CAMBRIDGE, Mass. –  Harvard women's lacrosse (4-5) returns to Jordan Field on Tuesday (April 12) to host defending national champion No. 2 Boston College (12-1) in a 5 p.m. contest on ESPN+.
 
Harvard leads the all-time series against the Eagles, 27-13, but is seeking its first win over BC since 2010.

Last Saturday, in a 13-12 loss at Yale, sophomore Callie Hem recorded a career high six goals, and sophomore Riley Campbell added four goals for the Crimson in a closely contested game that went down to the last possession.
 
Hem now leads Harvard with 28 points (23 goals, five assists) on the season. She is currently fourth in the Ivy League with an average of 2.56 goals per game and is tied for fourth with 23 goals. Hem is also seventh in the conference in point scoring (3.11 points per game).
 
Harvard has been solid on defense, with the No. 1 goals against average in the Ivy League, allowing 10.30 goals per game. Sophomore goalkeeper Chloe Provenzano has a 9.68 goals against average (1st, Ivy League) and has started all nine games for Harvard

What to Know
- Through nine games,  sophomore Riley Campbell (20 goals, seven assists) and sophomore Callie Hem (23 goals, five assists) have been Harvard's top two scorers. Junior Grace Hulslander leads Harvard with 23 draw controls, and Shea Jenkins and Grace Taylor are tops on the team with 12 caused turnovers. Jenkins also leads the team with 20 ground balls.
- Harvard leads the Ivy League with an average of 18.89 ground balls per game.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. 
- 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.
- 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.

Up Next
Harvard continues Ivy League play on the road, as the Crimson will head to Columbia on Saturday (April 16) for a 1 p.m. contest on ESPN+.
 
All remaining games on Crimson's 2022 schedule will also be streamed on ESPN+. To purchase tickets to Harvard home games, visit tickets.gocrimson.com.