Cornell lacrosse 2024

2024 Cornell Lacrosse Schedule 
Feb 17  Lehigh       330pm
Feb 24  @Denver      12 noon [unclear whose 12 noon]
Feb 27  Hobart       500 Tuesday
Mar 2   Ohio State   12 noon
Mar 9   @Penn State  12 noon 
Mar 16  @Princeton   TBA [no ESPN+ logo currently on schedule]
Mar 23  Yale         12 noon
Mar 30  @Penn        TBA
Apr 2   Syracuse     7pm Tuesday
Apr 6   Brown        12 noon
Apr 13  Notre Dame   TBA and location not cited
Apr 20  Harvard      12 noon
Apr 27  @Dartmouth   TBA
May 3,5 Ivy tourney  Friday, Sunday

Saturday games implied. Most games are 12 noon, good for the players, the visiting team gets back to campus same day.
Note no southern opponents: no Duke, no Maryland, no Hopkins.

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Placeholder for 2024 Cornell lacrosse schedule, roster changes. Be good to have individual threads (i.e. not on this thread) at least for major games.

Per the 2024 Cornell team roster:

• JJ Lombardi is listed as a sixth-year. Maybe he won't have to pay the Cornell medical supplement since he'll be on Medicare by spring semester?
• 9 players are listed as fifth-years: Michael Long, Aiden Blake, Jack Parker, Gene Martin, Brian Piatelli, Angelo Petrakis, Frank Ciniglio, Spencer Wirthheim and Danny Boccafola
• CJ Kirst is listed as a senior, has played 3 not 4 seasons, freshman year was cancelled (Covid)
• No formal word from Cornell on entering freshmen (Class of 2027)

Be interesting to see who Cornell's 2024 out-of-conference opponents are. The 2023 schedule had:
Colgate (scrimmage), Albany (W+2), Lehigh (+7), Hobart (+9), Ohio State (+3), Penn State (-4), Marquette (+10), Army (+1). Most games were close.

Is Syracuse off Cornell's schedule for good? Orange opted to play Princeton in 2023 as their lone Ivy opponent, won 16-13. It's crazy for a pair of top-20 schools only an hour apart not to play each other. Binghamton would be a good returning rival if/when they get better and stay better (9-5 in 2023, 5-9 in 2022, 5-4 2021, 0-13 all-time vs. Cornell). Stony Brook could be an opponent if newish head coach Anthony Gilardi (5-2, 8-6, 9-5, 6-5) improves.

2024 Ivy League home games are: Yale, Harvard, Brown. Final game of RS would be at Princeton April 27, the Ivy tournament May 3-5, then the three NCAA tournament weekends with the quarterfinals at Hofstra (May 18) and Towson (May 19), finals in Philadelphia May 25-27.

Not much activity among Ivies in transfer portal. Interesting to see that lacrosse players aren't as eager to transfer to Q as hockey players are!

dbilmes
Not much activity among Ivies in transfer portal. Interesting to see that lacrosse players aren't as eager to transfer to Q as hockey players are!

Is there a Q of lax? A team that's just heedlessly building with absolutely no regard to academics or the greater good or ethics or anything? Just win baby?

Trotsky

dbilmes
Not much activity among Ivies in transfer portal. Interesting to see that lacrosse players aren't as eager to transfer to Q as hockey players are!

Is there a Q of lax? A team that's just heedlessly building with absolutely no regard to academics or the greater good or ethics or anything? Just win baby?

Maybe Q could have been the Q of lacrosse? The school has had lax ambitions.

Rob Pannell committed to play lacrosse at Quinnipiac, then took a prep year to improve his lax skills (you don't need a Deerfield PG year to meet Q's academic standards), either improved dramatically as a lacrosse player or got further noticed, but Pannell had the wisdom to realize a team such as Cornell would be a better match. Five years, a bunch of Cornell-Ivy-NCAA records later, plus the 2013 Tewaaraton Award, it proved a good choice. Interestingly (and thread-driftingly), the year before the Tewaaraton went to Peter Baum of Colgate. We can fantasize about how the two would have done amazing things if both were at Cornell, but there's apparently a Baum family history with Colgate: mother, father, cousin.

