Time to get this started! Most of the squads were in action this past weekend, with the usual mix of rust-busting (and just rusty) performances and MIAs:
https://www.tfrrs.org/lists/2044.html
Not much to go on at this early point, but I'll note that the Harvard men are showing some solid early-season performances, and that reports of the demise of the Harvard women are decidedly premature.
More generally: Word is filtering to us here in NYC that some teams apparently are killin' it in recruiting. Nowadays a growing majority of recruits seems to be "locked in" by the end of the early-decision/early action period. My hometown Lions supposedly are stocking the larder, and word from Points North is that *top* preps are committing. (I suspect the same is true--truer!--at Penn and Princeton, but so far we're hearing only rumors.) This is just not your parents' Ivy League any more.
One feature seems very clear: On most or all teams, international athletes will be a more obvious presence. We've long seen Caribbean and Canadian athletes in the Ivy League, with a few from Europe and the Antipodes as well; those sources apparently will be more productive, and we'll see athletes from Asia and Latin America, as well.
This makes sense to me: The schools with great international name recognition, in particular, would be foolish not to trade on that. And even though the received idea of the "more mature foreign student" is probably overblown--we can think of internationals at Ivies who dissipated/disappeared--there probably is some truth to the stereotype.
So: a wonderful mix but, again, not your parents' Ivy League! High school performances that would have made someone a top Ivy recruit ten, or even five, years ago are ho-hum now.