Seven teams from Lock Haven to St. Louis, six conference games each, a true single round robin, and a league that closes its regular season with two crosstown games on the same Friday. Here is the full Atlantic 10 field hockey schedule, nonconference included.
Table of Contents
- How A-10 field hockey works in 2026
- Opening weekend, August 28 to 30
- Week 2, September 2 to 6
- Week 3, September 11 to 13
- Conference week 1, September 18 to 20
- Conference week 2, September 25 to 27
- Conference week 3, October 2 to 4
- Conference week 4, October 9 to 11
- Conference week 5, October 16 to 18
- Conference week 6, October 23 to 27
- Conference week 7, October 30 to November 1
- The games the composite gets wrong
- A-10 Championship
- NCAA Tournament
- Games to circle in 2026
- A-10 field hockey 2026 FAQ
- Dig deeper
Times are Eastern. Conference games are in bold, including the three the league’s own composite forgets to tag.
How A-10 field hockey works in 2026
Seven Atlantic 10 schools sponsor field hockey: Davidson, La Salle, Lock Haven, Richmond, Saint Joseph’s, Saint Louis and VCU. Everyone plays everyone once, six conference games apiece, 21 in all, from September 18 to October 30.
The geography is the story. Saint Joseph’s and La Salle are both in Philadelphia. Richmond and VCU are both in Richmond, Virginia. Lock Haven sits in central Pennsylvania, Davidson is outside Charlotte, and Saint Louis is nine hundred miles west of everyone. Two pairs of neighbors and three outliers, playing a round robin that ends with both neighbor games on the same day.
Saint Joseph’s is the preseason favorite for reasons that are hard to argue with. The Hawks have won the last five conference titles, eight of the last nine, and have appeared in an A-10-record ten consecutive championship games. They took 44 points and four of the seven first-place votes in the coaches poll. Richmond was second at 42 with one first-place vote, VCU third at 37 with one, Davidson fourth at 30 with one. La Salle (19), Saint Louis (15) and Lock Haven (9) rounded it out.
Saint Joseph’s is also the league’s only nationally ranked team, opening at No. 20. Three Hawks made the preseason all-conference team: Alison Buffington, Erika Culp and Milou Kluyt, the reigning A-10 Defensive Player of the Year and the Most Outstanding Player of last year’s championship.
Opening weekend, August 28 to 30
Richmond scored twelve goals. That is not a typo.
| Game | Date | Time / Result |
| New Hampshire at Saint Joseph’s | Aug 28 | Saint Joseph’s 2-1 |
| VCU at Northwestern | Aug 28 | Northwestern 2-0 |
| Queens (NC) at Richmond | Aug 28 | Richmond 12-0 |
| Mercyhurst at Lock Haven | Aug 28 | Lock Haven 5-2 |
| Georgetown at Davidson | Aug 28 | Georgetown 2-1 |
| Saint Louis vs Michigan State (Athens, OH) | Aug 29 | Michigan State 3-0 |
| Lock Haven at Penn State | Aug 30 | 12:00 |
| Towson at Davidson | Aug 30 | 12:00 |
| Villanova at La Salle | Aug 30 | 12:00 |
| Duke at Richmond | Aug 30 | 12:00 |
| Saint Louis at Ohio | Aug 30 | 1:00 |
| Kent State vs VCU (Evanston) | Aug 30 | 1:30 |
| UConn at Saint Joseph’s | Aug 30 | 2:00 |
Saint Joseph’s opened by beating New Hampshire 2-1 and then drew No. 11 UConn two days later. VCU spent the weekend in Illinois, losing 2-0 to the No. 1 team in the country before facing Kent State. Richmond, meanwhile, followed a twelve-goal Friday with Duke on Sunday.
