
No. 8 Princeton Heads To Dartmouth, No. 1 Northwestern On Long Road Trip
October 09, 2025 | Field Hockey
No. 8 PRINCETON (6-3, 2-1 Ivy League) at DARTMOUTH (2-7 overall, 0-3 Ivy League)
Saturday, Oct. 11
Hanover, N.H. • noon
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A – Away
Princeton enters the weekend 6-3 overall, with a record of 3-3 at home and 3-0 on the road.
B – Buses and Planes
Princeton is driving to Dartmouth and then, after that game, to Boston’s Logan Airport for a flight to Chicago. Princeton will fly back home after the game at Northwestern. Total miles on the trip: 1,530.
C – Coaches’ Poll
Princeton has gone from 10th to 11th to ninth to eighth and eighth (this week) in the NFHCA coaches’ poll. Yale is ranked 16th this week by the coaches.
D – Defense
Princeton’s defense has allowed just 7.4 shots per game so far this season. The last time Princeton allowed fewer shots per game for a full season was 2018, when it allowed 6.0.
E – ESPN
Princeton has had two of its 16 goals end up on ESPN’s SportsCenter Top 10 plays. The first was Beth Yeager’s goal against Penn, off a no-look assist from Caitlin Thompson, and the second was last Friday night at Yale, when Pru Lindsey’s rebound dunk earned the honor.
F – For What It’s Worth
Princeton defeated Yale 2-1 last Friday night, with goals from Molly Nye and Pru Lindsey. Before that, the last time the Tigers had a game where it scored at least one goal and neither Ella Cashman nor Beth Yeager scored was last year at Rutgers in a 3-2 win. Who scored all three goals? ...
G – Grace
... Northwestern’s Grace Schulze is second on the team with six goals (along with two assists). Schulze is a Princeton alum who was a two-time All-Ivy League selection who finished her Tiger career with 16 goals and 22 assists, including one assist against Northwestern in Princeton a year ago. Oh, and Schulze also had all three Princeton goals in the game against Rutgers last year.
H – Hammo
Ella Hampson, one of Princeton’s three 2025 captains, has two goals in the last four games (including the game-winner against Maryland). Prior to that she had two goals in 58 career games.
I – Ivy League
This will be Week 4 of the Ivy League season. Right now, the standings have Harvard at 3-0; Princeton, Corell and Brown all at 2-1; Yale, Columbia and Penn at 1-2 and Dartmouth at 0-3. The top four teams will advance to the Ivy League tournament, at the home field of the regular-season champion.
J – Just The Numbers
Beth Yeager needs one goal and one assist to become the fifth player in Princeton history with at least 50 career goals and 30 career assists. She would also become the third active Division I player to do so, along with Ryleigh Heck of UNC (57G, 30A) and Makenna Webster of Ohio State (55G, 30A).
K – Korners
Princeton has a 50-39 edge in penalty corners through nine games.
L – Leaders
Princeton is led by three captains for the 2025 season: seniors Ella Hampson and Beth Yeager and junior Ella Cashman. Yeager is now the 18th player in program history to be a two-time captain.

M – Midterms
Princeton was in midterms this week. The Tigers will have had eight days off before playing Dartmouth, for its longest gap between games during the regular season.
N – New Trier
Princeton’s Izzy Morgan, who has started the last two games after coming off the bench for the first seven, went to New Trier High School in Winnetka, Ill., which is about five miles from the Northwestern campus.
O – Olympians
Princeton’s Beth Yeager was teammates with Northwestern’s Ashley Sessa and Maddie Zimmer on the 2024 United States Olympic team in Paris.
P – Player Of The Week
Pru Lindsey was named Ivy League Co-Offensive Player of the Week after scoring what proved to be the game-winning goal in Princeton’s 2-1 over Yale. It was Lindsey’s first goal of the year and second of her career.
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. 6 team in the current RPI rankings. The Tigers have losses to No. 1 North Carolina, No. 4 Harvard and No. 9 Syracuse and wins over No. 13 Rutgers and No. 15 Yale (and No. 21 Penn, No. 23 Maryland and No. 36 Old Dominion), with games remaining against No. 3 Northwestern, No. 12 Monmouth, No. 20 Brown, No 30 Cornell, No. 31 Penn State, No. 32 Columbia and No. 56 Dartmouth.
S – Series Histories
Princeton leads the all-time series with Dartmouth 35-8-2, including 12 straight wins. The Tigers won last year’s game at Princeton 5-1 and won two years ago in Hanover 2-1. Northwestern leads the all-time series with Princeton 3-1, with a Princeton win in Princeton in 1981 and then three straight Wildcat wins the last three years — 2-1 in Princeton in 2022, 4-0 Northwestern in Evanston in 2023 and 3-2 in Princeton a year ago.
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.