PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania women's lacrosse team continues this three-game stretch of non-conference road games on Tuesday night, meeting Georgetown in a neutral-site game at the home of US Lacrosse in Sparks, Md.
 
GAME 6 – #15 PENN (5-0, 1-0 Ivy League) vs. GEORGETOWN (2-5)
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 | 6 p.m.
Sparks, Md. | US Lacrosse Headquarters
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The Series with Georgetown
*Tuesday marks the 12th meeting between these programs in a series that began in 2012 and has been played regularly since then.
 
*The Quakers and Hoyas played last year in Philadelphia, Penn emerging with an 11-10 victory at Franklin Field, and two years ago in Washington, D.C. where the Red and Blue won 10-7. Prior to the pandemic, in 2019, Penn and Georgetown met twice—once in the regular season (an 8-7 Penn win) and again in the first round of the NCAA Championship in Syracuse, N.Y. (a 13-12 Georgetown win in overtime).
 
Penn in the National Stats
*Penn is third in scoring defense (7.20 goals allowed per game), eighth in caused turnovers per game (11.00), 11th in GB per game (20.00), 14th in assists per game (7.80), and 17th in draw control percentage (.595).
 
*Junior Erika Chung is third in assists per game (3.75) and 21st in points per game (5.00).
 
*Senior goalie Kelly Van Hoesen is third in goals-against average (6.92).
 
*Senior Aly Feeley is 16th in caused turnovers per game (2.20).
 
*Senior Niki Miles is 35th in goals per game (3.40) and points per game (4.60).
 
Quaker Notemeal
*Penn won easily last Friday on the road but were moved down a spot in the IWLCA national poll, to No. 15. The Quakers also are 15th in the Inside Lacrosse media poll but are getting a bit more love from USA Lacrosse Magazine, which moved Penn up two spots this week to 10th.
 
*Penn has won ten Ivy League games in a row going back to the 2022 season. That includes an undefeated 7-0 campaign last year when they won their 14th Ancient Eight title.
 
*The Quakers then defeated Harvard and Yale to win the Ivy League Tournament, earning the league's NCAA Championship bid. In its 16th NCAA appearance, Penn beat UConn in the first round and gave eventual finalist Boston College all it could handle in the second round before falling, 9-7.
 
*Penn returns almost all the key components from last year's team including the reigning Ivy League Attacker of the Year (senior Niki Miles), Midfielder of the Year (junior Anna Brandt), and Defender of the Year (senior Izzy Rohr). The trio has garnered preseason All-America honors from Inside Lacrosse and US Lacrosse, and Miles and Rohr were named to the Tewaaraton Award's preseason watch list.
 
*The trio made history last year, as it marked the first time players from the same program won all three major positional honors since the Ivy League began awarding them in 2013. (Prior to that, the Ivy League did a Player of the Year and a Rookie of the Year.)
 
*Penn had 10 women earn All-Ivy last year; all of them are back this season.
  FIRST TEAM: Brandt (unanimous), Miles (unanimous), Rohr (unanimous)
  SECOND TEAM: Erika Chung, Kaitlyn Cumiskey, Grace Fujinaga, Maria Themelis, Kelly Van Hoesen
  HONORABLE MENTION: Aly Feeley, Natasha Gorriaran
 
*Not surprisingly, Penn was a unanimous pick to repeat as conference champion this season, scooping up all 16 first-place votes for 128 points in the Ivy League's preseason media poll that was announced on February 13.
 
*On top of the returning group, the Quakers secured two transfers for this season: Grace Turner (Stanford) and Carli Fleisher (Northwestern). Fleisher—named the 2022 National High School Player of the Year by USA Lacrosse Magazine—has three points so far this season.
 
*Miles has picked up where she left off last year, leading Penn with 17 goals and 23 points. She has recorded at least four points in all five games this season—including a season-high six Friday at William & Mary (4g/2a)—and has scored four goals in the last two and three of the last four contests.
 
*Miles needs two more goals to reach 100 for her career; she would become the 14th player in program history to reach that milestone and the first since Zoe Belodeau in 2021.
 
*Miles also leads the team with 27 draw controls, followed by junior Anna Brandt (20) and senior Kaitlyn Cumiskey (7).
 
*Despite missing the Temple game, Chung leads the Quakers with 15 assists, dishing out four in the season opener against Drexel, three (to go with two goals) vs. Hopkins, five against Columbia (part of a seven-point day for the junior), and three last Friday at W&M.
 
*Junior Keeley Block was Penn's second-leading scorer and got honorable mention All-Ivy recognition as a freshman in 2022 and is back after missing all of last season due to injury. (So let's go ahead and make that 11 All-Ivy players in the lineup.) She appears to be rounding back into form—after posting three points across the first two games this season, she has sandwiched hat tricks against Temple and William & Mary around a two-point game against Columbia. (She added two assists in Friday's win against the Tribe.)
 
*Freshman Catherine Berkery has 11 goals already this season and has hit for multiple goals in each of the last four contests (4 vs. Hopkins, 2 each at Temple, Columbia and W&M).
 
*Don't look now, but Penn may be unleashing still another weapon offensively; senior Julia Chai has nine points in the last two games—four against Columbia (4g), five at William & Mary (2g/3a)—after scoring just 14 points across her first two seasons.
 
*Overall, 12 different players have already scored for the Quakers through five games this season and two others have collected an assist.
 
*Defensively, senior Aly Feeley had four caused turnovers Friday at William & Mary and currently leads the team with 11 CTs. She is followed by Rohr, senior Grace Fujinaga and junior Natasha Gorriaran, all of whom have six, while Miles has five.
 
*In goal, Van Hoesen has already earned Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week once this season; she has played all but five minutes in goal so far, boasting a 6.92 goals-against average and a .485 save percentage.
 
*Berkery is one of eight freshmen who have joined the Red and Blue roster this season; the group hails from six different states.
 
*The Quakers will be led by four captains this season: Miles, Rohr, Maria Themelis, and Morgan Smith.
 
*Head coach Karin Corbett is in her 25th season at the helm. The coach for 12 of Penn's 14 Ivy titles and a two-time Ivy League Coach of the Year—the honor has only been given since 2015—she has been head coach for 259 of the program's 412 wins.
 
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