Lehigh, Patriot League Release Schedules For 2021 Spring Season
2/5/2021 9:14:00 AM | Baseball, Field Hockey, Football, Athletics, Men's Cross Country, Men's Golf, Men's Lacrosse, Men's Soccer, Men's Swimming and Diving, Men's Tennis, Men's Track and Field, Men's Rowing, Softball, Women's Cross Country, Women's Golf, Women's Lacrosse, Women's Rowing, Women's Soccer, Women's Swimming and Diving, Women's Tennis, Women's Track and Field, Volleyball
BETHLEHEM, Pa. –The Patriot League and its member institutions have released schedules for 18 League sports that will compete during the spring of 2021. League play will continue to be contingent on the League and its member institutions being able to conduct competition in ways that protect the health and safety of student-athletes, coaches, staffs and their communities.
Schedules for Patriot League baseball, field hockey, football, men's and women's lacrosse, men's and women's soccer, softball and volleyball are available by visiting the composite schedule on Patriot League's official website – www.PatriotLeague.org. Championship and challenge information for men's and women's cross country, men's and women's golf, men's and women's indoor and outdoor track and field, women's rowing, men's and women's swimming and diving and men's and women's tennis is also available on the League's composite schedule.
Consistent with the prioritization of health and safety, the 2020-21 schedule formats feature a significant reduction in travel and overnight stays. No teams will be permitted to fly to competitions. The League made adjustments to its traditional sport-specific formats, with teams playing an increased number of games against League opponents in closer geographic proximity.
Spectators are not permitted to attend events held at any of the Patriot League's indoor facilities. The League and its member schools continue to evaluate the attendance of spectators at its outdoor competitions. All planning and decision making regarding spectators will continue to be fully informed by health and safety and will consider local circumstances and regulations.
For more information on the Patriot League fall and spring sports scheduling formats for the spring of 2021 CLICK HERE.
Lehigh has released schedules for all of its fall and spring sports programs competing this spring. Highlights of all of those schedules are listed below with links to sport specific schedule pages.
ALL SCHEDULES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
FOOTBALL
Lehigh will play a four-game regular season beginning with a home game against Holy Cross Mar. 13. The Mountain Hawks will visit Colgate Mar. 20 and then will get into South Division play when they host Bucknell Mar. 27. The 156th edition of The Rivalry is set for Apr. 3 at Fisher Stadium in Easton. Division winners will meet in a Patriot League Championship Game on Apr. 17 for a berth to the FCS Playoffs.
FIELD HOCKEY
The Mountain Hawks will not leave the Lehigh Valley for their first four games - three at home and one at Lafayette. Lehigh begins its season by hosting defending Patriot League champion American on Mar. 7 and will also play at American on Apr. 11. After a trip to Lafayette on Mar. 14, the Mountain Hawks will welcome Bucknell on Mar. 21 and Holy Cross on Apr. 4. For the second straight season, Lehigh will close the regular season against Boston University, this time in Boston.
MEN'S SOCCER
The defending Patriot League champions will play in the five-team south division with American, Bucknell, Loyola and Navy. The Mountain Hawks will open a six-game regular season on the road at AU on Mar. 6. Home games include Army West Point (Mar. 13), Bucknell (Mar. 20) and Navy (Apr. 3). The regular season concludes with a visit to Lafayette on Apr. 9.
WOMEN'S SOCCER
Lehigh opens its six-match campaign by hosting American on Mar. 6 before consecutive road games at Army West Point (Mar. 12) and Bucknell (Mar. 20). The Mountain Hawks' other home games are against Loyola (Mar. 27) and Lafayette (Apr. 10) with a road showdown at Navy sprinkled in between (Apr. 3).
VOLLEYBALL
The Mountain Hawks will face the same opponent (on the road and at home) for each weekend of the season, totaling five home and five road matches. Lehigh begins the season on Feb. 26 at Colgate, hosting the Raiders at Leeman Turner Arena at Grace Hall on Sunday, Feb. 28. Lehigh will play rival Lafayette Mar. 5 and 7. The regular season concludes with Lehigh facing Holy Cross Mar. 26 and 28.
