USCHO.com’s Nicole Haase and Todd Milewski look back on RIT delivering a surprising result against No. 7 Colgate, Wisconsin and Ohio State coming out on top in big WCHA series and more. Then Boston University coach Tara Watchorn stops by for a visit about Hockey East, taking over at her alma mater and renovations at … Read more
(3) Minnesota Duluth at (1) Wisconsin Read Saturday’s recap here. On Sunday, the Badgers used the power of a three-goal second period to pull away from the Bulldogs and earn a weekend sweep. Lacey Eden opened the scoring, tapping home a loose puck after Tindra Holm made the initial save on an Emma Venusio shot … Read more
MADISON — The top-ranked Wisconsin women’s team survived their first tough test of the season, defeating (3) Minnesota Duluth in convincing fashion Saturday afternoon, skating away with a 5-1 win. The Bulldogs came into Saturday’s game with three wins over top 10 opponents already, including a sweep of then top-ranked Ohio State. They’d also won … Read more
Courtney Hall has been named an assistant coach with the Union women’s hockey team. Prior to Union, Hall played with the Robert Morris women’s hockey team in 2023-24 as a graduate student and played in 29 games for the Colonials while receiving her master’s degree in business administration and a certification in project management. Hall … Read more
A weekend of nonconference series between ranked teams produced a lot of splits and some memorable moments. Nicole Haase and Todd Milewski wrap it up on this week’s edition of the PodKaz, USCHO.com’s weekly look at NCAA women’s hockey. Then we look ahead at series that match the top four teams in the USCHO.com rankings: … Read more
(1) Wisconsin at Boston College On Friday, Casey O’Brien led the Badgers with two goals and two assists, Laila Edwards scored twice and Kelly Gorbatenko added four assists to power the Badgers to a 7-1 win over Boston College. Kirsten Simms, KK Harvey and Claire Enright also scored for Wisconsin. Abby Newhook ruined the shutout, … Read more
For the fourth time in its history, the NCAA conducted a comprehensive site selection process, putting most of its championships up for bid simultaneously. The association chose over 240 host sites for preliminary and final rounds of predetermined championships across Divisions I, II and III, primarily for the 2026-27 and 2027-28 seasons. This cycle marked … Read more
Nicole Haase and Todd Milewski welcome new WCHA commissioner Michelle McAteer to talk about taking over the women’s hockey conference during a time of change in college sports. Plus, we look back at results from the first two weeks of the season and look ahead to an upcoming weekend full of East-West matchups. The PodKaz is … Read more
(1) Ohio State at Bemidji State Freshman Jordyn Petrie scored twice, Emma Peschel had four assists and Makenna Webster added two goals and an assist to carry Ohio State to an 8-2 win. Hailey Armstrong scored short-handed and Isa Goettl scored her first collegiate goal to get Bemidji State on the board. In the second … Read more
The women’s hockey series between Minnesota Duluth and Syracuse scheduled for Sept. 28-29 at AMSOIL Arena in Duluth, Minn., has been postponed due to travel cancellations as the result of Hurricane Helene. The series will be made up at AMSOIL Arena on Jan. 2-3, 2025. Tickets for the previously scheduled Sept. 28 game will be … Read more
Last season’s conference tournament showed that quite literally anything can happen in this conference. That makes it difficult to predict how things might play out over the course of the season, but does mean that it should be an absolute blast to watch. Fifth-place Franklin Pierce nearly took the conference tournament crown after an amazing … Read more
Dartmouth has announced Tara Connolly and Sadie Peart have been named assistant coaches for the women’s hockey team. In addition, Rylie Dwyer is the program’s new director of operations. All three are new hires for new Big Green head coach Maura Crowell. “Thank you to Maura Crowell and athletic director Mike Harrity for the opportunity … Read more
The Odyssey Trust has unveiled plans to continue the Friendship Four and Friendship Series U.S. college hockey tournaments through 2026. Marking 10 years of NCAA hockey in Belfast, games are set to take place at the SSE Arena in Nov. 2025 and Jan. 2026. Founded by the Odyssey Trust and held in Belfast since 2015, … Read more
Long Island, the 2023-24 regular-season champion, has been selected as the preseason favorite to repeat, according to the NEWHA preseason poll in a vote by the NEWHA head coaches. “It’s exciting to get this kind of recognition going into the season,” said LIU coach Kelly Nash in a statement. “We have a lot of returners, … Read more
Wisconsin and Ohio State have faced off for the past two national titles with each team winning one. The two teams seem destined for a crash course of a rematch, but several ECAC teams as well as Minnesota right here in their own conference hope to have a say in the matter. The Buckeyes had … Read more
Connecticut won their first conference title last season and I see no reason to think they won’t repeat this year, particularly as they return their stellar goaltending tandem. If they can add some consistent scoring, they’ll be in the driver’s seat. That being said, this is probably one of the most wide open years for … Read more
Thanks to the pandemic, this is a particularly interesting year in the ECAC thanks to the presence of the Ivies, who basically have a double senior class. A number of schools graduated players who rewrote their program’s record books. Maybe more than any other conference, ECAC teams took to the portal to round out their … Read more
While there was always crossover and shared staff among the men’s Atlantic Hockey Conference and the women’s CHA, things were made much more official this year and the two have combined to be called Atlantic Hockey Association and thus the CHA is now the AHA. The conference will expand to seven teams next year as … Read more
USCHO’s Nicole Haase (@nicolehaase) and Todd Milewski (@ToddMilewski) are back to launch Season 2 of the PodKaz with a few quick items on all 44 teams before the 2024-25 season begins. Penn State, Colgate, UConn, Long Island and Ohio State are looking to defend conference regular-season championships, and the Buckeyes are going for their third … Read more
Tina Ciraulo has accepted an assistant coaching position with the Union women’s hockey team. Ciraulo had been working in the Detroit area with the USPHL’s Metro Jets in many roles since 2020. Most notably, she was the first woman to win a junior hockey game in which she was the head coach when on Nov. … Read more