The WCHA women’s conference announced the results of its preseason coaches poll today, as well as preseason players of the year and preseason All-WCHA team. Wisconsin senior forward Daryl Watts in the preseason player of the year and Minnesota freshman forward Abbey Murphy is the preseason rookie of the year. WCHA Preseason Coaches Poll First-place … Read more
St. Cloud State has paused all women’s hockey team activities for at least the week of Nov. 15 due to several positive COVID-19 tests within the Huskies’ program, the university announced Sunday. As a result of the pause, St. Cloud State’s season-opening home series with Bemidji State set for Nov. 20-21 has been postponed. No … Read more
The AHL’s Hershey Bears announced Thursday that the team has hired Emily Engel-Natzke as video coach. Engel-Natzke joins the Bears from Wisconsin where she served as the assistant director of operations/video coordinator. With the Badgers, she worked with both the men’s and women’s hockey teams from 2015 to 2017, and exclusively with the men’s team … Read more
Wisconsin men’s and women’s hockey home games will be played this season without fans in the stands for an indefinite period of time, the school announced Wednesday. Similar to the approach Wisconsin Athletics is taking with Camp Randall Stadium, fans will not be allowed into the Kohl Center for basketball or LaBahn Arena for hockey … Read more
The women’s WCHA were the first DI conference to announce a schedule that puts their teams back on the ice. The partial schedule covers five weeks, but Commissioner Jennifer Flowers hopes to have a full slate of games set before the holiday break.
With seven first-place votes, Wisconsin is the No. 1 team in the preseason USCHO.com Division I Women’s Poll. Also with seven first-place votes is No. 2 Cornell, which finished last season No. 1 in the USCHO.com rankings. Third-ranked Northeastern garnered the other first-place vote. In order, the rest of the top 10 are Minnesota, Ohio … Read more
The WCHA women’s conference will start the 2020-21 schedule the weekend of Nov. 20-22. WCHA schools will play eight league games from November 20 to December 19 before breaking for the holidays. League play will resume as early as Jan. 1. The post-holiday schedule will be released in the coming weeks. “We look forward to … Read more
Bemidji State has announced the hiring of Emma Terres as an assistant coach for the Beavers’ women’s hockey team (photo: BSU Photo Services).
College hockey icons Dean Blais, Tony Granato, Jenny Potter and Jerry York will make up the United States Hockey Hall of Fame class of 2020.
The Hockey Commissioners Association announced today that the start of the 2020-21 NCAA season will be delayed due to the impact of COVID-19 (photo: Tealin Robinson/Wisconsin Athletics).
Ohio State announced Monday addition of Zoe Hickel as an assistant coach for the women’s hockey team (photo: USA Hockey).
The WCHA women’s conference will grow by one member as the league’s board of directors has voted unanimously to add St. Thomas as the league’s eighth program beginning with the 2021-22 season (photo: St. Thomas Athletics).
The WCHA announced Wednesday that operations and administration manager Dean Thibodeau has been promoted to assistant commissioner, operations.
It’s been one year since Jennifer Flowers took over the job as Women’s Commissioner of the WCHA. She’s faced a number of surprises in those first 12 months, but is optimistic about what the future holds – even if she’s not quite sure what that future looks like right now.
Wisconsin senior forward Abby Roque has been named USA Hockey’s Bob Allen Women’s Player of the Year for the 2019-20 season (photo: David Stluka).
Lindsay Macy has been named head coach of the Finlandia women’s hockey team.
Clarkson, Cornell, Ohio State and Wisconsin lead the way with three players each on our All-USCHO teams.
Wisconsin senior Abby Roque is the 2020 USCHO Player of the Year
The top 12 women’s hockey players in the nation have been recognized as 2019-20 CCM/AHCA All-Americans. Five selections come from ECAC Hockey, four from the WCHA and three from Hockey East (photo: Brad Rempel).
USA Hockey announced Monday it will reveal the winner of the 2020 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award on Friday, March 27, at 1:30 p.m. EST.