We’ve reached the conference championship weekend in NCAA women’s hockey, with nine games left to play before league playoff champions are decided and the NCAA tournament bracket gets filled out. Nicole Haase and Todd Milewski from USCHO.com start this week’s episode of the PodKaz with a look at Wednesday night’s action, including a double-overtime victory … Read more
Bemidji State at (1) Wisconsin In game one, the Beavers made 36 blocks and Kaitlin Groess made 42 saves to slow down Wisconsin, but the Badgers skated off with a 3-0 win. Kelly Gorbatenko scored with 39 seconds left in the first period to make it 1-0. Claire Enright scored late in the second and … Read more
(1) Wisconsin at Bemidji State The Badgers skated off with a pair of 6-1 victories to close out the regular season in Bemidji. The two teams will meet again next week – this time in Madison – in the opening round of the WCHA Tournament. On Friday, KK Harvey broke the school record for most … Read more
(3) Minnesota vs. (11) St. Cloud State (home and home) Friday’s game featured some of the most chaotic final 10 minutes of a game this season. Before we got there, St. Cloud took a 2-0 lead on a Sofianna Sunderlin power play goal six minutes in. Emma Gentry doubled the lead two minutes later. Emma … Read more
Nicole Haase and Todd Milewski from USCHO.com dive into the races for conference titles on this week’s edition of the PodKaz. Penn State and Wisconsin wrapped up the Atlantic Hockey and WCHA championships, respectively, last week, and the ECAC Hockey title will be decided on the final weekend. UConn narrowed Boston University’s lead in Hockey … Read more
ECAC Hockey has named Union defender Maren Friday the 2025 Mandi Schwartz Scholar-Athlete of the Year, honoring her for her excellence and leadership on the ice, in the classroom, and in the community. The award is annually presented to an ECAC Hockey female student-athlete in honor of the late Mandi Schwartz, a Yale women’s hockey … Read more
(3) Minnesota at (1) Wisconsin Read the recap of the first game here. In the second game, the Badgers held a 13-3 shot advantage in the first, but the game was 0-0 at the first intermission. Wisconsin began to pull away early in the second. First Vivian Jungels scored her second of the weekend as … Read more
(1) Wisconsin at Minnesota State The Badgers took advantage of an early penalty with a goal from KK Harvey to go up 1-0 just two minutes into the game on Friday. But the Mavericks pushed back on the Badgers, ultimately outshooting them 24-23 over the game and keeping the nation’s top offense in check. Wisconsin … Read more
The Dec. 5, 2024, episode of the PodKaz takes a look at a week in which Princeton outscored opponents 25-2 over three games, with Issy Wunder capping it off with a five-goal performance. Other results last weekend included Clarkson and Yale winning Thanksgiving weekend tournaments and Brown winning the Mayor’s Cup. Ohio State forward Makenna … Read more
(1) Wisconsin at Maine On Friday, Laila Edwards, Caroline Harvey and Kirsten Simms each scored twice while Sarah Wozniewicz, Kelly Gorbatenko and Marianne Picard all added a goal to lead Wisconsin to a 9-0 win on Friday. In the second game, SImms scored twice more while Casey O’Brien, Finley McCarthy, Edwards and Gorbatenko each lit … Read more
Nicole Haase and Todd Milewski are celebrating one year of the PodKaz with another look at a series between Ohio State and Wisconsin with both teams ranked in the top two in the USCHO.com poll. But that’s not the only big series this weekend: No. 3 Minnesota plays at No. 4 Minnesota Duluth, No. 6 … Read more
(5) Colgate at (14) Brown Special teams were massive on Friday as Colgate scored on three of four power plays while Brown was two of three with the player advantage. It was a back and forth game, but Emma Pais broke through first, scoring later in the first to put Colgate up 1-0 at the … Read more
USCHO.com’s Nicole Haase and Todd Milewski look back at last week’s results in NCAA women’s hockey, including a bounce back by Quinnipiac in ECAC Hockey and more questions for Clarkson and Cornell. Wisconsin, meanwhile, kept rolling along with two more shutouts. Then we take a look ahead at this week’s start of the Rivalry Series … Read more
(1) Wisconsin at (8) St. Cloud State Vivian Jungels scored 34 seconds in, Cassie Hall doubled the lead 42 seconds later and by three minutes in, Laila Edwards had made it a 3-0 game. St. Cloud made a goalie switch, putting Emilia Kyrkkö in for Sanni Ahola. KK Harvey scored later in the first to … Read more
(3) Minnesota Duluth at (1) Wisconsin Read Saturday’s recap here. On Sunday, the Badgers used the power of a three-goal second period to pull away from the Bulldogs and earn a weekend sweep. Lacey Eden opened the scoring, tapping home a loose puck after Tindra Holm made the initial save on an Emma Venusio shot … Read more
Courtney Hall has been named an assistant coach with the Union women’s hockey team. Prior to Union, Hall played with the Robert Morris women’s hockey team in 2023-24 as a graduate student and played in 29 games for the Colonials while receiving her master’s degree in business administration and a certification in project management. Hall … Read more
Thanks to the pandemic, this is a particularly interesting year in the ECAC thanks to the presence of the Ivies, who basically have a double senior class. A number of schools graduated players who rewrote their program’s record books. Maybe more than any other conference, ECAC teams took to the portal to round out their … Read more
USCHO’s Nicole Haase (@nicolehaase) and Todd Milewski (@ToddMilewski) are back to launch Season 2 of the PodKaz with a few quick items on all 44 teams before the 2024-25 season begins. Penn State, Colgate, UConn, Long Island and Ohio State are looking to defend conference regular-season championships, and the Buckeyes are going for their third … Read more
Tina Ciraulo has accepted an assistant coaching position with the Union women’s hockey team. Ciraulo had been working in the Detroit area with the USPHL’s Metro Jets in many roles since 2020. Most notably, she was the first woman to win a junior hockey game in which she was the head coach when on Nov. … Read more
ECAC Hockey has announced the results of the preseason women’s hockey poll and preseason all-league selections. ECAC Hockey Women’s Preseason Poll 1. Clarkson – 113 points (6 first-place votes) 2. Colgate – 109 points (6) 3. Cornell -103 points (2) 4. St. Lawrence – 92 points (1) 5. Quinnipiac – 82 points 6. Yale – … Read more