Yale vs Princeton Volleyball: Yale Wins 3-0 (Oct 9, 2026)

FinalFri, Oct 9, 2026ESPN+

3:0

RallyIQ pre-match: Yale 77.3% · favorite wonLocked before first serve (Oct 9, 4:56 PM CT). The Pre-match panel below is a season fit that includes this match.

Yale won at Princeton 3-0 (25-19, 25-19, 25-20) on Fri, Oct 9, 2026. Yale's Cam Bolane led with 10 kills, and Ava Poinsett added 11 digs.

Data through Nov 3, 4:50 PM CT · final Oct 9

Set	1	2	3	Sets
YALE	25	25	25	3
PRINCE	19	19	20	0

Match story · written from the play-by-play

Cam Bolane hit .692 with 10 kills as Yale rolled past Princeton.

The biggest single-rally swing was 1.9 points, and Princeton's high was 22% in Set 1. The gap came from these numbers. RallyIQ gave Yale 77% before first serve.

YalePrinceton

Break %+16.1 pts
43.227.1
On serve: 32/74 against 16/59 (Princeton sideout 56.8%).
Hitting+.145
.378.233
43 kills, 9 errors vs 33 kills, 12 errors.

Princeton above 50Yale belowMax swing 1.9%

YalePrinceton

Aces: Yale 5·Princeton 4
Serve err: Yale 10·Princeton 11
Blocks: Yale 5·Princeton 31 BS · 8 BA vs 2 BS · 2 BA
Digs: Yale 35·Princeton 33

Win probability

RallyIQ model · strengths locked at first serve

Princeton above 50 · Yale below

Biggest swing: 1.9% to Princeton — set 1, YALE 2-2 PRINCE. Kalyssa Taggart stuffed by Shelby Burriss & Sydney Draper. PRINCE win probability 20% → 22%.

Pre-match

Season fit · includes this match

YALE 83.9%16.1% PRINCE

Yale wins

3-0

35.7%

3-1

31.1%

3-2

17.0%

Princeton wins

3-0

2.5%

3-1

5.2%

3-2

8.5%

YALE break %: 44.4% vs this opp
PRINCE break %: 37.0% vs this opp

Exact Markov model on each team's RallyIQ serve and receive strength, adjusted for schedule and applied to this matchup (D1 average break % 42.5%). Ratings use the whole season, including this match. Gold = actual result.

Top plays

Largest win-probability swings

01
Shelby Burriss&Sydney DraperBlock+1.9%
Kalyssa Taggart stuffed by Shelby Burriss & Sydney Draper
Set 1 · YALE 2-2 PRINCE · PRINCE 20% → 22%
02
YaleAce+1.9%
Yale ace on Ashtyn Sims
Set 1 · YALE 6-4 PRINCE · YALE 79% → 81%
03
Ava Poinsett&Cam BolaneBlock+1.8%
Shelby Burriss stuffed by Ava Poinsett & Cam Bolane
Set 1 · YALE 1-0 PRINCE · YALE 77% → 79%
04
Betsy GoodenowKill+1.7%
Kill by Betsy Goodenow (set by Cam Bolane)
Set 1 · YALE 8-5 PRINCE · YALE 81% → 83%
05
Ava PoinsettKill+1.7%
Kill by Ava Poinsett
Set 1 · YALE 2-0 PRINCE · YALE 79% → 81%
06
Ava HarringtonAttack error+1.5%
Attack error by Ava Harrington
Set 1 · YALE 9-5 PRINCE · YALE 83% → 84%
07
Ashtyn SimsKill+1.4%
Kill by Ashtyn Sims (set by Sydney Draper)
Set 1 · YALE 4-4 PRINCE · PRINCE 21% → 22%
08
Taylor ClarkeKill+1.4%
Kill by Taylor Clarke (set by Shelby Burriss)
Set 3 · YALE 15-17 PRINCE · PRINCE 6% → 7%

