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Women-in-Hockey Digest Tuesday, November 30 1999 Volume 01 : Number 551
In this issue:
TV coverage for 3 Nations?
Re: response to latest threads
Paid Athletes
Re: TV coverage for 3 Nations?
USA 3, Finland 2 (Three Nations)
(no subject)
Contacts in the south?
DIVISION I WOMEN'S HOCKEY STATS
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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:33:35 -0800
From: Annette Chernin
Subject: TV coverage for 3 Nations?
Is there any full game coverage on TSN or CBC or anywhere? TSN had a 10
second highlight on Sunday regarding Canada's 3-1 win over the US. For
those of you in Quebec or Ontario especially, let us know if there is
decent newspaper coverage. We are getting nothing out here in BC and we
can pick up your papers out here if there is anything decent.
Annette
Coach - Poco Phantoms
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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 06:54:42 -0500
From: Debbie Minden
Subject: Re: response to latest threads
><< Could it be possible as people try to seriously answer a supposedly serious
> question that someone is just trying to start a flame war? I find it hard
> to believe that any of the questions posed were serious. >>
>
>
>Don,
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>I hope you are right, if so I find it rather funny, however the person was
>damn good if that was their intent.
>
I had thought the same thing. It must be a tribute to us (or a comment on
how laid back we are) that the air isn't blue with smoke.
Debbie
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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 07:38:39 -0600
From: "Olson, Lynn"
Subject: Paid Athletes
Some of the US Women's National Team members draw a stipend for training
during the year. This does not include any high school or college athletes
who are not allowed to do so by the NCAA. The US players that were selected
to participate on the Olympic team were also given a monthly stipend during
their year-long training period prior to participating in the Olympics. It
isn't a great deal of money, however, they have expenses (such as car, car
insurance, etc.) that they must pay even while they are training. The
Olympians receive money from the US Olympic Committee when they medal as
well, and USA Hockey also awards their athletes for earning a medal.
However, this is only for those athletes not involved in collegiate
athletics.
Lynn Olson
Minnesota Hockey Director Girls/Women
5909 12th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55417
612-861-2671 Phone and Fax
E-mail Address email@hidden
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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 06:07:56 -0800
From: "Phil Cottrell"
Subject: Re: TV coverage for 3 Nations?
I thought I'd read some time ago that TSN was going to show the final game
of the 3 Nations, but haven't heard anything since and the TSN website is
silent on the issue.
Phil
From: Annette Chernin
> Is there any full game coverage on TSN or CBC or anywhere
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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 06:14:39 -0800
From: "Phil Cottrell"
Subject: USA 3, Finland 2 (Three Nations)
Game report and summary, from the USA Hockey site:
http://www.usahockey.com/natteams/women/112999threenat.htm
Phil, Victoria, BC
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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 10:55:31 EST
From: email@hidden
Subject: (no subject)
n a message dated 11/30/99 8:07:36 AM Central Standard Time,
email@hidden writes:
<<
I thought I'd read some time ago that TSN was going to show the final game
of the 3 Nations, but haven't heard anything since and the TSN website is
silent on the issue.
Phil
>>
While in Canada last winter, I managed to catch a few women;s college games
on TV! So the lack of coverage in the Great White North is very surprising
to me.
However, I am not surprised that it is nowhere to be seen in the US. (does
someone out there know otherwise?)
Jill
# 77 LI Hurricanes
# ? Chicago Ice
"Only you can prevent hockey stick fires."
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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 14:16:56 -0500
From: Kim Yeoh
Subject: Contacts in the south?
A friend who is a power skating instructor will be in the south (Florida,
Las Vegas, Arizona) during January. If there are any girls/women's teams
who are interested in setting up a clinic during that time, let me know
(email@hidden) or you can contact him (email@hidden) directly. If
you have never attended a power skating clinic, you might want to consider
one. I have found them invaluable!!!
