Trip to Dartmouth Ahead Saturday for Women's Soccer

Saturday, October 18

Hanover, N.H.

3:00 PM

Princeton University

Dartmouth

Photo by: Shelley M. Szwast

Trip to Dartmouth Ahead Saturday for Women's Soccer

October 12, 2025 | Women's Soccer

The chase for a bid in the Ivy League Tournament continues, and with three more Ivy points on the table, the Tigers will head to Dartmouth on Saturday.

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The Ivy: The three points Princeton earned with Saturday's win over Cornell helped the team in pursuit of Ivy League Tournament status. After the weekend's results, Harvard (3-1-0, vs. Brown, vs. Penn, at Columbia) was on top with nine points, followed by Dartmouth (2-0-2, vs. Princeton, at Yale, vs. Cornell) with eight, Brown (2-1-1, at Harvard, at Cornell, vs. Princeton) with seven, Columbia (2-1-1, vs. Yale, at Princeton, vs. Harvard) with seven, Princeton (2-2-0, at Dartmouth, vs. Columbia, at Brown) with six, Cornell (1-3-0, at Penn, vs. Brown, at Dartmouth) with three, Yale (1-3-0, at Columbia, vs. Dartmouth, at Penn) with three, and Penn (0-2-2, vs. Cornell, at Harvard, vs. Yale) with two. The top four teams will make the ILT with the top team hosting.

On Princeton: The Tigers (3-5-3, 2-2-0) have four regular-season games left, with three of those accounting for nine points available toward Princeton's Ivy League season aims. With her goal on Saturday, Alexandra Barry now co-leads the team with two goals on the season, alongside Zoe Markesini, who has been out due to injury since the Aug. 31 game against Syracuse. Nina Cantor, Ally Murphy, Pia Beaulieu, Sarah Houston and Drew Coomans have scored a goal apiece. Cecilia Cerone (1-3-2, 1.43 GAA, .636 sv%) has played 753 minutes in goal and Sydney Romano (2-2-1, 1.14 GAA, .800 sv%) has played 236 minutes.

On Dartmouth: The Big Green (6-2-4, 2-0-2) head into Saturday's game with a six-game unbeaten streak (4-0-2, 2-0-2 Ivy). Five of those games have been against Division I opponents, and goals have been tough to come by in those game, with the total score in those five games as Dartmouth 3, opponents 1. In second place at 2-0-2 in the league and with eight points, one back of Harvard, the Big Green are looking for their first upper-division finish in the league since a third-place finish in 2018. A second-place finish would be the team's best since finishing there in 2014, with the team's last Ivy title coming in 2003. Nine Big Green players have scored goals this season, with Stephanie Lathrop leading the way at six goals. In league play, three players have split the three goals, with Lykke Ihrfelt, Kate Ryan and Nadia Young getting those goals. On the season overall, Ola Goebel (3-0-3, 0.18 GAA, .952 sv%) and Paige Knoth (3-2-1, 0.77, .706) have split time in goal, and in league play, Goebel has played all 360 minutes, holding an 0.25 GAA with a .941 save percentage.

The series: Princeton leads the all-time series with Dartmouth 24-16-3, but it's been in the Tigers' favor over the past decade-plus. Since 2014, Princeton is 8-0-2 against the Big Green, turning in eight straight shutouts and carrying a series shutout streak of 775:20 into the game. Dartmouth's last win in the series was in 2013, a 2-0 win in Hanover, and the last Dartmouth goal in the series game in a 3-2 Tiger win in 2015 in Hanover. No current Tiger or Big Green player has played in goal against the other team, and the only current Tigers to score against the Big Green were Drew Coomans and Brooke Dawahare in last year's 4-0 win in Princeton. Pietra Tordin, now with the NWSL's Portland Thorns, was a thorn for the Big Green, scoring once in 2022, twice in 2023, and twice in 2024, making it five of her 30 career goals coming against Dartmouth.

Outshoot 'em: In 175 games under Sean Driscoll, Princeton has outshot its opponent in overall shots 134 times and has equaled its opponent in total shots three times, getting outshot 38 times, or in just more than once every five games (21.7 percent).

