PASADENA, CA – The Caltech women's basketball program has released its schedule for the 2012-13 season.

The Beavers schedule features 13 home, nine road and three neutral site contests.

2012-2013 Women's Basketball Schedule

The schedule starts with back-to-back home games against Linfield (Nov. 21) and Oberlin (Nov. 23) before making the short trip to Occidental College to play a neutral site contest against Whitworth on Nov. 24.

Caltech's first conference game comes on Nov. 29 when they host Redlands at 7:30 p.m. Two days later they travel to Cal Lutheran for the first true road contest on the schedule.

The final two home games of 2012 come on Dec. 7 (UC Santa Cruz) and Dec. 15 (Buena Vista).

They will travel via plane for a road contest for the first time in three years when they play two games in Ohio. They will face Fransciscan on Dec. 17 then play Wooster on Dec. 19 to conclude their pre-Christmas schedule. It is the program's first ever trip to the Buckeye state.

Their final games of 2012 will be against Emerson (Dec. 29) and Bethany Lutheran (Dec. 30) at the annual CMS/Caltech Holiday Classic hosted by ClaremontMuddScripps.

Caltech's 2013 slate is exclusively against SCIAC opponents with the first game on Jan. 3 against La Verne at home. The Beavers first road contest during the second half of the schedule will be to defending conference regular season champion Occidental on Jan. 10.

First-year SCIAC member Chapman will host the Beavers on Jan. 24 before making their first trip to Braun Gym as a conference member on Feb. 14. That home game represents the final game at Braun Gym for senior Sarah Wright.