NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale field hockey team hosts Dartmouth and visits nearby Quinnipiac this weekend as part of Alums Weekend. The Bulldogs face the Big Green Saturday (12:00 p.m.,
ESPN+) in an Ivy League game and then make the short trip up I-91 to Quinnipiac Sunday (2:00 p.m.,
Quinnipiac All-Access) to take on their local rivals.
ALUMS WELCOMED BACK; MIFFLIN TO BE HONORED
This is Alums Weekend for the Yale Field Hockey program, highlighted by a halftime ceremony at Saturday's game in which all alums will be acknowledged. The Bulldogs will also recognize
Lawrie Mifflin '73. She is one of five recipients of the George H.W. Bush Lifetime of Leadership Award, which honors alumni athletes who, in their lives after Yale, have made significant leadership contributions in their worlds of governance, commerce, science and technology, education, public service, and the arts and media.
Mifflin, the first woman sports reporter at the New York Daily News, is best known for her long career (1982-2013) with the New York Times, mostly as senior editor.
As an undergraduate Mifflin was co-founder of the field hockey team and later its co-captain with
Sandy Morse '74. She will be honored at Yale's Blue Leadership Ball on Nov. 22 at the William K. Lanman Center inside Payne Whitney Gym.
Saturday's ceremony is part of a larger celebration at Yale this year, as the university celebrates the anniversaries of the of the first women students at Yale. That includes the 50th anniversary of coeducation at Yale College and the 150th anniversary of the first graduate women on campus. Yale teams are wearing special "Lux et Femina" patches as part of the "50WomenAtYale150" celebration, which includes lectures, exhibitions, and performances throughout the 2019-20 academic year.
LAST TIME OUT
Yale (2-9, 0-3 Ivy League) lost to Bucknell 3-2 Monday, giving the Bulldogs six straight one-goal losses. The Bulldogs have outscored their opponents 10-0 in their two wins this season but have been outscored by a total of 14 goals in their nine losses (an average of 1.6 goals per game).
TERROSO LEADS IN IVY LEAGUE SAVES
Junior goalkeeper
Sydney Terroso (York, Pa.) has 28 saves in Ivy League games this season, more than any Ivy goalie. Dartmouth's Isabella Santucci (26) is second. Terroso made a season-high 16 saves at Princeton. Santucci is the only Ivy Leaguer with more saves in a game this season (20 in a 5-2 loss to then-No. 19 Boston College Sept. 13).
ANSARI GETS FIRST YEARS ON THE BOARD
With her tally Monday vs. Bucknell, first-year forward
Lena Ansari (Glenview, Ill.) became the first member of Yale's Class of 2023 to score a goal. She has appeared in all 11 games. The first-year class has totaled 32 games and two starts (both by forward/midfielder
Josie Jahng (Livingston, N.J.)).
LEVIEUX AMONG IVY LEADERS IN GOALS
Junior forward/midfielder
Olivia Levieux (Johannesburg, South Africa) has scored a goal in each of Yale's three Ivy League games, making her one of only nine players with that many goals in Ivy games.
STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE
Six teams on Yale's 2019 schedule are currently ranked in the top 30 in the NCAA RPI rankings: No. 5 Virginia, No. 8 (tie) Princeton, No. 16 Harvard, No. 20 Liberty, No. 24 Cornell and No. 29 Penn. The Bulldogs have lost by just one goal in three of the five games they have played against those teams.
SCOUTING DARTMOUTH
Dartmouth (3-8, 0-3 Ivy League) has dropped three in a row, including Ivy League losses at Brown (3-1) and at Penn (4-3 in overtime). Yale has won three straight in the series vs. the Big Green, including a 4-3 win in Hanover last year led by 11 saves from junior goalkeeper
Sydney Terroso (York, Pa.).
SCOUTING QUINNIPIAC
Quinnipiac (3-10, 1-3 Big East), which travels to Providence for a conference game Friday, has dropped five in a row. The Bobcats have played three opponents in common with the Bulldogs, with both teams having beaten Sacred Heart (Yale 4-0 and Quinnipiac 2-0) and lost to No. 17 Liberty (Yale 4-2 and Quinnipiac 5-1) and Hofstra (Yale 2-1 and Quinnipiac 3-2).
