{"id":99892,"date":"2019-10-17T12:27:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T17:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/?p=99892"},"modified":"2020-08-24T11:28:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T16:28:44","slug":"womens-di-confident-comfortable-senior-class-looks-to-leave-new-hampshire-with-a-legacy-of-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2019\/10\/17\/womens-di-confident-comfortable-senior-class-looks-to-leave-new-hampshire-with-a-legacy-of-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s DI: Confident, comfortable senior class looks to leave New Hampshire with a legacy of success"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"<\/a>
Hillary Witt is in her sixth season as the New Hampshire Women’s Hockey head coach. (Photo: UNH Communications\/Gregory Greene)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The New Hampshire women\u2019s hockey team started last season 1-9-2. It was a brutally tough stretch where Coach Hillary Witt said her team was playing pretty well, but could not seem to find the back of the net. Despite the rough and demoralizing start, the team did not let it tank their season.<\/p>\n

The Wildcats went 7-0-2 over their next nine games, which felt a bit like righting the ship, before losing three more in a row. They responded with a five-game win streak, but ended the season on a seven game winless streak. The team showed fight, but ultimately it was a disappointing season that ended 13-7-6. It was mentally exhausting, but Witt knows her team is stronger this season for having battled through the last one.<\/p>\n

There are eight seniors on the squad this year and they are the driving force of this UNH team that has started the year 3-1-1, including a 4-2 win over the No. 10 Boston University last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have great leadership. It starts there. Our senior class has been nothing but amazing this year. What they\u2019ve (shown) this year is the confidence to be successful,\u201d said Witt.<\/p>\n

Wins like Saturday\u2019s upset over Boston University, combined with a recent history of being able to beat or tie some of the top teams in Hockey East (oftentimes when they\u2019re nationally ranked) are the things Witt and her staff point to during tough stretches.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to take it one day at a day. Sometimes you look at the entire season as a whole, and you get ahead of yourself or you dwell too much on what\u2019s already happened. For us, it\u2019s just putting one foot in front of the other and taking one game at a time – being successful in small doses and building on that every single time we have a chance to play,\u201d Witt said. \u201cYou can\u2019t worry about what happened in the past because things can change in a second. You just have to worry about the task at hand. We just have to be able to let it go and be back, ready to go the next day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Focusing on the present and working day-by-day is key to Witt\u2019s coaching philosophy, but it can be easier said than done for the players. But when the team is coming from behind and earning points in games against ranked opponents, it\u2019s not difficult to get the players to buy in and understand the why and how of what makes Witt\u2019s philosophy work.<\/p>\n

The team plays with confidence and has chemistry, two things that can\u2019t be taught. Witt said the cumulative four years of hard work of the large senior class puts them in a position to be not just successful, but confident in their skills. Four years of day-in and day-out work is paying out for the team has a whole, with the senior class is leading the team on the ice, using their years of acquired talent, but also mentoring the younger classes to be the same way.<\/p>\n

