Our lovely season known as Women’s D-III Hockey has come to an end. The All-American awards for East/West have been announced, now, we’ll announce this year’s USCHO awards! This was one of the best, if not the best season to date for women’s D-III hockey in terms of seeing an undefeated 31-0-0 UW-River Falls winning … Read more
Sorry for the delay on this, but we’ll be taking a look at how we got here and what’s to come. It’s playoff time for Women’s D-III hockey and the east playoffs are underway! CCC Endicott really took control of things this season, finding themselves back atop the CCC after Suffolk won it for the … Read more
Nazareth clinches the UCHC again This was supposed to be the year of the Pioneer (appreciate the rhyme) in the UCHC, but the young squad in Nazareth has done it again, winning the UCHC for the third-straight season, Chris Baudo continues to win, now with a record of 111-25-7 (via USCHO). With their pair of … Read more
This past week we saw more upsets (shocker), some close games, and we look ahead to a notable birthday this weekend at the Playland Ice Casino. Here’s your week 15 east recap highlighting a few notable events! Wesleyan’s sweeps #6 Wesleyan (11-6-3) have clearly found their stride as of late. In their last six … Read more
We entered week 4 with some intriguing matchups on the eastern front, all in anticipation of the massive Thanksgiving tournaments in the crosshairs. We also finally got to see the late-blooming NESCAC begin its season this past weekend, the deepest conference in women’s D3 hockey. Now we’re finally in the thick of things, NESCAC play … Read more
Week 4 out East brought us some surprises no doubt, but it seemed like nothing ranked-team wise was affected as the polls stayed relatively the same from last week. However, we had some matchups I said to keep an eye on, which turned out to be great ones, along with some other conference-play action! CCC … Read more
Here’s a new semi-weekly column of my weekend game picks for certain games. I had to take a play from Tim Costello‘s playbook once again, bringing it to the Women’s D-III side of things! Overall record 0-0 Friday: Oswego at Morrisville I think this game will be closer than some expect. Oswego enters with a … Read more
The UCHC has announced its 2022-23 women’s award winners and all-conference teams. The awards were selected through an all-encompassing survey of the league’s 11 head coaches. Utica senior Erica Sloan was named the 2022-23 UCHC player of the year. Sloan leads all UCHC players in scoring with 45 points on 24 goals and 21 assists … Read more
This week we’re taking a look at the tournaments that have begun thus far and also taking a look at this current week as some conferences began their tournaments yesterday (Wednesday 2/22). Exciting times as the playoffs are officially underway with more action coming this weekend! We also highlight the regular-season winners from each conference. … Read more
We’re getting closer and closer to playoff time! This weekend marks the start of various conference tournaments while some begin next weekend, but we’ve made it. It seems once the first semester break ends, the regular season goes extremely quick and before you know it, it’s over. We look back at this past weekend where … Read more
Coming off another weekend of women’s hockey out east we saw an upset occur ending a huge streak in the UCHC. Also, we see another relatively newly established team eying their first ever conference title in the CCC. Meanwhile, Cortland has been busy winning games after some wrote them off. Manhattanville pulls off a Valiant … Read more
We welcomed back with open arms our first full week of D-III Women’s hockey out east since the winter break. Much has occurred since, for the good and for the bad. Some teams are on winning streaks and players reaching personal/program milestones, but most importantly, many associated with the Manhattanville Hockey & Athletics program are … Read more
Merry Christmas everyone! Today, we look back on the first semester of play from the east as we await the start of the second-half of the season in late December on New Year’s Eve. Many teams and players had successful first halves from the eastern half of women’s hockey, but these are the main ones … Read more
This past weekend on the eastern front of hockey, we saw Bowdoin pull off a big upset during the annual Codfish Bowl tournament hosted this year by UMass-Boston. We saw Oswego continue their recent momentum, while also revisiting the Cardinal/Panther Classic from the east perspective. Bowdoin takes down #5 This year’s Codfish Bowl hosted by … Read more
Happy Thanksgiving to all those who celebrate. Another week of D-III Women’s hockey has wrapped up on the eastern front and we’re moving into an exciting time of the season, holiday tournaments and NESCAC play finally beginning. We saw some teams get some big wins this week and reality is now showing itself more and … 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
The UCHC women’s conference announced Tuesday its 2021-22 award winners. Player of the Year: Georgiana Santullo, Utica Rookie of the Year: Ally Nolan, Chatham Goaltender of the Year: Angela Hawthorne, Utica Defensive Player of the Year: Morgan Miller, Manhattanville Coach of the Year: Chris Baudo, Nazareth First Team All-UCHC Forward: Georgiana Santullo, Utica Forward: Erica … Read more
The UCHC announced Thursday the results of its 2021-22 women’s preseason coaches poll. The poll is voted on by all 11 league coaches with Nazareth selected as the top team in the conference at the start of the 2021-22 season. Nazareth was a near-unanimous selection, as the Golden Flyers are attempting to win their first … Read more
The UCHC announced Tuesday its intent to resume conference play in men’s and women’s hockey with Feb. 19, 2021 as the revised tentative start date, provided that it is safe to conduct athletic activity at that time based on local, state and federal guidelines. The league continues to support the NCAA guidelines for the resocialization … Read more
Manhattanville announced Thursday that David Turco has been hired as the fourth head coach in Valiant men’s hockey program history (photo: Manhattanville Athletics).