Men’s Soccer Meets Providence on Friday Night in First Road Match

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard University men's soccer plays at Providence College in its first road match of the 2025 season on Friday, Sept. 5 at 7:00 p.m. (ESPN+) at Chapey Field at Anderson Stadium as the Crimson makes the short trip down I-95 to Providence, Rhode Island.

What to Know: Harvard Highlights

In 2024, Harvard finished in a tie for fourth place in the Ivy League standings, placing in the top half of the conference table for the fourth consecutive season.
Harvard returns a pair of All-Ivy honorees in senior defender Ethan Veghte (2023 Honorable Mention) and junior forward Ben Kelly (2024 Honorable Mention).
The Crimson returns three of its top four and seven of its top 10 point scorers from a season ago. That group includes junior forward Dylan Tellado who led Harvard in points (nine) and goals (four) a season ago.
Senior midfielder Marcos Ojea Quintana and senior defender Ethan Veghte are set to serve the Crimson as captains during the 2025 season.
Harvard features six student-athletes that have played in 30 or more career games entering the season, including seniors Marcos Ojea Quintana (41 games), Ethan Veghte (33), Matus Vician (33), and Nicholas Nyquist (32) alongside juniors Andreas Savva (31) and Dylan Tellado (31).
The Crimson returns its goalkeeping duo from a season ago in seniors Cullen MacNeil and Lucian Wood. In 2024, MacNeil posted a 1.50 GAA and 14 total saves in six games while Wood notched a 1.56 GAA and 31 total saves over nine games. Wood made five saves in Harvard's season opener vs. Belmont (Aug. 29).
Senior Matus Vician earned selection as a nominee for the Allstate NACDA Fall Good Works Team in August. Vician stood as one of 128 student-athlete nominees for the team. Vician served as a volunteer with Coach for College in Hau Giang Province, Vietnam during the summer of 2023.
Harvard's Class of 2029 set to make its debut this fall includes midfielder Lucas Benuce Sarvas, goalkeeper Jason Broome, defender Michael Cortellessa, forward Drew Lobley, forward Sophian Lovato, defender Maxwell Mobray, defender Alejandro Palacio, forward Adam Poliakov, and forward Christo Velikin.
This past spring, Harvard embarked on a 10-day foreign tour of Italy and Germany from March 14-23, 2025 with stops including Milan and Como in Italy as well as Dortmund in Germany as part of a comprehensive international experience.
Harvard holds a 12-5 lead in the all-time series with Providence. The two sides last met in the 2019 season.
Providence has posted a 2-2-0 record to open the season with wins in each of its last two matches. In their last two outings, the Friars topped Boston College (2-0) and Rhode Island (3-1).

