The 10 finalists for the 2023 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award were unveiled Thursday. The honor, which was first presented in 1998, is given annually to the top player in NCAA Division I women’s hockey. The finalists (in alphabetical order) are as follows: Pia Dukaric, Goaltender, Sophomore, Yale, Ljubljana, Slovenia Jennifer Gardiner, Forward, Senior, Ohio State, … Read more
A lot has changed in the landscape of the women’s NCAA ice hockey tournament over the past 18 or so months and it seemed prudent to try to have an explanation of everything all in one place. In December 2021, it was announced that the field would expand from eight teams to 11 for the … Read more
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
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
Ohio State, which won the WCHA tournament in overtime on Sunday, is one of four schools that will host regional sites in the Women’s National Collegiate ice hockey championship, beginning on Thursday (photo: Ohio State Athletics)
(1) Minnesota at St. Thomas The Gophers clinched their program’s 11th regular season title with a sweep of St. Thomas this weekend. On Friday, Taylor Heise reached 150 career points while leading Minnesota with two goals and two assists. Abigail Boreen added a goal and three assists to help the Gophers to a 7-1 win. … Read more
The NCAA Division I Competition Oversight Committee on Wednesday approved expanding the national women’s hockey brackets for the NCAA tournament. The bracket will expand from eight to 11 teams, but the Women’s Ice Hockey Committee has yet to decide whether the new bracket format will be implemented in 2022 or 2023. Once the committee makes … Read more
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
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
ERIE, Pa. – Daryl Watts banked a shot off a Northeastern defender from behind the net in overtime to give the Wisconsin Badgers back-to-back national championships and the sixth title in program history. Watts, who was responsible for the game-winner in three of Wisconsin’s four overtime wins this year, rose to the occasion yet … Read more
The USA Hockey Foundation announced Thursday that Northeastern senior goalie Aerin Frankel, Wisconsin senior forward Daryl Watts and Minnesota senior forward Grace Zumwinkle have been named as the three finalists for the 2021 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award.
ERIE, Pa. – Ohio State advanced to their second-ever Frozen Four with a 3-1 victory over Boston college on Tuesday evening. The Buckeyes came from behind to score three unanswered goals in a dominant second and third period where they out-shot Boston College 43-8. It will be their second trip to the Frozen Four in … Read more
ERIE, Pa. – Minnesota Duluth advanced to their first Frozen Four in 11 years thanks to an overtime goal from captain Ashton Bell to give them a 1-0 win over Colgate in the NCAA quarterfinal Monday night. In addition, it was UMD coach Maura Crowell’s 100th win at the school and her first-ever NCAA win … Read more
ERIE, Pa. – The top-seeded Northeastern Huskies extended their unbeaten streak to 21 games with a 5-1 win over Robert Morris in the NCAA quarterfinal Monday afternoon. It’s the first time in program history that the Huskies have advanced to the Frozen Four. “I thought we executed. We were pretty solid defensively. (This was) a … Read more
The USA Hockey Foundation on Thursday announced the 10 finalists for the 2021 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award.
The honor, which began in 1998, is presented annually to the top player in NCAA Division I women’s hockey.
ESPN will present all three games of the 2021 women’s Frozen Four as part of its inaugural coverage of the NCAA tournament from the Erie Insurance Arena in Erie, Pa., beginning March 18.
Due to the unique circumstances brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, the NCAA Division I Competition Oversight Committee approved consolidating the NCAA Division I bowling, women’s volleyball and women’s hockey national championships to one location each in the spring of 2021.
The NCAA on Wednesday announced regional and Frozen Four locations for men’s national hockey tournaments from 2022 through 2026.