Week 2, September 2 to 6
Davidson drives to Maine. Saint Louis hosts Louisville.
| Game | Date | Time |
| Appalachian State at Davidson | Sep 2 | 6:00 |
| Louisville at Saint Louis | Sep 4 | 2:30 |
| Liberty at Saint Joseph’s | Sep 4 | 3:00 |
| Richmond at American | Sep 4 | 3:00 |
| La Salle at Cornell | Sep 4 | 6:00 |
| Davidson at Stonehill (Orono, Maine) | Sep 5 | 12:00 |
| Davidson at Maine | Sep 6 | 11:00 AM |
| Saint Joseph’s at Drexel | Sep 6 | 12:00 |
| La Salle at Colgate | Sep 6 | 12:00 |
| Georgetown at Lock Haven | Sep 6 | 12:00 |
| Richmond at Longwood | Sep 6 | 1:00 |
| VCU at William & Mary | Sep 6 | 1:00 |
| Mercyhurst at Saint Louis | Sep 6 | 1:00 |
Davidson, North Carolina to Orono, Maine is roughly a thousand miles each way for two games in two days. Saint Joseph’s gets No. 8 Liberty at Ellen Ryan Field on Friday.
Week 3, September 11 to 13
The hardest nonconference weekend anybody in the league plays.
| Game | Date | Time |
| La Salle at Penn | Sep 11 | 2:00 |
| Colgate at Lock Haven | Sep 11 | 3:00 |
| Georgetown at Richmond | Sep 11 | 4:00 |
| Longwood at Davidson | Sep 11 | 5:00 |
| Saint Joseph’s at Lehigh | Sep 11 | 5:00 |
| VCU at Wake Forest | Sep 11 | 5:00 |
| Saint Louis at Mercyhurst (Mount Pleasant, Mich.) | Sep 12 | 1:00 |
| North Carolina at Richmond | Sep 13 | 12:00 |
| Queens at La Salle | Sep 13 | 12:00 |
| Saint Joseph’s at Maryland | Sep 13 | 12:00 |
| Davidson at Ohio | Sep 13 | 12:00 |
| VCU at Duke | Sep 13 | 1:00 |
| Saint Louis at Central Michigan | Sep 13 | 1:00 |
Richmond hosts No. 2 North Carolina. VCU plays No. 7 Wake Forest and No. 6 Duke in three days. Saint Joseph’s goes to No. 13 Maryland.
Conference week 1, September 18 to 20
| Game | Date | Time |
| Saint Joseph’s at Saint Louis | Sep 18 | 3:00 |
| VCU at La Salle | Sep 18 | 3:00 |
| Saint Francis at Lock Haven | Sep 18 | 5:00 |
| Davidson at Richmond | Sep 18 | 5:00 |
| VCU at Lafayette | Sep 20 | 12:00 |
| American at Lock Haven | Sep 20 | 12:00 |
| Richmond at William & Mary | Sep 20 | 12:00 |
| Saint Joseph’s at Louisville | Sep 20 | 12:00 |
| Bellarmine at Davidson | Sep 20 | 12:00 |
| New Haven at La Salle | Sep 20 | 3:00 |
Three conference games and a bye for Lock Haven, which plays a nonconference Friday instead. The A-10 runs conference play almost entirely on Fridays and keeps Sundays open.
Conference week 2, September 25 to 27
| Game | Date | Time |
| Richmond at Saint Joseph’s | Sep 25 | 3:00 |
| Saint Louis at VCU | Sep 25 | 3:00 |
| La Salle at Lock Haven | Sep 25 | 4:00 |
| Davidson at Queens | Sep 25 | 7:00 |
| Saint Louis at Old Dominion | Sep 27 | 11:00 AM |
| La Salle at Rutgers | Sep 27 | 12:00 |
| Georgetown at VCU | Sep 27 | 1:00 |
| Indiana (Pa.) at Lock Haven | Sep 27 | 2:00 |
Richmond at Saint Joseph’s is the poll’s top two meeting in Philadelphia in the second week of conference play. Saint Louis plays VCU on Friday and Old Dominion in Norfolk on Sunday, which is a lot of Virginia for a school in Missouri.
Conference week 3, October 2 to 4
| Game | Date | Time |
| Saint Louis at Lock Haven | Oct 2 | 12:30 |
| California at VCU | Oct 2 | 3:00 |
| Saint Joseph’s at Davidson | Oct 2 | 5:00 |
| La Salle at Richmond | Oct 2 | 5:00 |
| Ball State at Davidson | Oct 4 | 12:00 |
| Rider at Lock Haven | Oct 4 | 12:00 |
| LIU at La Salle | Oct 4 | 12:00 |
| Liberty at Richmond | Oct 4 | 12:00 |
| Saint Joseph’s at Duke | Oct 4 | 12:00 |
| Maryville at Saint Louis | Oct 4 | 12:00 |
| Towson at VCU | Oct 4 | 1:00 |
California comes to Richmond as part of the Bears’ east-coast swing. Saint Joseph’s plays at Davidson on Friday and at Duke on Sunday, two North Carolina stops in three days.