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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 14:08:22 -0600
From: "Craig Roberts"
Subject: DIVISION I WOMEN'S HOCKEY STATS
Point Scoring: GP G- A- P
1 Jenny Schmidgall Minn-Duluth 10 17-28-45
2 Maria Rooth Minn-Duluth 9 15-13-28
3 Hanne Sikio Minn-Duluth 9 15-11-26
4 Kendra Antony Wisconsin 16 12-11-23
Seanna Murphy Mercyhurst 12 10-13-23
6 Erika Holst Minn-Duluth 10 14- 8-22
7 Tammy Shewchuk Harvard 6 10-10-20
Nadine Muzerall Minnesota 12 9-11-20
Angie Francisco Harvard 8 7-13-20
10 Tracy Engstrom Minnesota 13 10- 9-19
Hilary Witt Northeastern 10 10- 9-19
12 Jennifer Botterill Harvard 6 9-10-19
Sis Paulsen Wisconsin 14 8-11-19
Winny Brodt Minnesota 13 5-14-19
15 Ronda Curtin Minnesota 13 11- 7-18
Ambria Thomas Minnesota 13 10- 8-18
C. J. Ireland Mercyhurst 12 6-12-18
18 Brooke Bradburn Niagara 9 9- 8-17
Michelle Sikich Wisconsin 16 8- 9-17
Carisa Zaban New Hampshire 8 7-10-17
Goal Scoring: GP G
1 Jenny Schmidgall Minn-Duluth 10 17
2 Hanne Sikio Minn-Duluth 9 15
Maria Rooth Minn-Duluth 9 15
4 Erika Holst Minn-Duluth 10 14
5 Kendra Antony Wisconsin 16 12
6 Ronda Curtin Minnesota 13 11
7 Tammy Shewchuk Harvard 6 10
Hilary Witt Northeastern 10 10
Valerie Hall Niagara 11 10
Seanna Murphy Mercyhurst 12 10
Tracy Engstrom Minnesota 13 10
Ambria Thomas Minnesota 13 10
13 Jennifer Botterill Harvard 6 9
Samantha Holmes New Hampshire 8 9
Melissa Oliver Findlay 9 9
Brooke Bradburn Niagara 9 9
Nicole Kirnan St. Lawrence 11 9
Lill Raynard Bemidji State 12 9
Nadine Muzerall Minnesota 12 9
K. C. Gallo Mercyhurst 12 9
Assist Scoring: GP A
1 Jenny Schmidgall Minn-Duluth 10 28
2 Winny Brodt Minnesota 13 14
3 Angie Francisco Harvard 8 13
Maria Rooth Minn-Duluth 9 13
Seanna Murphy Mercyhurst 12 13
6 Amanda Reid Niagara 11 12
C. J. Ireland Mercyhurst 12 12
Laura Slominski Minnesota 13 12
9 Hanne Sikio Minn-Duluth 9 11
Christy Vinge Mercyhurst 12 11
Nadine Muzerall Minnesota 12 11
Sis Paulsen Wisconsin 14 11
Kendra Antony Wisconsin 16 11
14 Jennifer Botterill Harvard 6 10
Tammy Shewchuk Harvard 6 10
Carisa Zaban New Hampshire 8 10
Navada Russell Minn-Duluth 9 10
Pamela Pachal Minn-Duluth 10 10
Kelly Sage St. Lawrence 11 10
Jennifer Swanson St. Cloud 13 10
Power Play Points: GP G- A- P
1 Hanne Sikio Minn-Duluth 9 5- 4- 9
2 Jenny Schmidgall Minn-Duluth 10 2- 6- 8
Nadine Muzerall Minnesota 12 3- 5- 8
Winny Brodt Minnesota 13 0- 8- 8
5 Hilary Witt Northeastern 10 5- 2- 7
Nicole Kirnan St. Lawrence 11 5- 2- 7
Caroline Trudeau St. Lawrence 11 3- 4- 7
Sis Paulsen Wisconsin 14 3- 4- 7
9 Carisa Zaban New Hampshire 8 1- 5- 6
Kelly Sage St. Lawrence 11 0- 6- 6
Erine Metcalf Northeastern 12 2- 4- 6
Ronda Curtin Minnesota 13 5- 1- 6
Tracy Engstrom Minnesota 13 4- 2- 6