Box score

Official NCAA box

Yaleaway

Player	S	K	E	TA	Hit%	AST	SA	SE	DIG	RE	BS	BA	BLK	PTS
10Cam BolaneMB	3	10	1	13	.692	1	3	3	0	0	0	2	1	14
2Ava PoinsettOH	3	8	3	18	.278	2	1	2	11	1	1	1	1.5	10.5
33Betsy GoodenowOH	3	9	0	23	.391	0	0	2	3	2	0	1	0.5	9.5
4Laurece AbrahamMB	3	8	3	18	.278	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1.5	9.5
1Kalyssa TaggartS	3	3	1	7	.286	31	0	1	7	0	0	1	0.5	3.5
11Yuri ParkL/DS	3	0	0	0	–	0	1	1	4	0	0	0	0	1
23Isabel PattersonOH	3	5	1	11	.364	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	5
6Arya JueL/DS	3	0	0	0	–	2	0	0	9	0	0	0	0	0
16Mila MijailovicOH	3	0	0	0	–	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
20Gaby StasysMB	1	0	0	0	–	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Team totals		43	9	90	.378	36	5	10	35	4	1	8	5	75

Princetonhome

Player	S	K	E	TA	Hit%	AST	SA	SE	DIG	RE	BS	BA	BLK	PTS
3Ashtyn SimsOH	3	9	5	19	.211	0	1	3	2	2	0	0	0	10
13Erin McNairOH	3	9	2	26	.269	1	0	2	8	1	0	0	0	9
24Ava HarringtonMB	3	5	2	14	.214	0	3	4	6	0	0	0	0	8
9Shelby BurrissMB	3	2	2	11	.000	1	0	1	2	0	1	1	1.5	3.5
6Ashley DuckworthMB	3	2	0	5	.400	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	3
19Sydney DraperS	3	2	0	4	.500	21	0	1	4	0	0	1	0.5	2.5
1Sydney BoldL/DS	3	0	0	0	–	3	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0
14Taylor ClarkeOH	2	4	1	9	.333	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
12Lia SkufcaS	2	0	0	1	.000	4	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
8Natalie SurgesOH	2	0	0	1	.000	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0
Team totals		33	12	90	.233	30	4	11	33	5	2	2	3	58

Starters listed first. BLK is the NCAA total: a solo counts 1, a block assist ½. Recaps and press releases usually quote solos + assists instead, so the same night can be reported as a bigger, whole number. The box score is the source for every counting stat on this page.

Yale vs Princeton

Season series · Yale leads 1-0

Fri, Oct 9, 2026Yale at Princeton · Yale won 3-0This match
Sat, Nov 14, 2026Princeton at YalePreview →

Momentum

Point differential by rally

Longest run 4 YALE · PRINCE 4

Set 1

25-19

Longest run 3 YALEPRINCE 4

Set 2

25-19

Longest run 3 YALEPRINCE 2

Set 3

25-20

Longest run 4 YALEPRINCE 4

Bars above the line = Princeton leads, below = Yale leads. Bright bars are points inside a run of 3+.

Rotations

Sideout and break % by rotation slot

Yale

Slot	Sideout %	Break %
1	100%6/6	0%0/5
2	63%5/8	17%1/6
3	71%5/7	44%4/9
4	56%5/9	44%4/9
5	83%5/6	50%5/10
6	100%4/4	60%6/10
All	75%30/40	41%20/49

Princeton

Slot	Sideout %	Break %
1	86%6/7	0%0/5
2	71%5/7	0%0/6
3	63%5/8	44%4/9
4	56%5/9	29%2/7
5	36%4/11	44%4/9
6	57%4/7	0%0/4
All	59%29/49	25%10/40

Slot = rotations since the start of the set (slot 1 is the lineup a team opened the set in), not a fixed player alignment. Only clean sets count (2 of 3 here): sets where the NCAA play-by-play has gaps or score corrections are left out because the rotation can't be tracked through them.

