Tigers Head to Fairfield Wednesday in Pre-Ivy Finale

In the team's final game before the Ivy League season begins on Sept. 28 at Cornell, the Princeton women's soccer team will head to Fairfield on Wednesday.

at Fairfield, Weds., 7 p.m. | ESPN+ | Live Stats

On Princeton: The Tigers (4-2) will look to bounce back from Sunday's 1-0 loss to Georgetown. Both losses this season have come by 1-0 finals to teams either in or receiving votes in the United Soccer Coaches top 25 in then-No. 8 Penn State and RV Georgetown. Seven Tigers have split the team's eight goals, with rookie Brooke Dawahare scoring twice. Five of the seven goal scorers scored their first career goal this season, in Dawahare, Alexandra Barry, Pia Beaulieu, Isabella Garces and Summer Pierson. Tyler McCamey, a two-time Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week, has an 0.67 GAA this season and has stopped 31 of 35 shots on goal and is up to 22 career wins and 12 career shutouts.

#U20WWC: Two Tigers were part of the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup this year, with sophomore backliner Zoe Markesini starting all four of Canada's games and scoring a goal in the opener as Canada reached the round of 16 and Pietra Tordin starting four games for Team USA, scoring four goals, including a hat trick against Paraguay in the group final. The U.S. will meet North Korea in Wednesday's semifinal. Tordin led Princeton last season with 12 goals and is the leading active career goal scorer on the team, with 20. Princeton was one of eight schools with two players at the tournament.

The Series vs. Fairfield: Princeton is 5-0 all-time against Fairfield and has won all five games by shutout, winning 4-0 at home in 2001, 1-0 at home in 2008, 1-0 on the road in 2009, 2-0 at home in 2010, and 2-0 at home in 2022. Sean Driscoll was on the other sideline in the 2010 game in Princeton in his first year as the Stags' associate head coach and met Fairfield again in Princeton in 2022. The 2022 game saw Grace Sherman '23 score in the 14th minute and Aria Nagai '24 score in the 83rd. Current senior Tyler McCamey made one save to complete the shutout in goal. Current Fairfield junior Katie Wright played in goal that day for the Stags, stopping four of six shots on goal.

Driscoll at Fairfield: Sean Driscoll was Fairfield's associate head coach from 2010-14 before taking over at Princeton. The team won eight games in 2010 and then six in 2011 before raising that win total each year after through 2014, winning 14 games that year, the program's most wins since a 15-win season in 2008 when the Stags made the NCAA tournament. The Stags made the MAAC tournament final twice during Driscoll's run with the team, losing 2-0 to Monmouth in 2013 and on PKs (5-4) to Rider in 2014 after a 1-1 draw. Driscoll is from Trumbull, Conn., just north of Fairfield, and coached at Connecticut high schools before becoming an assistant coach at Western Connecticut State and then head coach at Manhattan College before joining the staff at Fairfield.

Approaching the Century Mark: Driscoll picked up his 97th career win last Thursday against Drexel. Driscoll is already the second-winningest coach in program history and would be just the fourth Princeton soccer coach, men's or women's, to win 100 games at the school, along with predecessor Julie Shackford (203 wins from 1995-2014), former men's coach Jimmy Reed (136 wins from 1938-66) and current men's coach Jim Barlow (211 wins since 1996). Driscoll is the second-longest active tenured coach in the Ivy League, having coached his first season at Princeton in 2015, one year after Tracey Bartholomew began at Columbia, and is the Ivy League's winningest active women's soccer coach, ahead of Brown's Kia McNeill (81), Harvard's Chris Hamblin (78) and Bartholomew (75).

On Fairfield: The Stags (6-1) were picked second in the 13-team MAAC preseason poll, behind only Quinnipiac. Maddy Theriault was the Preseason Player of the Year while Theriault and fellow forward Elle Scott were on the preseason all-league team, as were midfielders Allie Kirby and Reagan Klarmann and defender Meghan Carragher. Fairfield is on a goal-scoring tear over the last few weeks, outscoring Bryant, Fordham, Rider and Iona a combined 21-4, starting 2-0 in MAAC play along the way. Theriault leads the team's 12 goal scorers with five goals. Katie Wright has played most of the minutes in goal, holding a 1.27 GAA with a 5-1 record.

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