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Princeton University
Harvard
No. 8 Princeton Hosts No. 4 Harvard
September 25, 2025 | Field Hockey
No. 8 PRINCETON (4-2. 1-0 Ivy League) vs. No. 4 HARVARD (6-0)
Friday Sept. 26
Bedford Field • Princeton, N.J. • 5 pm
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A – About
The 2025 Princeton field hockey team has 24 players, 13 from America and 11 internationals, of which 10 are British. The Tigers return eight starters from last year’s team that went 14-6, won the Ivy League championship at a perfect 7-0 and advanced to the NCAA quarterfinals. Princeton has six seniors, five juniors, seven sophomores and six freshmen.
B – Bedford
Princeton’s game against Harvard will be its sixth in its first seven games on Bedford Field. The game Sunday at Maryland will be its first this season outside the state of New Jersey (its only road game to date was at Rutgers).
C – Caponiti
Olivia Caponiti is the reigning Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week and the runner-up for NFHCA Division I Defensive Player of the Week after making seven saves while allowing no goals in shutouts of Penn and UConn. Caponiti has allowed only one goal — on a penalty stroke in overtime against Syracuse — in her last 271 minutes in cage.
D – Defense
Princeton has shut out its last three opponents (Rutgers, Penn, UConn). The last time Princeton had three consecutive shutouts was in 2012, its NCAA championship season, when the Tigers shut out three straight opponents on two different occasions.
E – Ella
Ella Cashman has scored all three goals Princeton has against Harvard the last two years. Beth Yeager has assisted on all three.
F – Faulstich
Anna Faulstich, an honorable mention All-Ivy League selection a year ago as a freshman, is second on the team in assists with three.
G – Goalies
Harvard’s Linda Burger (0.61) and Princeton’s Olivia Caponiti (0.79) rank 1-2 in the Ivy League in goals-against average. They also rank fourth and seventh in Division I.
H – Hellie
Helena Große, a defender, had taken one shot and had one assist for her career prior to last Sunday’s Senior Day. She then had one goal and one assist in that game.
I – Ivy League
Princeton was voted the 2025 favorite in the Ivy League’s preseason media poll — barely. Princeton and Harvard each received eight first-place votes, and the Tigers edged the Crimson 120-118 in total points. The rest of the poll was in this order: Brown, Yale, Cornell, Penn, Columbia, Dartmouth.
J – Just The Numbers
Beth Yeager is now in sixth place all time in career points at Princeton with 125 (48G, 29A). She is 22 points away from tying Amy MacFarlane for fifth. With two more goals and one more assists, Yeager would become the fourth player in program history with at least 50 goals and 30 assists, joining Kirsty Hale, Katie Reinprecht and Ilvy Friebe.
K – Keeping It Out Of The Goal
Princeton and Harvard have allowed a total of nine goals in their 12 games combined this season.
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 – Maryland
Princeton will play Maryland Sunday in College Park. The last nine Princeton-Maryland games have all been decided by one goal. Princeton has won the last two in regulation; prior to that, Princeton and Maryland had played five straight overtime games.
N – National Leaders
Princeton’s Beth Yeager is the only player in the top five in career goals per game and career assists per game among active Division I players. In addition, she has scored 48 career goals, which is fifth among active players, and has 29 assists, which tied for second.
O – Offense
Princeton had scored six goals in its first five games and then scored five times against UConn Sunday and had gotten all its goals prior to that game from either Ella Cashman, Ottilie Sykes or Beth Yeager (in fact in the previous eight games dating to last year). Princeton then got five goals from five different players (Yeager, Sykes, Izzy Morgan, Ella Hampson, Helena Große) against UConn.
P – Princeton Field Hockey
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.
Q – Quite A Stat
Princeton has started at least two freshmen in every game since the start of the 2023 season.
R – Rankings
Princeton has gone from 10th to 11th to ninth to eighth (this week) in the NFHCA coaches’ poll. This weekend’s opponents are No. 4 Harvard and No. 10 Maryland.
S – Series History
Princeton leads the all-time series with Harvard 45-11-2. The teams have split the last 10 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 – Winning
The Ivy League is currently 25-9 in non-conference play this year, with a winning percentage of .736, the best non-conference winning percentage in Division I. Second is the ACC (37-15, 712) and third is the Big Ten (39-20, .661)
X – X-Factor
Princeton has 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.
