Women’s College Hockey: Current and former DI and DIII players will represent USA at FISU World University Winter Games →

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The World University Games are the second-largest multi-sport winter event in the world, after the Winter Olympics and are put on every two years by the International University Sports Federation (FISU) as “a celebration of international university sports and culture.” While the competition is a large and competitive event for countries all around the world, it has failed to gain much traction here in America. 

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U.S. Feeds Off Record Crowd to Take 3-0 Rivalry Series Lead →

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The U.S. Women’s National Team left Seattle invigorated after sweeping the first three games in the 2022-23 Rivalry Series. It was the first time since 2019 the U.S. has won three consecutive outings against Canada.

Their 4-2 win on Sunday, Nov. 20, was played in front of 14,551 fans at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, a new record for attendance at a national women's hockey game played in the United States, beating the previous record of 13,320 set in Anaheim during the 2019-20 iteration of the Rivalry Series.

Those fans were treated to a goal in the opening minute of play, as Savannah Harmon (Downers Grove, Ill.) scored 40 seconds in. That goal set the tone for the night. 

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U.S. Women's Hockey Team Earns Second Rivalry Series Win In Two Tries Over Canada →

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The U.S. women’s hockey team extended its winning streak on Canadian soil to four games on Thursday night with a 2-1 win over Canada in Kamloops, British Columbia, in the second game of the 2022-23 Rivalry Series.

Two days after winning the series opener 4-3 in Kelowna, British Columbia, the Americans outshot their neighbors to the north 34-20 on Thursday, holding the Canadians to single-digit shots on goal in each period.

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U.S. Women's Hockey Team Opens Rivalry Series With A 4-3 Shootout Win Over Canada →

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The U.S. women’s hockey team started off the 2022-23 iteration of its Rivalry Series against Canada with a 4-3 shootout win Tuesday night in Kelowna, British Columbia.

Hilary Knight and Alex Carpenter each scored in both regulation and the shootout, while goalie Nicole Hensley did not allow a goal in the shootout.

Hensley came up huge for the Americans with 32 saves, including a game-saving stop of Marie Philip-Poulin’s penalty shot with 39.2 seconds left in the extra period. She also did not allow a power play goal in seven opportunities for Canada.

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A New Winter Bring A New Rivalry Series For The U.S. And Canada Women’s Hockey Teams →

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The U.S. women’s hockey team is coming off a brutal and unprecedented stretch in which it played three major tournaments in 53 weeks — and won silver in each.

From late August 2021 to the first week in September 2022, the Americans played in two world championships and an Olympic Winter Games, falling to rivals Canada in the final of all three.

With much of the sports world now settling into a post-pandemic normal, the days of playing three global championships in such short succession appear to be in the rearview mirror. For women’s hockey, though, one key uncertainty remains.

The next world championship — the pinnacle of any non-Olympic season — will be held in 2023 in Canada, but specific dates have yet to be announced. Typically, the world championship is held in March or early April.

Without that date fixed on the calendar, teams are left to put together a schedule of games and camps without knowing when they’ll need to be at peak readiness.

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Women’s Division I College Hockey: Shift in emphasis helps Quinnipiac to 9-0 start

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The Quinnipiac Bobcats have won nine straight games to open the season and have moved up to #4 in the national polls – their highest-ever ranking – after a pair of impressive weekend wins over Cornell and Princeton.

The Bobcats looked to be in a great position heading into this season, returning much of the roster that carried them to 2 overtimes against eventual national champion Ohio State in the NCAA quarterfinal last year. Then they added graduate transfer Shay Maloney from Brown, as well as stellar rookie Madison Chantler, who won gold with Canada at the U18 Women’s World Championships last summer. In a crowded and competitive ECAC, they have already set themselves apart. And it’s just the first week of November.

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Women’s Division I College Hockey: Aggressive non-conference scheduling pays off at Penn State →

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Every coach has a different philosophy for how to fill out their non-conference schedule. In larger conferences, there are fewer slots that need to be filled. In a conference like the CHA, with only six teams, there are more. Add in that last season and this one, the CHA is playing with just five teams, and that leaves 20 or so possible non-conference games to schedule.

Penn State coach Jeff Kampersal likened scheduling to a complex jigsaw puzzle. And there are far more things that go into creating a non-conference schedule than picking an opponent. Most programs agree to a home and home series, where the teams play at each participant’s home venue, usually over the course of two seasons. Increasingly, as we see this weekend at St. Lawrence, teams that are traveling a long distance will schedule a round robin, where one team hosts and two teams travel to the site and they all play each other once. There are also various tournaments around the holidays and winter break.

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U.S. Women Settle For Silver in Hockey World Championship Battle →

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Canada’s women’s hockey team extended its gold medal-winning streak against the U.S. on Sunday.

