Trinity College has announced the resignation of Andrew McPhee as head coach of the women’s team to become an assistant coach at Brown. Assistant coach Carson Duggan has been named interim head coach. McPhee was first an assistant coach for Trinity in 2001 and head coach for the last nine seasons. “We are extremely proud … Read more
Michaela Calnan, a 2011 Bowdoin graduate and a former two-sport athlete for the Polar Bears, has been chosen as one of the 30 nominees (and only hockey player) for the 2011 NCAA Woman of the Year Award. The NCAA Woman of the Year Award honors graduating student-athletes who have distinguished themselves throughout their collegiate careers … Read more
Amherst College has announced the hiring of Tracy Johnson as an assistant coach for the 2011-2012 season. A former defenseman at Boston College from 2006-2010, Johnson joins the Lord Jeffs after serving as an assistant coach at Arlington (Mass.) Catholic High School last year. “I am very excited to welcome Tracy to Amherst,” said Amherst … Read more
Meghan Gillis has been named coach of the Williams women’s program and will be the fourth leader in the last four seasons. Gillis, who spent the last two seasons at Pomfret (Conn.) School as an assistant director of admissions, head girls hockey coach, and assistant softball coach, succeeds interim coach Joey Lye. Lye was 4-17-1 … Read more
Defending national runner-up Norwich got a bye to the semifinals of the NCAA Division III women’s tournament when the bracket was revealed Monday. Adrian, Rochester Institute of Technology, Manhattanville, Middlebury, Gustavus Adolphus and Wisconsin-River Falls also made the seven-team field and will play quarterfinal games Friday, Saturday or Sunday. Get the full bracket at our … Read more
A record 25 players have been unveiled as the nominees for the 2011 BNY Mellon Wealth Management Hockey Humanitarian Award. The list includes returning nominees Sam Kuzyk of Adrian, Mario Mjelleli of Augsburg and Brigid O’Gorman of Connecticut College. Finalists will be announced in mid-February, with the award scheduled to be presented on Friday, April … Read more
The Amherst Lord Jeffs haven’t seen the friendly confines of Orr Rink in nearly two months for a game. They played their last home game on Nov. 20, which was the opening weekend of the season and resulted in a 5-0 win over Wesleyan. Over the last two months, coach Jim Plumer and his team … Read more
Due to the wintry weather conditions in New Haven, Conn., Wednesday night’s Yale-Brown women’s ice hockey game scheduled for 7 p.m. at Ingalls Rink has been postponed. The teams will play the game on Tuesday, Feb. 15 at 7:30 p.m. Also, Amherst’s women’s game against Utica was postponed. A make-up date has not been announced.
New Season, New Teams, New Tournament Adrian and Cortland officially kicked off the Division III women”s season last weekend with the Bulldogs shutting out the Red Dragons 5-0 in Cortland. However, this weekend things start to pick up with 21 games on tap, including St. Norbert and St. Scholastica’s inaugural games as well as the … Read more
Bowdoin is turning to a former Polar Bears player to lead its women’s hockey team. Marissa O’Neil has been named the team’s head coach, replacing Stacy Wilson, who stepped down in May. O’Neil helped the Polar Bears to a pair of NESCAC Championships and four NCAA Tournament appearances as a player from 2001 to 2005. … Read more
Cammi Granato, three-time ECAC Player of the Year, two-time Olympian and 15-year member of the U.S. Women’s National Team, was today announced as one of the first two female members in the 65-year history of the Hockey Hall of Fame. Granato will be formally inducted into the Hall on Nov. 8 as part of the … Read more
With the proposed change to the icing rule in mind, Dave Starman writes that too much tinkering with college hockey’s rules might alienate people more than it alleviates problems.
The rule proposal was released, the coaches were repulsed and that’s it, right? Wrong. Nothing is finished in the case of the controversial proposed change to the icing rule. Brian Sullivan reports on how we got to this point and what comes next.
The NCAA is getting tough on contact-to-the-head penalties and getting creative in an effort to promote scoring when it comes to other rules changes. Contact to the head will result in a major penalty and either a game misconduct or game disqualification under proposals by the NCAA Ice Hockey Rules Committee unveiled Friday. The proposals … Read more
The NCAA men’s and women’s ice hockey rules committee gets this chance only once every two years, so there’s a little more emphasis to get it right. In the next month, leading up to and through the committee’s meeting June 8-11 in Indianapolis, the dialogue about potential rules changes will lead to debate and then … Read more
Bowdoin women’s coach Stacy Wilson has resigned, the school announced. Wilson led the Polar Bears to .500 records in the final two of her three seasons with the team. Related link: Stacy Wilson coaching career “It has been a distinct privilege and a most fulfilling professional experience to have worked with the student-athletes and the … Read more
NCAA Tournament First Round Preview And then there were seven. Nineteen weeks of hard work and preparation paid off for seven teams this past Monday when they were selected to the 2010 NCAA Division III Women’s Ice Hockey Tournament. This year we have one new face in the crowd as Trinity makes its first NCAA … Read more
Making Strides The 2009-2010 Division III women’s hockey season is well underway and we have already had a couple of major surprises to start off the season. Adrian, a team picked to make some major noise in their first season as an official member of the NCHA, is off to a 0-4 start; dropping two … Read more
The NCAA announced Friday the final rosters for the 2008 Frozen Four Skills Challenge, which will be held April 11 at the Pepsi Center in Denver. For the East team, Will Engasser, Yale, Brad Flaishans, New Hampshire and David Leaderer, Massachusetts were all added to the roster. Meanwhile, Eric Ehn, Air Force, Nino Musitelli, Miami … Read more
Forgive the Green Knights of St. Norbert if they take a moment to reflect on their amazing accomplishment. Beginning over three months ago — on Nov. 10, a week after their only blemish of the season, a 4-2 loss to Gustavus Adolphus — they have gone 21 consecutive (17-0-4) games without a loss. After defeating … Read more