy League championships, which is more than the other seven league teams combined. It’s also tied with Harvard women’s squash for the most Ivy League championships won by any women’s team in any sport.
U – University
Princeton has been ranked as the No. 1 academic university in the United States by US News and World Report for the past 13 consecutive years.
V – Veterans
Princeton’s senior class features six players: Clare Brennan (F), Aimee Jungfer (M), Gracie McGowan (D), Grace Schulze (F), Robyn Thompson (G), Lily Webb (F). Those six have combined for 274 games played, with 115 starts between them.
W - Welcome to the Garden State
After playing at Princeton Friday, Miami will be at Rutgers Sunday. Miami does not have any players from New Jersey, but it does have six players from Louisville and five from Spain.
X - X factor
Senior goalkeeper Robyn Thompson has made 48 career starts, including all 38 games the last two-plus seasons. She was an All-Ivy League selection each of the last two years.
Y – Youth
Princeton has started three freshmen (Anna Faulstich, Clem Houlden and Lilly Wojcik) in the first two games and played three others significantly (Pru Lindsey, Izzy Morgan, Molly Nye). Princeton has had at least two freshmen on the field at all times so far and has had as many as five on the field at once.
Z – Zing
Princeton's goal against Louisville was scored by senior Aimee Jungfer, whose only other career goal came as a freshman at Yale.
