CARDS PLAY NINE TOP 20 RANKED TEAMS FROM 2023
The 2024 Louisville Field Hockey schedule was releaed late Tuesday afternoon and it looks to be quite the challenging slate for the Cards. Two exhibitions and 17 regular-season opponents will face the Cards, with eight of the contests taking place at Louisville's Trager Stadium.
THE SCHEDULE
Fri. Aug.23 Bellarmine (exh)
Sun. Aug.25 @Indiana (exh)
Fri. Aug.30 @Maryland
Sun, Sept.1 @American (Wash. D.C.)
Fri. Sept. 6 Princeton
Sun.Sept.8 Penn
Fri. Sept.13 Northwestern
Sun. Sept 15 Cornell
Fri. Sept. 20 Stanford
Sun. Sept.22 @Ball St.
Fri. Sept. 27 Boston College
Sun. Sept.29 @Ohio St.
Fri. Oct.4 @Syracuse
Sun. Oct.6 @Virginia
Fri. Oct.11 North Carolina
Sun. Oct. 13 @Wake Forest
Fri. Oct. 18 Duke
Fri. Oct. 25 @California
Sun. Oct 27 @UC Davis
Nov. 5-8 ACC FIeld Hockey Championship (Winston-Salem)
A very tough slate for the Cards. The Cards play the top five ranked teams from the end of last season (UNC,Northwestern, Duke, Maryland and Virginia). They also have a killer stretch where seven of their final ten games are on the road as well.
Louisville (15-7, 3-3) finished 10th in the rankings last season and return a talented bunch of players, but... to play a four game stretch where all four are top 15 opponents and three in a row of them are on the road (Ohio St. Syracuse and Virginia) is a task that will surely test the Cards top ten worthiness from late Sept. to early Oct.
It's a fairly young Cards roster with only four of the 18 players listed either seniors or fifth year players. Aimee Plumb led the squad in scoring last season. Em Young is the only listed goalkeeper for the squad, a sophomore who didn't play in any 2023 games.
It's only slightly over 50 days until the Cards take to Trager and face crosstown rival Bellarmine. We'll have much more on Field Hockey as the season draws nearer.
paulie.
That is one muderous FH schedule.
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