Saturday Visit from Yale Up Next for Women's Soccer Team

As the race for spots in the Ivy League Tournament starts to take shape, Princeton will host Yale on Saturday night with three Ivy League standings points on the table.

vs. Yale, Saturday, 7 p.m. | ESPN+ | Int'l Video | Live Stats | Team Yearbook | Free Admission | Unified Soccer Night

The Ivy: The Tigers are in a logjam in the race for Ivy League Tournament spots as one of four teams at 1-1. Columbia leads the way with six points at 2-0, Dartmouth is next with four points at 1-0-1, and the Tigers join Brown, Cornell and Harvard at 1-1, each with three points. Penn stands next at 0-1-1 with one point, and Yale is looking for its first points after an 0-2 start. The top four teams will make the Ivy tournament with the top seed hosting.

On Princeton: The Tigers (2-4-3) are looking to bounce back from a 2-0 loss at Harvard last Saturday in just the second time all season that Princeton was shut out. Zoe Markesini, who has been out due to injury since the Aug. 31 game against Syracuse, leads the team with two goals. Alexandra Barry, Nina Cantor, Ally Murphy, Pia Beaulieu and Sarah Houston have scored a goal apiece, and while Cerone (1-2-2, 1.60 GAA, .621 sv%) has played 618 minutes in goal, Sydney Romano (1-2-1, 1.41 GAA, .769 sv%) has played 191 minutes.

On Yale: The Bulldogs (2-7) will be looking to snap a seven-game skid since opening the season with back-to-back wins over Vermont and Hofstra. Vienna Lundstedt leads the team with five of the Bulldogs' 13 goals and Anita Thorvaldsdottir scoring three. Kyla Holmes has played all 810 minutes in goal, holding a 2.33 GAA and a .731 save percentage.

The series: Princeton leads the all-time series with Yale 28-15-3 since the first meeting in 1980. Under Sean Driscoll, Princeton is 5-3-1 against Yale, and the teams have alternated wins and losses since Princeton won back-to-back meetings in 2017 and 2018, with Yale winning in 2019, Princeton in 2021, Yale in 2022, Princeton in 2023 and Yale in 2024. Princeton had a 3-0 start to the Ivy League season last year, with wins over Cornell, Brown and Penn all by shutout, before heading to Yale for a 2-1 loss on Oct. 13, 2024. Alanna Butcher, now graduated, had both goals for Yale while Kayla Wong had Princeton's goal. No current Bulldogs have scored against Princeton, while Drew Coomans had a goal in Princeton's 3-1 home win in 2023 to join Wong as the only active Tigers to have scored against Yale. No current Tigers have played in goal against Yale, but the Bulldogs have back their goalies from each of the last two meetings, with Anna Shamgochian getting two saves in last year's win and Kyla Holmes making eight saves in the 2023 loss at Princeton.

Outshoot 'em: In 173 games under Sean Driscoll, Princeton has outshot its opponent in overall shots 132 times and has equaled its opponent in total shots three times, getting outshot 38 times, or in just more than once every five games (22 percent).

Preseason polls: Princeton was picked first and Yale fifth in the Ivy preseason poll. The Tigers had eight athletic All-Ivy honorees last year but took a huge hit with losses to graduation and the pros. Pietra Tordin, who chose to forgo her senior season to turn pro with the NWSL's Portland Thorns, was the Ivy Offensive Player of the Year in 2024, and Lily Bryant, Heather MacNab and Tyler McCamey all graduated and went on to the pro ranks, with Bryant at FC Porto in Portugal, MacNab with the NWSL's North Carolina Courage, and McCamey with the NWSL's KC Current. On the second team, Ryann Brown is using a graduate season at North Carolina and Kate Toomey graduated, leaving Zoe Markesini and Drew Coomans as the only returning 2024 All-Ivy honorees for the Tigers. Markesini has missed time since leaving the Aug. 31 game against Syracuse due to injury. For the Bulldogs, of the team's four 2024 athletic All-Ivy honorees, only backliner Logan Jacobs, a second-team honoree last year, is back.