Cornell already with its first class of ‘25 commit from the new recruiting season that started 9/1.

From Ty Xanders on Twitter: That was fast. Big add for the Big Red, as @CornellLacrosse lands a Top 10 middie in @ILPreps No. 24 junior Grady Taylor from Maine, @HoldernessLax (N.H.) and @4LeafLax. Taylor drew a lot of eyes this summer as a gritty and athletic 6’1, 190 lb. threat with great skills & upside. [www.youtube.com]

That was fast. Big add for the Big Red, as @CornellLacrosse lands a Top 10 middie in @ILPreps No. 24 junior Grady Taylor from Maine, @HoldernessLax (N.H.) and @4LeafLax. Taylor drew a lot of eyes this summer as a gritty and athletic 6’1, 190 lb. threat with great skills & upside.… pic.twitter.com/tZPAl6ZT6T

— Ty Xanders (@tyxanders) September 1, 2023

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is the team scrimmaging anyone in the fall or can they even do that in the ivies?

upprdeck
is the team scrimmaging anyone in the fall or can they even do that in the ivies?

Maryland at Cornell, October 20

2024 schedule is up: 2024 men's lacrosse schedule

This is a fantastic schedule!

We've got Denver and Ohio State. Also, Syracuse and Notre Dame. (Can't wait to beat Syracuse.)

But Denver, Penn State, and ND not on television??

Tough, yes, but great lacrosse all spring!

mike1960

But Denver, Penn State, and ND not on television??

Denver and Penn State haven't posted their 2024 schedules yet and the ND game is listed as TBD so I suspect they will all be televised once details are worked out.

Notice Princeton is not the final game. It's March 16. What gives? I went to the Cornell-official schedule to make sure it wasn't linking to the women's schedule. Nope, Princeton is mid-season. In fact, still hockey season, and we play at Princeton in lacrosse the same weekend the hockey team likely hosts the ECAC quarterfinals. Bring back Andy!

mike1960
This is a fantastic schedule!

We've got Denver and Ohio State. Also, Syracuse and Notre Dame. (Can't wait to beat Syracuse.)

But Denver, Penn State, and ND not on television??

Tough, yes, but great lacrosse all spring!

The Denver (2/24), Hobart (2/27), tOSU (3/2) stretch is particularly brutal. A cross-country trip followed by a pair of short recoveries is going to be especially tough.

But I'm glad to see Syracuse back in the fold after last year's sacrilege.

The mid-season Princeton game looks like the work of the Ivy League bigwigs. I notice that H & Y are still playing their rivalry game as the last game of the regular season.

mike1960
This is a fantastic schedule!

We've got Denver and Ohio State. Also, Syracuse and Notre Dame. (Can't wait to beat Syracuse.)

But Denver, Penn State, and ND not on television??

Tough, yes, but great lacrosse all spring!

The Denver (2/24), Hobart (2/27), tOSU (3/2) stretch is particularly brutal. A cross-country trip followed by a pair of short recoveries is going to be especially tough.

But I'm glad to see Syracuse back in the fold after last year's sacrilege.

The mid-season Princeton game looks like the work of the Ivy League bigwigs. I notice that H & Y are still playing their rivalry game as the last game of the regular season.

I'm hoping the league is going to a rotating schedule order so we don't continue to play teams in the same sequence every year. For the last several years the Ivy sequence was Y-Pe-D-H-B-Pr. This year Pr goes to the front and D-H-B becomes B-H-D.

This is a really difficult schedule outside the league AND in - we play the iron of the league up front in Pr-Y-P and the really tough stretch is tOSU thru ND.

TimV
I'm hoping the league is going to a rotating schedule order so we don't continue to play teams in the same sequence every year. For the last several years the Ivy sequence was Y-Pe-D-H-B-Pr. This year Pr goes to the front and D-H-B becomes B-H-D.

This is a really difficult schedule outside the league AND in - we play the iron of the league up front in Pr-Y-P and the really tough stretch is tOSU thru ND.

It is tough but we'll be battle tested and ready come tournament time.

