Wednesday Women: Trends and turns
Candace and Arlan ponder whether newly ranked Bemidji State is an NCAA contender, whether anyone can stop Boston College in Hockey East, and debate the explosive volatility in the ECAC and CHA.
Women’s D-I: North Dakota
North Dakota women’s player Marvin injured in auto accident, ‘lucky to be alive’
According to the Grand Forks Herald, North Dakota sophomore forward Lisa Marvin was transported to Altru Hospital on Monday after being rear-ended on the side of a city road. The report states that Marvin’s 1984 Dodge pickup had stalled in the westbound lane of Gateway Drive and she was attempting to fill it with gas … Read more
Kohler is a big reason for confidence at North Dakota
For the 2007-08 season, Brian Idalski took over a North Dakota program that had gone winless in the WCHA the previous year. Under Idalski, the team showed some improvement, finishing tied for fifth place in his second year, but its upward climb looked to be a slow one. In the spring of 2009, Grand Forks … Read more
Wednesday Women: Finding the pieces
A lot of teams enter this season missing key cogs from previous years, but the top teams, such as Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Boston College, seem to be off to a great start regardless, while teams in the rung below, such as Vermont and Bemidji State, made some noise in the first weekend of full action. Candace and Arlan take a look in their first Wednesday Women column.
WCHA season preview: New commissioner Kemp oversees season of change
It is a season of change in the WCHA. For the first time since the league’s inaugural season of 1999-2000, it doesn’t have the defending national champion. That doesn’t necessarily indicate that its days as the country’s top league are over, however, as half of the WCHA is ranked in USCHO’s preseason poll, including the … Read more
WCHA women’s coaches make Minnesota league favorite in preseason poll
Minnesota has been chosen to finish atop the WCHA women’s standings with six first-place votes in the league’s preseason coaches’ poll. The Gophers have advanced to the NCAA championship game the past three seasons, winning twice. Wisconsin, which finished second in the poll, garnered the other two first-place votes from the league’s head coaches. In … Read more
Penn State adds former Mercyhurst goalie Drennen to women’s coaching staff
Penn State rounded out its women’s coaching staff on Monday as Courtney Drennen named an assistant coach. Drennen comes to the Nittany Lions after two seasons as an assistant at Wesleyan and three years at North Dakota. “Courtney brings outstanding playing and coaching experience to our program,” PSU women’s head coach Josh Brandwene said in … Read more
Krzyzaniak and Hirschy help transform North Dakota blue line from weakness to strength
Consider recent years, as far back as the 2010-11 season when North Dakota first rose to become a perennial top-10 team. What UND players come to mind? Jocelyne and Monique Lamoureux, of course. Michelle Karvinen. Josefine Jakobsen. Meghan Dufault. All forwards. And if you kept going, you’d probably come up with names like Alyssa Wiebe … Read more
Minnesota favored in competitive WCHA
This promises to be a transitional year in the WCHA, as players like Brianna Decker, Jocelyne and Monique Lamoureux, and Noora Räty that have formed the identity of the conference have completed their eligibility. Their former schools all bring in strong recruiting classes, so while the personnel losses leave the door open a crack for … Read more
North Dakota promotes Irle
North Dakota has promoted Daniella Irle from senior associate athletics director for internal operations to deputy director of athletics. She will continue to serve as senior woman administrator for UND athletics.
Minnesota leads D-I Women’s All-USCHO teams
Minnesota placed four skaters on the All-USCHO D-I Women’s teams, while Boston College placed three.
Karvinen, Dufault readying to lead North Dakota into the post-Lamoureux era
When Brian Idalski became the head coach at North Dakota prior to the 2007-08 season, he inherited a team that hadn’t won a conference game the year before. “When I took the job, I thought four recruiting classes, we could be competitive,” he said. “Now looking back at that, I don’t think that was off … Read more
Women’s WCHA preview: Picking a new conference champ
Picking the winner of the WCHA this season is a bit like shuffling a deck of cards and then trying to anticipate the order the various suits will appear. Obviously, there are eight teams in the league, not four, but to date, all of the circuit’s championship banners have been hung in Duluth, Minn., Madison, … Read more
NCAA announces sanctions to North Dakota for use of nickname, logo
The NCAA spelled out its punishments to North Dakota for resuming use of the Fighting Sioux nickname and logo in a letter addressed to the school’s provost, Dr. Paul LeBel, on Wednesday. The most pressing hockey-related concern is that UND won’t be able to host a women’s hockey NCAA quarterfinal game. The full text of … Read more
One-game suspension to North Dakota’s Idalski resolves ‘inadvertent’ violation
North Dakota women’s coach Brian Idalski served a one-game suspension last Saturday for knowledge of a player’s violation of an NCAA rule last season, according to a school spokesperson. UND forward Michelle Karvinen played for a team in Denmark last season while she was taking online classes at North Dakota, a school spokesperson said. As … Read more
Wednesday Women: Experience served
In this week’s WW, we look at the impact of Minnesota’s sweep of Minnesota-Duluth, BC’s speed, and how young players help and hurt their teams.
Wednesday Women: First looks
Cornell is off to a fast start, Hockey East is still in transition, and Wisconsin looks in good position to repeat as champions. Candace Horgan and Arlan Marttila discuss in this week’s edition of Wednesday Women.
2011-2012 Women’s D-I Season Preview
Previews and conference picks for the Women’s D-I 2011-2012 season by new USCHO Women’s Columnist Arlan Marttila.
In Lamoureux twins, North Dakota has program-building talent
Jocelyne Lamoureux and Monique Lamoureux-Kolls have helped coach Brian Idalski turn the Fighting Sioux into a top-10 team. Jason Karnosky reports.
Kolls makes North Dakota family
She was grafted by the marriage of her brother into North Dakota hockey royalty. Even so, there were still a few family secrets that Madison Kolls was not yet privy to. Such as the traditional games of shinny fought out by the six hockey-playing Lamoureux siblings out on the frozen pit behind the house in … Read more