Michelle Sikich Wisconsin 16 2- 4- 6
Kerry Weiland Wisconsin 16 1- 5- 6
16 11 players tied with five
Power Play Goals: GP G
1 Hanne Sikio Minn-Duluth 9 5
Hilary Witt Northeastern 10 5
Nicole Kirnan St. Lawrence 11 5
Ronda Curtin Minnesota 13 5
5 Brooke Bradburn Niagara 9 4
Candice Ceelen Niagara 9 4
Tracy Engstrom Minnesota 13 4
8 Samantha Holmes New Hampshire 8 3
Melissa Oliver Findlay 9 3
Nikola Holmes Princeton 9 3
Caroline Trudeau St. Lawrence 11 3
Nadine Muzerall Minnesota 12 3
Sis Paulsen Wisconsin 14 3
Kendra Antony Wisconsin 16 3
15 25 players tied with two
Short-Handed Points: GP G- A- P
1 Tammy Shewchuk Harvard 6 2- 1- 3
Brooke Bradburn Niagara 9 0- 3- 3
Jenny Schmidgall Minn-Duluth 10 0- 3- 3
4 Jennifer Botterill Harvard 6 2- 0- 2
Jenel Bode Cornell 8 2- 0- 2
Carisa Zaban New Hampshire 8 2- 0- 2
Samantha Holmes New Hampshire 8 1- 1- 2
Angie Francisco Harvard 8 0- 2- 2
Maria Rooth Minn-Duluth 9 2- 0- 2
Suzanne Fiacco St. Lawrence 9 2- 0- 2
Jen Buckley Boston College 10 2- 0- 2
Betsy Hegland Bemidji State 11 0- 2- 2
Valerie Hall Niagara 11 2- 0- 2
Stephanie Romain Niagara 11 2- 0- 2
Aliza Goss St. Lawrence 11 0- 2- 2
Amy Shepler Bemidji State 12 2- 0- 2
Alicia Kinsman Bemidji State 12 2- 0- 2
Lill Raynard Bemidji State 12 2- 0- 2
19 14 players tied with one
Short-Handed Goals: GP G
1 Jennifer Botterill Harvard 6 2
Tammy Shewchuk Harvard 6 2
Jenel Bode Cornell 8 2
Carisa Zaban New Hampshire 8 2
Maria Rooth Minn-Duluth 9 2
Suzanne Fiacco St. Lawrence 9 2
Jen Buckley Boston College 10 2
Valerie Hall Niagara 11 2
Stephanie Romain Niagara 11 2
Amy Shepler Bemidji State 12 2
Alicia Kinsman Bemidji State 12 2
Lill Raynard Bemidji State 12 2
13 17 players tied with one
Game-Winning Goals: GP G
1 Brooke Bradburn Niagara 9 4
Jenny Schmidgall Minn-Duluth 10 4
3 Jennifer Botterill Harvard 6 3
Jennifer Wiehn Dartmouth 7 3
Maria Rooth Minn-Duluth 9 3
Jessica Tabb Providence 10 3
Nadine Muzerall Minnesota 12 3
Sis Paulsen Wisconsin 14 3
9 Brooke Whitney Northeastern 5 2
Jill Graat Brown 6 2
Samantha Holmes New Hampshire 8 2
Carisa Zaban New Hampshire 8 2
Monell Schroeder Findlay 9 2
Hanne Sikio Minn-Duluth 9 2
Nikola Holmes Princeton 9 2
Hilary Witt Northeastern 10 2
Kim Corona MSU-Mankato 12 2
Christy Vinge Mercyhurst 12 2
Teegon Black Mercyhurst 12 2
Kris Scholz Minnesota 13 2
Laura Slominski Minnesota 13 2
Fiona McLeod St. Cloud 13 2
Michelle Sikich Wisconsin 16 2
Defenseman Scoring: GP G- A- P
1 Winny Brodt Minnesota 13 5-14-19
Sis Paulsen Wisconsin 14 8-11-19
3 Michelle Sikich Wisconsin 16 8- 9-17
4 Annamarie Holmes Princeton 9 5- 9-14
Kerry Weiland Wisconsin 16 5- 9-14
6 Angela Ruggiero Harvard 8 5- 8-13
7 Jodi Smith Findlay 8 4- 8-12
Navada Russell Minn-Duluth 9 2-10-12
Erine Metcalf Northeastern 12 3- 9-12