Who is the front-runner for goalie?

Word has it that Cornell “won” the Maryland scrimmage 13-10 last evening. With Michael Long taking the semester off for his 5th year eligibility, Freshman Ryan Goldstein stepped into his spot and apparently acquitted himself well. Willem Firth also is reported to have looked good primarily running out of the midfield. And Kirst did some typical Kirst things. Both Knust and Tully got time and goal and are said to have looked solid.

Overall sounds like a promising performance against a top-flight opponent.

Does anyone have any insight on the Cornell portal entries?

They are seniors or others who have exhausted their Ivy League eligibility as of the end of 2024. They are looking to go to grad school and play another year.

[lacrossebucket.com]

just another example of how the Ivies mess things up for their own kids.

Only HYP can expose the emperor's new clothes of Brand Theater, and they have no reason to. It's more lucrative than winning in sports.

Cop at Lynah
[lacrossebucket.com]

This is the list for transfers who will be playing spring 2024; the question was about the portal for 2025 spring season.

the portal for 25 isnt even a thing yet

upprdeck
the portal for 25 isnt even a thing yet

Actually it is: Inside Lacrosse

since the portal is private how do they find out about all these kids?

No idea but note that several Ivy coaches were quoted in the article so it can't be that private.

Gillette (Patriots) Stadium, host to the 2025 and 2026 NCAA lax finals weekend, will not host the 2026 event. FIFA World Cup games will be played there. NCAA is looking for alternatives.

Per Inside Lacrosse [www.insidelacrosse.com]
>>> The DI Men’s and Women’s semifinals and finals, as well as the DII and DIII men’s championship games, will need to find a new home [in 2026].

Irish mlax schedule shows tilt with us in Old Westbury at 12:30 on April 14. [fightingirish.com] Active ticketing link.

rojo
Irish mlax schedule shows tilt with us in Old Westbury at 12:30 on April 14. [fightingirish.com] Active ticketing link.

$25. hmmmmm. mayyyyyybe. probably wait to see what the weather is like. thanks for posting!

rojo
Irish mlax schedule shows tilt with us in Old Westbury at 12:30 on April 14. [fightingirish.com] Active ticketing link.

Let's face 'em off. Can't wait.

rojo
Irish mlax schedule shows tilt with us in Old Westbury at 12:30 on April 14. [fightingirish.com] Active ticketing link.

Cornell vs ND is apparently the opening act for the Manhasset vs Shorham Wading River game

who wrote this headline? Old Westbury is like an hour from nyc unless you live in floral park.

Old Westbury is my old backyard. Very odd to see it hosting. Great idea for L.I. market penetration, however.

Many are geographically challenged. A fraternity brother from Five Towns on the Island met a woman at one of our mixers:

He: So, where you from?
She: White Plains
He: Upstate, huh.

I'm not sure he was joking or serious.

billhoward
Many are geographically challenged. A fraternity brother from Five Towns on the Island met a woman at one of our mixers:

He: So, where you from?
She: White Plains
He: Upstate, huh.

I'm not sure he was joking or serious.

Every place north of The Bronx is Upstate.

George64

billhoward
Many are geographically challenged. A fraternity brother from Five Towns on the Island met a woman at one of our mixers:

He: So, where you from?
She: White Plains
He: Upstate, huh.

I'm not sure he was joking or serious.

Every place north of The Bronx is Upstate.

This is the correct answer.

New York in tres partes divisa est: The Island, The City, and Upstate.

George64
Every place north of The Bronx is Upstate.

Causes upstaters an identity crisis as to how one defines upstate. That or your location makes you look down on people not quite as upstate as you are. I'm from Rochester and that's definitely upstate. (People in Plattsburgh would say "Western New York." ) My wife's great-something grandmother was regarded as the first baby born in Lake Placid (this history ignored Native Americans). Our son works in Canton. So who's more upstate? Some measure in degrees latitude (Barnhardt Island, northeast of Massena, in the St. Lawrence River.) Others measure by miles removed from NYC.

No place can be upstate if there's commuter rail service to NYC.

