Yale Athletics

The field hockey team opened their 2021 season with smashing wins over Merrimack, Colgate, Brown and Drexel. Although the team fell short to a few top-20 nationally ranked squads that season, the Bulldogs held their own against most Ivy foes.

In 2022, under new head coach Melissa Gonzalez and her staff, the Bulldogs jumped out to a 4–0 record, their best start since 2010. Although a loss to UAlbany ended that hot streak, the Bulldogs still picked up some thrilling wins throughout the season over Penn and Brown.

The next year, the Bulldogs opened the season with a string of losses, including a loss to Penn in their Ivy opener and defeats by Harvard, UMass and Cornell. However, Yale bounced back by trouncing Brown, Dartmouth and Columbia before coming up just one win short of securing a bid to the Ivy League Championships.

This year, Yale opened its season with a decisive 6 -1 victory over Lehigh and its first 3–0 start since 2018. Although the Bulldogs fell to the University of Connecticut, they picked up wins over Penn and Quinnipiac. Despite a late-season run that included victories over Cornell and Dartmouth, losses to Columbia and Princeton kept the Bulldogs out of the Ivy League Tournament for a second straight year.