The Canadians defended their 2021 world championship, defeating the U.S. 2-1 in the title game of the 2022 IIHF Women’s World Championship in Herning, Denmark.

Although the Americans overcame a two-goal deficit in their preliminary round game against Canada to win 5-2, they were unable to do it a second time after Canada’s Brianne Jenner scored twice in 84 seconds midway through the game.

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U.S. Women Face Rival Canada For Hockey World Championship Gold →

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A deep rivalry will be renewed when the U.S. and Canada meet Sunday in the gold-medal game of the IIHF Women’s World Championship.

The U.S. has played in the title game of every world championship since the event began in 1990, facing Canada in all but one of those games.

“To me, U.S. versus Canada is the best game you can watch in our sport. And it's the one that everybody is gearing up for,” said Katie Crowley, a three-time Olympian and current Boston College coach who also participated in six world championships from 1997-2005.

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U.S. Women's Hockey Team Takes New Approach For the 2022 World Championship →

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A new coaching staff for the U.S. women’s hockey team has the group playing with a new mentality and a new style at the 2022 IIHF Women’s World Championship currently taking place in Frederikshavn and Herning, Denmark. The Americans hope these changes will also bring a change of fortune.

The past 365 days did not go as the U.S. would have liked. 

This time last year, the Americans fell short of the world championships title for the first time since 2012 when they dropped a 3-2 game in overtime to rival Canada. Prior to 2021, the U.S. had won eight of the previous nine world championship titles, including five straight dating back to 2013.

A few months after those world championships, the U.S. made a run back to the Olympic gold-medal game in Beijing in February. However, this time they fell 3-2 to Canada in regulation.

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A Massive Step For Women’s Sled Hockey is Happening in Green Bay this Weekend →

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Important progress in the growth of women’s sled hockey is taking place this weekend and the U.S. Women's Development Sled Hockey Team is playing host. The inaugural Para Ice Hockey Women's World Challenge is taking place Aug. 26-28 in Green Bay, Wisconsin, at Cornerstone Community Center. 

A goal more than 10 years in the making, U.S. coach Rose Misiewicz said this tournament is an important advance along the path that many competing this weekend hope will lead to women’s sled hockey becoming a part of the Paralympics. 

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‘We Have To Keep Moving Forward:’ McKenzie Coan's Advocacy Goes Hand-In-Hand With Her Swimming →

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Growing up in Clarkesville, Georgia, McKenzie Coan has vivid memories of attending sporting events at Clemson University with her father, an alum of the school. There were many football and men’s basketball games, but she said she wasn’t really exposed to a lot of women’s NCAA sports as a kid. In fact, she didn’t even really know they existed, or that playing sports in college was an option for women. 
 
“I didn’t know what kind of opportunities existed for females who wanted to compete in college. I didn’t know what that looked like,” she said. 
 
It wasn’t until Coan got involved with the U.S. Para swimming team as a teenager that she began to understand the importance of women’s college sports. Now 25, Coan is a three-time Paralympian and has six medals — four of them gold — to her name. Yet her college experience remains foundational to her, both in and out of the pool.

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Northeastern’s Aerin Frankel wins 2021 Patty Kazmaier Award →

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Northeastern senior goaltender Aerin Frankel has been awarded the 2021 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award. The honors were presented live on NHL Network this year as the in-person Patty Kazmaier Ceremony was cancelled due to COVID-19.

The award, which is in its 24th year, is presented annually to the top player in NCAA Division I women’s hockey by the USA Hockey Foundation.

Women’s Division I College Hockey: Fontaine’s overtime goal sends Northeastern to their first-ever national championship game →

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ERIE, Pa. – The Northeastern Huskies advanced to their first-ever NCAA championship game with a 3-2 overtime win over Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs Thursday night at Erie Insurance Arena.

Senior defender Skylar Fontaine intercepted a pass at the blue line and skated across the goal before shooting back at the far post to beat UMD goalie Emma Soderberg and win the game for Northeastern with 26 seconds left in the overtime period.

Women’s Division I College Hockey: It’s time to make a separate Goaltender of the Year award →

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I’m beginning to wonder if it’s time women’s Division I college hockey starts talking about adding more awards, particularly a Goalie of the Year award. 

The men’s game added the Mike Richter Award in the 2013-14 season after just two goalies had ever won the Hobey Baker Award over the course of its-then 34-year history. As the women’s game continues to expand, we probably should start talking about doing the same. 

UW women 2, Northeastern 1: Badgers repeat as NCAA champions after Daryl Watts' overtime goal bounces off of defender's back →

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ERIE, Pa. - Daryl Watts and Kennedy Blair both said they transferred to Wisconsin to win national championships. They did exactly that as the Wisconsin women’s hockey team defeated No. 1 Northeastern, 2-1, in overtime to earn the program’s sixth title.