Preseason polls: Princeton was picked first and Dartmouth sixth in the Ivy preseason poll. The Tigers had eight athletic All-Ivy honorees last year but took a huge hit with losses to graduation and the pros. Pietra Tordin, who chose to forgo her senior season to turn pro with the NWSL's Portland Thorns, was the Ivy Offensive Player of the Year in 2024, and Lily Bryant, Heather MacNab and Tyler McCamey all graduated and went on to the pro ranks, with Bryant at FC Porto in Portugal, MacNab with the NWSL's North Carolina Courage, and McCamey with the NWSL's KC Current. On the second team, Ryann Brown is using a graduate season at North Carolina and Kate Toomey graduated, leaving Zoe Markesini and Drew Coomans as the only returning 2024 All-Ivy honorees for the Tigers. Markesini has missed time since leaving the Aug. 31 game against Syracuse due to injury. Dartmouth had three All-Ivy honorees in 2024 with two of those, in forward/midfielder Daisy Granholm and defender Taylor Williams, both second-teamers, having graduated, and senior midfielder Mary Lundregan, an All-Ivy honorable mention last year, is back.

Tigers in the NWSL: Princeton has six players currently on NWSL rosters. Pietra Tordin, who turned pro following her junior season last school year, has already twice been named the NWSL Rookie of the Month, doing so in June and adding the second in August. Through the weekend, Tordin had played in 23 games for the Portland Thorns, starting nine on the season overall, including five of the team's last seven games, and scoring four goals on the season. Tyler Lussi '17 started 12 straight games for the North Carolina Courage's from June through Oct. 4, scoring both of her season's goals in that span. Aria Nagai '24 started and logged 64 minutes in last weekend's game against the San Diego Wave and has played in eight of the last 10 games, and Madison Curry '24 started her 16th straight game and 22nd on the season last weekend for the Seattle Reign against Bay FC. Heather MacNab '25 made her pro debut for the North Carolina Courage on Sept. 13 against Angel City FC, and Tyler McCamey '25 was signed to the KC Current on Sept. 5. Along with the NWSL six, Lily Bryant '25 is playing in Portugal for FC Porto, making her pro debut on Sept. 13.

The staff: Head coach Sean Driscoll is in his 11th year with Princeton and 10th competitive season (team did not compete in 2020), and has the most Ivy League Coach/Coaching Staff of the Year honors since the award began in 2014, with four (2015, 2017, 2018, 2024). He's Princeton's second-winningest coach, with 110 wins (Julie Shackford, 203 wins, 1995-2014), and with his 40 wins at Manhattan (2005-09) added in, Driscoll has 150 career victories, a milestone reached Oct. 11 vs. Cornell. Associate Head Coach Mike Poller has been with Driscoll for the entire Tiger tenure, and assistant coach Chris Duggan is in his fourth season with the program. Under Driscoll, Princeton has won four Ivy League titles (2015, 2017, 2018, 2024) and has made six NCAA tournaments (2015, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2023, 2024), making the second round in 2015, 2017, 2021 and 2023 and the quarterfinals in 2017.

Individual notes:

0 • Sydney Romano • So • GK
• Made her career debut in relief at Loyola (Md.) on Aug. 24 and has played in five games, making her first career start on Oct. 11 vs. Cornell
• Has allowed three goals this season, one at Loyola and two at Army, to hold a 1.14 GAA and an .800 save percentage in 236 minutes

1 • Cecilia Cerone • Jr. • GK
• Following the graduation of Tyler McCamey '25 (now with NWSL's KC Current), has already seen more than three times as much time between the posts (753 min) as she had over her first two seasons (222 min)
• Has played in all 11 games this season, going the full 90 six times, and splitting halves with Sydney Romano in four others while leaving the Miami game on Sept. 4 after 33 minutes due to injury
• Holds a 1.43 GAA this season with a .636 save percentage
• Psychology major

2 • Anna Chau • Fr. • M/D
• Played in each of the first seven games of her rookie season and made six starts, including in her collegiate debut Aug. 22 against Rutgers
• Has missed time due to injury since the Sept. 14 game at Army West Point
• Averages 67.6 minutes per game this season

4 • Caroline Kane • Sr. • D
• Has played in 10 games this season, the second-most games played in a season in her career, behind only the 13 games she played as a rookie in 2022
• A backliner, has one career point, an assist against Bucknell in 2022
• Averages 59.6 minutes per game this season and has gone the full 90 three times, most recently vs. Cornell on Oct. 11
• Majoring in psychology and interned in the summer of 2025 with Major League Baseball's mental health and safety programs

