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Princeton University Athletics
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No. 6 Princeton Returns Home To Face Cornell, No. 13 Monmouth
October 16, 2025 | Field Hockey
No. 6 PRINCETON (8-3, 3-1 Ivy League) vs. CORNELL (9-2, 2-2 Ivy League)
Friday, Oct. 17 • 4 pm
Bedford Field • Princeton, N.J.
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A – Away
Princeton is 5-0 in away games this season and 3-3 in home games. The five road wins include four over current Top 20 RPI teams: Northwestern (5), Yale (10), Rutgers (16), Maryland (20).
B – Busy Bodies
Princeton is in a stretch of four games in nine days, having defeated Dartmouth 4-0 last Saturday in Hanover, Northwestern 3-2 Monday in Evanston and now hosting Cornell and Monmouth Friday and Sunday.
C – Coaches’ Poll
Princeton is a season-high sixth in the NFHCA coaches’ poll after its wins at Dartmouth and Northwestern. Cornell is unranked, and Monmouth is 12th.
D – Dartmouth
Caitlin Thompson scored her first two career goals in Princeton’s win over Dartmouth, including one 58 seconds into the game. It was the fastest goal by a Princeton player since Sammy Popper’s goal 52 seconds into the 2021 Yale game, 74 games prior.
E – Efficiency
Ella Cashman and Molly Nye are tied for the team lead in shooting percentage at .429 (both with three goals on seven shots).
F – For What It’s Worth
Northwestern took 18 shots against Princeton after the Tigers had allowed only 7.1 shots per game for the first 10 games. Princeton has allowed 11 total shots in its four Ivy League games combined.
G – Goalie
Olivia Caponiti made a career-high six saves in the win over Northwestern, including two on penalty corners in the final 30 seconds.
H – Home
Princeton began the season playing six of its first seven games at home and then played four straight games on the road. Beginning with the Cornell game, Princeton plays four of its final five regular season games at home.
I – Ivy League
This will be Week 5 of the Ivy League season. Right now, the standings have Harvard at 4-0; Princeton and Brown at 3-1, Cornell and Yale at 2-2, Columbia and Penn at 1-3 and Dartmouth at 0-4. This weekend’s league games (all on Friday) are: Cornell at Princeton, Brown at Harvard, Dartmouth at Yale and Penn at Columbia. The top four teams will advance to the Ivy League tournament, at the home field of the regular-season champion.
J – Just The Facts
Princeton would clinch an Ivy League tournament spot with a win over Cornell and a Penn win over Columbia.
K – Korners
Cornell leads Division I in penalty corners per game with 11.73. Princeton and its opponents combined average 10.6 penalty corners per game.
L – Lots Of Wins
Princeton's two opponents this weekend are a combined 18-4.
M – Molly
Molly Nye had one career goal in her first 28 career games. She now has a goal in three consecutive games.
N – NCAA Leaders
Beth Yeager is one of three active Division I players with at least 50 career goals and 31 career assists (UNC’s Ryleigh Heck and Ohio State’s Makenna Webster are the other two).
O – Offense
Princeton has averaged 2.8 goals per game in its last four games after averaging 1.7 goals per game for the first seven. Princeton scored 12 goals in its first seven games and has 11 in the last four.
P – Pru
Pru Lindsey did not have a point in the first eight games of the year. She has two goals and two assists in the last three games.
Q – Quite A Stat
Princeton has started at least two freshmen in every game since the start of the 2023 season.
R – RPI
Princeton is the No. 4 team in the current RPI rankings, with wins over No. 5 Northwestern, No. 10 Yale, No. 11 UConn, No. 16 Rutgers, No. 19 Penn, No. 20 Maryland, No. 33 Old Dominion and No. 53 Dartmouth. Princeton’s three losses are to No. 1 North Carolina, No. 3 Harvard and No. 9 Syracuse.
S – Series Histories
Princeton leads the all-time series with Cornell 38-6-3, including a 3-1 win in Ithaca a year ago (two goals from Talia Schenck, one from Beth Yeager). Princeton leads the all-time series with Monmouth 5-1, with a 6-1 win in West Long Branch in 2022 and a 3-2 Monmouth win in 2021 in the most recent meeting at Princeton.
T – Tigers
Princeton has seven players who have started every game of their career: Ella Cashman, Anna Faulstich, Clem Houlden, Saylor Milone, Ottilie Sykes, Caitlin Thompson, Beth Yeager.
U – USA
Princeton was well-represented with USA Field Hockey this past summer. Beth Yeager, a 2024 Olympian, won a silver medal at the Pan Am Cup in Uruguay, scoring four goals in the tournament. Talia Schenck also won silver and also scored four goals, at the Junior Pan Am Games in Paraguay. Assistant coach Pat Harris was a silver medalist with the USA men’s team at the Pan Am Cup.
V – Vietnam
Princeton’s Clem Houlden and Molly Nye spent the summer in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam as part of the Coach For College program. Houlden taught biology and coached volleyball to middle schoolers, while Nye taught English and coached volleyball at a different middle school.
W – Winning
Princeton’s Ivy League championship a year ago was the 28th in program history, which is tied with Harvard women’s squash for the most by any Ivy women’s team in any sport in league history.
X – X-Factor
Princeton had six players on the NFHCA preseason Watchlist: Ella Cashman, Anna Faulstich, Clem Houlden, Talia Schenck, Ottilie Sykes, Beth Yeager.
Y – Yeager
Beth Yeager is a three-time first-team All-American selection; no Ivy League player has ever been a four-time first-team All-American. She’s also a three-time Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year.
Z – Zinger
Princeton has not failed to reach the NCAA tournament in consecutive years since 1992-93. That streak will continue through this year, as the Tigers reached the NCAA quarterfinals a year ago.
