CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard University men's soccer hosts Dartmouth College on Saturday, Nov. 9 at 1:00 p.m. (ESPN+) at Jordan Field in its regular season finale with the Crimson set to honor the Class of 2025 on Senior Day.

What to Know: Harvard Highlights

• The Crimson (3-7-4, 2-4-0 Ivy) takes on the Big Green (5-7-3, 2-3-1 Ivy) with fifth-place Harvard (six points) sitting just one point behind fourth-place Dartmouth (seven points). The Crimson stands in a tie for fifth place with Brown (six points).
• Harvard can earn a spot in the four-team Ivy League Tournament if the Crimson wins against the Big Green, and Brown either loses or ties with Yale on Saturday at 7:00 p.m.
• Harvard will recognize the six members of its Class of 2025 as part of a pregame senior ceremony on Saturday with the Crimson honoring Sam Bjarnason, Edwin Dominguez, Kristján Gunnarsson, Marko Isakovic, Jan Riecke, and Ludovico Rollo for their hard work and dedication to the program over the last four seasons.
• Sophomore Dylan Tellado leads Harvard with seven points on three goals and one assist. Tellado scored two goals for his second career brace at No. 13 Seton Hall (Sept. 14). He scored his first goal of the season against Holy Cross (Aug. 31) and notched his first assist of the year vs. Columbia (Oct. 26). He now has six career goals.
• Senior Marko Isakovic paces the Crimson with seven points on the year behind two goals and three assists. He scored his first goal of the season at URI (Sept. 5) and netted his second of the year vs. Merrimack (Oct. 1). Isakovic has tallied assists against Holy Cross (Aug. 31), No. 13 Seton Hall (Sept. 14), and Columbia (Oct. 26). He now has 12 career assists in 57 career games played.
• Sophomore Ben Kelly scored goals in back-to-back games against Stonehill (Oct. 23) and Columbia (Oct. 26). He netted his first career goal against the Skyhawks and first career game winner against the Lions. Kelly has posted five points on the year on two goals and one assist.
• Junior Nicholas Nyquist has tallied five points on the year on two goals and one assist. He netted his first career game-winning goal at Yale (Oct. 12). Nyquist posted a career-high three points at Merrimack (Oct. 1) behind a goal and an assist. He notched his first collegiate goal against the Warriors.
• Senior defender Jan Riecke has started all 64 of the Crimson's games since the start of the 2021 season and has played 5,815 of a possible 5,849 minutes (99.4 percent) over that time span. A three-time All-Ivy selection, Riecke has played all 1,260 minutes on the season. He earned Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week on Oct. 14 following the Crimson's 1-0 shutout of Yale (Oct. 12).
• Junior defender Zachary Sardi-Santos leads the team and ranks sixth in the Ivy League with four assists on the year. He tallied three assists in the month of October.
• Senior Kristján Gunnarsson has tallied four points on the season behind a goal and two assists. He netted his first career goal on an equalizer at Brown (Oct. 19).
• Junior Juho Ojanen posted assists in back-to-back Ivy matchups – at Yale (Oct. 12) and at Brown (Oct. 19). In conference play, he ranks fourth in the league in assists (two).
• Junior goalkeepers Lucian Wood and Cullen MacNeil have both made starts in 2024. During conference play, Wood leads the league in total saves (25) and saves per game (4.17), notched shutouts at Yale (Oct. 12) and vs. Columbia (Oct. 26), and made a career-high nine saves at Princeton (Sept. 28). MacNeil tallied five saves in a shutout at Northeastern (Sept. 17), four saves in a 1-1 draw at URI (Sept. 5), and notched an assist at BU (Oct. 8). Wood made 16 starts in 2023, posting a 1.44 GAA and two shutouts.
• Harvard captured a dramatic 1-0 win over Columbia (Oct. 26) with sophomore Ben Kelly scoring his first career game-winning goal in the 81^st minute. Junior goalkeeper Lucian Wood kept his second clean sheet of the year.
• Over its first four matches in the month of October, Harvard posted a 2-1-1 record and allowed just three goals over those four contests. The Crimson permitted one goal or fewer in each of those games. The stretch included victories over Merrimack (3-1, Oct. 1) and Yale (1-0, Oct. 12), a draw with Boston University (1-1, Oct. 8), and a narrow setback against then-No. 25 Penn (1-0, Oct. 5).
• In an instant classic at Yale (Oct. 12), junior Nicholas Nyquist scored his first career game-winning goal, junior goalkeeper Lucian Wood notched his first shutout of the season, and Harvard topped the Bulldogs, 1-0.
• In a derby match, Harvard competed to a 1-1 draw at Boston University (Oct. 8) behind a goal from first-year Xavier Tanyi. Junior goalkeeper Cullen MacNeil notched an assist on the goal, marking the Crimson's first assist from a goalie since 2021.
• Opening the month of October, the Crimson took down Merrimack, 3-1, behind goals from junior Bobby Cupps, senior Marko Isakovic, and junior Nicholas Nyquist. Eight different members of the Crimson tallied a point in the match as Harvard improved to 1-0-1 at home.
• In a crosstown rivalry, the Crimson notched its first clean sheet of 2024 as Harvard tied with Northeastern (Sept. 17), 0-0. Junior goalkeeper Cullen MacNeil made five saves in his first shutout of the season.
• Harvard earned 1-1 draws in each of its first two games to open the season. In its season opener against Holy Cross (Aug. 31) sophomore Dylan Tellado scored an equalizing goal in the 73^rd minute, and against Rhode Island (Sept. 5), senior Marko Isakovic netted a penalty kick in the 36^th minute.
• Harvard leads the all-time series with Dartmouth, 46-39-11.
• Dartmouth brings a 5-7-3 overall record and 2-3-1 Ivy League mark into Saturday's match. In Ivy play, the Big Green has topped Brown (2-1) and Yale (4-0), tied with Columbia (2-2), and fallen to Cornell (3-0), Penn (3-2), and Princeton (2-1). 

