Nicole Haase
Mercyhurst forward Vanessa Upson is the 2020-21 USCHO Rookie of the Year. There is usually a period of adjustment for freshman players as they adjust to a new team and the pace of play in the college game. Additionally, no one would have been surprised or faulted the players if this season’s rookie class took … Read more
Rensselaer junior defender Hannah Price was an outspoken advocate in her community long before she stepped on campus in Troy, N.Y. But with the transition to college and the pressures of being a student athlete, heading into her sophomore year, she hadn’t yet explored opportunities to give back in Troy. In the fall of 2020, … Read more
Jordan Keeley, a senior goaltender at St. Mary’s University, took a class her freshman year that she said altered the way she approaches her life Already a service-minded person with a number of volunteer experiences to her name by the time she arrived on campus, Dr. Scott Sorvaag’s Leadership introduction course rearranged the way Keeley … Read more
Ohio State senior defender Sophie Jaques is USCHO’s Player of the Year.
Minnesota forward Taylor Heise has been chosen as the 2022 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award winner. The honors were presented live on NHL Network on Saturday. The award, which is in its 25th year, is presented annually to the top player in NCAA Division I women’s hockey by the USA Hockey Foundation. Heise is the third … Read more
Just 298 days elapsed between Lexi Templeman, Emily Curlett and Raygan Kirk learning that Robert Morris was cutting their men’s and women’s hockey programs and the trio winning a national championship with Ohio State on Sunday. The three players were announced as transfer signings just two weeks after the shocking news at Robert Morris. Templeman, … Read more
University Park, Pa. — The Ohio State Buckeyes women’s hockey team won the first national championship in their program’s history with a 3-2 defeat of Minnesota Duluth on Sunday night. Paetyn Levis scored to earn her 11th point of the postseason and transfers Clair DeGeorge and Kenzie Hauswirth each lit the lamp to lead the … Read more
University Park, Pa — The top seeded Ohio State Buckeyes defeated the Yale Bulldogs 2-1 in the national semifinal on Friday night to advance to their first-ever NCAA title game. They will face fellow WCHA team Minnesota Duluth for the national championship at 4 pm Eastern on Sunday. The Bulldogs will be playing in their … Read more
University Park, Pa — Noami Rogge’s wrister with fewer than two minutes to go in the second overtime sent Minnesota Duluth to their first national title game since 2010 and their seventh in program history. McKenzie Hewett put pressure on Maddie Mills in the neutral zone as Mills tried to break out. Élizabeth Giguère picked up … Read more
Regional semifinal Quinnipiac vs. Syracuse The Bobcats earned their first NCAA tournament win in program history with a 4-0 defeat of Syracuse on Thursday. The two teams played a close battle for the first half of the game, but Quinnipiac began to pull away in the second. Taylor House opened the scoring, finding the back … Read more
Arlan: Hey Nicole! I hope you survived the weather over the weekend, including the rain, thunderstorms, ice, and snow that hit the Twin Cities during the WCHA Final Faceoff. Better that than the fatal tornados that hit Iowa, I guess. Anyway, there’s plenty to discuss. Let’s start with a mention of the final NEWHA Championship … Read more
ECAC Tournament Princeton vs. Yale Yale advanced to their first-ever ECAC championship game with a 3-1 win on Friday. Mia Coene scored right away in the first to put Princeton on the board first. It took more than a period for the Bulldogs to respond. When they did, it was a redirection from Emma Seitz … Read more
How it happened: The teams skated to a scoreless tie in the first. Ohio State had one unsuccessful power play and outshot the Gophers 12-9 through the first 20 minutes. In the second, a defensive breakdown at the blue line allowed Taylor Heise and Abigail Boreen to enter the zone with the puck. The Buckeye … Read more
MINNEAPOLIS — Ohio State used two goals in the span of three minutes in the second period to defeat Wisconsin and advance to their third-straight WCHA tournament title game. This will be the first time in nine years that Wisconsin does not make an appearance in the title game. It was a hard-fought, close game. … Read more
MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota women’s hockey team advanced to their 18th WCHA tournament championship with a decisive 5-1 win over Minnesota Duluth on Saturday afternoon. The Gophers scored 51 seconds into the game on their first shot as Catie Skaja put a pretty innocuous-looking shot on Chobak from her right side. The puck squeezed between … Read more
The NCAA Selection Show is at 9 pm eastern on ESPNews. Before then, we have to find out who receives the conference auto-bids and how the Pairwise will shake out. The CHA already completed their tournament last weekend. Syracuse took the title and is waiting to find out where they’ll play. The NEWHA tournament finishes … Read more
CHA RIT vs. Lindenwood The Tigers won just their second game of the season thanks to Abby Davies’ hat trick. After a scoreless first, RIT went up 2-0 thanks to goals from Davis and Lindsay Maloney. Gigi Pora cut the lead in half and the teams headed to the locker rooms for the final time … Read more
MADISON — Wisconsin’s top line – nicknamed the WOW line for the first initials of their last names – lived up to the moniker on Saturday afternoon. Casey O’Brien, Makenna Webster and Daryl Watts were responsible for nine of Wisconsin’s 15 points in the game. O’Brien led the team with two goals and three assists. … Read more
Note: This is a special, part two, Thursday edition of Wednesday Women. Check out yesterday’s part one where Nicole, Arlan and guest columnist Grant Salzano talk about Pairwise, the new NCAA tournament format and which teams are affected. Nicole: Ok, you two broke down the conference tournaments pretty well, so let’s lay it out. Who … Read more
Nicole: Happy postseason, women’s hockey friends! As we head into the first weekend of conference tournaments, we’ve asked a special guest to join the conversation this week. Grant Salzano writes about Boston College women’s hockey at BC Interruption and on Twitter at @Salzano14.