Wisconsin-River Falls will shoot for its third straight NCAA Division III championship with a bye to the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament. The Falcons, champions of the WIAC, are one of 13 teams that make up this year’s D-III women’s tournament field, announced on Sunday night. Two other teams were awarded first-round byes and will … Read more
UMass Boston has announced the appointment of Beacons alum David Lun as the next head coach of the women’s hockey team. Lun returns to the harbor campus after serving as the head coach of the women’s hockey team at Salve Regina since Aug. 2020. Under his leadership, the Seahawks posted their first winning season since … Read more
Penn State has announced the hiring of Moe Bradley as an assistant coach for the women’s hockey team. Bradley will join fellow assistants Makenna Newkirk and Jennifer Wakefield to round out Jeff Kampersal’s staff ahead of the 2025-26 season. “We are delighted to welcome Moe to our Penn State hockey family. She is a dynamite … Read more
Norwich has announced the hiring of Shavonne Leacy as an assistant coach for the women’s hockey team. “Being able to welcome Shavonne to our program is an absolute slam dunk for both our players and staff,” Norwich head coach Justin Simpson said in a statement. “Shavonne has shown she is a program builder, relentless recruiter, … Read more
Norwich has announced the hiring of Justin Simpson as the third head coach in the history of the women’s hockey team. Simpson comes to Northfield after spending the last four seasons behind the bench at Brown, the first three as an assistant coach and the most recent campaign as the associate head coach. Under his … Read more
Norwich women’s hockey assistant coach Taylor Willard has stepped down from her post and accepted a position as an assistant at Delaware. Willard completed her fourth season at Norwich this past season. In each of her four seasons, she oversaw a defense that finished in the top 15 in Division III in goals-against average, never … Read more
Elmira has announced the addition of Jimmy Poreda as an assistant coach for the women’s hockey coaching staff ahead of the 2024-25 season. Poreda joins the team after playing in Finland, the SPHL, ECHL and AHL the last four years. “We’re extremely excited to welcome Jimmy to Elmira,” said Elmira head coach Greg Haney in … Read more
The Little East Conference has announced that the Norwich women’s hockey program will join the league as affiliate member for the LEC’s inaugural season in 2025-26. The addition of the Cadets increases the LEC’s future women’s hockey membership to eight schools. “On behalf of the Little East Conference presidents and athletic directors, I am pleased … Read more
Wisconsin-Superior has announced that Bre Simon has been named the new head coach of the Yellowjackets women’s hockey team. Simon becomes the sixth head coach in the program’s history, which dates back to 1998. She replaces Dan Laughlin, who retired in March after 21 years as head coach and 23 years with the program. “I … 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
According to published reports, former New England College women’s hockey players Sidney Capolino and Meghan Moore were tragically killed last Saturday night. Miami-Dade Police believe Luis Napoles, 40, shot the 25-year-old Moore, his girlfriend, outside her home before entering the apartment and shooting her roommate Capolino, 23. Police have not disclosed the motive. Napoles later … Read more
The UW-River Falls women’s hockey team defeated Elmira 4-1 Sunday afternoon on home ice at Hunt Arena to win the 2024 NCAA Division III women’s hockey national championship. The national title is the first in UWRF’s history during its 25th anniversary season, finishing with a 31-0-0 overall record, the most single season wins in NCAA … Read more
Time flies, here we are, the national championship game is officially here tomorrow, Sunday, March 17 at 3:00pm CST. UW-River Falls enters the game on home-ice a perfect 30-0-0, whilst Elmira enters 23-7-1 as they’ve been on a roll as of late after hitting some rough patches earlier in the season. This game will be … 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
It’s conference championship weekend, we’ve got some new faces in the mix, one conference giving us a first timer in the NCAA tournament since both have not been to the dance and they play for the conference title this weekend, you love to see it. We’ll recap briefly this past week and then look … 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
I’ve not been around the sport as long as some, but I believe I’ve been involved with it enough to say once again that we’re at the best point the sport [D-III Hockey] has ever been in terms of parity from what we’ve seen. Week-after-week, we continue to see upset-after-upset, something that wasn’t as common … Read more
We’re quickly approaching conference playoff time in D-III hockey and we had many good conference-play matchups this past week. We had some games moved back a day or two, mostly out west due to the winter storms wandering their way through, but here’s your east recap highlighting the main events from each league! CCC Western … Read more