What to Know: Outside the Lines

• Senior Sam Bjarnason serves as the President of the Harvard Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and has represented Harvard at Ivy League SAAC events. Bjarnason earned selection as the male representative for the Ivy League for the NCAA Leadership Forum in November 2024. A volunteer at the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, he is writing a senior thesis on potential improvements to the U.S. electoral system from a quantitative perspective.
• Sophomore Erik Dalaker serves as the Co-Chair for the Coalition for Global Affairs at Harvard's Institute of Politics, President of the Harvard Nordic Club, and as a Student Ambassador for the Center for International Development. Fluent in seven languages – Norwegian, English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Swedish, and Danish – Dalaker spent two months in the summer of 2024 in Jordan, continuing his Arabic studies, while interning at a local Jordanian political think tank.
• Senior Edwin Dominguez got engaged to his girlfriend in the spring of 2024. The two plan to marry in the fall of 2025.
• Senior Kristján Gunnarsson spent the summer of 2024 working in strategy and business development. He serves as an active member of the Harvard College Events Board, the group that plans school concerts which have featured artists such as Swae Lee and Jeremih.
• Sophomore Yuta Hata spent two months in Hong Kong during the summer of 2024 completing an internship that involved replicating and simulating robotic arms virtually.
• Senior Marko Isakovic – a national champion in math in Serbia as a youth – enjoys solving difficult math problems by thinking outside the box, using pattern recognition, and other methods – a mindset that also serves him well on the pitch.
• Sophomore Ben Kelly works for Harvard Student Agencies (HSA), a non-profit that raises money for students' financial aid as the largest student-run organization in the world.
• Junior Rustin Khosravi spent the summer of 2024 in Barcelona, attending the running of the bulls in Pamplona and fly fishing in the Pyrenees Mountains.
• Junior Cullen MacNeil has involved himself with the Harvard Innovation Labs' Student i-Lab, exploring several ventures including a device to help users manage phone addictions. A volunteer at the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, MacNeil worked as a product manager at a startup called Scuba Aquatics in the summer of 2024.
• Junior Nicholas Nyquist spent the summer of 2024 interning at a venture capital firm called nFront Ventures. Nyquist helped the firm source more than 200 companies over two months and helped the group expand its investor network in Europe.
• Senior Jan Riecke led a sustainability competition for high school students around the world for the Harvard Undergraduate Clean Energy Group. Riecke has also worked for the World Economic Forum's Centre for Trustworthy Technology.
• Senior Ludovico Rollo – who owns a vinyl record collection – is writing a senior thesis on the gut microbiome.
• Junior Zachary Sardi-Santos spent two months in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the summer of 2024 through Harvard's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Brazil Summer Internship Program. Sardi-Santos interned at the Minsterio Publico of Rio de Janeiro, helping to solve public sector challenges. At Harvard, Sardi-Santos – a member of the Harvard Hillel and a tour guide for Harvard Student Agencies – also served as the male lead (Jason) in the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club musical, Medea, in the spring of 2024.
• Sophomore Will Sherwood is a member of STAHR (Student Astronomers at Harvard-Radcliffe) as well as an editor for The Harvard Crimson.
• Sophomore Dylan Tellado completed an internship with Nashville SC of Major League Soccer as a data scientist and software engineer. Tellado worked on constructing a model to quantify each team's control over the field at more than three million timestamps per game.
• Junior Matus Vician – a pre-med student with an interest in orthopedic surgery – completed research at the Harvard Lab for Skeletal and Muscular Biology in the summer of 2024, measuring the metabolic cost of arm swinging during walking and running. A volunteer at the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, he spent the summer of 2023 volunteering in Vietnam with Coach for College.
• Junior Lucian Wood produced, wrote, and directed a short film – a 10-minute, dialogue-driven narrative that focuses on love, frustration, and mental health – in the summer of 2024. Wood is hoping to premier the film, titled "I See You," at national and international film festivals in the spring of 2025.

Next Up

Harvard can earn a spot in the four-team Ivy League Tournament (Nov. 15, Nov. 17) if the Crimson wins against the Big Green, and Brown either loses or ties with Yale on Saturday, Nov. 9 at 7:00 p.m.