Tigers in the NWSL: Princeton has six players currently on NWSL rosters. Pietra Tordin, who turned pro following her junior season last school year, has already twice been named the NWSL Rookie of the Month, doing so in June and adding the second in August. Through the weekend, Tordin had played in 21 games for the Portland Thorns, three in September and seven on the season overall, scoring four goals. Tyler Lussi '17 started the North Carolina Courage's last 11 games through last weekend, scoring both of her season's goals in that span. Aria Nagai '24 logged 36 minutes in last weekend's game against Bay FC and has played in six of the last eight games, and Madison Curry '24 started her 14th straight game and 19th on the season last weekend for the Seattle Reign against the North Carolina Courage. Heather MacNab '25 made her pro debut for the North Carolina Courage on Sept. 13 against Angel City FC, and Tyler McCamey '25 was signed to the KC Current on Sept. 5. Along with the NWSL six, Lily Bryant '25 is playing in Portugal for FC Porto, making her pro debut on Sept. 13.

The staff: Head coach Sean Driscoll is in his 11th year with Princeton and 10th competitive season (team did not compete in 2020), and has the most Ivy League Coach/Coaching Staff of the Year honors since the award began in 2014, with four (2015, 2017, 2018, 2024). He's Princeton's second-winningest coach, with 109 wins (Julie Shackford, 203 wins, 1995-2014), and with his 40 wins at Manhattan (2005-09) added in, he's just one win from his 150th career victory as a college head coach. Associate Head Coach Mike Poller has been with Driscoll for the entire Tiger tenure, and assistant coach Chris Duggan is in his fourth season with the program. Under Driscoll, Princeton has won four Ivy League titles (2015, 2017, 2018, 2024) and has made six NCAA tournaments (2015, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2023, 2024), making the second round in 2015, 2017, 2021 and 2023 and the quarterfinals in 2017.

Individual notes:

0 • Sydney Romano • So • GK
• Made her career debut in relief at Loyola (Md.) on Aug. 24
• Played in three straight games, in injury relief at Miami (Fla.) on Sept. 4 and splitting halves with Cecilia Cerone against Villanova (Sept. 11) and at Army West Point (Sept. 14)
• Has allowed three goals this season, one at Loyola and two at Army, to hold a 1.41 GAA and a .769 save percentage in 191 minutes

1 • Cecilia Cerone • Jr. • GK
• Following the graduation of Tyler McCamey '25 (now with NWSL's KC Current), has already seen almost three times as much time between the posts (618 min) as she had over her first two seasons (222 min)
• Has played in all nine games this season, going the full 90 five times, and splitting halves with Sydney Romano in three others while leaving the Miami game on Sept. 4 after 33 minutes due to injury
• Holds a 1.60 GAA this season with a .621 save percentage and is coming off a shutout at Penn
• Psychology major

2 • Anna Chau • Fr. • M/D
• Played in each of the first seven games of her rookie season and has made six starts, including in her collegiate debut Aug. 22 against Rutgers
• Averages 67.6 minutes per game this season

4 • Caroline Kane • Sr. • D
• Has played in eight games this season, the second-most games played in a season in her career, behind only the 13 games she played as a rookie in 2022
• A backliner, has one career point, an assist against Bucknell in 2022
• Averages 54.9 minutes per game this season
• Majoring in psychology and interned in the summer of 2025 with Major League Baseball's mental health and safety programs

5 • Drew Coomans • Sr. • F
• Two-time second-team All-Ivy Leaguer (2023, 2024)
• Has started all nine games this season and 14 straight dating back to last season; has played in 62 games and started 45 in her collegiate career
• Has scored all five of her career goals between her sophomore and junior seasons, with three in 2024
• Averages 82.6 minutes per game this season
• Economics major
• Spent two weeks in summer 2025 training with the NWSL's Portland Thorns