Rally log

133 rallies

#	YALE-PRINCE	Srv	Point	End	Player	Setter / blockers / passer	WP Δ
Set 1
1	1-0	YALE	YALE	Blocked	Shelby Burriss	blk Ava Poinsett, Cam Bolane	+1.8
2	2-0	YALE	YALE	Kill	Ava Poinsett		+1.7
3	2-1	YALE	PRINCE	Serve err	Yale		+1.2
4	2-2	PRINCE	PRINCE	Blocked	Kalyssa Taggart	blk Shelby Burriss, Sydney Draper	+1.9
5	3-2	PRINCE	YALE	Serve err	Princeton		+1.3
6	3-3	YALE	PRINCE	Kill	Erin McNair	set Sydney Draper	+1.4
7	4-3	PRINCE	YALE	Kill	Cam Bolane	set Kalyssa Taggart	+1.4
8	4-4	YALE	PRINCE	Kill	Ashtyn Sims	set Sydney Draper	+1.4
9	5-4	PRINCE	YALE	Kill	Cam Bolane	set Kalyssa Taggart	+1.4
10	6-4	YALE	YALE	Ace	Yale	aced Ashtyn Sims	+1.9
11	6-5	YALE	PRINCE	Kill	Ashtyn Sims	set Sydney Draper	+1.3
12	7-5	PRINCE	YALE×3	Serve err	Princeton		+1.3
13	8-5	YALE	YALE×3	Kill	Betsy Goodenow	set Cam Bolane	+1.7
14	9-5	YALE	YALE×3	Attack err	Ava Harrington		+1.5
15	9-6	YALE	PRINCE	Kill	Ava Harrington	set Sydney Draper	+1.0
16	10-6	PRINCE	YALE×3	Serve err	Princeton		+1.0
17	11-6	YALE	YALE×3	Bad set	Sydney Draper		+1.2
18	12-6	YALE	YALE×3	Kill	Laurece Abraham	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.9
19	12-7	YALE	PRINCE	Kill	Sydney Draper		+0.5
20	13-7	PRINCE	YALE	Kill	Laurece Abraham	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.6
21	13-8	YALE	PRINCE	Kill	Ava Harrington	set Sydney Draper	+0.5
22	14-8	PRINCE	YALE	Serve err	Princeton		+0.6
23	14-9	YALE	PRINCE	Kill	Shelby Burriss	set Sydney Draper	+0.5
24	15-9	PRINCE	YALE	Attack err	Shelby Burriss		+0.6
25	15-10	YALE	PRINCE	Serve err	Yale		+0.5
26	16-10	PRINCE	YALE×3	Serve err	Princeton		+0.6
27	17-10		YALE	NCAA feed gap1 point not loggedWhy? The NCAA play-by-play skipped these points: the score changed but no play was logged, so we know who won each point, not how. They count in the score, momentum and win probability, but no player is credited. Box-score stats come from the official box score and are unaffected.			+0.6
28	18-10	YALE	YALE×3	Serve err	Yale		+0.3
29	18-11		PRINCE	NCAA feed gap1 point not loggedWhy? The NCAA play-by-play skipped these points: the score changed but no play was logged, so we know who won each point, not how. They count in the score, momentum and win probability, but no player is credited. Box-score stats come from the official box score and are unaffected.			+0.1
30	19-11	PRINCE	YALE	Kill	Kalyssa Taggart	set Ava Poinsett	+0.2
31	19-12	YALE	PRINCE×3	Kill	Ashley Duckworth	set Sydney Draper	+0.1
32	19-13	PRINCE	PRINCE×3	Attack err	Laurece Abraham		+0.3
33	19-14	PRINCE	PRINCE×3	Ace	Princeton	aced Betsy Goodenow	+0.5
34	20-14	PRINCE	YALE	Kill	Laurece Abraham	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.5
35	21-14	YALE	YALE	Ace	Yale	aced Ashtyn Sims	+0.4
36	21-15	YALE	PRINCE	Kill	Ava Harrington	set Sydney Draper	+0.1
37	22-15	PRINCE	YALE	Kill	Ava Poinsett	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.2
38	22-16	YALE	PRINCE×4	Kill	Erin McNair	set Sydney Draper	+0.1
39	22-17	PRINCE	PRINCE×4	Kill	Erin McNair	set Sydney Draper	+0.3
40	22-18	PRINCE	PRINCE×4	Ace	Princeton	aced Ava Poinsett	+0.5
41	22-19	PRINCE	PRINCE×4	Kill	Erin McNair		+1.0
42	23-19	PRINCE	YALE×3	Kill	Betsy Goodenow	set Ava Poinsett	+1.2
