It takes a lot of guts to step in front of an opponent’s slap shot, just like it does to ask for the privilege of doing so. Melissa Perry knows that as well as anyone. Perry, a junior defenseman at Quinnipiac, has gone from being a walk-on hopeful to being a key member of the … 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.
An email sent by Jonathan Holloway, the Master of Calhoun College, to the Calhoun community on Jan. 7 in regard to the latest news about Mandi Schwartz, a member of Calhoun who plays for Yale and is currently battling cancer, the update seems very grim. Dear Friends, As we start off a new year and … Read more
Dartmouth and Vermont have postponed their women’s game scheduled for Wednesday in Burlington, Vt., because players on both teams were delayed in returning to school because of the East Coast snowstorm. The game has been rescheduled for 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 18. A Dartmouth release said the game was postponed “instead of trying to … Read more
According to a press release sent out today by Yale University, after results of a recent biopsy indicated that her cancer has returned, Mandi Schwartz has begun additional chemotherapy in an effort to get back into remission. Mandi has started the treatment under the supervision of doctors at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in … Read more
There is not much change in this week’s USCHO.com Division I Women’s Poll as the top five teams remain the same as last week, with Wisconsin on top having garnered all 15 first place votes. Cornell, Minnesota-Duluth, Mercyhurst and Boston University round out the top five in that order. Minnesota, up a notch to No. … Read more
Not much change in this week’s USCHO.com Division I Women’s Poll as Wisconsin is still perched atop the poll and the next five spots remain the same as last week. At the bottom, Minnesota jumps from No. 8 to No. 7, North Dakota flip-flops with Minnesota and Ohio State stays in the ninth spot. Harvard … Read more
Wisconsin remained atop the USCHO.com Division I Women’s Poll on Monday after sweeping No. 10 Ohio State over the weekend. Cornell remained at No. 2 after opening its season with two wins against Robert Morris. Little changed from the previous week. Minnesota-Duluth and Mercyhurst switched places, with the Bulldogs climbing to No. 3, and Boston … Read more
Wisconsin is the new No. 1 team in the USCHO.com Division I Women’s Poll released today. The Badgers take over the top spot from Mercyhurst, which falls to No. 3. Cornell stays in the second spot, while Minnesota-Duluth comes in at No. 4 and Boston University rounds out the top five. The top four teams … Read more
Former Minnesota-Duluth captain and assistant coach Jessica Koizumi has joined new Yale coach Joakim Flygh’s staff as an assistant. Koizumi, who played at Minnesota-Duluth from 2003 to 2007 and also was part of the world championship 2008 U.S. Women’s National Team, spent last season as an assistant coach at the North American Hockey Academy. She … Read more
Yale’s Mandi Schwartz received the long-awaited stem cell transplant Wednesday in a 32-minute procedure at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance’s inpatient transplant unit at the University of Washington Medical Center. Yale’s athletic department confirmed the procedure in a post on a site dedicated to Schwartz’s battle with acute myeloid lymphoma. The next step is engraftment, when … Read more
Doctors have set Wednesday as the day for a stem-cell transplant for Yale center Mandi Schwartz. That news came in an update on the Yale page dedicated to Schwartz’s battle with acute myeloid lymphoma. Schwartz had been scheduled for the transplant earlier, but that had to be postponed because she was no longer in remission. … Read more
Cornell is the heavy favorite to repeat its ECAC Hockey women’s regular-season title from a year ago. The Big Red gained 11 of 12 first-place votes in the league’s preseason coaches poll. Clarkson, which lost an overtime game to Cornell in the ECAC tournament championship game last season, got the one remaining first-place vote and … Read more
As the new season approaches, Dave Starman touches on a number of subjects that have come up over the summer.
Tests have indicated that Yale’s Mandi Schwartz is no longer in remission in her battle with acute myeloid leukemia, a development that has postponed her stem cell transplant. Schwartz needs to be in remission to have the transplant, so she will undergo more chemotherapy. Her doctors at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Care Center in Seattle have … Read more
As Yale player Mandi Schwartz prepares for a cord blood transplant in her battle with leukemia, two charities organized by a man involved in efforts to help her face investigation by the Connecticut attorney general, a newspaper reported. The New York Times reported that charities started by Tedd Collins IV after his daughter’s death last … Read more
Quinnipiac women’s coach Rick Seeley has signed a contract extension through the 2014-15 season. Seeley led the Bobcats to the best record in school history last season, a 19-10-8 record that made him the coach of the year in ECAC Hockey. “I am thrilled with my contract extension Quinnipiac University has quickly become home for … Read more
Assistant coaching positions at NCAA powers Minnesota-Duluth and Harvard have opened the door for Joakim Flygh’s first head coaching position. Flygh was named Yale’s women’s coach on Wednesday, elevating him to a top spot after nine seasons as an assistant. “We are thrilled to have Joakim taking over our women’s hockey program,” Yale athletic director … Read more
Colorado College recruit Jaden Schwartz had a great 18th birthday — he was picked 14th overall by the St. Louis Blues in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft — but there was a significant piece missing. Melissa Parrelli reports.
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