PRINCETON, N.J. -- Two-time defending Ivy champion Princeton has been selected to three-peat in the 2019 Ivy League preseason poll.
Princeton received 10 of the 16 first-place votes to accumulate 120 points after a vote by Ivy League sports information directors and select media. The Tigers held off 2018 co-champion Penn, which garnered five first-place votes and 112 points, and 2016 champion Harvard, which totaled one first-place vote and 80 points. Dartmouth came in fourth, with Columbia, Brown, Yale and Cornell rounding out the rest of the poll.
Last season saw the Tigers and Quakers share the title with 16 points apiece, after Princeton was selected to win and Penn was picked to finish sixth in the 2018 preseason poll. For the Tigers, it marked their second-straight title and third in the last four years, while the Quakers became the first team not from Princeton, N.J. or Cambridge, Mass. to claim the title since they themselves accomplished the feat in 2010.
Princeton enters the season ranked No. 23 in the TopDrawerSoccer.com poll and receiving votes in the United Soccer Coaches poll. The 2019 season gets underway on Friday, Aug. 30, with
all eight teams in action.
2019 IVY LEAGUE WOMEN’S SOCCER PRESEASON POLL
(FIRST-PLACE VOTES)
| Rank |
School |
Points |
| 1. |
Princeton (10) |
120 |
| 2. |
Penn (5) |
112 |
| 3. |
Harvard (1) |
80 |
| 4. |
Dartmouth |
76 |
| 5. |
Columbia |
74 |
| 6. |
Brown |
59 |
| 7. |
Yale |
37 |
| 8. |
Cornell |
18 |