CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard women's soccer is set to host its annual Pride Game tonight during its midweek clash with Ivy League foe, Dartmouth.  The Crimson (6-3-1, 1-1-0 Ivy) will take on the co-Ivy League leading and unbeaten Dartmouth Big Green (7-0-3, 2-0-0 Ivy) on its home turf, under the lights at Jordan Field.
 
The Crimson will also host its annual pride game celebration during the match. The team will wear custom warm up shirts with a new pride themed logo and fans will see new pride themed corner flags and will be able to enjoy free food from LGTBQ+ owned business, Basil Tree Catering.
 

WHAT TO KNOW

• Harvard is coming off a critical win over the Columbia Lions, who it defeated 2-0 on Saturday.
• The Crimson snapped the Lions 540-plus minute shutout streak in just seven minutes.
• The team's RPI jumped to 45 with the result.
• Dartmouth, currently undefeated in 2023, is coming off back-to-back 1-0 results over Cornell and Yale.
• Dartmouth is just one of nine remaining unbeaten teams in the nation.
• The Big Green has only allowed one goal in its past five contests and four all season.
• The Ivy League foe comes into the match with an RPI ranking of 50.
• Harvard has played Dartmouth more than any other opponent with this contest being no. 55 in the series.
• The Crimson lead the all-time series, 23-17-4 that includes wins in five of the last six contests.
• Megan Mackey's 83' goal lifted the Crimson to a 2-1 result in last year's battle.
• Harvard's offense got back on track over Columbia, scoring two goals in the first 15' of the contest and not allowing a single tally for its fourth shutout of the year.
• The Crimson is outscoring its opponents 25-13 and outshooting them 161-63. Shots on goal also favors the Crimson this season at a 74-30 margin.
• Josefine Hasbo has recorded four goals and five assists and leads the Crimson with 13 points.
• Gabby DelPico and Ólöf Kristinsdóttir are tied for second on the squad with 122 points each. Kristinsdóttir's five goals are a team high.
• Ava Lung and Hannah Bebar each tallied a goal and an assist in the matchup against Columbia.
• Bebar's three points boosted her career total to 49, one shy of reaching the 50-point milestone.
• August Hunter has been the anchor of the Crimson backline, logging a team-best 892 minutes played, missing just eight minutes this season.
• As a team the Crimson ranks 11 in the nation with 2.8 assists per game and 21 in total assists with 28. The totals are also the most in the Ivy League.
• The team's points per game total of 7.8 is good for no. 14 in the nation and no. 1 in the Ivy League.
• The Crimson also leads the league in corner kicks per game (5.8), scoring offense (2.5), and total points (78).

 

HWS ANNUAL PRIDE GAME

• The Crimson is excited to host its annual Pride Game tonight against the Big Green.
• This season, the Pride Game will be a league-wide celebration as all team will wear similar pride themed shirts during warmups.
• Harvard women's soccer has partnered with Basil Tree Catering, an LGTBQ+ owned and operated business to provide fans with free food at the game while supplies last.
• The Harvard women's soccer pride game, among a number of other events operated in coordination with Harvard's Athlete Ally chapter, helped the group win the 2023 Athlete Ally Action Award in 2023. The Action Awards celebrate the groundbreaking actions of organizations and individuals that help create LGBTQI+ inclusive athletic environments and eliminate anti-LGBTQI+ discrimination at large. The generous philanthropy of our dedicated Corporate Sponsors, Host Committees, and Board of Directors make this event possible.

 

ABOUT ATHLETE ALLY

 
Athlete Ally believes sport will change the world when it welcomes and empowers all people. As a leading national nonprofit working at the intersection of sport and LGBTQI+ equality, Athlete Ally works to end the structural and systemic oppression that isolates, excludes and endangers LGBTQI+ people in sport. We educate individuals and institutions to understand obstacles to inclusion for LGBTQI+ people and how they can build an inclusive culture within their athletic communities. We work to ensure sport governing bodies, teams and leagues adopt policies that reflect the diversity of their constituents. We incubate athlete activism to advance LGBTQI+ equality in and through sport.