Women’s D-III in general
Mike Carroll of Gustavus Adolphus returned the Gusties to the NCAA tournament after a strong regular season, and almost to the NCAA championship. He has been named our USCHO Women’s D-III coach of the year.
She obliterated record after record in her career, and her senior season was her best yet. She led her team to the national championship game, where the Bulldogs were 20 seconds from capturing the title. Kristin Lewicki is USCHO’s player of the year.
Castleton announced Monday that DJ Fimiani has submitted his resignation as the head coach of the Spartan women’s hockey program. The Spartans posted an 8-14-4 record during the 2016-17 season, including a 7-8-2 in the NEHC, qualifying for the conference tournament in Fimiani’s only season behind the bench. According to a school-issued press release, a … Read more
More than half of the 24 players honored as 2017 CCM Division III women’s All-Americans will compete in the NCAA championship in Adrian, Mich., this weekend. Host Adrian and top-ranked Plattsburgh lead the way with five selections each. Semifinalists Norwich (two) and Gustavus Adolphus (one) bring the total to 13 still competing. First Team – … Read more
Dani Sibley, a senior forward from Wisconsin-River Falls and the leading scorer in NCAA Division III women’s hockey, is the recipient of the 2017 Laura Hurd Award. The award, voted on by the nation’s Division III head coaches, is presented to the best player at the NCAA women’s Division III level. A native of Monticello, … Read more
Chad Davis of Adrian has been named CCM/AHCA Division III women’s Coach of the Year for 2016-17. Currently in his sixth season at the helm of the Bulldogs, Davis brings an 18-game winning streak into Friday night’s NCAA semifinal against Gustavus Adolphus. The Bulldogs were 27-2-0 on the year with both losses dealt by Plattsburgh, … Read more
One side of the Division III bracket features three-time defending champions Plattsburgh facing off against a Norwich squad that’s making its third appearance at the final weekend in the past four seasons. The other semifinal features an Adrian Bulldogs squad that’s never reached the semifinals against a Gustavus Adolphus squad that was the last team … Read more
Wisconsin River-Falls senior Dani Sibley recalled a season earlier in her career where the players were nervous about getting a bid despite coach Joe Cranston assuring them they didn’t have to worry. The players were nervous and then they were the last team named during the show, prolonging the agony that much longer. None of … Read more
Wisconsin-River Falls earned the Pool B spot, while Elmira and Gustavus Adolphus got into the eight-team tournament without winning their conference title.
The Division III women’s tournament selection show takes place Monday morning, March 6, at 10 a.m. EST. The final public regional rankings came out on Tuesday. One more set of regional rankings will happen on March 5, but those will not be released to the public. We’ve got the final set of conference tournament games … Read more
Hamilton senior forward Katie Parkman has been selected by the conference coaches as the 2017 NESCAC women’s Player of the Year. In 16 conference games this season, Parkman tallied 17 points and led the league in assists (12) and power-play points (1-7-8). She also accounted for 25 percent of the scoring for the Continentals during … Read more
The third Division III women’s hockey regional rankings were released Tuesday. East Plattsburgh Middlebury Norwich Elmira Endicott Utica West Adrian Wisconsin-River Falls Gustavus Adolphus Augsburg Wisconsin-Eau Claire Lake Forest
Teams head into the first round of conference tournaments this weekend. As each conference has a different format, here’s a breakdown of each conference and how their first-round matchups shake out. Colonial No. 1 seed Endicott (21-3-1, 11-1-0) and No. 2 seed Morrisville State (18-6-1, 8-4-0) earn byes to the semifinals, which will be held … Read more
The second Division III women’s hockey regional rankings were released Monday. East Plattsburgh Middlebury Norwich Elmira Endicott Connecticut College West Wisconsin-River Falls Adrian Gustavus Adolphus Lake Forest Wisconsin-Eau Claire Augsburg
Starting Feb. 20, members of the greater amateur hockey community will come together to raise funds for Hockey Coaches Care by raffling off a 2016 Ryder Cup hockey jersey. This raffle will be a unique opportunity to highlight the many people HCC assists while raising funds to support HCC’s important mission. The Ryder Cup jersey … Read more
The first Division III women’s hockey regional rankings were released this week. East 1. Plattsburgh 2. Middlebury 3. Norwich 4. Elmira 5. Oswego 6. Endicott West 1. Wisconsin-River Falls 2. Adrian 3. Gustavus Adolphus 4. Lake Forest 5. Augsburg 6. St. Scholastica
It’s been an up and down season for the Oswego State Lakers. Currently ranked no. 10 in the country, they’re the only squad to have beaten No. 1 Plattsburgh, a feat they accomplished on the road. But they’ve also stumbled, especially coming out of the winter break, said coach Diane Dillon. Some of the inconsistency … Read more
With nine new faces on the Augsburg roster, it wasn’t exactly clear how the season would go. The Auggies have been gradually building and improving their program and the results have shown with improved records nearly every year of coach Michelle McAteer’s tenure. Every coach says it’s difficult to know how freshmen will assimilate and … Read more
Amherst coach Jeffrey Matthews and his staff take a unique and interesting approach to coaching. His players are student-athletes and he sees the coaching staff as an extension of the academic tradition at Amherst — another branch on the educational tree, so to speak. That educator-first mindset is the basis of the culture of … Read more
The NEHC announced Wednesday the addition of Johnson and Wales, Suffolk and Salem State as league members, effective for the 2018-19 season. Johnson and Wales and Suffolk will compete in both the men’s and women’s division, while Salem State will compete in the women’s division only. “I am pleased to welcome these programs to the … Read more