MEN'S AND WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY
Both Lehigh cross country teams will have two events to prepare for the Patriot League Championships, Mar. 5 at Lafayette. The Mountain Hawks will begin their unique season with a dual meet against Bucknell in Lewisburg Feb. 13. Following that, the Brown and White will go against Lafayette in Easton on Feb. 20.
MEN'S AND WOMEN'S INDOOR TRACK AND FIELD
The Mountain Hawks will have a three-event season beginning Feb. 21. The first event will be a dual meet in Lewisburg with Bucknell. Next, the Brown and White will compete in the Patriot League Indoor Challenge on Feb. 27 at West Point, N.Y. The Mountain Hawks will only be competing against the Cadets. Finally, the Mountain Hawks will host Monmouth inside Rauch Fieldhouse on Mar. 7.
MEN'S AND WOMEN'S OUTDOOR TRACK AND FIELD
The Brown and White will have six scheduled competitions to prepare for the Patriot League Championships at Army West Point on the weekend of May 1. Lehigh will host two of its first three events. The first scheduled home meet will be on Mar. 21 against Monmouth. The next scheduled home event will be Apr. 3. The John & Carol Covert Classic will be held on the Goodman Campus on Apr. 24. The highly anticipated Lehigh-Lafayette dual meet will be held in Easton on Apr. 17.
MEN'S AND WOMEN'S SWIMMING AND DIVING
The Mountain Hawks will begin the season with their hyped Brown and White meet on Feb. 27. Next, the Mountain Hawks will have a virtual meet against Rider on Mar. 20. For virtual meets, both teams will compete in their home pool and send in times. Lehigh will hit the road for the first time on Mar. 27 when they travel to Lewisburg and compete against Bucknell. On April 3, Lehigh will again partake in a virtual tri-meet with Lafayette, Holy Cross and Colgate. The Patriot League Championships will be a four-day event hosted by Bucknell beginning Apr. 21.
BASEBALL
Lehigh's 30 game Patriot League slate featuring 18 divisional games and 12 non-division games will be preceded by six non-league games. The Mountain Hawks will play a doubleheader at Coppin State Feb. 27 and then will play a four-game home-and-home series with George Washington Mar. 6-7 with the Mar. 7 twin bill set for J. David Walker Field at Legacy Park. Playing in the South Division along with Bucknell and Navy, the Mountain Hawks will host 13 games against league opponents this season including doubleheaders vs. Navy Mar. 20, Lafayette Mar. 28, Army West Point on Apr. 17, Bucknell on Apr. 24 and Navy again on May 1.
MEN'S GOLF
Navy will host the 2021 Patriot League Championship May 1-2 in Annapolis, Md. To prepare for the championship, Lehigh is slated to play in tournaments hosted by Villanova and Lafayette. The Mountain Hawks will also play their annual dual meet with Lafayette at Hamilton Farms Golf Club in New Jersey.
WOMEN'S GOLF
Lehigh will host the Patriot League Championship at Saucon Valley Country Club Apr. 24-25. The spring season begins with the first of two events hosted by Monmouth on Mar. 8. Lehigh and Bucknell will play home-and-home dual matches, with the Mountain Hawks hosting Mar. 20 at the Steel Club in Hellertown, and then visiting Lewisburg the next day.
MEN'S LACROSSE
Ranked No. 16 in every major preseason poll, the Mountain Hawks host other preseason top 20 opponents in Loyola and Army West Point at home on Mar. 6 and Apr. 3, respectively. Lehigh begins its season with a nonleague matchup vs. NJIT on Feb. 27 and also has a May 1 contest at Villanova, as long as neither team has a makeup game that needs to be played. The Mountain Hawks will face both Bucknell and Lafayette twice each as well, one home and one on the road.