5 • Drew Coomans • Sr. • F
• Two-time second-team All-Ivy Leaguer (2023, 2024)
• Has started all 11 games this season and 16 straight dating back to last season; has played in 64 games and started 47 in her collegiate career
• On Oct. 11 vs. Cornell, scored her sixth career goal, with her previous five coming between her sophomore and junior seasons
• Averages 83.9 minutes per game this season
• Economics major
• Spent two weeks in summer 2025 training with the NWSL's Portland Thorns

6 • Zoe Markesini • Jr. • D
• Co-captain this season
• Second-team All-Ivy League 2024
• Played in the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Colombia and 2022 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in India for Canada, serving as a team captain with the U-17 team, starting all seven games between the two tournaments, and scoring a goal against France in the 2024 group stage opener as Canada made the round of 16
• Left the Aug. 31 game against Syracuse due to injury and has not played since
• Has played 36 games and started 30 during her collegiate career
• Scored her first two collegiate goals over Princeton's first two games this season, earning Ivy Defensive Player of the Week honors on Aug. 25
• Averages 78.8 minutes per game this season
• Majoring in psychology

7 • Grace Rossner • So. • M/F
• Has appeared in seven games over her first two seasons, all as a reserve
• Has played 44 minutes this season, all between the Rutgers (Aug. 22), Ohio State (Aug. 28) and Harvard (Sept. 27) games

8 • Aditi Singh • Jr. • F
• Joined the team this season
• From West Windsor, N.J., just a few miles from campus
• Made her career debut Aug. 28 against Ohio State and played 22 minutes off the bench in her only appearance to date
• Majoring in mechanical and aerospace engineering

9 • Rebecca Sherry • Jr. • F
• Made her career debut this season and has played in six games
• Averages 15.2 minutes per game this season
• Student in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

10 • Dylan Jovanovic • So. • F
• Has played in all 11 games this season and started 10, surpassing her total of games started from last season as a rookie (seven)
• Has scored her first two career points this season, on assists at Miami (Sept. 4) and Army West Point (Sept. 14)
• Has surpassed her total of minutes played from last season, having played 790 this season and 688 last season
• Has already taken more total shots this season (25) than last season (18) and is more than halfway to her number of shots on goal this season (six) from last season (nine)
• 25 total shots this season stand second on the team
• Averages 71.8 minutes per game this season

11 • Maddie Recupero • Fr. • M
• Has played in eight games this season and has started three, against Ohio State (Aug. 28), Harvard (Sept. 27) and Yale (Oct. 4)
• Averages 47 minutes per game this season and had a career-high 78 minutes Oct. 4 at Yale

13 • Sarah Houston • Fr. • F/M
• Scored her first career goal Sept. 14 at Army West Point
• First career start came in the Army game and has played in nine games this season
• Averages 30.6 minutes per game this season
• Sister, Erin, is a senior on Auburn's women's soccer team

14 • Nina Cantor • Fr. • F
• Has played in all 11 games this season and has started six
• Averages 57.3 minutes per game this season while playing between 41 and 69 minutes in every game
• Had her first career point on Aug. 28 with an assist against Ohio State and first career goal on Sept. 4 at Miami for her three points this season
• Leads the team in shots overall, with 27, and co-leads in shots on goal, with eight

17 • Sophia Kurisu • So. • M
• Has not yet played this season after playing in 12 games last season, all off the bench while taking two shots, one on goal, and averaging 16.6 minutes per game

18 • Brooke Dawahare • So. • M
• Played in all 19 games last season and had 17 starts
• With 1,240 minutes played last season, was the team's returning leader in minutes played from last season, and with Alexandra Barry and Isabella Garces, co-led the returners with four goals scored last season
• Started each of the first three games this season before leaving the Aug. 28 game against Ohio State due to injury and has not played since
• Played 73 minutes in the opener against Rutgers and all 90 against Loyola the next time out before playing 28 minutes in the early exit against OSU

20 • Aubrey Crisostomo • Fr. • F/M
• Has played in nine games this season and has started back-to-back games, vs. Yale (Oct. 4) and Cornell (Oct. 11)
• Averages 40 minutes per game and went all 90 for the first time in her career on Oct. 11 vs. Cornell
• Had her first career point with an assist against Ohio State on Aug. 28