You are upstate if your Assembly candidates campaign, "Elect me and I'll keep those downstaters from robbing us blind." Downstate candidates would say the opposite, maybe use "farmers" as a geographical location. And they'd be right: Metro NYC throws off so much wealth, some captured as taxes, that without it upstate would be in the lower half of US average income. Lately, Kodak, Xerox, Carrier, Buffalo steel mills, Mohawk Carpets, they've done bupkis relative the to pirates on Wall Street.

Trotsky

George64

Every place north of The Bronx is Upstate.

This is the correct answer.

New York in tres partes divisa est: The Island, The City, and Upstate.

I hit the NY trifecta - born in The City (well, Queens), grew up on The Island (Roslyn), went to Cornell, and retired to Upstate (Rochester).

George64

Trotsky

George64

Every place north of The Bronx is Upstate.

This is the correct answer.

New York in tres partes divisa est: The Island, The City, and Upstate.

I hit the NY trifecta - born in The City (well, Queens), grew up on The Island (Roslyn), went to Cornell, and retired to Upstate (Rochester).

George64

George64

Trotsky

George64

Every place north of The Bronx is Upstate.

This is the correct answer.

New York in tres partes divisa est: The Island, The City, and Upstate.

I hit the NY trifecta - born in The City (well, Queens), grew up on The Island (Roslyn), went to Cornell, and retired to Upstate (Rochester).

I have the Ithaca version of that poster framed in my homne,

Jeff Hopkins '82

George64

George64

Trotsky

George64

Every place north of The Bronx is Upstate.

This is the correct answer.

New York in tres partes divisa est: The Island, The City, and Upstate.

I hit the NY trifecta - born in The City (well, Queens), grew up on The Island (Roslyn), went to Cornell, and retired to Upstate (Rochester).

I have the Ithaca version of that poster framed in my homne,

we had one growing up too

I had one in my house for 30+ years. It now lives in Chicago with my adult son, class of 2004.

[cornellbigred.com]

#7 in the pre-season polls, for what it's worth.

Also, let the RPI/SOS madness begin. From a Cornell schedule perspective, Lehigh loses a close one to Rutgers, Penn State loses to (a not very good?) Colgate, Denver comes back and beats JHU in hilarious fashion, Ohio State also comes back to win against the Utes, and Syracuse crushes Vermont.

Sounds like this could be a really fun season. Is there a dominant program out there that precludes any chance of a title, or are we in it?

Re: Got To Cornell-Marist scrimmage late. Cornell won 24-11. Thought Tully looked really good on his release passes from goal. Extremely accurate.

Trotsky
Sounds like this could be a really fun season. Is there a dominant program out there that precludes any chance of a title, or are we in it?

There's definitely a universe where we are playing on Memorial Day this year. Probably going to come down to overall health and offensive production from the midfield.

rss77
Re: Got To Cornell-Marist scrimmage late. Cornell won 24-11. Thought Tully looked really good on his release passes from goal. Extremely accurate.

I opined in the LaxForum Cornell thread that I think Tully might be the day 1 starter. Excited to see him play this year (no disrespect to Knust intended).

Trotsky
Sounds like this could be a really fun season. Is there a dominant program out there that precludes any chance of a title, or are we in it?

We'll see. If we can play with Notre Dame, we can play with anyone.

Lehigh will be on their 3rd game. Should be interesting and right now supposed to be snowing.

For what it's worth, Cornell is the unanimous preseason pick to win the Ivy League, the first time in six years that a team was a unanimous preseason pick.

Not that polls mean anything, but funny that this is the first unanimous preseason pick in the past several years, especially when Yale is also looking very strong coming into the year.


On a more interesting note, some posters at LaxForum had some pretty detailed reporting from the Cornell/Albany scrimmage from this past weekend, and it sure sounds like this is going to be a fun, well-balanced team. Extremely excited for Saturday.

Did we solve the problem at the X that seemed to be so critical?

Who needs an indoor practice facility other than this recent snow storm (not even a big storm) both NYC and Ithaca have enjoyed a very mild winter. By the way, since I was a kid, Upstate has always been anywhere north of Yankee Stadium, although in reality it's probably the Tappan Zee Bridge (now the Mario Cuomo Bridge) on Route 87.

