The University of Wisconsin athletic board met Friday afternoon and approved contract extensions for both hockey coaches. Wisconsin men’s hockey coach Tony Granato’s five-year agreement was extended through June 30, 2027, while UW women’s hockey coach Mark Johnson’s five-year agreement was also extended through June 30, 2027. This past season, the Badgers’ men’s team went … Read more
Stonehill College has accepted an invitation from the Northeast Conference and will begin a transition to offer NCAA Division I athletics starting with the 2022-23 academic year. Stonehill, a charter member of the Northeast-10 Conference, currently offers 22 varsity intercollegiate athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level, with its 23rd program, women’s hockey, set … Read more
Sixteen different programs are represented on the All-USCHO Women’s Division I teams this year. Northeastern and Wisconsin lead the way, each placing three players on our lists. Ohio State, Minnesota, Minnesota Duluth and Yale each had two players honored. First Team F: Gabbie Hughes, Sr – Minnesota Duluth F: Taylor Heise, Sr – Minnesota F: … Read more
For their outstanding performances throughout the postseason, three WCHA players have swept the Hockey Commissioners Association national player of the month awards for March. Ohio State’s Sophie Jaques has earned national player of the month honors, while Minnesota Duluth’s Emma Soderberg is goaltender of the month, and Minnesota’s Ella Huber has been named national rookie … Read more
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
Congratulations to this year’s USCHO Coach of the Year, Nadine Muzerall.
Ohio State senior defender Sophie Jaques is USCHO’s Player of the Year.
So many college student-athletes thrive off the highly-regimented routines that come with the territory. When they have a lot of free time, they suddenly risk being unproductive. Minnesota Duluth senior forward Gabbie Hughes doesn’t have that problem. One of UMD’s two finalists for the Patty Kazmaier Award, given to the country’s top women’s college hockey … 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
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
Syracuse women’s hockey head coach Paul Flanagan has announced his retirement after 23 seasons as a head coach and 38 years in the sport as a player and coach in the collegiate ranks. The only head coach in Syracuse hockey history, Flanagan built the Orange program from the start. A four-time CHA coach of the … Read more
The top 13 women’s hockey players in the nation have been recognized as 2021-22 CCM/AHCA women’s Division I All-Americans. First Team G: Aerin Frankel, GR, Northeastern D: Skylar Fontaine, GR, Northeastern D: Sophie Jaques, SR, Ohio State F: Taylor Heise, SR, Minnesota F: Gabbie Hughes, SR, Minnesota Duluth F: Theresa Schafzahl, SR, Vermont F: Daryl … Read more
For leading his team to the NCAA semifinals in a record-setting year, Yale’s Mark Bolding has been chosen CCM/AHCA women’s Division I coach of the year. This is the first such honor at the Division I Level for Bolding, a four-time coach of the year as a Division III head coach. Bolding was named Yale’s … 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
For just the third time in league history, the WCHA is home to the three finalists for the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award. The USA Hockey Foundation announced Thursday that Taylor Heise (Minnesota), Gabbie Hughes (Minnesota Duluth), and Sophie Jaques (Ohio State) have been named the three finalists for the 2022 award. Through 39 games played, … 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
The Women’s Hockey Commissioners Association announced Wednesday the three finalists for the Women’s Hockey Goalie of the Year award in Northeastern’s Aerin Frankel, St. Lawrence’s Lucy Morgan, and Quinnipiac’s Corinne Schroeder. Frankel and Schroeder are fifth-year students while Morgan is a junior. Schroeder and Frankel are still playing as Quinnipiac takes on Syracuse on Wednesday … Read more