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UMD Claims 4th NCAA Women?s Crown 03/22/08

UMD wins 4-0 over Wisconsin to claim its fourth women’s NCAA title in sports eight-year history. Here is a portion of Shannon Miller’s opening statement from the postgame press conference. You have to feel fortunate when you get into the final game because there are so many great teams across the country. I would like to say [...]

Questions of ?Eastern Bias? 03/21/08

The WCHA placed three teams in the final eight, both teams in the national championship game, and yet earned only three of 12 All-Americans. Is this “Eastern bias” in the voting? I would say there is bias only insofar as the system tends towards proportional representation. One simple reason for this is that if each coach [...]

AHCA Women?s All-Americans announced 03/20/08

First-Team All-Americans G Kim Martin, So., UMD D Tessa Bonhomme, Sr., OSU D Caitlin Cahow, Sr., Harvard F Meghan Agosta, So., Mercyhurst F Melissa Boal, Jr., WSU F Sarah Vaillancourt, Jr., Harvard Second-Team All-Americans G Christina Kessler, So., Harvard D Martine Garland, Sr., UNH D Annie Guay, Sr., St. Lawrence F Gigi Marvin, Jr., Minnesota F Sabrina Harbec, Sr., St. Lawrence F Dominque Thibault, So. UConn

UMD Star ?50-50? for Thu. Night 03/19/08

UMD coach Shannon Miller said at Thursday’s pre-game press conference that No. 2 scorer Saara Tuominen was 50-50 for Thursday night’s game. She suffered a sprained MCL in the quarterfinal win against Mercyhurst.

Handling Pressure at the Women?s Frozen Four 03/19/08

In any NCAA championship event, handling the pressure of the big stage is a major factor in determining the outcome. So it comes as no surprise that experience was a common topic of conversation in Wednesday?s pre-game press conferences at the Women?s Frozen Four in Duluth. Harvard vs. Wisconsin In some sense, the first semifinal is [...]

2008 Women?s Frozen Four is set 03/15/08

It’ll be Wisconsin vs. Harvard and UNH vs. UMD in Duluth on Thursday. Harvard will play at 5 p.m. CT followed by UMD at 8 p.m. It was a familiar result for the Badgers, who won in overtime in the quarterfinals en route to each of their NCAA titles in the last two years. The [...]

UMD extends its homestand 03/15/08

UMD advances to the Frozen Four with a 5-4 win over Mercyhurst. More heartbreak for the Lakers, who led 3-2 early in the third. Mercyhurst had lost its previous three NCAA quarterfinals in triple, double, and single overtime. It was another tough ending for the six Mercyhurst seniors. UMD extends its homestand which also included its [...]

Harvard earns its tickets to Duluth 03/15/08

No big surprises in No. 1 Harvard’s 5-1 NCAA women’s quarterfinal win over Dartmouth. Harvard proves once again why it was the best in the ECAC this season. The attendance of 1497 was solid, but I was hoping for a little better. It was up from Harvard’s 2005 NCAA quarterfinal, the triple overtime win over [...]

UNH first into 2008 Women?s Frozen Four 03/15/08

Congrats to New Hampshire, the first team into the Women’s Frozen Four with a 3-2 overtime win over St. Lawrence. One story line of this game that stands out is the play of seniors Sabrina Harbec for SLU and Sadie Wright-Ward for UNH. Both were conference players of the year as sophomores, but never quite received [...]

Analysis of the D-I women?s selections 03/09/08

The National Collegiate Women’s Ice Hockey committee made two controversial decisions on Sunday. One involved selecting Dartmouth over Clarkson as the last team in the tournament. The other was to abandon the practice of avoiding intraconference play in the NCAA quarterfinal round in order to save money on travel costs. I will discuss each below. Dartmouth [...]