Last year’s CHA tournament champion and NCAA tournament participant, Mercyhurst, collected five of six first-place votes to sit atop the league’s preseason coaches’ poll that was announced Thursday. Mercyhurst garnered 25 total points, with Robert Morris getting the other first-place nod and finishing third. 2013 CHA PRESEASON COACHES’ POLL
Former Manhattanville assistant coach and American International defenseman Matt Woodard has been named a new assistant at Rochester Institute of Technology for the 2013-14 season. “We are excited to have Matt Woodard join the RIT women’s hockey program,” said RIT head coach Scott McDonald in a statement. “This is a huge step in the right … Read more
The CHA announced Monday that Richard Murray, a 2012 Massachusetts graduate, will serve as the media relations intern for the 2013-14 season.
Penn State has announced that Alex Dawes, former Utica assistant coach and student video coordinator and director of hockey operations at Vermont, will take over as the director of operations for the PSU women’s team on July 29. Dawes replaces Mo Stroemel, who accepted an offer from Penn State-Altoona as an academic instructor in the … Read more
Gordon Stevenson has been named the CHA media relations intern for the 2013-14 season. Stevenson graduated with a degree in journalism from Lehigh in May 2012 and interned with the ECHL’s Trenton Titans during the 2012-13 season.
USA Hockey announced Monday the 25-player roster for the U.S. Women’s National Team that will play at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. The team is made up of 13 forwards, nine defensemen and three goaltenders – all but 16-year-old defenseman Jincy Dunne have either played college hockey, are currently in college or … 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
Longtime St. Cloud State athletics director Dr. Morris Kurtz joined Penn State on April 1 as the school’s special assistant to operations. Kurtz will assist associate athletic director Joe Battista and the NCAA Division I men’s and women’s hockey programs as they move into Pegula Ice Arena and the Big Ten for the 2013-14 season.
Minnesota placed four skaters on the All-USCHO D-I Women’s teams, while Boston College placed three.
With 34 programs competing in Division I conferences this season, opportunities for young women to play college hockey at that level are at an all-time high. A typical roster has more than 20 student athletes, so that means over 700 players were competing at D-I. While that seems like a decent number, the slots available … Read more
Rochester Institute of Technology’s men’s and women’s hockey teams will host an outdoor doubleheader at Frontier Field, Rochester’s minor-league baseball stadium, on Dec. 14, 2013. The men will face Atlantic Hockey rival Niagara in a late-afternoon game, while the women will open the day in a non-league tilt against Clarkson. Game times will be decided … Read more
The CHA announced its year-end award winners on March 7, with Mercyhurst junior forward Christine Bestland earning player of the year and top scorer laurels. Lindenwood freshman Nicole Hensley took home rookie of the year honors, Syracuse junior Akane Hosoyamada was named the league’s top defenseman and Syracuse’s Paul Flanagan garnered coach of the year … Read more
2012 D-III national champion RIT has been a valuable addition to the CHA in its first season as a D-I program, and the experience of playing in back-to-back national championship games helped. Arlan Marttila reports.
In another language, Mercyhurst means, “My dream just died.” What language is that? I don’t know, but I’m sure that with the exception of Mike Sisti and Paul Colontino, every CHA coach over the years spoke it fluently. Syracuse coach Paul Flanagan can remember a time when that was not a part of his vocabulary. … Read more
Two repeat nominees are among the 11 college hockey players up for the 18th annual Hockey Humanitarian Award. St. Anselm’s J. Tucker Mullin and Alaska’s Kaare Odegard, both seniors, have been nominated again for the award, which recognizes college hockey’s top citizen. The full list of nominees: Jason Beattie, Niagara senior Brett Beebe, Western Michigan … Read more
No win comes easily for building teams. With a slowing of the action due to the Four Nations Cup, only four games were played in Minnesota last weekend. I was able to catch the front end of a series bringing Maine to Bemidji State, as well as game two of Lindenwood visiting St. Cloud … Read more
Over the years, many talented players have skated for the Mercyhurst Lakers, particularly at the forward spot. Teresa Marchese, Samantha Shirley, Julia Colizza, Stefanie Bourbeau, Valerie Chouinard, Meghan Agosta, Vicki Bendus, Jesse Scanzano, Bailey Bram, Kelly Steadman — the list goes on. Of that group, only three were able to reach 100 points by the … Read more
Oswego announced Friday that Chelsea Walkland has been named the women’s team’s first full-time assistant coach. Walkland joins the Lakers’ staff after being an assistant at Rochester Institute of Technology last year, winning a Division III national title. During the 2010-11 season, Walkland served as the hockey operations manager at Robert Morris, where she also … Read more
Niagara has named Thomas Crowley its new director of athletics, replacing Ed McLaughlin. Crowley has been at Butler the past five years as the associate athletic director for internal operations.
In college hockey, we are accustomed to some amount of roster turnover each season. Over the past couple of seasons, the CHA has taken that flux to a new level as teams, not just players, are coming and going. The Niagara Purple Eagles followed the path of the Wayne State Warriors a season before and … Read more