WOMEN'S LACROSSE
Lehigh begins its season with three straight nonleague contests against Philadelphia opponents, the first two of which are at home. It all begins on Saturday, Feb. 20 vs. Drexel. The Patriot League opener is Mar. 13 at American. The Mountain Hawks' home Patriot League contests are against Army West Point (Mar. 20), Bucknell (Mar. 27), Navy (Apr. 10) and American (Apr. 24).
ROWING – WOMEN | MEN
The Lehigh women's rowing team begins its season on Mar. 20 in Philadelphia while both the women and men will be in action the following Saturday (Mar. 27) against Drexel on the Schulykill River. The Mountain Hawk rowers will have a number of tune-up events, including the women competing at Patriot League foe Bucknell on Apr. 3. They will be working to be at their best for their respective championships - the men at the Mid-Atlantic Rowing Championships on Apr. 24 and the women at the Patriot League Championships on May 14.
SOFTBALL
Lehigh will play a 32-game slate that includes 10 home games as part of 24-game Patriot League schedule where each team plays four games against every other league team. The Mountain Hawks will open the regular season with a Feb. 28 doubleheader at Fordham. Patriot League play and the home schedule begins with four games against two-time defending champion Boston U. Mar. 27-28. Lehigh closes the regular season with a four-game home-and-home series against Lafayette May 8-9.
MEN'S TENNIS
Lehigh will look to get in seven matches before the Patriot League Championships, which will be hosted by Lehigh Apr. 22-25. Kicking things off for the Brown and White, the Mountain Hawks will welcome in Lafayette on Mar. 6 inside the Lewis Tennis Center. Lehigh will then hit the road and battle Loyola (Md.) on Mar. 14. The Mountain Hawks will then have their second home contest against Siena on Mar. 20. Lehigh will then be on the road for four straight weekends against Colgate, Navy, Army West Point and Bucknell before returning home to host the Patriot League Championships.
WOMEN'S TENNIS
The Mountain Hawks will compete in eight matches before the Patriot League Championships, including five at home. The season begins Mar. 6 against Fairfield. Villanova (Mar. 21), Bucknell (Apr. 4), Navy (Apr. 10) and Army West Point (Apr. 17) are the other home contests. The first road match for the Brown and White will be on March 14 at Loyola (Md.). The rivalry match against Lafayette will be in Easton this year on Apr. 24. Starting on April 29, the four-day Patriot League Championship will be held at Navy.
Schedules for Patriot League baseball, field hockey, football, men's and women's lacrosse, men's and women's soccer, softball and volleyball are available by visiting the composite schedule on Patriot League's official website – www.PatriotLeague.org. Championship and challenge information for men's and women's cross country, men's and women's golf, men's and women's indoor and outdoor track and field, women's rowing, men's and women's swimming and diving and men's and women's tennis is also available on the League's composite schedule.
Consistent with the prioritization of health and safety, the 2020-21 schedule formats feature a significant reduction in travel and overnight stays. No teams will be permitted to fly to competitions. The League made adjustments to its traditional sport-specific formats, with teams playing an increased number of games against League opponents in closer geographic proximity.
Spectators are not permitted to attend events held at any of the Patriot League's indoor facilities. The League and its member schools continue to evaluate the attendance of spectators at its outdoor competitions. All planning and decision making regarding spectators will continue to be fully informed by health and safety and will consider local circumstances and regulations.
For more information on the Patriot League fall and spring sports scheduling formats for the spring of 2021 CLICK HERE.
Lehigh has released schedules for all of its fall and spring sports programs competing this spring. Highlights of all of those schedules are listed below with links to sport specific schedule pages.
ALL SCHEDULES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
FOOTBALL
Lehigh will play a four-game regular season beginning with a home game against Holy Cross Mar. 13. The Mountain Hawks will visit Colgate Mar. 20 and then will get into South Division play when they host Bucknell Mar. 27. The 156th edition of The Rivalry is set for Apr. 3 at Fisher Stadium in Easton. Division winners will meet in a Patriot League Championship Game on Apr. 17 for a berth to the FCS Playoffs.