Randi Pilger Mercyhurst 12 5- 7-12
11 Pamela Pachal Minn-Duluth 10 1-10-11
Kelly Sage St. Lawrence 11 1-10-11
Jennie Setaro Northeastern 12 2- 9-11
Courtney Kennedy Minnesota 13 2- 9-11
15 Brittny Ralph Minn-Duluth 10 1- 9-10
16 Jennifer Jeffrey Mercyhurst 12 5- 4- 9
17 Tara Mounsey Brown 4 4- 4- 8
Linda Groff Niagara 11 2- 6- 8
Meghan Maguire St. Lawrence 11 1- 7- 8
20 Shelbi Fletcher Findlay 9 2- 5- 7
Lisa Peters Bemidji State 12 2- 5- 7
Natalie Schembri Mercyhurst 12 3- 4- 7
Freshman Scoring: GP G- A- P
1 Maria Rooth Minn-Duluth 9 15-13-28
2 Hanne Sikio Minn-Duluth 9 15-11-26
3 Seanna Murphy Mercyhurst 12 10-13-23
Kendra Antony Wisconsin 16 12-11-23
5 Erika Holst Minn-Duluth 10 14- 8-22
6 Sis Paulsen Wisconsin 14 8-11-19
7 C. J. Ireland Mercyhurst 12 6-12-18
Ronda Curtin Minnesota 13 11- 7-18
9 Valerie Hall Niagara 11 10- 6-16
Lill Raynard Bemidji State 12 9- 7-16
Christy Vinge Mercyhurst 12 5-11-16
12 Alicia Kinsman Bemidji State 12 8- 7-15
K. C. Gallo Mercyhurst 12 9- 6-15
Teegon Black Mercyhurst 12 7- 8-15
15 Michelle McAteer Minn-Duluth 9 7- 7-14
Jennifer Swanson St. Cloud 13 4-10-14
Kerry Weiland Wisconsin 16 5- 9-14
18 Amanda Sargeant St. Lawrence 11 7- 6-13
Michelle Lorion Northeastern 12 5- 8-13
20 Navada Russell Minn-Duluth 9 2-10-12
Kelly Kegley Wisconsin 10 7- 5-12
Goals Against Average: Minutes GA GAA
1 Amy Ferguson Dartmouth 154:09 1 0.39
2 Caryn Ungewitter St. Lawrence 359:15 6 1.00
3 Tania Pinelli Niagara 629:31 11 1.05
4 Erika Silva Northeastern 722:57 13 1.08
5 Emily Stein St. Lawrence 264:35 5 1.13
6 Amanda Tapp Minn-Duluth 420:00 8 1.14
7 Jen Huggon New Hampshire 379:23 8 1.27
8 Sanya Sandahl Cornell 180:00 4 1.33
9 Ali Brewer Brown 450:41 12 1.60
10 Sara DeCosta Providence 527:03 15 1.71
Save Percentage: Saves GA Pct
1 Amy Ferguson Dartmouth 33 1 .971
2 Caryn Ungewitter St. Lawrence 143 6 .960
3 Tania Pinelli Niagara 222 11 .953
4 Erika Silva Northeastern 227 13 .946
5 Emily Stein St. Lawrence 82 5 .943
6 Jen Huggon New Hampshire 129 8 .942
7 Ali Brewer Brown 174 12 .935
8 Sanya Sandahl Cornell 57 4 .934
9 Chanda Gunn Wisconsin 180 13 .933
10 Sara DeCosta Providence 194 15 .928
Winning Percentage: W- L- T Pct
1 Amanda Tapp Minn-Duluth 8- 0- 0 1.000
2 Tania Pinelli Niagara 9- 1- 1 .864
3 Jen Huggon New Hampshire 5- 1- 0 .833
Caryn Ungewitter St. Lawrence 5- 1- 0 .833
5 Emily Stein St. Lawrence 4- 1- 0 .800
6 Erika Silva Northeastern 9- 2- 1 .792
7 Ali Brewer Brown 6- 2- 0 .750
Meaghan Cahill Dartmouth 3- 1- 0 .750
9 Erica Killewald Minnesota 6- 3- 0 .667
Alison Kuusisto Harvard 4- 2- 0 .667
Sanya Sandahl Cornell 2- 1- 0 .667
Amy Ferguson Dartmouth 2- 1- 0 .667
Scoring Offense: Games Goals G/GM
1 Minn-Duluth 10 85 8.50
2 Mercyhurst 12 63 5.25
3 Minnesota 13 63 4.85
