Dubuque has announced Erin Connolly as the new women’s hockey coach for the Spartans. Connolly becomes the university’s second coach in the school’s history. Most recently, she spent five seasons as an assistant coach for the nationally-ranked UW-Eau Claire women’s hockey team (overall 87-26-2, 36-9-1 in conference play). She served the team as its goalie … Read more
Matt Walton has been named the fourth head coach of the Marian women’s hockey team. Walton spent last season on the bench for the Sabres women’s hockey team as an assistant coach. “Marian University athletics is excited to name Matt Walton as the next head coach of our women’s ice hockey program,” said Marian director … Read more
Greg Moore has been named the Lawrence women’s hockey head coach. Moore takes the reins from Kevin Dessart, who coached the Vikings for the past two seasons. Dessart is now the associate head coach at Vermont. Julia Dessart, who was already serving as the team’s assistant coach, will be a part of Moore’s staff. “I … Read more
It has been nearly three years since Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) announced a plan to add women’s hockey and subsequently named a head coach who was expected to launch the program. Expectations and excitement were high, but more time passed and the team seemed no closer to taking the ice. Then, last October, MSOE … Read more
Alex Mandolidis has been named an assistant coach for the Marian men’s hockey team. “I’m grateful to have worked with so many talented players and coaches over the last 15-plus years and help players advance to the next level ranging from the CJHL to the NHL,” said Mandolidis in a statement. “My wife and I … Read more
Adrian has announced the hiring of Chad Davis as the head coach of the women’s hockey team. Davis will return to Adrian for his second stint as head coach. Overall, Davis has compiled a career coaching record of 193-80-21. “We are excited to have Coach Davis return to Adrian College as he brings in a … Read more
Shawn Skelly has been named an assistant coach with the Union women’s hockey team. Skelly comes to Union after serving six seasons as the head women’s hockey coach at Adrian. “Shawn and I have been friends with one another for over a decade and I’m extremely excited to have Shawn join our program,” said Union … Read more
Lawrence women’s hockey coach Kevin Dessart is climbing up to the NCAA Division I level. Dessart, who took the reins of Lawrence’s program in June 2022, has been hired as the associate head coach at Vermont, taking over for Alex Gettens, who departed for Colgate earlier in August. “I am extremely excited to become the … Read more
Adrian women’s hockey coach Shawn Skelly resigned on Wednesday morning. After serving six seasons with the Bulldogs, Skelly has decided to move on to pursue a NCAA Division I coaching opportunity. During his time as head coach, the Bulldogs won six NCHA regular-season championships and five NCHA Slaats Cup titles. He compiled a career record … Read more
Lake Forest women’s hockey coach Jennifer Wilson announced Thursday that she will be resigning to accept an opportunity as an NCAA Division I assistant at an unnamed school. Wilson has coached the Foresters for six seasons and compiled an overall record of 77-57-10 and an NCHA mark of 56-25-7. Lake Forest qualified for the NCHA … Read more
St. Norbert’s men’s and women’s hockey programs will have new locker room space and amenities as part of a rink addition at the Cornerstone Community Center in De Pere, Wis. The Green Knights will have dedicated locker rooms, athletic training and coaching and support staff space as part of the new rink, which is scheduled … Read more
Aurora has announced the appointment of Mandy Montgomery as women’s ice hockey coach. Montgomery comes to Aurora experience as both a coach and student-athlete at the Division I and III levels, most recently as an assistant coach at Elmira College and before that an assistant coach at SUNY Canton. With Montgomery on the bench at … Read more
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
We’re in River Falls, Wisconsin at Hunt Arena for the 2024 Women’s D-III Frozen Four. Undefeated River Falls looks to go perfect and end the year 31-0-0 with a pair of wins at home. The semifinals are on Friday, March 14 and the National Championship is Sunday, March 16. #10 Elmira (22-7-1) vs #6 Middlebury … Read more
We’ve gotten down to four teams remaining who’ll travel to River Falls, WI for the Women’s D-III Frozen Four this Friday & Sunday (3/15 & 3/17/24). We’ve got: Elmira (22-7-1) vs Middlebury (18-6-4) Adrian (28-2-0) vs UW-River Falls (29-0-0) First, we must recap the weekend which featured four quarterfinal matchups which featured a pair of … Read more
Wisconsin-Superior has announced that Dan Laughlin, one of the longest-tenured coaches in NCAA Division III women’s hockey, is retiring. “Coach Laughlin has been the backbone of our women’s hockey program for the past two decades. His legacy leading the program extends well beyond the awards, accolades and championships,” said UW-Superior athletics director Nick Bursik in … Read more
Conference championship weekend is upon us, we’ll get to see what the west has in store for us, will we see upsets? There’re a few intriguing matchups on deck that could shake up things quite a bit. We’ll look at this past weekend and what we have ahead to watch out for this weekend. MIAC … Read more
Where has the season gone? For most coaches, the season probably seemed to take forever at times depending on their respective team’s performance, but for fans, the season seems to have flown by once again. We’ve entered the conference playoffs and are set for another great late February/March string of games! MIAC The defending national … Read more
#1 UW-River Falls remains undefeated, beating rival #6 UW-Eau Claire 4-3 in OT UW-River Falls has been unstoppable this season, watching the game, the broadcaster mentioned when Eau Claire went up 1-0. It was only the second time River Falls trailed all season at any point in a game, the only other time was to … Read more
This past weekend out west was a fun one as we wrap things up in the regular season. We had a huge series out on Adrian to essentially determine the NCHA regular-season champion, determining home-ice for the playoffs. We also saw Gustavus and Hamline go at it in the MIAC, another pair of teams looking … Read more