Witt is in her sixth year at the helm in Durham, carrying the program through what she termed a major rebuild. Those moments of starting over and instilling culture have passed. She has the players she wants and the staff she wants and now it\u2019s time for the hard work of the past few years to pay off. Now, Witt said, it\u2019s time to put together continued success.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that everybody\u2019s here to be here to be part of something bigger than themselves. We want everyone to want to be able to contribute in every way. In order to do that, you\u2019ve got to feel confident and comfortable to go out there and perform. Our leadership has created a culture in our locker room to help younger players thrive. They\u2019ve done a great job and our younger players feel comfortable and confident on the ice because of it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New Hampshire women\u2019s hockey team started last season 1-9-2. It was a brutally tough stretch where Coach Hillary Witt said her team was playing pretty well, but could not seem to find the back of the net. Despite the rough and demoralizing start, the team did not let it tank their season. The Wildcats […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":108659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[819],"coauthors":[823],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWomen's DI: Confident, comfortable senior class looks to leave New Hampshire with a legacy of success - College Hockey | USCHO.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The New Hampshire women\u2019s hockey team started last season 1-9-2. It was a brutally tough stretch where Coach Hillary Witt said her team was playing pretty\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99892\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Women's DI: Confident, comfortable senior class looks to leave New Hampshire with a legacy of success - College Hockey | USCHO.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The New Hampshire women\u2019s hockey team started last season 1-9-2. It was a brutally tough stretch where Coach Hillary Witt said her team was playing pretty\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99892\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"College Hockey | USCHO.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OfficialUSCHO\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-10-17T17:27:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-08-24T16:28:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/unnamed-file.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"699\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"466\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nicole Haase\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@USCHO\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@USCHO\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Nicole Haase\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2019\/10\/17\/womens-di-confident-comfortable-senior-class-looks-to-leave-new-hampshire-with-a-legacy-of-success\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2019\/10\/17\/womens-di-confident-comfortable-senior-class-looks-to-leave-new-hampshire-with-a-legacy-of-success\/\",\"name\":\"Women's DI: Confident, comfortable senior class looks to leave New Hampshire with a legacy of success - College Hockey | USCHO.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2019\/10\/17\/womens-di-confident-comfortable-senior-class-looks-to-leave-new-hampshire-with-a-legacy-of-success\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2019\/10\/17\/womens-di-confident-comfortable-senior-class-looks-to-leave-new-hampshire-with-a-legacy-of-success\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/unnamed-file.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-10-17T17:27:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-08-24T16:28:44+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/eff42f5f018a91b8ff3149e12756ea34\"},\"description\":\"The New Hampshire women\u2019s hockey team started last season 1-9-2. It was a brutally tough stretch where Coach Hillary Witt said her team was playing pretty\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2019\/10\/17\/womens-di-confident-comfortable-senior-class-looks-to-leave-new-hampshire-with-a-legacy-of-success\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2019\/10\/17\/womens-di-confident-comfortable-senior-class-looks-to-leave-new-hampshire-with-a-legacy-of-success\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2019\/10\/17\/womens-di-confident-comfortable-senior-class-looks-to-leave-new-hampshire-with-a-legacy-of-success\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/unnamed-file.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/unnamed-file.jpg\",\"width\":699,\"height\":466},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2019\/10\/17\/womens-di-confident-comfortable-senior-class-looks-to-leave-new-hampshire-with-a-legacy-of-success\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Women’s DI: Confident, comfortable senior class looks to leave New Hampshire with a legacy of success\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/\",\"name\":\"College Hockey | USCHO.com\",\"description\":\"Men's and Women's D-I and D-III College Hockey News, Features, Scores, Statistics, Fan Forum, Blogs\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/eff42f5f018a91b8ff3149e12756ea34\",\"name\":\"Nicole Haase\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/34ec88c8570b9fa98cd667ac4c007488\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d8ba4e5150d4e214f9675ef7a76ecaf8?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d8ba4e5150d4e214f9675ef7a76ecaf8?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Nicole Haase\"},\"description\":\"Women's Columnist\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/author\/nicolehaase\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Women's DI: Confident, comfortable senior class looks to leave New Hampshire with a legacy of success - College Hockey | USCHO.com","description":"The New Hampshire women\u2019s hockey team started last season 1-9-2. It was a brutally tough stretch where Coach Hillary Witt said her team was playing pretty","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99892","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Women's DI: Confident, comfortable senior class looks to leave New Hampshire with a legacy of success - College Hockey | USCHO.com","og_description":"The New Hampshire women\u2019s hockey team started last season 1-9-2. It was a brutally tough stretch where Coach Hillary Witt said her team was playing pretty","og_url":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99892","og_site_name":"College Hockey | USCHO.com","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OfficialUSCHO\/","article_published_time":"2019-10-17T17:27:37+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-08-24T16:28:44+00:00","og_image":[{"width":699,"height":466,"url":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/unnamed-file.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Nicole Haase","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@USCHO","twitter_site":"@USCHO","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Nicole Haase","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2019\/10\/17\/womens-di-confident-comfortable-senior-class-looks-to-leave-new-hampshire-with-a-legacy-of-success\/","url":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2019\/10\/17\/womens-di-confident-comfortable-senior-class-looks-to-leave-new-hampshire-with-a-legacy-of-success\/","name":"Women's DI: Confident, comfortable senior class looks to leave New Hampshire with a legacy of success - College Hockey | USCHO.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2019\/10\/17\/womens-di-confident-comfortable-senior-class-looks-to-leave-new-hampshire-with-a-legacy-of-success\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2019\/10\/17\/womens-di-confident-comfortable-senior-class-looks-to-leave-new-hampshire-with-a-legacy-of-success\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/unnamed-file.jpg","datePublished":"2019-10-17T17:27:37+00:00","dateModified":"2020-08-24T16:28:44+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/eff42f5f018a91b8ff3149e12756ea34"},"description":"The New Hampshire women\u2019s hockey team started last season 1-9-2. It was a brutally tough stretch where Coach Hillary Witt said her team was playing pretty","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2019\/10\/17\/womens-di-confident-comfortable-senior-class-looks-to-leave-new-hampshire-with-a-legacy-of-success\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2019\/10\/17\/womens-di-confident-comfortable-senior-class-looks-to-leave-new-hampshire-with-a-legacy-of-success\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2019\/10\/17\/womens-di-confident-comfortable-senior-class-looks-to-leave-new-hampshire-with-a-legacy-of-success\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/unnamed-file.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/unnamed-file.jpg","width":699,"height":466},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2019\/10\/17\/womens-di-confident-comfortable-senior-class-looks-to-leave-new-hampshire-with-a-legacy-of-success\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Women’s DI: Confident, comfortable senior class looks to leave New Hampshire with a legacy of success"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/","name":"College Hockey | USCHO.com","description":"Men's and Women's D-I and D-III College Hockey News, Features, Scores, Statistics, Fan Forum, Blogs","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/eff42f5f018a91b8ff3149e12756ea34","name":"Nicole Haase","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/34ec88c8570b9fa98cd667ac4c007488","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d8ba4e5150d4e214f9675ef7a76ecaf8?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d8ba4e5150d4e214f9675ef7a76ecaf8?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Nicole Haase"},"description":"Women's Columnist","url":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/author\/nicolehaase\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99892"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108660,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99892\/revisions\/108660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99892"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=99892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}