PISCATAWAY, N.J. – Rutgers field hockey has unveiled the slate for the fall 2023 season. The Scarlet Knights will have a 17-game fall campaign, including six home games at the Bauer Complex.The full schedule can be viewed here. 

Following two exhibition games (home against Temple and on the road at Syracuse), RU will begin the season with seven road games. In week one, RU will take a trip to California, where the Scarlet Knights will face UC-Davis, Stanford and Cal. The team then plays road games at UConn, Villanova and Princeton over the next two weekends.

The Big Ten opener comes on September 15 at Penn State. RU will play its home opener on Sunday, September 17 against La Salle.

Following a trip to UMass (Sept. 24), RU will play two Big Ten games at home - a Thursday home game against Maryland (Sept. 28) and then a Friday contest the following week against Michigan (Oct. 6).

The team's final non-conference game comes against Monmouth on Sunday, Oct. 8. Afterwards, RU has five Big Ten Conference games remaining.

On the weekend of Oct. 13, RU will take a two-game road swing to the Midwest to play at Ohio State and Michigan State. The following weekend (Oct. 20 and 22), RU will host Indiana and Northwestern.

The team's final game of the season comes on the road against Iowa on October 27.

The Big Ten Tournament will be hosted by Michigan this year. The event begins on November 2 in Ann Arbor. 
 
The 2023 slate for RU features six games against team's that made the 2022 NCAA Tournament. That includes five Big Ten teams (Penn State, Michigan, Maryland, Northwestern and Iowa) in addition to Princeton.

The team continually faces a top-notch schedule, which last year included 13 matchups against ranked foes, from which RU claimed five ranked victories in an eight-win slate.

Rutgers will be captained this season by the trio of Sophia Howard, Guillermina Causarano and Marique Dieudonne. This will be the 12^th season at the helm for Meredith Civico, during which time RU has won 111 games, including 31 Big Ten victories, reached the NCAA Tournament twice and claimed a Big Ten Tournament title.