Trotsky
Did we solve the problem at the X that seemed to be so critical?

We were looking good at the position with Jack Cascadden, Angelo Petrakis, and Marc Psyllos.

I'm curious to know who's stepping up in the nets.

Local Motion
Who needs an indoor practice facility other than this recent snow storm (not even a big storm) both NYC and Ithaca have enjoyed a very mild winter. By the way, since I was a kid, Upstate has always been anywhere north of Yankee Stadium, although in reality it's probably the Tappan Zee Bridge (now the Mario Cuomo Bridge) on Route 87.

I am sure the team is enjoying practicing outdoors this week with the 5-10 wind chill.

upprdeck

Local Motion
Who needs an indoor practice facility other than this recent snow storm (not even a big storm) both NYC and Ithaca have enjoyed a very mild winter. By the way, since I was a kid, Upstate has always been anywhere north of Yankee Stadium, although in reality it's probably the Tappan Zee Bridge (now the Mario Cuomo Bridge) on Route 87.

I am sure the team is enjoying practicing outdoors this week with the 5-10 wind chill.

Let alone practicing in freezing rain and wind gusts over 30 mph.

Local Motion
Who needs an indoor practice facility other than this recent snow storm (not even a big storm) both NYC and Ithaca have enjoyed a very mild winter. By the way, since I was a kid, Upstate has always been anywhere north of Yankee Stadium, although in reality it's probably the Tappan Zee Bridge (now the Mario Cuomo Bridge) on Route 87.

I find it hilarious that one could even jokingly suggest that areas of the Bronx like Riverdale, Fordham, Wakefield, and Co-op City would even be considered anything resembling upstate NY, but I digress

Iceberg

Local Motion
Who needs an indoor practice facility other than this recent snow storm (not even a big storm) both NYC and Ithaca have enjoyed a very mild winter. By the way, since I was a kid, Upstate has always been anywhere north of Yankee Stadium, although in reality it's probably the Tappan Zee Bridge (now the Mario Cuomo Bridge) on Route 87.

I find it hilarious that one could even jokingly suggest that areas of the Bronx like Riverdale, Fordham, Wakefield, and Co-op City would even be considered anything resembling upstate NY, but I digress

I think this is one of those things people who live in NYC proper say, but don’t actually believe, to try to make themselves feel superior. Sort of like when Florida people these days, say “we’re full, nobody else move here” to convince themselves everyone is dying to live in Jacksonville and they’re the lucky ones.

CU2007

Iceberg

Local Motion
Who needs an indoor practice facility other than this recent snow storm (not even a big storm) both NYC and Ithaca have enjoyed a very mild winter. By the way, since I was a kid, Upstate has always been anywhere north of Yankee Stadium, although in reality it's probably the Tappan Zee Bridge (now the Mario Cuomo Bridge) on Route 87.

we don't say it to make ourselves feel superior we say it to make you angry. you're so cute when you're angry.
I find it hilarious that one could even jokingly suggest that areas of the Bronx like Riverdale, Fordham, Wakefield, and Co-op City would even be considered anything resembling upstate NY, but I digress

I think this is one of those things people who live in NYC proper say, but don’t actually believe, to try to make themselves feel superior. Sort of like when Florida people these days, say “we’re full, nobody else move here” to convince themselves everyone is dying to live in Jacksonville and they’re the lucky ones.

Upstate is where the red starts. (I don't really understand this map, but locals will.)

Lehigh will likely cover Kirst with Richard Checo, who had 64 groundballs and 54 caused-turnovers last year as a freshman. Those are Adler-level numbers. Should be interesting to watch.

I am too lazy to go look it up, but my recollection was that Checo was a wing on the face off and that greatly helped his GB total. still an excellent match up.

Cornell95
I am too lazy to go look it up, but my recollection was that Checo was a wing on the face off and that greatly helped his GB total. still an excellent match up.

Could be. Somehow, groundballs picked up on faceoffs should be a different metric.

