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Princeton University Athletics
Princeton University
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No. 8 Princeton, No. 10 Harvard Square Off In Cambridge
September 24, 2026 | Field Hockey
No. 8 Princeton (4-2, 1-0 Ivy) vs. No. 10 Harvard (5-1, 1-0 Ivy)
Berylson Field • Cambridge, Mass.
Saturday, Sept. 26 • noon
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ELLA CASHMAN FEATURE STORY
A – About
Princeton and Harvard are two of the four 1-0 Ivy League teams, along with Yale and Cornell.
B – Back For More
Princeton and Harvard met three times a year ago. Harvard won 3-1 in the regular season to win the Ivy League championship, and Princeton then won 2-1 in the Ivy League tournament final and 2-0 in the NCAA semifinal.
C – Champions
Princeton and Harvard have each won five of the last 10 Ivy League championships. The winner of the Princeton-Harvard regular season game has gone on to win all 10 of those championships.
D – Defense
Princeton leads Division I in scoring defense at 0.35 goals per game.
E – Ella
Ella Cashman tore her ACL in her last game at Harvard, in the Ivy League tournament final a year ago won by Princeton 2-1. Cashman returned two weeks later to play in the Final Four, had off-season surgery and has returned to start every game so far this year.
F – First
Saylor Milone missed the first four games due to injury and then returned to play against Penn and start against UConn. Milone, who started every game last year as a freshman, scored her first career goal (and had a defensive save) in the UConn game.
G – Goals
Princeton and Harvard have played seven times in the last three seasons, or since any current Princeton player has been on the team. Princeton has scored nine goals in those seven games, of which five have come from Ella Cashman. Pru Lindsey, Caitlin Thompson and Anna Faulstich all had one (Beth Yeager had the other).
H – Houlden, Faulstich, Sykes, Thompson
Princeton has four players who have started every game of their careers: Clem Houlden, Anna Faulstich, Ottilie Sykes and Caitlin Thompson.
I – In The Rankings
Princeton is ranked eighth in this week’s NFHCA coaches’ poll. Harvard is ranked 10th. This is Princeton’s seventh game and third in which both teams were ranked in the top 10 at the time.
J – Just The Facts
Princeton leads the all-time series with Harvard 47-12-2. The teams have split their last four meetings, six meetings, eight meetings, 10 meetings, 12 meetings and 14 meetings.
K – Know This
Princeton is 36-12 since the start of the 2024 season, with an NCAA quarterfinal, an NCAA championship game appearance, an Ivy League championship and an Ivy League tournament title.
L – Leaders
Princeton has four captains for 2026 — Olivia Caponiti, Ella Cashman, Clem Houlden and Ottilie Sykes.
M – Molly
Molly Nye grew up within walking distance of the Harvard campus. Nye started Princeton’s last two games after coming off the bench for the first 46 of her career and became the first Princeton player ever to reach 10 career goals without starting any games.
N – Nothing
There have been 19 cards issued in Princeton’s first six games (nine for Princeton, 10 for its opponents). There have been no goals scored during any of the penalty time from those cards by either team.
O – Ott
Ottilie Sykes has started all 67 games Princeton has played in her first three seasons. She has played every minute of 52 of them.
P – Pru
Pru Lindsey leads Princeton with four goals this season. She is also Princeton’s career leader in assists with 15 and points with 37 and is tied with Ella Cashman for career goals with 12 among active players.
Q – Quite A Stat
Princeton had outshot its opponents by a combined 91-36. The Tigers have outshot all six of their opponents.
R – Repton
There are four players from the Repton School between Princeton and Harvard — Princeton’s Ottilie Sykes and Tabby Vaughan and Harvard’s Tilly Butterworth and Lucy Barker. The Repton School is located in Derbyshire, England, and was founded in 1557.
S – Shootouts
Princeton is 4-0 in games that haven’t gone to shootouts and 0-2 in games that have. A year ago, there were 111 overtime games in Division I college field hockey. Of those games, there were 20 that went to shootouts, or 18 percent. Through games this past Tuesday, there have been 28 games that have gone to overtime, or which 12 have gone to shootouts. That's 43 percent. From 2021 through 2025, Princeton had 22 games go to overtime, of which only two went to shootouts. This year, Princeton has played two OT games, both of which went to shootouts.
T – Team
Princeton has 23 players on the roster. Of those 23, there are eight internationals (all from England), eight from New York, New Jersey or Pennsylvania and seven from other states.
U – Underclass
Princeton has scored 10 goals through six games, of which sevenhave come from juniors (four for Pru Lindsey, two for Molly Nye and one for Anna Faulstich), two have come from sophomores (Saylor Milone, Tabby Vaughan) and one has come from a senior (Hope Delaney).
V – Vaughan
Tabby Vaughan scored Princeton’s lone goal in the Ivy League opener against Penn. Vaughan has two career goals, the one against Penn and one against Penn State a year ago.
W – Watchlist
Princeton has eight players on the NFHCA preseason Watchlist: Gabriella Anderson, Olivia Caponiti, Ella Cashman, Clem Houlden, Pru Lindsey, Saylor Milone, Ottilie Sykes, Caitlin Thompson.
X – X-Factor
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 final a year ago.
Y – Yeah?
There have been 60 penalty corner attempts in Princeton’s first six games between the Tigers and opponents. Of those 60 attempts, five (three for Princeton, two for its opponents) have led to goals.
Z – Zilch
Princeton has not allowed a goal through six games in the run of play; both of the goals against Princeton have come on penalty corners. Harvard leads the Ivy League and is second in Division I in penalty corners per game.