Conference week 4, October 9 to 11
| Game | Date | Time |
| Lock Haven at VCU | Oct 9 | 3:00 |
| Davidson at La Salle | Oct 9 | 3:00 |
| North Carolina at Saint Joseph’s | Oct 9 | 3:00 |
| Richmond at Saint Louis | Oct 9 | 4:00 |
| Davidson at Rider | Oct 11 | 12:00 |
| Central Michigan at Saint Louis | Oct 11 | 12:00 |
| Columbia at La Salle | Oct 11 | 12:00 |
| Saint Joseph’s at Penn | Oct 11 | 12:00 |
| Fairfield at VCU | Oct 11 | 1:00 |
Saint Joseph’s hosts No. 2 North Carolina on the same Friday afternoon three conference games are going on elsewhere, which is why the Hawks have a bye week in the round robin here.
Conference week 5, October 16 to 18
| Game | Date | Time |
| Saint Louis at La Salle | Oct 16 | 2:00 |
| Lock Haven at Saint Joseph’s | Oct 16 | 3:00 |
| Delaware at Richmond | Oct 16 | 5:00 |
| VCU at Davidson | Oct 16 | 7:00 |
| La Salle at Bucknell | Oct 18 | 12:00 |
| Davidson at Wake Forest | Oct 18 | 12:00 |
| Villanova at Saint Joseph’s | Oct 18 | 12:00 |
| Lock Haven at Drexel | Oct 18 | 12:00 |
| Old Dominion at Richmond | Oct 18 | 1:00 |
| Delaware at VCU | Oct 18 | 1:00 |
Delaware plays both Richmond schools in three days, which is the kind of trip the A-10’s geography makes possible for visitors and painful for members.
Conference week 6, October 23 to 27
| Game | Date | Time |
| Richmond at Lock Haven | Oct 23 | 3:00 |
| Saint Joseph’s at VCU | Oct 23 | 3:00 |
| Mercyhurst at Davidson | Oct 23 | 5:00 |
| Louisville at Richmond | Oct 25 | 12:00 |
| Saint Joseph’s at Princeton | Oct 25 | 12:00 |
| Merrimack at Lock Haven | Oct 25 | 12:00 |
| Davidson at Saint Louis | Oct 25 | 1:00 |
| La Salle at Drexel | Oct 25 | 3:00 |
| Lock Haven at Bucknell | Oct 27 | 6:00 |
Davidson at Saint Louis is the only Sunday conference game of the season. Saint Joseph’s plays No. 3 Princeton the same afternoon.
Conference week 7, October 30 to November 1
Both city games, same Friday, season over.
| Game | Date | Time |
| Saint Louis vs Ball State (Louisville) | Oct 30 | 3:00 |
| La Salle at Saint Joseph’s | Oct 30 | 3:00 |
| VCU at Richmond | Oct 30 | 5:00 |
| Lock Haven at Davidson | Oct 30 | 7:00 |
| Lock Haven at Queens | Nov 1 | 12:00 |
| Saint Louis at Bellarmine | Nov 1 | 12:00 |
The A-10 finishes its round robin with La Salle at Saint Joseph’s in Philadelphia and VCU at Richmond in Richmond, two hours apart on the same afternoon, both with tournament seeding attached. No other conference in the sport closes like this.
The games the composite gets wrong
Every Lock Haven road conference game is missing its tag. The composite marks Lock Haven’s three home conference games as conference games and leaves all three road ones unmarked: at VCU on October 9, at Saint Joseph’s on October 16, and at Davidson on October 30. All three count. Without them the league’s round robin comes out to 18 games instead of 21, and Lock Haven appears to be playing three conference games in a seven-team league.