4 Harvard 8 38 4.75
5 St. Lawrence 11 50 4.55
6 Findlay 9 40 4.44
7 Dartmouth 7 30 4.29
8 Niagara 11 47 4.27
9 Northeastern 12 51 4.25
10 New Hampshire 8 33 4.12
Scoring Defense: Games Goals G/GM
1 St. Lawrence 11 12 1.09
2 Northeastern 12 14 1.17
3 Niagara 11 13 1.18
4 Brown 8 12 1.50
5 New Hampshire 8 13 1.62
6 Minnesota 13 23 1.77
7 Providence 10 18 1.80
8 Minn-Duluth 10 19 1.90
9 Dartmouth 7 15 2.14
10 Princeton 9 20 2.22
Penalty Minutes: Games PIM PIM/G
1 Ohio State 16 291 18.2
2 Niagara 11 170 15.5
3 Dartmouth 7 103 14.7
4 Northeastern 12 162 13.5
5 Harvard 8 106 13.2
6 Findlay 9 118 13.1
7 Minn-Duluth 10 126 12.6
8 Minnesota 13 160 12.3
9 Bemidji State 12 147 12.2
10 St. Lawrence 11 124 11.3
Power Play: Totals SHA PCT
1 Minn-Duluth 14/ 46 1 30.4
2 St. Lawrence 14/ 48 0 29.2
3 Minnesota 17/ 62 1 27.4
4 New Hampshire 9/ 36 1 25.0
Niagara 12/ 48 1 25.0
6 Harvard 8/ 34 0 23.5
7 Northeastern 13/ 62 0 21.0
8 Providence 8/ 40 0 20.0
9 Princeton 8/ 41 0 19.5
10 Brown 6/ 32 1 18.8
Penalty Kill: Totals SHF PCT
1 Northeastern 69/ 72 1 95.8
2 St. Lawrence 56/ 59 2 94.9
3 Niagara 70/ 74 5 94.6
4 Mercyhurst 49/ 53 0 92.5
5 Brown 23/ 25 2 92.0
6 Minn-Duluth 41/ 46 3 89.1
7 New Hampshire 32/ 36 4 88.9
8 Minnesota 59/ 67 2 88.1
9 Dartmouth 29/ 33 0 87.9
10 Providence 40/ 46 1 87.0
Combined Special Teams: Totals PCT
1 Niagara 82/122 67.2
2 St. Lawrence 70/107 65.4
3 Northeastern 82/134 61.2
4 Minn-Duluth 55/ 92 59.8
5 Harvard 46/ 78 59.0
6 Minnesota 76/129 58.9
7 New Hampshire 41/ 72 56.9
8 Providence 48/ 86 55.8
9 Bemidji State 57/103 55.3
10 Mercyhurst 54/101 53.5
Special Teams Net: PPF SHA PP PPA SHF SH NET
1 St. Lawrence 14 0 +14 3 2 -1 +13
2 Niagara 12 1 +11 4 5 +1 +12
3 Northeastern 13 0 +13 3 1 -2 +11
Minn-Duluth 14 1 +13 5 3 -2 +11
5 Minnesota 17 1 +16 8 2 -6 +10
6 New Hampshire 9 1 +8 4 4 0 +8
7 Harvard 8 0 +8 6 5 -1 +7
8 Brown 6 1 +5 2 2 0 +5
9 Princeton 8 0 +8 4 0 -4 +4
10 Providence 8 0 +8 6 1 -5 +3
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Craig Roberts, University of Minnesota
Assistant Sports Information Director
Phone: (612) 624-0522 Fax: (612) 624-8018
Check out the Gophers on the Web at http://www.gophersports.com
Or call the Diet Coke Gopher Sports Hotline at (612) 626-STAT
GO GOPHERS!
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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 14:24:18 -0600
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THIS WEEK-Fourth-ranked Minnesota faces seventh-ranked Minnesota-Duluth in a
WCHA-Women's League showdown, Friday and Saturday at Mariucci Arena. Opening
faceoff is set for 7:05 p.m. both nights.
GOPHER REWIND-The Gophers extended their winning streak to five games with a 7-1
win over Minnesota State, Mankato at home on Tuesday.
