Nicole Haase
The NCAA Championship Oversight Committee will convene November 10th to immediately reconsider the petition to expand the women’s hockey tournament from 8 to 12 teams for this season. According to UMD coach Maura Crowell, this comes as a response to the findings from the report published by Kaplan, Hecker and Fink (KHF) law offices last … Read more
Rensselaer coach Bryan Vines and graduate student Lauren Severson say their team is focused on the present and enjoying the fact that their team is finally able to return to the ice after 19 months passed between their final game in February 2020 and when they dropped the puck in September this year. But while … Read more
Nicole: Halloween may be over, but we’ve got a special treat this week as Gabriella Fundaro joins me as a Guest Contributor to Wednesday Women. Gabs writes about women’s college hockey at The Ice Garden and has been covering the sport for various outlets for 10 years. Gabs and I both wrote this week about … Read more
(1) Wisconsin at Minnesota State Makenna Webster scored on the power play five minutes into the game to give Wisconsin the lead. Brooke Bryant tied it up for Mankato midway through the frame to send the teams into the first intermission tied. Daryl Watts slotted one top shelf early in the third and that would … Read more
After videos went viral last March detailing the inferior weight room setup provided to the women’s basketball championship, NCAA president Mark Emmert commissioned an external gender equity review across all sports. Phase one of the report came out in early August and focused specifically on men’s and women’s basketball. Monday’s report was the second phase … Read more
(2) Ohio State at (1) Wisconsin The first series between these teams as the top two ranked squads in the country did not disappoint. On Saturday, the Buckeyes came out strong in the first and headed into the break with a 1-0 lead thanks to a snipe from Gabby Rosenthal. The Badgers picked it up … Read more
MADISON — The battle of the top two teams in the country went to Wisconsin as they defeated Ohio State 2-1 in overtime on Saturday for their second win of the weekend. The Buckeyes do get an extra point in conference standings for taking the game to OT. In a game with a number of … Read more
Nicole: Welcome back for another women’s college hockey season! Arlan and I are back to volley questions back and forth and share some insight into what we’ve seen so far this season. It’s been an interesting start, to say the least. I definitely felt more lost than normal when I was compiling season previews this … Read more
(1) Wisconsin at (7) Minnesota Duluth The Badger power play was working well on Friday as Makenna Webster scored in the opening seconds of the player advantage two different times in the game. She opened the scoring midway through the first. Maddi Wheeler doubled the lead and Webster made it a 3-0 win with seconds … Read more
St. Cloud State at (1) Wisconsin It took the Badgers 38 minutes to light the lamp on Saturday, but then the flood gates opened. Maddi Wheeler scored what would prove to be the game-winner at the end of the second. Daryl Watts and Sophie Shirley each scored twice in the third and Sarah Wozniewicz added … Read more
MADISON — The Wisconsin women’s hockey team closed out their home opening weekend with a 6-1 win over St. Cloud State. Daryl Watts opened the scoring for the Badgers as she came around from behind the net, gathered the puck along the boards and carried it into the slot, where she put the puck five-hole … Read more
Each coach and program have different criteria for what they look for on the recruiting trail. Sure, everyone is looking for talent on the ice, but there’s so much more that goes into a player’s makeup. There are players every program wants, but for up-and-coming teams that may not be able to land those recruits, … Read more
(1) Wisconsin at Merrimack Sarah Wozniewicz’s first collegiate goal proved to be the game-winner on Friday afternoon. Casey O’Brien scored twice, to give her eight goals on the year, Daryl Watts added three assists and Makenna Webster had a goal and two assists to lead Wisconsin to a 4-0 win. On Saturday, O’Brien, Webster, Watts … Read more
The turmoil of conference restructuring in men’s college hockey largely has not affected the women’s game over the past ten years or so. And while operationally, the shuttering of the men’s WCHA this summer didn’t much change things for the WCHA women, it signaled the end of one era of the league and an interesting opportunity for the future.
(1) Wisconsin at Lindenwood Casey O’Brien and Maddi Wheeler each scored twice and Daryl Watts added a goal and three assists to lead the Badgers to a 8-1 win in their season opener. Katie Kotlowski scored her first career goal in the win. Megan Wagner was the goal-scorer for the Lions. On Saturday, O’Brien scored … Read more
It sure feels like this is Northeastern’s conference to lose and everyone else is just going to try and keep up. The Huskies had control from start to finish last season and they return all but one player from that squad. They have more experience, more confidence and more drive to win that final game … Read more
With four of the top five teams in the country, the members of this conference are set to beat each other up for the next few months. Every one of these teams can and will beat each other on any given day and their records will reflect that.
Only four ECAC teams competed in the abbreviated season last year, so there is a lot of unknown in the conference to start this season. Many of the squads have two years – half the roster – of new players to acclimate. There are some very intriguing rookies that seem to be a bit under … Read more
It’s very difficult to try and parse the small bits of info gathered through fits and starts last season to prognosticate what might shake down in this conference this season. Most of the rosters have had significant turnover since the abrupt end of the 2019-20 season and no one knows how the time off will … Read more
Robert Morris cut their men’s and women’s hockey programs with little notice and many of the women’s team players have signed elsewhere. The Colonials won the CHA conference tournament and advanced to the NCAA Tournament where they lost to Northeastern in the opening round. There is an ongoing fight to reinstate the teams, but I’m … Read more