FIELD HOCKEY
The Mountain Hawks will not leave the Lehigh Valley for their first four games - three at home and one at Lafayette. Lehigh begins its season by hosting defending Patriot League champion American on Mar. 7 and will also play at American on Apr. 11. After a trip to Lafayette on Mar. 14, the Mountain Hawks will welcome Bucknell on Mar. 21 and Holy Cross on Apr. 4. For the second straight season, Lehigh will close the regular season against Boston University, this time in Boston.
MEN'S SOCCER
The defending Patriot League champions will play in the five-team south division with American, Bucknell, Loyola and Navy. The Mountain Hawks will open a six-game regular season on the road at AU on Mar. 6. Home games include Army West Point (Mar. 13), Bucknell (Mar. 20) and Navy (Apr. 3). The regular season concludes with a visit to Lafayette on Apr. 9.
WOMEN'S SOCCER
Lehigh opens its six-match campaign by hosting American on Mar. 6 before consecutive road games at Army West Point (Mar. 12) and Bucknell (Mar. 20). The Mountain Hawks' other home games are against Loyola (Mar. 27) and Lafayette (Apr. 10) with a road showdown at Navy sprinkled in between (Apr. 3).
VOLLEYBALL
The Mountain Hawks will face the same opponent (on the road and at home) for each weekend of the season, totaling five home and five road matches. Lehigh begins the season on Feb. 26 at Colgate, hosting the Raiders at Leeman Turner Arena at Grace Hall on Sunday, Feb. 28. Lehigh will play rival Lafayette Mar. 5 and 7. The regular season concludes with Lehigh facing Holy Cross Mar. 26 and 28.
MEN'S AND WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY
Both Lehigh cross country teams will have two events to prepare for the Patriot League Championships, Mar. 5 at Lafayette. The Mountain Hawks will begin their unique season with a dual meet against Bucknell in Lewisburg Feb. 13. Following that, the Brown and White will go against Lafayette in Easton on Feb. 20.
MEN'S AND WOMEN'S INDOOR TRACK AND FIELD
The Mountain Hawks will have a three-event season beginning Feb. 21. The first event will be a dual meet in Lewisburg with Bucknell. Next, the Brown and White will compete in the Patriot League Indoor Challenge on Feb. 27 at West Point, N.Y. The Mountain Hawks will only be competing against the Cadets. Finally, the Mountain Hawks will host Monmouth inside Rauch Fieldhouse on Mar. 7.
MEN'S AND WOMEN'S OUTDOOR TRACK AND FIELD
The Brown and White will have six scheduled competitions to prepare for the Patriot League Championships at Army West Point on the weekend of May 1. Lehigh will host two of its first three events. The first scheduled home meet will be on Mar. 21 against Monmouth. The next scheduled home event will be Apr. 3. The John & Carol Covert Classic will be held on the Goodman Campus on Apr. 24. The highly anticipated Lehigh-Lafayette dual meet will be held in Easton on Apr. 17.
MEN'S AND WOMEN'S SWIMMING AND DIVING
The Mountain Hawks will begin the season with their hyped Brown and White meet on Feb. 27. Next, the Mountain Hawks will have a virtual meet against Rider on Mar. 20. For virtual meets, both teams will compete in their home pool and send in times. Lehigh will hit the road for the first time on Mar. 27 when they travel to Lewisburg and compete against Bucknell. On April 3, Lehigh will again partake in a virtual tri-meet with Lafayette, Holy Cross and Colgate. The Patriot League Championships will be a four-day event hosted by Bucknell beginning Apr. 21.