43	24-19	YALE	YALE×3	Kill	Ava Poinsett	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.7
44	25-19	YALE	YALE×3	Kill	Cam Bolane	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.2
Set 2
1	1-0	PRINCE	YALE	Kill	Betsy Goodenow	set Kalyssa Taggart	+1.0
2	1-1	YALE	PRINCE	Attack err	Ava Poinsett		+1.0
3	2-1	PRINCE	YALE×3	Serve err	Princeton		+1.0
4	3-1	YALE	YALE×3	Bad set	Ava Harrington		+1.3
5	4-1	YALE	YALE×3	Attack err	Erin McNair		+1.2
6	4-2	YALE	PRINCE	Kill	Erin McNair	set Sydney Bold	+0.8
7	5-2	PRINCE	YALE	Kill	Cam Bolane	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.9
8	5-3	YALE	PRINCE	Serve err	Yale		+0.9
9	6-3	PRINCE	YALE	Attack err	Ashtyn Sims		+0.9
10	6-4	YALE	PRINCE	Blocked	Laurece Abraham	blk Shelby Burriss	+0.9
11	6-5	PRINCE	PRINCE	Kill	Ashtyn Sims	set Sydney Bold	+1.4
12	7-5	PRINCE	YALE×3	Serve err	Princeton		+1.0
13	8-5	YALE	YALE×3	Kill	Betsy Goodenow	set Arya Jue	+1.3
14	9-5	YALE	YALE×3	Kill	Ava Poinsett	set Kalyssa Taggart	+1.1
15	9-6	YALE	PRINCE	Kill	Ashtyn Sims	set Sydney Draper	+0.7
16	10-6	PRINCE	YALE	Kill	Betsy Goodenow	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.8
17	10-7	YALE	PRINCE	Kill	Ashtyn Sims	set Sydney Draper	+0.8
18	11-7	PRINCE	YALE	Kill	Betsy Goodenow	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.8
19	11-8	YALE	PRINCE	Kill	Ashtyn Sims	set Sydney Draper	+0.8
20	12-8	PRINCE	YALE	Serve err	Princeton		+0.8
21	12-9	YALE	PRINCE	Attack err	Erin McNair		+0.8
22	12-10	PRINCE	PRINCE	Attack err	Cam Bolane		+1.4
23	13-10	PRINCE	YALE	Kill	Cam Bolane	set Kalyssa Taggart	+1.1
24	14-10	YALE	YALE	Ace	Yale		+1.3
25	14-11	YALE	PRINCE	Kill	Erin McNair	set Sydney Bold	+0.8
26	15-11	PRINCE	YALE	Serve err	Princeton		+0.9
27	15-12	YALE	PRINCE	Attack err	Isabel Patterson		+0.8
28	16-12	PRINCE	YALE	Kill	Isabel Patterson	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.9
29	17-12	YALE	YALE	Kill	Laurece Abraham	set Kalyssa Taggart	+1.0
30	17-13	YALE	PRINCE	Serve err	Yale		+0.5
31	18-13	PRINCE	YALE	Kill	Ava Poinsett	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.7
32	18-14	YALE	PRINCE	Kill	Ashtyn Sims	set Sydney Draper	+0.5
33	19-14	PRINCE	YALE	Kill	Cam Bolane	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.7
34	20-14	YALE	YALE	Blocked	Ashtyn Sims	blk Ava Poinsett	+0.6
35	20-15	YALE	PRINCE	Serve err	Yale		+0.2
36	21-15	PRINCE	YALE	Attack err	Ava Poinsett		+0.4
37	21-16	YALE	PRINCE	Serve err	Yale		+0.2
38	22-16	PRINCE	YALE	Kill	Cam Bolane	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.3
39	22-17	YALE	PRINCE	Attack err	Ava Harrington		+0.1
40	22-18	PRINCE	PRINCE	Kill	Sydney Draper	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.4
41	23-18	PRINCE	YALE	Serve err	Princeton		+0.5
42	24-18	YALE	YALE	Kill	Betsy Goodenow	set Arya Jue	+0.3
43	24-19	YALE	PRINCE	Attack err	Ava Poinsett		·
44	25-19	PRINCE	YALE	Kill	Laurece Abraham	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.1
Set 3
1	0-1	YALE	PRINCE	Kill	Ava Harrington	set Sydney Draper	+0.6
2	1-1	PRINCE	YALE	Kill	Ava Poinsett	set Sydney Draper	+0.5
3	1-2	YALE	PRINCE×4	Kill	Shelby Burriss	set Sydney Draper	+0.6
4	1-3	PRINCE	PRINCE×4	Ace	Princeton		+0.9
