It’s hard to believe, but there are only about six weeks left in the regular season as the teams start looking to play there best hockey down the stretch. No doubt the holiday hangovers have to be quickly swept aside and the focus needs to be there each game with some pivotal match-ups in league … Read more
Happy New Year! 2006 is starting out with a flourish as teams get back to the ice and look to work off some indulgences taken over the holiday break. For some squads, the holiday season represented a chance to flex some muscle in some classic seasonal tournaments. While for other teams, the break represented a … Read more
“It’s the most wonderful time of the year…” Really, it is! The holidays are upon us (reminder to self–only 9 shopping days left out there) and for many teams there is a lot to be celebratory about in the first half of the season. For others the stockings are a bit mixed on the present … Read more
Just about a month into the season and already some interesting races are starting to heat up in each of the three divisions. Finishing the first half of the season on a high note will be important as teams look to build up positive momentum prior to breaking for the holidays. Let’s take a look … Read more
Castleton State 3 St. Anselm’s 3 Wesleyan 6 Trinity 3 Fitchburg State 5 UMass-Dartmouth 4 Castleton State 2 Plymouth State 1 Colby 5 Nichols 4 Plymouth State 5 St. Anselm’s 4 Salem State 1 Norwich 1 Curry 4 Fitchburg State 3 For many scoreboard watchers, the beginning of the season has provided some major WOWs … Read more
Sawsadee! Greetings from Bangkok, Thailand. Seriously, this week’s column originates from Southeast Asia–not necessarily the hotbed of D-III hockey! They do have one ice arena here in Thailand and the No. 128 ranked team in the world so maybe someday we might see a player come out of this part of the world and play … Read more
Chris Lerch takes a look at the top 15 teams in the USCHO.com preseason poll in the first half of his 2005-06 D-III season previews.
Middlebury’s seventh title took the efforts of the classes of ’05 and ’08.
Freshman Phenom With Middlebury freshman Mickey Gilchrist scoring his twenty-first goal of the season in the first period tonight, he has exceeded all-rookie goal scorers at Middlebury going back to records kept from the 64-65 season. The twenty-one goals beats the previous mark of twenty held by Marc Alcindor in 1989 in his rookie campaign … Read more
For fifteen years he has been the voice of Middlebury hockey, first in the old Duke Nelson Arena and now in the spacious confines of the Chip Kenyon ’85 Arena. Yet for many, who have enjoyed the smooth delivery and timely information delivered over the PA system to excite the partisan home crowd, the voice … Read more
Central [nl]Vermont may seem like an unlikely source for proven hockey players, but that is certainly not the case considering Middlebury has two such members leading them into championship weekend. Captain Brian Phinney and alternate captain Levi Doria both hail from nearby Ripton, Vt., just over eight miles southeast of Middlebury. Phinney and Doria have … Read more
For D-I programs looking to find the extra edge in their team’s performance, an investment in today’s high-tech digital video system is a must-have item in looking for ways to improve positioning and game analysis. For D-III programs, the needs are the same but the technology is new to many and now affordable for most. … Read more
Freshman Ross Cherry and Sophomore Scott Gray started the season as backups for Middlebury and New England College, but have been huge in net for both teams down the stretch.
Middlebury has more experience than anyone in hosting the D-III tournament, and that pays off as the college extends its hospitality for the fourth time since 1995.
The NCAA has crowned three national champions in Division III women’s hockey. The Elmira Soaring Eagles captured the first two titles in the program’s first two years in existence. Last year, the Middlebury Panthers ascended to the summit, knocking out Elmira along the way in the quarterfinals. This weekend, the Soaring Eagles and the Panthers … Read more
This February, USCHO will be presenting its first live Internet broadcasts of Division III Women’s Hockey. The USCHO Game of the Week schedule has added the Sunday Feb. 20 doubleheader hosted by Williams College. Headlining the action is a 1 p.m. EST showdown between No. 1 Middlebury and No. 3 Elmira, the two programs that … Read more
Last season’s national runner-up, St. Norbert, and a team that narrowly missed the NCAA playoffs, St. John’s, each placed three players on the men’s preseason D-III All-USCHO team as announced Monday by USCHO.com. St. Norbert first-team All-Americans Jason Deitsch and Ryan Tew were selected for the All-USCHO first team, with second-team All-American Spencer Carburry joining … Read more
Not all of them knew if they would make Middlebury as freshmen. In their senior year, the road to the championship had a few bumps.
Princeton University’s search for a new head coach continues, as athletic director Gary Walters interviewed several more candidates this week, USCHO has learned.
Middlebury’s Bill Beaney has been named the winner of the 2004 Edward Jeremiah Award, given annually to the Divison III Men’s Ice Hockey Coach of the Year. It is a record-tying third Jeremiah Award for Beaney, who also received the honor in 1990 and 1995. Beaney Beaney took a one-year sabbatical in 2002-03 to spend … Read more