6 • Zoe Markesini • Jr. • D
• Co-captain this season
• Second-team All-Ivy League 2024
• Played in the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Colombia and 2022 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in India for Canada, serving as a team captain with the U-17 team, starting all seven games between the two tournaments, and scoring a goal against France in the 2024 group stage opener as Canada made the round of 16
• Left the Aug. 31 game against Syracuse due to injury and has not played since
• Has played 36 games and started 30 during her collegiate career
• Scored her first two collegiate goals over Princeton's first two games this season, earning Ivy Defensive Player of the Week honors on Aug. 25
• Averages 78.8 minutes per game this season
• Majoring in psychology

7 • Grace Rossner • So. • M/F
• Has appeared in seven games over her first two seasons, all as a reserve
• Has played 44 minutes this season, all between the Rutgers (Aug. 22), Ohio State (Aug. 28) and Harvard (Sept. 27) games

8 • Aditi Singh • Jr. • F
• Joined the team this season
• From West Windsor, N.J., just a few miles from campus
• Made her career debut Aug. 28 against Ohio State and played 22 minutes off the bench in her only appearance to date
• Majoring in mechanical and aerospace engineering

9 • Rebecca Sherry • Jr. • F
• Made her career debut this season and has played in six games
• Averages 15.2 minutes per game this season
• Student in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

10 • Dylan Jovanovic • So. • F
• Has played in all nine games this season and started eight, surpassing her total of games started from last season as a rookie (seven)
• Has scored her first two career points this season, on assists at Miami (Sept. 4) and Army West Point (Sept. 14)
• Is closing in on her total of minutes played from last season, having played 656 this season and 688 last season
• Has already taken more total shots this season (22) than last season (18) and is more than halfway to her number of shots on goal this season (six) from last season (nine)
• 22 total shots this season lead the team
• Averages 72.9 minutes per game this season

11 • Maddie Recupero • Fr. • M
• Has played in six games this season and has started twice, against Ohio State (Aug. 28) and Harvard (Sept. 27)
• Averages 43.2 minutes per game this season and had a career-high 58 minutes last time out at Harvard

13 • Sarah Houston • Fr. • F/M
• Scored her first career goal Sept. 14 at Army West Point
• First career start came in the Army game and has played in seven games this season
• Averages 33.4 minutes per game this season
• Sister, Erin, is a senior on Auburn's women's soccer team

14 • Nina Cantor • Fr. • F
• Has played in all nine games this season and has started six
• Averages 56.3 minutes per game this season while playing between 41 and 69 minutes in every game
• Had her first career point on Aug. 28 with an assist against Ohio State and first career goal on Sept. 4 at Miami for her three points this season
• Leads the team in shots on goal, with eight

17 • Sophia Kurisu • So. • M
• Has not yet played this season after playing in 12 games last season, all off the bench while taking two shots, one on goal, and averaging 16.6 minutes per game

18 • Brooke Dawahare • So. • M
• Played in all 19 games last season and had 17 starts
• With 1,240 minutes played last season, was the team's returning leader in minutes played from last season, and with Alexandra Barry and Isabella Garces, co-led the returners with four goals scored last season
• Started each of the first three games this season before leaving the Aug. 28 game against Ohio State due to injury and has not played since
• Played 73 minutes in the opener against Rutgers and all 90 against Loyola the next time out before playing 28 minutes in the early exit against OSU

20 • Aubrey Crisostomo • Fr. • F/M
• Has played in seven games this season, all off the bench, and averages 28.4 minutes per game, playing a high of 58 minutes last time out at Harvard
• Had her first career point with an assist against Ohio State on Aug. 28