5	1-4	PRINCE	PRINCE×4	Ace	Princeton	aced Betsy Goodenow	+0.9
6	1-5	PRINCE	PRINCE×4	Attack err	Ava Poinsett		+0.9
7	2-5	PRINCE	YALE×3	Kill	Kalyssa Taggart	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.6
8	3-5	YALE	YALE×3	Ace	Yale		+0.8
9	4-5	YALE	YALE×3	Kill	Cam Bolane	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.9
10	4-6	YALE	PRINCE	Serve err	Yale		+0.7
11	4-7	PRINCE	PRINCE	Kill	Taylor Clarke	set Lia Skufca	+1.0
12	5-7	PRINCE	YALE×4	Serve err	Princeton		+0.6
13	6-7	YALE	YALE×4	Blocked	Ashtyn Sims	blk Laurece Abraham, Kalyssa Taggart	+0.9
14	7-7	YALE	YALE×4	Kill	Kalyssa Taggart	set Lia Skufca	+0.9
15	8-7	YALE	YALE×4	Kill	Isabel Patterson	set Erin McNair	+0.9
16	8-8	YALE	PRINCE	Serve err	Yale		+0.6
17	8-9	PRINCE	PRINCE	Blocked	Laurece Abraham	blk Ashley Duckworth	+1.0
18	9-9	PRINCE	YALE	Kill	Laurece Abraham	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.7
19	10-9	YALE	YALE	Kill	Isabel Patterson	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.9
20	10-10	YALE	PRINCE	Kill	Taylor Clarke	set Lia Skufca	+0.7
21	11-10	PRINCE	YALE	Kill	Betsy Goodenow	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.7
22	11-11	YALE	PRINCE	Kill	Ashley Duckworth	set Sydney Draper	+0.7
23	12-11	PRINCE	YALE	Attack err	Erin McNair		+0.7
24	12-12	YALE	PRINCE	Kill	Erin McNair	set Sydney Draper	+0.7
25	13-12	PRINCE	YALE	Kill	Cam Bolane	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.7
26	13-13	YALE	PRINCE	Serve err	Yale		+0.8
27	14-13	PRINCE	YALE	Kill	Ava Poinsett	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.8
28	14-14	YALE	PRINCE	Kill	Erin McNair	set Lia Skufca	+0.8
29	15-14	PRINCE	YALE	Kill	Cam Bolane	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.8
30	15-15	YALE	PRINCE×3	Serve err	Yale		+0.9
31	15-16	PRINCE	PRINCE×3	Kill	Taylor Clarke	set Erin McNair	+1.4
32	15-17	PRINCE	PRINCE×3	Kill	Taylor Clarke	set Shelby Burriss	+1.4
33	16-17	PRINCE	YALE×4	Kill	Isabel Patterson	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.9
34	17-17	YALE	YALE×4	Blocked	Ashtyn Sims	blk Betsy Goodenow, Laurece Abraham	+1.4
35	18-17	YALE	YALE×4	Kill	Laurece Abraham	set Kalyssa Taggart	+1.4
36	19-17	YALE	YALE×4	Attack err	Taylor Clarke		+1.3
37	19-18	YALE	PRINCE	Kill	Ashtyn Sims	set Lia Skufca	+0.8
38	20-18	PRINCE	YALE×4	Kill	Isabel Patterson	set Kalyssa Taggart	+1.0
39	21-18	YALE	YALE×4	Blocked	Ashtyn Sims	blk Laurece Abraham, Cam Bolane	+1.1
40	22-18	YALE	YALE×4	Kill	Laurece Abraham	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.7
41	23-18	YALE	YALE×4	Kill	Ava Poinsett	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.4
42	23-19	YALE	PRINCE	Kill	Ava Harrington	set Sydney Draper	+0.1
43	24-19	PRINCE	YALE	Bad set	Ava Harrington		+0.2
44	24-20	YALE	PRINCE	Kill	Erin McNair	set Sydney Draper	·
45	25-20	PRINCE	YALE	Kill	Betsy Goodenow	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.1

Score shown after each rally, Yale first. WP Δ = match win-probability points gained, colored by the team that gained them.“NCAA feed gap” rows mark points the NCAA play-by-play never logged (tap Why? for details).

Yale def. Princeton 3–0

Cam Bolane hit .692 with 10 kills as Yale rolled past Princeton.