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Caponiti, Yeager Take Weekly Ivy Honors
October 20, 2025 | Field Hockey
Where there's one, the other can't be that far away.
For the second time this season, Princeton's Olivia Caponiti and Beth Yeager — formerly high school teammates at Sacred Heart Academy in Greenwich, Conn. — have swept the Ivy League Player of the Week honors, Caponiti on the defensive end and Yeager on the offensive end.
Caponiti earned her second honor in goal for three big Princeton wins in seven days, with a total of 12 saves and three goals against. She allowed two of those goals at No. 1 Northwestern, but she also came up huge in the final 30 seconds, making big-time saves on back-to-back penalty corners to preserve the win. She finished that game with a season-high six saves, followed that with one save in a 4-0 shutout win over Cornell and then five more saves in a 5-1 win over No. 13 Monmouth.
Princeton, now No. 2 in Division I in RPI, will play at Brown Friday at 2:30 and then home against Penn State Sunday at noon.
For the second time this season, Princeton's Olivia Caponiti and Beth Yeager — formerly high school teammates at Sacred Heart Academy in Greenwich, Conn. — have swept the Ivy League Player of the Week honors, Caponiti on the defensive end and Yeager on the offensive end.
Caponiti earned her second honor in goal for three big Princeton wins in seven days, with a total of 12 saves and three goals against. She allowed two of those goals at No. 1 Northwestern, but she also came up huge in the final 30 seconds, making big-time saves on back-to-back penalty corners to preserve the win. She finished that game with a season-high six saves, followed that with one save in a 4-0 shutout win over Cornell and then five more saves in a 5-1 win over No. 13 Monmouth.
Yeager had a four-goal, one-assist week that saw her move into a tie for fifth place all-time at Princeton in career goals with 53 while becoming the third player in program history with at least 53 goals and 32 assists. Yeager had the game-winning goal in the win over Northwestern, had Princeton's first goal against Cornell and then had Princeton's first two goals while adding an assist against Monmouth.How about this sequence?
— Princeton FH (@TigerFH) October 19, 2025
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Princeton, now No. 2 in Division I in RPI, will play at Brown Friday at 2:30 and then home against Penn State Sunday at noon.
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