The defense kind of let us down last year. I hope we've redoubled our efforts to lock the other team down this year. I'm curious to see how they do!

Ithaca weather!

The women's team is currently playing Cal at Schoellkopf, and from the looks of things, the field conditions are definitely going to play a role in the game.

George64
Ithaca weather!

Good lacrosse weather! Once players get a sweat going, it will feel great. The fans, on the other hand . . .

semsox
The women's team is currently playing Cal at Schoellkopf, and from the looks of things, the field conditions are definitely going to play a role in the game.

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The new Meinig Fieldhouse can't come soon enough.

May have been a false alarm. Apparently a snow squall moved through the area, and after clearing the field at half time during the women's game, it stayed clear.

Very excited for the game, and hopefully they turn out better than the rest of the Ivy has thus far:
Penn L to previously 0-2 Georgetown
Dartmouth L to previously 0-2 Bucknell
Brown L to now 2-0 Quinnipiac

Is the game on radio anywhere?

jjanow99
Is the game on radio anywhere?

There no radio option on the game notes. Sorry.

First goal! Nice cut and feed to Mikey Long.

Which is unfortunate because the quality of the video stream is absolutely amateur hour.

Where is Barry? This pbp guy is awful, doesn't name the players.

According to LiveStats the game hasn’t started yet…

CU77
Where is Barry? This pbp guy is awful, doesn't name the players.

Yeah, I miss Barry. I checked his XTwitter feed and he's been quiet lately. I hope he's ok.

Where's the help on that Lehigh #2 goal?

The Cornell D is sliding pretty early and making things tough on Lehigh on a day where passing is tricky. Wyatt Knust has made some A+ stops so far. Cornell has been dominant at the faceoffs so far.

mike1960
The Cornell D is sliding pretty early and making things tough on Lehigh on a day where passing is tricky. Wyatt Knust has made some A+ stops so far. Cornell has been dominant at the faceoffs so far.

Good to hear.

Beat the zone with a nice cut to bring it to 9-3.

jjanow99
According to LiveStats the game hasn’t started yet…

Yea, I guess it's too cold to type in the stats.

Cornell doesn't seem to be much bothered by the weather. I guess those early morning practices in the Ithaca winter are paying off.

We are "matchup agnostic," my friends, according to Tom La True.

Is Cornell sometimes running 4 attackmen?

CU77
Is Cornell sometimes running 4 attackmen?

Not unusual on man-up. Firth is running on first midfield.

CU77
Is Cornell sometimes running 4 attackmen?

Firth is technically playing midfield when he’s out there. As far as I know, he’d always been an attackman in HS, but it’s a clever way to get a high lacrosse IQ player out there and also solves the ‘issue’ of he and Kirst both being lefties.

Two turnovers, two goals.

mike1960
Two turnovers, two goals.

Can't win a FO. Can't stop Cole.

Current score?

10-8 Cornell ahead.

10-9 Cornell 8:07, 3rd.

11-9 Cornell, 5:48, 3rd. Goal in a turnover/unsettled situation.

12-9 Cornell. Cannon from Mikey Long on the left wing.

13-9 Cornell. 3:00, 3rd. Wertheim drives the alley on the right wing.

mike1960
Yeah, I miss Barry. I checked his XTwitter feed and he's been quiet lately. I hope he's ok.

Posted on fanlax:

Joewillie78
Heard from a very reliable source that Barry has some health issues he is dealing with.
Let's all wish Barry a speedy recovery.

14-9, 10:47 in the 4th. Sheehan hit a bouncer from top left.

14-10, fast break faceoff goal from Lehigh.

15-10, 9:09 left. Firth is not well guarded, and he drains it from top right.

CU77

mike1960
Yeah, I miss Barry. I checked his XTwitter feed and he's been quiet lately. I hope he's ok.

Posted on fanlax:

Joewillie78
Heard from a very reliable source that Barry has some health issues he is dealing with.
Let's all wish Barry a speedy recovery.

Indeed. All the best to him. And maybe a little French pastry.

Cascadden did a Troy Polamalu on a Lehigh ball carrier from behind but was called for only a hold.