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Dartmouth, Penn and Princeton Begin NCAA Championship Play
Complete Women's Lacrosse Weekly Release
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Lacrosse Championship. Princeton earned the League's automatic bid as a result of clinching the 2011 Ivy League Women's Lacrosse Tournament on May 8. Dartmouth and Penn received at-large bids into the 16-team field.
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
Saturday, May 14
NCAA Championship First Round
Princeton at (8) James Madison, 1 pm
JMU Lacrosse Complex, Harrisonburg, Va.
Sunday, May 15
NCAA Championship First Round
(7) Albany at Dartmouth, 1 pm
Scully-Fahey Field, Hanover, N.H.
Penn at (5) Duke, 2 pm
Koskinen Stadium, Durham, N.C.
IVIES IN THE NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP
• Since 1982, six Ivy League schools have been represented in
the NCAA Championship*
Cornell — 3, (2001, 02, 06)
Dartmouth — 12 (1983, 93, 95, 98, 99, 00,
01, 03, 04, 05, 06, 11)
Harvard — 9 (1983, 84, 88, 89, 90, 91,
92, 93, 94)
Penn — 7 (1983, 84, 07, 08, 09, 10,
11)
Princeton — 20 (1983, 89, 92, 93, 94, 95,
96, 98, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 11)
Yale — 3 (1984, 03, 07)
* Before 2001, this championship was a national collegiate
championship
IVY LEAGUE NATIONAL CHAMPIONS
Two Ivy League programs have earned collegiate women's lacrosse
top honor, as both Harvard and Princeton have been crowned national
champions. Harvard is a one-time champion (1990) while Princeton
has won the title three times (1994, 2002, 2003). The NCAA
officially began sponsorship of the Division I Women's Lacrosse
Championship in 2001. From 1982 through 2000 this championship was
a national collegiate championship.
WELL REPRESENTED IN THE NCAA'S
• There have been 20 championships in which multiple Ivy
League teams have been represented in the
NCAA Championship.
• 2011 marks the sixth time that three teams have advanced to
the NCAA Championship.
• 1983 marks the lone year that four teams earned selection
into the Championship (Dartmouth, Harvard,
Penn and Princeton).
IVY LEAGUE RECORDS IN THE NCAA'S
The Ivies have combined for an all-time NCAA Championship record
of 59-47 (.557)
• Cornell, 2-3
• Dartmouth, 10-11
• Harvard, 7-8
• Penn, 9-6
• Princeton, 30-16
• Yale, 1-3
