Saint Mary’s has announced the hiring of Heath Isaacson as the new women’s hockey head coach. Isaacson, who takes over for Chad Davis, who left for the Adrian head coaching job, comes to Saint Mary’s following an inaugural season as the head coach of the women’s hockey program at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts and … Read more
Marykate Drinkwater has been selected to lead the Rivier women’s hockey program. Drinkwater comes to Rivier after serving as a graduate assistant for the Western New England’s women’s hockey program, helping the team to a 17-8-3 overall record and the 2023-24 CCC postseason championship in only its third season of NCAA competition. “I am thrilled … Read more
Conference play is underway in D-III Women’s hockey and that means the fun has begun. We saw many close matchups this past weekend including a few upsets and first-ever victories for some programs. It’s also worth noting some teams, one, who has charged up the rankings as of late. This season will be over sooner … Read more
The women’s team competing for Team USA at the World University Games in Lake Placid January 11-22 is set. Coach Brandon Knight’s squad consists of 23 players. Thirteen are currently enrolled in college – 10 at the Division I level, three from Division III schools. The ten 2022 graduates on the roster are split evenly … Read more
This week was arguably the best week of D-III east women’s hockey yet. Featuring an upset of #11 Endicott at the hands of Western New England, more recently, #3 Plattsburgh holding off #9 Norwich 5-4 in OT on Tuesday 11/15, and Elmira got their fourth straight shutout in a weekend sweep of William Smith. We … Read more
Week one out east featured two coaches winning their first games as Division III head coaches. Kalie Grant, head coach of SUNY Canton and Jake Bobrowski, head coach of Elmira, both got the job done in their first games at the helm of their respective teams. There weren’t a ton of games played this weekend … Read more
D-III Women’s Hockey is finally back as we await the first puck drops of the opening season this Friday, October 28, 2022. We saw a huge leap in the overall competition within the top teams last season, closing the skill-gap further between the bottom-half and the top-half ranked teams. While the common group of top … Read more
This time of year always feels like it sneaks up on me, and never more so than when talking Division III hockey. We’re part way through the season and ready to head into the holiday break. While students finish up finals and you all finish your holiday preparation, here are the things I’m asking Santa … Read more
King’s College announced Tuesday that Jen Kindret has been named the head coach of the school’s new Division III women’s program that will take the ice in 2017-18. Kindret will begin her duties Aug. 15. The 27-year old Kindret comes to King’s after spending the last two years as a graduate assistant coach at Lindenwood. … Read more
Women’s D-III columnist Matt Mackinder has a quick look at each conference in women’s D-III.
The ECAC announced Thursday the formation of a new Division III women’s league – the ECAC North Atlantic Hockey League – that will begin play for the 2015-16 season. The league will be comprised of eight institutions that either currently compete independently or are starting a women’s program next year. Becker, Canton, Daniel Webster, Endicott, … Read more
Endicott College announced recently that beginning in the fall of 2015, the school is promoting both the men’s and women’s hockey teams to NCAA Division III varsity status. The school’s new rink, which will be a state-of-the-art facility with all of the amenities, is slated to open in the fall of 2015. The arena will … Read more
D.J. Fimiani has been named the first head coach in the history of Daniel Webster women’s hockey. Fimiani spent the last three seasons as an assistant coach for the men’s team at Salve Regina. Daniel Webster will launch for the 2014-15 season and build as an independent in the short term while preparing to seek … Read more
And the Division III college hockey world continues to grow. Daniel Webster College, located in Nashua, N.H., announced Wednesday that it will add women’s hockey for 2014-15 and will elevate it’s men’s ACHA program to varsity status, also for the ’14-15 season. Wrestling was also added to the school’s slate of new programs. “This is … Read more
Stevenson announced recently that Tracy Johnson, former interim head coach and assistant at Amherst, has been named the second head coach in program history, replacing Shera Vis, who was named an assistant coach at St. Cloud State. “Goals for this season are to continue to constantly develop and get better every single day, as well … Read more
Shera Fetter will be coaching alongside her husband, Jim Fetter, this season as the former Elmira women’s assistant is the new assistant at St. Cloud State, where Jim has been an assistant the past two seasons. “That’s probably the bonus [coaching with her husband], but she’s somebody that I interviewed before and with different circumstances, … Read more
The NCAA has released the third of three weekly Division III women’s hockey regional rankings. These are the last publicly released rankings prior to the selection of the tournament field. A similar process will be followed on selection Sunday, March 3, to determine seeding and at-large berths but those results will not be published. Undefeated teams … Read more
The NCAA has released the second of three weekly Division III women’s hockey regional rankings. A similar process will be followed on selection Sunday, March 3, to determine seeding and at-large berths but those results will not be published. Regional rankings will also be issued on Feb. 26. Undefeated teams remain atop each region. Plattsburgh … Read more
The NCAA has released the first of three weekly Division III women’s hockey regional rankings. A similar process will be followed on selection Sunday, March 3, to determine seeding and at-large berths but those results will not be published. Regional rankings will also be issued on Feb. 19 and 26. Undefeated teams lead each region. … Read more