Kent State vs VCU, August 30. The A-10 composite says 1:30 in Chicago. The MAC composite says 2:30 in Evanston. It is the same game, at Northwestern’s field, and the two leagues are an hour apart on it.
La Salle at Penn, September 11. The A-10 composite says 2:00 and lists the site as Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, which is La Salle’s home field. The Ivy League composite says 3:00 in Philadelphia and has Penn as the host. The Ivy version is the one that matches the away-team column.
California at VCU, October 2. The A-10 composite says 3:00. The ACC composite says 6:00.
La Salle at Rutgers, September 27. The A-10 composite says New Brunswick; the Big Ten composite says Piscataway. Rutgers plays field hockey in Piscataway.
Indiana (Pa.) at Lock Haven, September 27. The away-team field renders as a bare string with no logo, which usually means the opponent is not in the system. The game is real; the listing is broken.
A-10 Championship
VCU hosts, at Cary Street Field in Richmond, Virginia.
The composite ends on November 1 and does not carry the championship dates, so confirm those on the conference site before making plans. What is settled is the venue and the stakes: the winner takes the Atlantic 10’s automatic NCAA bid.
Saint Joseph’s has won five straight and ten consecutive trips to the championship game, an A-10 record. Anyone hoping to end that run will most likely have to do it in Richmond, against a Hawks team that has not lost a title game since 2020.
NCAA Tournament
The 2026 field is 18 teams: ten automatic qualifiers, including the A-10 champion, and eight at-large selections.
Opening-round games are November 11, involving the four lowest-seeded automatic qualifiers, which is where an A-10 champion typically lands. First and second rounds are at campus sites on November 13 and 15. The semifinals are November 20 and the championship is November 22, both at Louisville’s Trager Stadium.
Games to circle in 2026
VCU at Richmond, October 30. Two Division I field hockey programs in the same city, playing the last game of the A-10 regular season, with the No. 2 and No. 3 preseason picks and a tournament seed on the line. The tournament itself is at VCU’s field a week later.
La Salle at Saint Joseph’s, October 30. The Philadelphia game, same Friday, same stakes. Saint Joseph’s has not lost an A-10 title game in five years; La Salle would like to be the reason that changes.
Richmond at Saint Joseph’s, September 25. The poll’s top two, two points apart, in Philadelphia in week two of conference play.
Saint Joseph’s at VCU, October 23. A dress rehearsal at Cary Street Field, on the surface that will host the championship.
North Carolina at Saint Joseph’s, October 9. No. 2 in the country at Ellen Ryan Field, one of five ranked opponents on the Hawks’ schedule.
North Carolina at Richmond, September 13. The Spiders host the Tar Heels a week after hosting Duke. Richmond’s nonconference schedule is the most ambitious in the league.
Saint Joseph’s at Princeton, October 25. No. 20 at No. 3, on a Sunday in New Jersey, the Hawks’ last tune-up before championship week.
VCU at Wake Forest and at Duke, September 11 and 13. Two ranked ACC teams in three days for the preseason No. 3.
Davidson at Maine, September 6. Not a marquee game, but a thousand miles each way for a program that also plays at Ohio, at Wake Forest and at Saint Louis. Nobody in this league travels casually.
A-10 field hockey 2026 FAQ
When does A-10 conference play start? September 18, with Saint Joseph’s at Saint Louis, VCU at La Salle and Davidson at Richmond. The round robin ends October 30.
How many conference games does each team play? Six. Seven teams, 21 conference games, a full single round robin.
Which A-10 schools play field hockey? Seven: Davidson, La Salle, Lock Haven, Richmond, Saint Joseph’s, Saint Louis and VCU.
Who is the favorite? Saint Joseph’s, with 44 points and four of seven first-place votes. Richmond was second at 42 with one first-place vote, VCU third at 37, Davidson fourth at 30.
How many A-10 teams are ranked? One. Saint Joseph’s opens at No. 20 nationally.
Where is the A-10 Championship? VCU’s Cary Street Field in Richmond, Virginia. Dates are not carried on the league composite; check the conference site.
Why do two A-10 teams play in the same city? Because Richmond and VCU are both in Richmond, Virginia, and Saint Joseph’s and La Salle are both in Philadelphia. The league schedules both of those games on the final Friday.
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