Women’s D-III in general
Mallory Young has spent eight years with the Colby women’s team as a player and an assistant coach and on Wednesday, was named interim head coach for the 2013-14 season. Young, a 2005 Colby graduate, takes over the team after former head coach David Venditti left to take the head women’s position at the University … Read more
The MIAC has announced several changes that will take effect starting with the 2013-14 season in both its men’s and women’s ranks. The MIAC men will be the first conference in NCAA Division III to adopt the shootout for conference games. In addition, the MIAC men’s standings will change to a three-point system, with three … Read more
Greg Dumais has been named the field director of hockey operations for ECAC Division III hockey. Dumais was most recently the assignor and director of officials for Maine Junior Hockey and Preparatory Schools and officials supervisor for ECAC Division I men’s and women’s hockey. He has also worked as an on-ice official with the QMJHL, … Read more
Amanda Trunzo has been named assistant women’s coach at St. Norbert. Trunzo, a 2011 Dartmouth graduate, played in 124 career games with the Big Green, scoring 68 goals and 59 assists for 127 points. She was a Patty Kazmaier Award nominee during her sophomore season when she scored a career-high 22 goals and 42 points. … Read more
Former Minnesota women’s captain Sarah Erickson has been named the new head women’s coach at Concordia (Minn.). Erickson, who captained for the Gophers in both the 2010-11 and 2011-12 seasons, replaces Brett Bruininks, who left to take the women’s assistant position at Minnesota State. Erickson becomes the sixth head coach in the history of the … Read more
Amherst has announced the hiring of interim coach Jeff Matthews as permanent head coach of the women’s program. Matthews guided Amherst to a 13-11-1 overall record (10-5-1 NESCAC) during the 2012-13 season. “It is a tremendous honor to have been awarded the opportunity to work for such an impressive athletic department and school,” said Matthews … Read more
Ohio State announced the hiring of Carson Duggan and Keith Maurice as assistant coaches for the women’s team. Duggan comes to the Buckeyes after spending the last two seasons as head women’s coach at Trinity, while Maurice has been an assistant coach at Norwich for the past 10 seasons. “Carson is a great addition to … Read more
Union has named Nicholas Carpenito as an assistant women’s coach for the upcoming 2013-14 season. Carpenito served as the assistant women’s coach and head women’s JV coach at Elmira for two seasons, helping the Soaring Eagles win the 2013 Division III national championship. “We are excited to have Nick join our staff,” Union head coach … Read more
Buffalo State has hired former Niagara standout and Ohio State assistant coach Candice Moxley as its new head women’s coach. Moxley spent the past three seasons as an assistant coach at Ohio State and prior to joining the Buckeyes, served one year as the head coach at Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ont., and … Read more
Nichols has announced the hiring of Wil Brown as the next head coach of the women’s program, replacing Jillian Campbell, who will be pursuing her master’s degree at Massachusetts. Brown was a two-year captain of the Nichols men’s team from 2011-13 and graduates this Saturday. “At times in life and in business, we come across … Read more
New England College has named Kristi Kehoe as its new head women’s coach. Kehoe was an assistant coach at Cortland the past two seasons and also played four seasons at Northeastern. “Kristie is going to be a great addition to New England College,” said NEC director of athletics Lori Runksmeier in a news release. :She … Read more
The Midwest Collegiate Hockey Association announced Monday a new name and representation of both men’s and women’s teams under one association. The MCHA announced last summer that both St. Norbert and St. Scholastica will be joining the league for the 2013-14 campaign, which will also see the MCHA renamed the Northern Collegiate Hockey Association. “We … Read more
The New England Hockey Writers Division I and II/III men’s and women’s all-star teams and awards were announced Tuesday. This year’s winners will be formally honored at a banquet on Tuesday, April 16 in Saugus, Mass. 2012-13 NEW ENGLAND MEN’S DIVISION I ALL-STARS AND AWARDS CLARK HODDER AWARD – DIVISION I COACH OF THE YEAR … Read more
Plattsburgh has both the Division III women’s player of the year and coach of the year as senior forward Teal Gove has been named top player and Kevin Houle top coach. Gove won the Laura Hurd Award after scoring 27 goals and 21 assists for 48 points through 27 games this year. “Teal has been … Read more
The American Hockey Coaches Association on Monday announced finalists for four major AHCA awards – the Edward Jeremiah Award for Division III men’s coach of the year, D-III women’s coach of the year, Sid Watson Award for the top D-III men’s player and Laura Hurd award for top D-III women’s player. For the Jeremiah Award, … Read more
And then there were eight. Since October, 50 teams have been playing for the chance to make it to the NCAA tournament and now they’ve been whittled down to an elite group of eight. Once again, there are the traditional faces of Plattsburgh, Norwich, Gustavus Adolphus, Middlebury and Wisconsin-River Falls making up more than half … Read more
Amherst senior defenseman Geneva Lloyd has been named the NESCAC player of the year for the second straight season after a 13-goal, 27-point season to lead the Lord Jeffs in scoring. Also, Bowdoin forward Rachel Kennedy earned top rookie honors with 15 goals and 14 assists for 29 points, while Bowdoin coach Marissa O’Neil was … Read more
With the exception of maybe the NESCAC, no league has been as unpredictable as the NCHA this season. Look no further than last weekend’s results to find that three of the four NCHA quarterfinal hosts were upset by the lower-ranked road team. Two of those teams to pull upsets were St. Norbert and St. Scholastica, … Read more
The NCAA has released the third of three weekly Division III women’s hockey regional rankings. These are the last publicly released rankings prior to the selection of the tournament field. A similar process will be followed on selection Sunday, March 3, to determine seeding and at-large berths but those results will not be published. Undefeated teams … Read more
Adrian senior goaltender Brittany Zeches has been named the NCHA player of the year and Lake Forest’s Carisa Zaban is the NCHA coach of the year. For Zeches, who started her career at Division I Wayne State before that program folded in May 2011, a nation-best nine shutouts has helped Adrian to 19 wins this … Read more