Women’s D-I in general
Gary Bettman has taken plenty of heat for his part as National Hockey League bench boss for trying to squeeze blood from a stone. Or, more correctly, by making the NHL a winsome property to national sponsors by overseeing the placement of franchises in Sun Belt cities. An excersice in futility, some would say. Or … Read more
The Yale Club of New Haven, along with the athletic departments of Yale and Quinnipiac, have a special day coming November 6 to benefit Yale women’s player Mandi Schwartz and her family in her two-year battle with leukemia. When the Yale men’s team hosts Quinnipiac at Ingalls Rink, the day will begin with “Mandi’s March” … Read more
Mid-autumn in Cambridge brings with it visions of sculling on the Charles River with leaves of every hue serving as an idyllic backdrop. Then again, there’s just one color that really seems to matter in this corner of the hub, and that would be Harvard Crimson. To that end, veteran bench boss Katey Stone has … 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
Erin Cody can be glad she wasn’t born any time before 1988.You can bet her Bemidji State teammates are thankful for that, too. After all, she would have missed playing her senior season in the gleaming new Bemidji Regional Events Center. And they would have missed her contribution to what proved to be a most … 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
There is rebuilding, and then there is reloading. Funny how it is that the first rate programs never have to do the former, but are adept at doing the latter. Programs such as Mercyhurst. Success for the Lakers under head coach Michael Sisti has been constant throughout their nine-year run atop the CHA. You think … Read more
The WCHA women’s league is moving to a three-point system for league games this season. That means that a regulation win will be worth three points instead of two. Both teams get one point for being tied after a five-minute overtime, and the winner of the ensuing shootout gets an extra point. That’s the same … 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
Minnesota-Duluth starts the 2010-11 season where it left off in 2009-10: at the top of the pack in women’s college hockey. Related link: USCHO.com Division I Women’s Poll — Sept. 27, 2010 The defending national champion Bulldogs got 14 of 15 first-place votes to take first in the inaugural USCHO.com Division I Women’s Poll of … 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
Defending national champion Minnesota-Duluth is the pick of WCHA coaches to win the women’s league title in 2010-11. The Bulldogs, who tied Minnesota for last year’s regular-season title, claimed six of eight first-place votes from the coaches, who could not vote for their own team. Wisconsin got the other two first-place votes and came in … Read more
Mercyhurst is the choice of CHA women’s coaches to win the league’s regular-season title in 2010-11. The Lakers, national semifinalists last season, took four of five first-place votes in the balloting. Syracuse got the lone remaining first-place vote to finish second, followed by Niagara, Robert Morris and Wayne State. The full results follow: Team (first-place … Read more
Defending champion Boston University is the favorite for the 2010-11 Hockey East women’s regular-season title, according to league coaches. The Terriers received six of the eight first-place votes in the preseason balloting, with second-place Boston College taking the other two. Providence, New Hampshire, Northeastern, Connecticut, Vermont and Maine were picked to finish third through eighth, … Read more
Penn State is putting many of the key components of its transition to Division I status into the hands of a familiar face around hockey in the area. Joe Battista, the longtime men’s club coach and school employee, will be the associate athletic director for ice arena operations and the director of the Ice Arena … 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
Penn State will start men’s and women’s varsity hockey programs and build an on-campus arena behind what the school’s president called an “unprecedented act of philanthropy.” An $88 million gift from alumnus Terry Pegula and his wife Kim is launching the men’s program and the project to build an arena with a capacity of around … 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
Robert M. DeGregorio Jr., already the commissioner for Atlantic Hockey, will add the same duties for the CHA women’s league. Atlantic Hockey commissioner Robert M. DeGregorio is adding the CHA women’s league to his resume (photo: Ed Trefzger). “We want to place the management of our league in the hands of an experienced leader,” Niagara … Read more
Former Wayne State forward Brandi Frakie has passed away. She was 22. Brandi Frakie played for Wayne State from 2006 to 2009 (photo: Wayne State Athletics). Frakie, who played for the Warriors from 2006 to 2009, died Wednesday, according to an obituary in the Star Tribune of Minneapolis. She had 22 points (11 goals, 11 … Read more