Minnesota wasted little time in grabbing the lead from the Mavericks as
sophomore right wing Tracy Engstrom (Willmar, Minn./Willmar) scored just 1:47
into the opening period. Her power-play goal with 6:23 left in the frame gave
the Gophers a 3-0 lead and sent them on their way to victory number 10 on the
season.
Junior defense Courtney Kennedy (Woburn, Mass./Buckingham Browne & Nichols) set
a school record with five assists in the game. She set up Engstrom and Laura
Slominski (Burnsville, Minn./Burnsville) for the game's first two goals and was
on the ice for six of Minnesota's seven goals.
Junior left wing Betsey Kukowski (Apple Valley, Minn./Shattuck-St. Mary's) also
notched a pair of goals, while senior left wing Shannon Kennedy (Woburn,
Mass./Buckingham Browne & Nichols) had a goal and an assist and junior center
Kris Scholz (Hugo, Minn./Stillwater Area) chipped in with two assists.
MINNESOTA-DULUTH RECENTLY-The Bulldogs' last action also came against MSU,
Mankato, Nov. 19-20 in Duluth, with the hosts extending their winning streak to
10 games, all in league play, with 10-4 and 7-0 wins.
Rookie Maria Rooth and former Gopher Jenny Schmidgall led the way. Rooth had a
hat trick in the series opener and tallied a goal and two assists in the finale.
Schmidgall had two goals and two assists in both games. Navada Russell had four
assists in the 10-4 win.
BATTLE OF THE UNBEATENS-In WCHA-Women's League play, both Minnesota and
Minnesota-Duluth are unbeaten and untied. The Bulldogs sport a perfect 10-0-0
mark for 20 points, while the Gophers are 7-0-0 with 14 points.
Both teams are ranked as well. Minnesota was fourth in last week's American
Hockey Magazine poll and fifth in the U.S. College Hockey Online poll. UMD was
seventh in both polls and, at 10-0-0, is the country's lone unbeaten team.
THE CAPTAINS„Minnesota's co-captains are junior Kris Scholz (Hugo,
Minn./Stillwater Area) and Shannon Kennedy.
Scholz served as an assistant captain during the 1997-98 season and was one of
the team's co-captains last season. She is the teamÍs second-leading career
scorer with 110 points in 79 games.
The team's lone senior, Kennedy is the Gophers' most experienced collegiate
player with 95 career games. She has 93 career points.
THE COURT REPORT-From her spot on the blueline, Courtney Kennedy has twice
earned All-American honors because of her tough play in both ends of the ice and
her rocket shot, which resulted in 34 goals in 56 games during her first two
collegiate seasons.
Tuesday, she showed her play-making abilities by garnering five assists in
Minnesota's 7-1 win over MSU, Mankato, setting a school record for assists in a
game in the process.
Kennedy has been a mainstay on Minnesota's blueline throughout the team's first
13 games. She leads the team in plus/minus rating with a +21 and has been a plus
player in 10 of the team's 13 games.
A NOTE ON BRODT-Junior defense Winny Brodt (Roseville, Minn./Roseville Area)
leads the WCHA-Women's League in scoring with 19 points. She has scored 11
points in her last seven games, including four multiple-point games.
The Gophers' leader with 14 assists, Brodt also leads the league in power-play
assists (8) and is second in the league in power-play points (8).
THE DAILY DOUBLE-When Tracy Engstrom and Betsey Kukowski each scored twice in
Tuesday's win, it marked the fifth time this season at least two Gophers have
recorded multiple-goals in the same game. Four of those five times Engstrom has
been involved as she leads the team with four multiple-goal games.
Engstrom, Kris Scholz and Laura Slominski (Burnsville, Minn./Burnsville) each
had two goals in a season-opening 10-1 win over St. Cloud State, Oct. 15.
Engstrom and Ronda Curtin (Roseville, Minn./Roseville Area) each had hat tricks
the following night in a 10-1 win at St. Cloud State.
In a 7-4 win at Wisconsin on Nov. 19, it was Engstrom scoring twice and Ambria
Thomas (Fairbanks, Alaska/West Valley) notching a hat trick.
The only time Engstrom was not involved was when Curtin and Thomas both scored
two goals in a 7-1 win at Ohio State, Nov. 13.
