Women’s D-I: WCHA

Hockey Humanitarian Award Finalist Spotlight: Minnesota Duluth’s Hughes excelling on ice, off ice with Sophie’s Squad raising awareness for mental health

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So many college student-athletes thrive off the highly-regimented routines that come with the territory. When they have a lot of free time, they suddenly risk being unproductive. Minnesota Duluth senior forward Gabbie Hughes doesn’t have that problem. One of UMD’s two finalists for the Patty Kazmaier Award, given to the country’s top women’s college hockey … Read more

NCAA Division I Women’s Hockey: A whirlwind year – Former Robert Morris players win national championship less than a year after program cut

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Just 298 days elapsed between Lexi Templeman, Emily Curlett and Raygan Kirk learning that Robert Morris was cutting their men’s and women’s hockey programs and the trio winning a national championship with Ohio State on Sunday. The three players were announced as transfer signings just two weeks after the shocking news at Robert Morris. Templeman, … Read more

NCAA Division I Women’s Hockey: Ohio State downs Minnesota Duluth 3-2, wins first-ever national championship

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University Park, Pa. — The Ohio State Buckeyes women’s hockey team won the first national championship in their program’s history with a 3-2 defeat of Minnesota Duluth on Sunday night. Paetyn Levis scored to earn her 11th point of the postseason and transfers Clair DeGeorge and Kenzie Hauswirth each lit the lamp to lead the … Read more

NCAA Division I Women’s Hockey: Ohio State advances to first-ever national championship game with 2-1 win over Yale

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University Park, Pa — The top seeded Ohio State Buckeyes defeated the Yale Bulldogs 2-1 in the national semifinal on Friday night to advance to their first-ever NCAA title game.  They will face fellow WCHA team Minnesota Duluth for the national championship at 4 pm Eastern on Sunday. The Bulldogs will be playing in their … Read more

NCAA Division I Women’s Hockey: Rogge’s goal in 2OT sends UMD to national championship game

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University Park, Pa — Noami Rogge’s wrister with fewer than two minutes to go in the second overtime sent Minnesota Duluth to their first national title game since 2010 and their seventh in program history. McKenzie Hewett put pressure on Maddie Mills in the neutral zone as Mills tried to break out. Élizabeth Giguère picked up … Read more

WCHA women’s hockey standouts Heise, Hughes, Jaques named three finalists for 2022 Patty Kazmaier Award

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For just the third time in league history, the WCHA is home to the three finalists for the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award. The USA Hockey Foundation announced Thursday that Taylor Heise (Minnesota), Gabbie Hughes (Minnesota Duluth), and Sophie Jaques (Ohio State) have been named the three finalists for the 2022 award. Through 39 games played, … Read more

NCAA Division I Women’s Hockey: Wednesday Women – Dissecting and predicting the NCAA tournament

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Arlan: Hey Nicole! I hope you survived the weather over the weekend, including the rain, thunderstorms, ice, and snow that hit the Twin Cities during the WCHA Final Faceoff. Better that than the fatal tornados that hit Iowa, I guess. Anyway, there’s plenty to discuss. Let’s start with a mention of the final NEWHA Championship … Read more

Division I Women’s Hockey: WCHA final – Ohio State scores three unanswered to defeat Minnesota 3-2 in overtime to win title

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How it happened: The teams skated to a scoreless tie in the first. Ohio State had one unsuccessful power play and outshot the Gophers 12-9 through the first 20 minutes. In the second, a defensive breakdown at the blue line allowed Taylor Heise and Abigail Boreen to enter the zone with the puck. The Buckeye … Read more

Division I Women’s Hockey: WCHA semifinal – Minnesota advances to title game with 5-1 win over Minnesota Duluth

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MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota women’s hockey team advanced to their 18th WCHA tournament championship with a decisive 5-1 win over Minnesota Duluth on Saturday afternoon. The Gophers scored 51 seconds into the game on their first shot as Catie Skaja put a pretty innocuous-looking shot on Chobak from her right side. The puck squeezed between … Read more

Minnesota’s Heise, Northeastern’s Murphy co-HCA women’s players of month; Saint Anselm’s Turner top rookie, Quinnipiac’s Schroeder cops goalie honors

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The Hockey Commissioners Association has announced the women’s players of the month for Feb. 2022. Minnesota’s Taylor Heise and Northeastern’s Maureen Murphy share player of the month honors, while Saint Anselm’s Tyra Turner is rookie of the month and Quinnipiac netminder Corinne Schroeder has been named goalie of the month. Heise continued her torrid pace … Read more

NCAA women’s hockey scoring leader, Minnesota standout Heise tabbed WCHA player of year for ’21-22 season

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The WCHA announced Thursday that Minnesota senior forward Taylor Heise is the 2021-22 WCHA Player of the Year. Heise, who was named WCHA Offensive Player of the Year on Tuesday, was chosen for the overall honor by league head coaches and assistant coaches from among the All-WCHA First Team selections. “Congratulations to Taylor Heise on … Read more

WCHA names Ohio State’s Muzerall coach of the year, Buckeyes’ Jaques outstanding student-athlete for 2021-22 college hockey season

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In continuing to roll out the individual awards, the WCHA announced Wednesday a pair of awards to Ohio State, as Nadine Muzerall has been named coach of the year and senior blueliner Sophie Jaques outstanding student-athlete of the year. In addition, Minnesota senior forward Taylor Heise was named as the WCHA scoring champion behind a … Read more