CAMBRIDGE, Mass. –  Harvard women's lacrosse (4-4, 2-1 Ivy) hits the road to take on rival Yale (7-2, 3-0 Ivy) in New Haven on Saturday (April 9) at 1 p.m. on ESPN+.

Last Saturday, Harvard snapped a three game losing streak with an 11-7 victory over Dartmouth, as Maddie Barkate (five goals) and Riley Campbell (four goals, three assists) led the way for the Crimson. Sophomore goalkeeper Chloe Provenzano made seven saves to earn the win in her eighth straight start.
 
For her efforts, Campbell was named Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week. Campbell now leads Harvard with 23 points (16 goals, seven assists) on the season. She is currently eighth in the Ivy League with an average of 2.88 points per game, and is tied for 10^th with 16 goals.
 
Harvard has been solid on defense, allowing 10.12 goals per game through eight games this season (23rd NCAA), leading the Ivy League in goals against average. Provenzano has a 9.23 goals against average (1^st, Ivy League), good for eighth in the nation, and a .485 save percentage (20^th, NCAA).

Harvard leads the all-time Harvard-Yale series 26-21-1, having won eight of the last nine meetings.

What to Know
- Through eight games, Campbell (16 goals, seven assists) and sophomore Callie Hem (17 goals, five assists) have been Harvard's top two scorers. Junior Grace Hulslander leads Harvard with 22 draw controls, and Shea Jenkins is tops on the team with 10 caused turnovers. Jenkins and Grace Taylor lead the team with 18 ground balls.
- Harvard leads the Ivy League with an average of 19.38 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 Jordan Field for a midweek contest next Tuesday (April 12) against No. 2 Boston College. The game will begin at 5 p.m. and will air on ESPN+.
 
All remaining games on Crimson's 2022 schedule will also be streamed on ESPN+. To purchase tickets, visit tickets.gocrimson.com.