CAMBRIDGE, Mass. –  Harvard women's lacrosse (4-6, 2-2 Ivy) plays its final road contest of the regular season when it heads to Columbia (2-9, 0-3 Ivy) on Saturday (April 16) for a 1 p.m. contest on ESPN+.
 
Harvard leads the all-time series against Columbia, 18-4, but the Lions have won the last two meetings, both by one goal.

In its last Ivy League contest, Harvard was narrowly edged by conference-leading Yale, falling 13-12 in New Haven last Saturday. In that contest, sophomore Callie Hem recorded a career high six goals, the most goals by a Harvard player in a game since Keeley MacAfee scored six goals in an 18-8 win over Yale on March 24, 2019.
 
Hem now leads Harvard with 29 points (23 goals, six assists) on the season. She is currently seventh in the Ivy League with an average of 2.30 goals per game. Hem is also eighth in the conference in point scoring (2.90 points per game).
 
Harvard has been solid on defense, with the No. 1 goals against average in the Ivy League, allowing 10.97 goals per game. Sophomore goalkeeper Chloe Provenzano has a 10.15 goals against average (1st, Ivy League) and has started all 10 games for Harvard.

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- Through 10 games,  sophomore Riley Campbell (20 goals, seven assists) has also been an impactful scorer for Harvard, recording multiple goals in six contests.  Junior Grace Hulslander leads Harvard with 24 draw controls, and Shea Jenkins is tops on the team with 16 caused turnovers. Jenkins also leads the team with 25 ground balls. She had a season high five ground balls and four caused turnovers in Harvard's game against No. 2 Boston College on Tuesday night.
- Harvard leads the Ivy League with an average of 18.70 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 returns home to face rival Princeton on Saturday, April 23 at 4 p.m. 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.