BASEBALL
Lehigh's 30 game Patriot League slate featuring 18 divisional games and 12 non-division games will be preceded by six non-league games. The Mountain Hawks will play a doubleheader at Coppin State Feb. 27 and then will play a four-game home-and-home series with George Washington Mar. 6-7 with the Mar. 7 twin bill set for J. David Walker Field at Legacy Park. Playing in the South Division along with Bucknell and Navy, the Mountain Hawks will host 13 games against league opponents this season including doubleheaders vs. Navy Mar. 20, Lafayette Mar. 28, Army West Point on Apr. 17, Bucknell on Apr. 24 and Navy again on May 1.
MEN'S GOLF
Navy will host the 2021 Patriot League Championship May 1-2 in Annapolis, Md. To prepare for the championship, Lehigh is slated to play in tournaments hosted by Villanova and Lafayette. The Mountain Hawks will also play their annual dual meet with Lafayette at Hamilton Farms Golf Club in New Jersey.
WOMEN'S GOLF
Lehigh will host the Patriot League Championship at Saucon Valley Country Club Apr. 24-25. The spring season begins with the first of two events hosted by Monmouth on Mar. 8. Lehigh and Bucknell will play home-and-home dual matches, with the Mountain Hawks hosting Mar. 20 at the Steel Club in Hellertown, and then visiting Lewisburg the next day.
MEN'S LACROSSE
Ranked No. 16 in every major preseason poll, the Mountain Hawks host other preseason top 20 opponents in Loyola and Army West Point at home on Mar. 6 and Apr. 3, respectively. Lehigh begins its season with a nonleague matchup vs. NJIT on Feb. 27 and also has a May 1 contest at Villanova, as long as neither team has a makeup game that needs to be played. The Mountain Hawks will face both Bucknell and Lafayette twice each as well, one home and one on the road.
WOMEN'S LACROSSE
Lehigh begins its season with three straight nonleague contests against Philadelphia opponents, the first two of which are at home. It all begins on Saturday, Feb. 20 vs. Drexel. The Patriot League opener is Mar. 13 at American. The Mountain Hawks' home Patriot League contests are against Army West Point (Mar. 20), Bucknell (Mar. 27), Navy (Apr. 10) and American (Apr. 24).
ROWING – WOMEN | MEN
The Lehigh women's rowing team begins its season on Mar. 20 in Philadelphia while both the women and men will be in action the following Saturday (Mar. 27) against Drexel on the Schulykill River. The Mountain Hawk rowers will have a number of tune-up events, including the women competing at Patriot League foe Bucknell on Apr. 3. They will be working to be at their best for their respective championships - the men at the Mid-Atlantic Rowing Championships on Apr. 24 and the women at the Patriot League Championships on May 14.
SOFTBALL
Lehigh will play a 32-game slate that includes 10 home games as part of 24-game Patriot League schedule where each team plays four games against every other league team. The Mountain Hawks will open the regular season with a Feb. 28 doubleheader at Fordham. Patriot League play and the home schedule begins with four games against two-time defending champion Boston U. Mar. 27-28. Lehigh closes the regular season with a four-game home-and-home series against Lafayette May 8-9.
MEN'S TENNIS
Lehigh will look to get in seven matches before the Patriot League Championships, which will be hosted by Lehigh Apr. 22-25. Kicking things off for the Brown and White, the Mountain Hawks will welcome in Lafayette on Mar. 6 inside the Lewis Tennis Center. Lehigh will then hit the road and battle Loyola (Md.) on Mar. 14. The Mountain Hawks will then have their second home contest against Siena on Mar. 20. Lehigh will then be on the road for four straight weekends against Colgate, Navy, Army West Point and Bucknell before returning home to host the Patriot League Championships.
WOMEN'S TENNIS
The Mountain Hawks will compete in eight matches before the Patriot League Championships, including five at home. The season begins Mar. 6 against Fairfield. Villanova (Mar. 21), Bucknell (Apr. 4), Navy (Apr. 10) and Army West Point (Apr. 17) are the other home contests. The first road match for the Brown and White will be on March 14 at Loyola (Md.). The rivalry match against Lafayette will be in Easton this year on Apr. 24. Starting on April 29, the four-day Patriot League Championship will be held at Navy.
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