21 • Julia Johnson • Fr. • D
• Has played in 10 games this season and has made eight starts, including starts in each of the last seven games entering the Dartmouth game
• Averages 74 minutes per game this season and has played the full 90 in seven straight games
• Shares a high school alma mater with head coach Sean Driscoll, Greens Farms Academy in Westport, Conn.
• Has a strong familial connection to Princeton, with both parents, Sydney and Jennifer, both in the Class of 1997, and brother Jalen in the Class of 2026
• Father Sydney was a two-time Ivy League champion hoopster at Princeton (1996, 1997) and was part of the 1996 team that upset UCLA in the first round of the NCAA tournament before winning Ivy Player of the Year honors in 1997; Sydney returned to coach the team from 2007-11, winning the 2011 Ivy title, and began as head coach of the WNBA's Washington Mystics in 2025

22 • Esmé Rudell • Jr. • M/D
• Has surpassed her 2024 total of minutes played (364), having played 507 minutes this season; had 433 career minutes entering the season
• Averages 50.7 minutes per game this season
• Majoring in politics
• Father, Kirk, is in the Princeton soccer Class of 1991 and co-produced soccer documentaries including Soccertown, USA (2019) about Kearny, N.J., and Voice of the Game (2022), about Manfred Schellscheidt, and co-hosts a soccer podcast, An American Game.

23 • Summer Pierson • Sr. • M/D
• Has played in five games this season
• Averages 17.6 minutes per game this season
• Career highs of seven games played, three games started, and 240 minutes played all came last season
• First and so far only career points came on a goal against Drexel on Sept. 12, 2024
• Majoring in art and archaeology

24 • Pia Beaulieu • Sr. • M
• Has played in seven games this season and has started five after missing early-season games due to injury
• Played a career-high 544 minutes over a career-high 18 games last season, also setting career highs in goals (two) and assists (three) last season
• Averages 68 minutes per game this season and went the full 90 for the first time this season against Yale (Oct. 4)
• Student in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

25 • Kelsee Wozniak • Sr. • D
• Has started all 11 games this season and has played the full 90 in four straight, and seven of eight, entering the Dartmouth game
• Career-high three goals and three assists came as a rookie in 2022
• Career-high 1,004 minutes played came last season and is closing in on that this season, having played 937
• Career-high 11 starts this season after nine as a rookie and a junior
• Averages 85.2 minutes per game this season and has played no fewer than 61
• Politics major

27 • Alexandra Barry • So. • F
• Was the team's leading returning scorer from 2024, totaling 13 points on four goals and five assists
• Played in all 19 games last season and made seven starts
• Has two goals this season, against Ohio State (Aug. 28) and Cornell (Oct. 11)
• Has seven starts this season, equal to her seven starts last season as a rookie, and is closing in on her 2024 minutes total of 680, having played 570
• Has taken 21 total shots this season and eight on goal, co-leading the team, after 27 total shots last season and 11 on goal
• Averages 51.8 minutes per game this season

28 • Kayla Wong • Jr. • M
• Has started all 11 games this season after playing in 18 of 19 and starting 17 last season
• Career-high three goals came last season and career-high five assists, on the way to a career-high nine points, came as a rookie in 2023
• Career-high 28 total shots and 12 shots on goal came last season; has 13 total shots and seven shots on goal this season
• Averages 78.4 minutes per game this season
• Economics major

30 • Isabella Garces • Jr. • F
• Made her season debut Sept. 14 at Army West Point after missing early-season games due to injury; scored the goal in the team's 1-0 win at Penn on Sept. 19
• Has played in five games this season
• Played in a career-high 15 games last season and started two games; has equaled the start total with two this season
• Career-high 421 minutes, 23 total shots and seven shots on goal came last season
• Co-led this year's returners with four goals last season
• Student in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

36 • Ally Murphy • Sr. • F
• Co-captain this season
• Has played in 10 games this season and has started seven
• Scored on a penalty kick against Villanova on Sept. 11 for her second career goal; first came on Oct. 5, 2024 against Brown
• With 468 minutes played this season, has surpassed her career high of 363 set in 2022
• Averages 46.8 minutes per game this season
• Student in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

51 • Carson Proctor • Fr. • GK
• Has not yet played

Looking ahead: Princeton will host its last two regular-season home games next week, with Lehigh coming in on Oct. 21 and Columbia coming in on Oct. 25.