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November 08, 2025 | Field Hockey
No. 5 PRINCETON (14-3) vs. No. 3 HARVARD (17-0)
Saturday, Nov. 9 • Noon
Berylson Field • Cambridge, Mass.
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A – Amazing
Since the last weekend of the 2016 season, Princeton and Harvard are a combined 105-1 against the other six Ivy League teams. The lone loss was Princeton’s OT loss to Penn in 2023.
B – Both On A Roll
Princeton has won 10 straight games after a 4-3 start. The Tigers have scored 34 goals in those nine games (3.4), which is twice what the team averaged when scoring 12 goals in the first seven goals (1.7). Harvard, of course, is the lone unbeaten team in Division I with a 17-0 record. Since Princeton began its winning streak, it has not trailed at any point of any game. Harvard has only trailed twice this year, 1-0 to both Stanford and Penn.
C – Cashman
Since the start of the 2023 season (her freshman year), Ella Cashman is the only Princeton player who has scored against Harvard (four goals). Cashman is a two-time first-team All-Ivy League selection.
D – Defense
Princeton has held its opponents to an average of 7.3 shots per game this season, the lowest season total for the Tigers since 2018 (6.0). Princeton held Harvard to five shots in the regular season meeting and held Yale to three shots in the Ivy tournament semifinal. Harvard averages more than twice as many shots as Princeton allows, with 14.9 per game.
E – Eight
Princeton’s Beth Yeager and Harvard’s Bronte-May Brough are now two of only eight players in league history to be a four-time first-team All-Ivy selection. Princeton’s Clem Houlden is halfway there, with two first-team All-Ivy selections in her first two years.
F – Far From Home
Princeton is 7-0 away from home and 7-3 at home to date this season. Princeton’s road wins included nationally ranked teams non-league teams Northwestern, Maryland and Rutgers.
G – Goalies
Harvard’s Linde Burge (0.61) and Princeton’s Olivia Caponiti (0.82) rank first and second in the Ivy League and second and fourth in Division I in goals-against average.
H – History
Beth Yeager became the first field hockey player to win four Ivy League Player of the Year Awards when she was named Ivy Co-Offensive Player of the Year. Yeager, who won the first three outright, was the second league player to earn three such honors, along with Princeton’s Paige Schmidt (2006-08, when there was only one Player of the Year award, before it was split into Offense and Defense in 2011). In addition, Yeager is a three-time first-team All-American; no Ivy League field hockey player has ever been a four-time first-team All-American.
I – Ivy Tournament History
Princeton and Harvard meet in the Ivy League tournament final for the third time in the three years of the tournament. The Crimson won the first two, both by scores of 2-1. In 2023, Lara Beekhuis (a current junior) scored both goals, including the game-winner with 34 seconds to play. In 2024, Martha Le Huray (a current sophomore) scored the winner in overtime. Princeton has scored 10 goals in five ILT games all-time, and nine have come from players currently on the roster: Ella Cashman (3), Pru Lindsey (2) and one each for Beth Yeager, Anna Faulstich, Ottilie Sykes and Talia Schenck (out injured).
J – Just The Facts
Beth Yeager leads the Ivy League in points this season with 31 (11G, 9A). She is also one of two Princeton field hockey players ever with at least 55 career goals and 33 career assists (Kirsty Hale is the other). Yeager ranks fifth in career goals at Princeton (55, five behind Amy MacFarlane for fourth) and sixth at Princeton in career assists (33, two behind Kathleen Kelly and Julia Reinprecht for fourth). Yeager and Ryleigh Heck of UNC are the only two active players in Division I with at least 55 goals and 33 assists. Yeager has done this despite being slowed most of the season by a broken bone in her left hand suffered at the Pan Am Cup this August while competing with the USA National Team, an injury that required surgery three weeks before the season began. Yeager also started every game at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
K – Know This
Princeton and Harvard have allowed a combined 25 goals in a combined 34 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 – Molly, Pru, Caitlin
Molly Nye had one career goal in her first 28 career games. She now has a goal in five of the last nine games. Pru Lindsey did not have a point in the first eight games of the year. She has five goals and nine assists in the last nine games. Caitlin Thompson had no goals in the first nine games and now has seven in the last eight; she leads all Ivy League freshmen in goals and is ninth among Division I freshman in goals.
N – Nicely Done
Princeton had seven players earn All-Ivy League honors when the teams were announced this week. Beth Yeager became a four-time unanimous first-team All-Ivy selection, and she was joined on the first team by junior Ella Cashman (now a three-time All-Ivy pick, including first team the last two years) and sophomore Clem Houlden, who has been a first-team All-Ivy pick each of her first two seasons. Princeton had three second-team selections: junior goalie Olivia Caponiti, defender Ottilie Sykes (now a three-time All-Ivy pick) and freshman forward Caitlin Thompson. Helena Große was the team’s Academic All-Ivy selection.
O – Offense
Princeton has scored 46 goals this season, of which 25 have come from freshmen and sophomores and 21 have come from juniors and seniors. Of Princeton’s last nine goals, eight have come from freshmen or sophomores.
P – Player Of The Week
Princeton has had six different players earn at least one Ivy League Player of the Week honor this season: Olivia Caponiti, Ella Cashman, Pru Lindsey, Izzy Morgan Ottilie Sykes and Beth Yeager.
Q – Quite A Stat
Princeton starts only one senior, Beth Yeager. Princeton’s starting 11 has three freshmen (Gabriella Anderson, Saylor Milone, Caitlin Thompson), four sophomores (Anna Faulstich, Clem Houlden, Pru Lindsey, Izzy Morgan), three juniors (Olivia Caponiti, Ella Cashman, Ottilie Sykes) and one senior (Yeager).
R – RPI
Princeton was No. 3 in the RPI rankings as of Saturday morning, with wins over top 20 teams Northwestern (No. 5), UConn (No. 10), Yale (No. 11, twice), Monmouth (No. 14), Brown (No. 15), Penn (No. 16), Rutgers (No. 19) and Cornell (20). Princeton’s three losses are to No. 1 UNC, No. 2 Harvard and No. 9 Syracuse.
S – Series History
Princeton leads the all-time series with Harvard 45-12-2. The teams have split the last 14 meetings.
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 – Woj
Lilly Wojcik scored her first career goal in Princeton’s 3-0 regular season finale win over Columbia.
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 – Youth Movement
Princeton has started at least two freshmen in every game since the start of the 2023 season.
Z – Zinger
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.