21 • Julia Johnson • Fr. • D
• Has played in eight games this season and has made six starts, including starts in each of the last five games entering the Yale game
• Averages 70 minutes per game this season and has played the full 90 in five straight games
• Shares a high school alma mater with head coach Sean Driscoll, Greens Farms Academy in Westport, Conn.
• Has a strong familial connection to Princeton, with both parents, Sydney and Jennifer, both in the Class of 1997, and brother Jalen in the Class of 2026
• Father Sydney was a two-time Ivy League champion hoopster at Princeton (1996, 1997) and was part of the 1996 team that upset UCLA in the first round of the NCAA tournament before winning Ivy Player of the Year honors in 1997; Sydney returned to coach the team from 2007-11, winning the 2011 Ivy title, and began as head coach of the WNBA's Washington Mystics in 2025

22 • Esmé Rudell • Jr. • M/D
• Has surpassed her 2024 total of minutes played (364), having played 484 minutes this season; had 433 career minutes entering the season
• Averages 53.8 minutes per game this season
• Majoring in politics
• Father, Kirk, is in the Princeton soccer Class of 1991 and co-produced soccer documentaries including Soccertown, USA (2019) about Kearny, N.J., and Voice of the Game (2022), about Manfred Schellscheidt, and co-hosts a soccer podcast, An American Game.

23 • Summer Pierson • Sr. • M/D
• Has played in five games this season
• Averages 17.6 minutes per game this season
• Career highs of seven games played, three games started, and 240 minutes played all came last season
• First and so far only career points came on a goal against Drexel on Sept. 12, 2024
• Majoring in art and archaeology

24 • Pia Beaulieu • Sr. • M
• Has played in five games this season and has started three after missing early-season games due to injury
• Played a career-high 544 minutes over a career-high 18 games last season, also setting career highs in goals (two) and assists (three) last season
• Averages 61.2 minutes per game this season
• Student in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

25 • Kelsee Wozniak • Sr. • D
• Has started all nine games this season
• Career-high three goals and three assists came as a rookie in 2022
• Career-high 1,004 minutes played came last season
• This season, has matched her career high of nine starts, set in 2022 and equaled in 2024
• Averages 84.1 minutes per game this season and has played no fewer than 61, going the full 90 six times
• Politics major

27 • Alexandra Barry • So. • F
• Was the team's leading returning scorer from 2024, totaling 13 points on four goals and five assists
• Played in all 19 games last season and made seven starts
• Scored a goal against Ohio State on Aug. 28 and had an assist Sept. 4 at Miami for her three points so far this season
• Has five starts this season, just two behind her seven starts as a rookie, and is more than halfway to her 2024 minutes total of 680, having played 442
• Has taken 16 total shots this season and seven on goal after 27 total shots last season and 11 on goal
• Averages 49.1 minutes per game this season

28 • Kayla Wong • Jr. • M
• Has started all nine games this season after playing in 18 of 19 and starting 17 last season
• Career-high three goals came last season and career-high five assists, on the way to a career-high nine points, came as a rookie in 2023
• Career-high 28 total shots and 12 shots on goal came last season; has 13 total shots and seven shots on goal this season
• Averages 80.8 minutes per game this season
• Economics major

30 • Isabella Garces • Jr. • F
• Made her season debut Sept. 14 at Army West Point after missing early-season games due to injury; scored the goal in the team's 1-0 win at Penn on Sept. 19
• Played in a career-high 15 games last season and started two games; has equaled the start total with two this season
• Career-high 421 minutes, 23 total shots and seven shots on goal came last season
• Co-led this year's returners with four goals last season
• Student in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

36 • Ally Murphy • Sr. • F
• Co-captain this season
• Has played in all nine games this season and has started six
• Scored on a penalty kick against Villanova on Sept. 11 for her second career goal; first came on Oct. 5, 2024 against Brown
• With 424 minutes played this season, has surpassed her career high of 363 set in 2022
• Averages 47.1 minutes per game this season
• Student in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

51 • Carson Proctor • Fr. • GK
• Has not yet played

Looking ahead: Princeton will be back at Roberts Stadium for a visit from Cornell on Oct. 11.

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