Women’s D-I in general
Playoff Fever As we enter the final week of February, playoff fever will be in full swing as every conference begins their league tournament this weekend. Although all five conferences begin their tournaments, only one of them will crown their tournament champion this weekend, the NCHA. The NCHA’s O’Brien Cup will be back on the … Read more
A note to anyone reading this. This is the annual column where the word “I†will be used. Sparingly to be sure, but used none the less. I’m an old married guy (20-plus years of connubial bliss) and never experienced the pleasures (or is that pressures) of speed dating. Yet I feel as though I … Read more
Many players transfer every year, but few quite like this. Gabrielle Beaudry left Boston College for Syracuse, where she’s helping build the fledgling Orange program. Roman J. Uschak reports.
Cadet’s On The Rise With R.I.T.’s departure two seasons ago from the ECAC East, many people, myself included, figured penciling Manhattanville in as the conference champion was going to be a forgone conclusion for the next few years. Somebody forgot to tell Norwich that. The second year Norwich Cadets have quickly scaled up the ECAC … Read more
Playoff bound though it is, as it heads into the final weekend of the WCHA regular season, St. Cloud State isn’t going anywhere. They ain’t movin’ up and they ain’t movin’ down. They are staying right there in fourth place behind that trio of juggernauts, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Duluth. “I keep telling our kids,†said … Read more
If two years constitutes a tradition, then the ECACHL has inured itself in a fine one with it’s Pink at the Rink program. The annual initiative, held in consort with the American Cancer Society, will visit ECAC venues at Cornell and Yale during games this weekend. It’s purpose is to raise funds for cancer research, … Read more
With just two weeks remaining in the regular season, the race for the NCAA Tournament is as wild as ever. After all the game games are over, the NCAA committee will convene in their yearly conference call and announce the seven teams that will make it to the 2009 Division III women’s ice hockey NCAA … Read more
It’s been twice as nice for the Minnesota women’s team this year thanks to identical twins Jocelyne and Monique Lamoureux. Mike Scandura reports.
The venerable Houston Field House is undergoing an extensive facelift designed to make it one of the most attractive venues in the ECACHL. Meanwhile, it seems that one of the old rink’s prime tenants, the RPI women, have been testing the new elevators prematurely. How else could one explain the Engineers’ up and down fortunes … Read more
Laura Hurd Award Outlook Now that the calendar has turned to February it’s time to start the discussion about who deserves the prestigious Laura Hurd Award. The Laura Hurd Award has been awarded to the top Division III women’s hockey player as voted on by the American Hockey Coaches Association (AHCA) since 2000. Last year, … Read more
When you think of M.I.T., the first thought that comes into your mind is probably not women’s hockey. However, the world renowned university based in Cambridge, Mass., has had a women’s hockey program for eight years. You might not have heard of their program because coming into the 2008-2009 season the Engineers have compiled an … Read more
While the men’s side of College Hockey America may be gasping its last breath, the women’s half of the league has never been healthier. A sign of this will be on display this weekend at the Mercyhurst Ice Center, where the No. 5 Lakers will host No. 10 Wayne State in a two-game showdown. Mercyhurst … Read more
The Week in Review Last weekend featured some very important match-ups and you would have figured that we’d have figured out a lot more about the NCAA picture but I’m afraid the picture only became muddier, especially in the NCHA. Adrian’s sweep of River Falls coupled with Eau Claire taking three points from Stevens Point … Read more
Titles? Medals? Kacey Bellamy has a bunch already. But the UNH senior blueliner is looking for more in her final collegiate season — and beyond. Roman J. Uschak reports.
All season long, teams have been racking their brains in search of a sure-fire way of beating Wisconsin. Leave it to Minnesota-Duluth to come up with a fool-proof plan: don’t do anything different. The defending national champion Bulldogs worked that method to near-perfection last week, when they swept their two-game set with the Badgers, 4-0 … Read more
The Day Hockey Took a Backseat Sunday January 11, 2009 started out just like any other road-trip for the UMass-Boston women’s hockey team. The Beacons were headed to Castleton State for a 2 p.m. league contest against the Spartans. However, as their bus traveled north farther on Interstate-93 crossing into New Hampshire the weather worsened. … Read more
The West would like to make a statement… … “We can play too!†This past weekend, top-ranked Amherst traveled to Minnesota to take on two of the west’s best in MIAC powers Gustavus Adolphus and St. Thomas. The Lady Jeffs limped back to Massachusetts with two losses on consecutive nights falling to Gustavus 3-0 on … Read more
The month of January is named after “Janusâ€, the Roman god of doors, whose two faces were said to be able to see both forward and backward. What the heck does this have to do with women’s hockey, you ask? Nothing, really, except that the first column of the new year is a convenient place … Read more
Hockey, as we all know, is a game of funny bounces. And some bounces send shocks fanning out across the hockey surface a little further than others. Take for instance a careening puck that, last year, ended St. Lawrence’s NCAA hopes against New Hampshire. Fired by UNH’s Sadie Wright-Ward, it ricocheted off a derriere (some … Read more
The end of the first half of the season is already upon us with a few teams wrapping up their first semester schedules this weekend. However a majority of the D-III teams will have the weekend off as the players finish up and prepare for their finals before they head home for winter break. Out … Read more