Derek Dunning

Two weeks of the Division III women’s hockey season are already in the books for some schools and once again RIT is off to a fast start in 2011-12. The Tigers unofficially won the East/West Hockey Classic for the second straight year, besting Manhattanville and Norwich and then kept rolling this past weekend with two … Read more

The D-III women’s season opens up with a bang in just under an hour as No. 8 Manhattanville and No. 2 R.I.T. collide in the first game of the 2011 East/West Hockey Classic at Norwich’s Kreitzberg Arena. But before I get to the picks for this weekend’s matchups, it’s time to publicly announce that the … Read more

The 2011 NCAA Division III Women’s Ice Hockey National Champion Norwich University Cadets will be featured on national television Saturday April 30. The Cadets’ memorable run to their first national championship in just the program’s fourth season was one of the stories chosen to feature in CBS Sports’ annual NCAA Championships Winter Highlights show which … Read more

What a difference a year makes. One year ago, Norwich lost, 7-2, to Amherst in the national championship game. On Saturday night, the Norwich women’s ice hockey team came full circle in just its fourth year as a varsity program to win its first national championship with a 5-2 win over top-ranked RIT at the … Read more

Let’s see how far we’ve come….. On Oct. 29, 2010 RIT and Norwich met at Kreitzberg Arena to open up each other’s respective seasons at Norwich’s inaugural East/West Hockey Classic. Little did we know at the the time that the Tigers’ 3-1 victory would be a prequel to the eventual 2011 NCAA Division III Women’s … Read more

After two periods of play, Norwich looked well on its way to cruising to an NCAA semifinal win over Gustavus Adolphus with a 5-1 lead heading into the second intermission. However, Gustavus Adolphus wasn’t done yet, as the Gusties came roaring back in the third period with three unanswered goals to cut the lead to … Read more

The American Hockey Coaches Association has released its five finalists for the 2011 Laura Hurd Award, given annually to the Division III Women’s Player of the Year. The award was named after former Elmira College ’05 standout and NCAA Division III career points leader Laura Hurd, who passed away in an automobile accident a year after graduating … Read more

Six days later, all seems right in the world. After the NCAA selection show last Monday set the D-III women’s hockey world off with how everything ended up shaking out, one week later we’re in the exact scenario we expected would happen and rightfully did happen. Today, the NCAA announced that RIT and the Frank Ritter Memorial … Read more