CAMBRIDGE, Mass. –  Harvard women's lacrosse (3-3, 1-0 Ivy) returns to Ivy League play this weekend at Jordan Field when it hosts Cornell (4-3, 1-1 Ivy) on Saturday (March 26) at 1 p.m.
 
The Crimson opened Ivy League play on March 5, defeating No. 24 Penn, 9-8, its first win over the Quakers since April 9, 2000, as sophomore Riley Campbell scored four goals and Chloe Provenzano made eight saves to help Harvard earn the landmark victory at Franklin Field.
 
Cornell is coming off its first Ivy League win of the season last Saturday (March 19), defeating Columbia, 23-8 in Ithaca.

Harvard has been solid on defense, allowing 10.67 goals per game through six games this season (28^th, NCAA), leading the Ivy League in goals against average. Provenzano has a 9.73 goals against average (1^st, Ivy League), good for 13^th in the nation, and a .474 save percentage (20^th, NCAA).
 
Sophomore midfielder Callie Hem leads Harvard in goal (14) and point (18) scoring, with multiple goals in each of Harvard's first six games. She is sixth in the Ivy League in goal scoring (2.33 goals per game) and tied for seventh in point scoring (3.00 points per game)
 
Harvard leads the all-time series against Cornell, 24-18.

What to Know
- Devon Wills, The Carole Kleinfelder Head Coach for Harvard Women's Lacrosse, returns for her third season at Harvard. Wills arrived in Cambridge after a six-year coaching stint at USC, serving as associate head coach in her last three seasons, where she worked specifically with the Trojan defense and goaltenders. Under Wills' guidance the Crimson defense improved from allowing 12.06 goals per game in 2019 to 9 goals per game in 2020. Harvard also averaged 9.83 caused turnovers per game in 2020, up from 7.86 caused turnovers per contest in 2019. Wills was a three-time All-American goalie at Dartmouth, leading the NCAA in goals-against average and helped the Big Green advance to the NCAA championship game in 2006.
-Senior Olivia Gill and junior Grace Hulslander are captaining the Crimson in 2022. Gill finished 2020 second on the team with 10 caused turnovers in six games. Hulslander finished third on the team in scoring that same year with 12 goals and added a team best 31 draw controls. 
- Through six games, Callie Hem leads the Crimson with 18 points (14 goals, four assists). Sophomore Riley Campbell second on the team with 11 goals.  Junior Grace Hulslander leads Harvard with 16 draw controls, and Shea Jenkins is tops on the team with eight caused turnovers. Jenkins and Stephanie Hong are tied for the team lead with 13 ground balls.
- First-year Annabel Child was selected as one of 20 women to represent Canada at the 2022 World Lacrosse Women's World Cup in Towson, Md. The World Cup, postponed from 2021, will take place from June 29-July 9, 2022 and will feature 30 teams. Child is no stranger to Team Canada, earning a spot on the Super Six squad at the World Lacrosse Six on Six event this past fall, and participating with the national team at the USA Lacrosse Fall Classic.
- Harvard women's lacrosse coaches Becca Block and Dempsey Arsenault were named to the final 18-player roster for the United States at the World Lacrosse Women's World Championship this upcoming summer (June 29-July 9) in Maryland. Block helped the U.S. win gold at the most recent world championship in 2017 and returns five years later. Since her first call up to the U.S. national team in 2012, Block has competed consistently with USA Lacrosse, including the USA Lacrosse Fall Classic this past October. Arsenault will compete at her first senior world championship after having competed at the USA Lacrosse Fall Classic as well.

Up Next
Harvard will return to Jordan Field on Sunday, April 3 with an Ivy League contest against Dartmouth at 1 p.m.