What to Know: Outside the Lines

First-year Lucas Benuce Sarvas is interested in attending law school following graduation.
Sophomore Alexander Castel served as a junior summer analyst at AFIG Funds in Dakar, Senegal during the summer of 2025.
First-year Mikey Cortellessa plays the piano. His grandparents are from the Philippines.
Senior Bobby Cupps is interested in the AI and defense industries. In the summer of 2025, he interned with Epirus, working on their high-powered microwave drone defense product. His brother, Christopher Cupps, signed a homegrown player contract with MLS side Chicago Fire FC in February 2025 at the age of 16.
Sophomore Nayan Das conducted physics research at Harvard during the summer of 2025. He can play the piano.
Junior Yuta Hata ranked in the top 500 in the world in TETRO.IO, a multi-player Tetris game. He is a member of the Harvard Japan Club and the Harvard Undergraduate Data Analytics Group. Hata spent two months in Hong Kong during the summer of 2024 completing an internship that involved replicating and simulating robotic arms virtually.
Junior Ben Kelly is interested in attending law school while also pursuing a career as an A&R in the music industry following graduation. Kelly currently makes and produces music, while also working as a DJ. In the summer of 2025, he worked as an A&R at a music label called Oakstreet Media. Kelly traces his family lineage on his mother's side through the Lin Dynasty in China over more than 35 generations.
Senior Rustin Khosravi served as a summer analyst with The Raine Group, a financial services firm, in the summer of 2025.
Sophomore Tim Langenbahn is a member of the Harvard's German Student Association, the Harvard Undergraduate Woodbridge International Society, and the Harvard Undergraduate Data Analytics Group. He has played the piano since age four.
First-year Sophian Lovato has spent time living in Milan, Italy and can speak English, French, and Italian. His great uncle, Vittorio, played for AC Milan.
Senior Cullen MacNeil is writing a senior thesis on applying statistical methods and reinforcement learning techniques to cryptocurrency markets. MacNeil is hoping to run the Boston Marathon in spring 2026 and the New York City Marathon in fall 2026. He served as the team's Student-Athlete Wellness Leader (SAWL).
First-year Maxwell Mobray has competed for the Bermuda National Team and can play the piano.
Senior Nicholas Nyquist started a non-profit in Kenya and knows the first 200 digits of pi from memory. He has interned with venture capital and investment banking firms in both Norway and the U.S.
Senior Juho Ojanen plans to work in consulting for McKinsey & Company following graduation after interning with the organization in the summer of 2025. A member of the Harvard Undergraduate Nordic Club, his second name, Valo, means "light" in Finnish.
Senior Marcos Ojea Quintana is interested in attending medical school following graduation. A member of Harvard's Athlete Medical Mentorship Program and Harvard Latinos in Health Careers. During the summer of 2025, he studied for the MCAT and conducted research at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. Proud of his Argentinian roots, he has a dog named after Lionel Messi.
First-year Alejandro Palacio was born in Madrid, Spain and lived in Bogota, Columbia until the age of eight. He speaks both English and Spanish.
First-year Adam Poliakov can solve a Rubik's Cube.
Junior Andreas Savva has traveled to 26 countries.
Junior Will Sherwood has volunteered with Feeding America and the Los Angeles Regional Foodbank. He has also served as a Quantitative Analyst Intern with the Los Angeles Dodgers, using sabermetrics to analyze player data.
Sophomore Xavier Tanyi grew up in South Africa and speaks French. He is a member of the Harvard French Club and Engineering without Borders.
Junior Dylan Tellado is interested in attending graduate school to pursue a master's degree in computer science or machine learning. During the summer of 2025, he interned as a Machine Learning Engineer with General Motors, working on software for autonomous vehicles. Tellado completed an internship with Nashville SC of Major League Soccer as a data scientist and software engineer in the summer of 2024.
Senior Ethan Veghte worked for an AI startup called Sana Labs in the summer of 2025. His mother, Julie, won a national title with the Harvard women's lacrosse team in 1990.
First-year Christo Velikin can speak five languages.
Senior Matus Vician, a nominee for the Allstate NACDA Fall Good Works Team, served as a volunteer with Coach for College in Hau Giang Province, Vietnam during the summer of 2023. Vician has acted as a researcher at Harvard's Skeletal Biology and Biomechanics Lab and worked as a research assistant at The Center for Advanced Orthopedic Studies at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
Junior Nicholas Willen is involved in Harvard's Black Men's Forum and the Harvard Undergraduate Quantum Computing Association. He is working for a quantum engineering (computing) lab on the Harvard campus during the fall of 2025. He served as a product management intern with Aetion during the summer of 2025, building healthcare software for conducting analysis of real world data. Willen's grandmother, Frances Conway, desegregated Wells College.
When senior Lucian Wood was in eighth grade, he saw the 2009 Ivy League champion men's soccer team photo on the wall in Pinocchio's in Harvard Square, leading him to want to eventually represent the team himself. Wood worked as a paralegal intern at Davis Polk, a law firm in New York City, in the summer of 2025. He produced and directed a short film titled "I See You" in the summer of 2024 and is now submitting the film to festivals.