CRYSTAL CLEAR-Sophomore goalie Crystal Nicholas (Tulsa, Okla./Union) made her
third consecutive appearance, a career high, in Tuesday's win and picked up her
fourth win of the season, stopping all six shots she faced while playing the
first 30 minutes of the game.
In 17 career games, including 13 starts, she has a 14-0-0 record with an 0.92
goals against average and a .911 save percentage.
CURTIN CALL-Center Ronda Curtin saw her six-game scoring streak snapped Tuesday.
She had extended her point and goal-scoring streak to six games with two goals
and five points in a series sweep of Wisconsin.
For her efforts against Wisconsin, Curtin earned her second WCHA-Women's League
Rookie of the Week Award.
FIRST GOAL WINS...USUALLY-For the eighth time this season, Minnesota scored
first and won in beating MSU, Mankato. The Gophers are have scored first in 61
of 80 games the last three seasons, posting a 55-3-3 record in those games.
Minnesota has been scored upon first just 18 times, including five times this
season. The Gophers are 2-3-0 when allowing the first goal this season and
5-11-2 in three years.
THE SERIES-Minnesota defeated Minnesota-Duluth's club team last year, 10-0, but
the two teams have not met as varsity opponents.
WHEN LAST WE MET„The Gophers defeated the Bulldogs' club team, 10-0, Nov. 15,
1998 in Duluth. UMD currently has three members of that team on its varsity
squad, forwards Jessi Flink and Kellie Frick, and defense Jessica Smith.
SHE'S THE BOSS-Now in her third season behind the Minnesota bench and 10th as a
head coach, Laura Halldorson has established herself as one of the nation's
premier coaches in women's hockey, sporting a 119-89-15 overall record and a
60-14-6 mark at Minnesota.
She began her head coaching career at Colby College, where she led the White
Mules, one of only two non-Division I schools at the time in the 12-team Eastern
Collegiate Athletic Conference, to a 12-9-1 overall record in 1995-96, earning
ECAC Co-Coach of the Year honors as well as being named the New England Hockey
Writers' Coach of the Year. While at Colby, she also recruited and coached U.S.
National Team members Meaghan Sittler and Barb Gordon.
At the national level, Halldorson was the assistant coach for the gold
medal-winning team at the 1998 USA Hockey Women's Festival and was the head
coach of the silver medal-winning team at the 1999 event. Last December, she
served as an assistant for the U.S. National team that competed in the Three
Nations Cup in Finland. She was also an assistant for the National Under-22 team
this past summer.
A native of Plymouth, Minn., and a 1981 graduate of Wayzata High School,
Halldorson played four years at Princeton, where she was a co-captain and
all-conference performer while leading the Tigers to three Ivy League titles.
She graduated from Princeton in 1985 with a degree in psychology.
A member of the 1987 U.S. National WomenÍs Team and three national club
championship teams with the Minnesota Checkers, Halldorson returned to her alma
mater in 1987 to begin her collegiate coaching career as an assistant.
BEHIND THE BULLDOG BENCH„Minnesota-Duluth head coach Shannon Miller is guiding
the Bulldogs during their first season of varsity competition after spending
last season at the school preparing for UMDÍs inaugural season.
A 1985 graduate of the University of Saskatchewan, Miller coached the Canadian
National team before taking on her current position. She guided the Canadian
team to the silver medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics, the first to feature
women's hockey as a medal sport.
ITÍS HOME„The home of Gopher Women's Hockey is Mariucci Arena (9,700). One of
the finest college hockey facilities in the country, Mariucci Arena will be
Minnesota's home until the new women's hockey facility, scheduled to open in
2001, is completed.
Known as one of the toughest arenas in the nation on visiting teams, the Gophers
are 28-6-5 in the six-year-old building.
UP NEXT-Another ranked team awaits the Gophers as fifth-ranked Dartmouth invades
Mariucci Arena next weekend. The two teams square off Dec. 11-12 at 1:05 p.m.
both days. The Dec. 12 game will be aired live by Midwest Sports Channel.
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Craig Roberts, University of Minnesota
Assistant Sports Information Director
Phone: (612) 624-0522 Fax: (612) 624-8018
Check out the Gophers on the Web at http://www.gophersports.com
Or call the Diet Coke Gopher Sports Hotline at (612) 626-STAT
GO GOPHERS!
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