2009–10 Eastern College Athletic Conference women's ice hockey season

The 2009–10 ECAC women's ice hockey
ECAC women's ice hockey
The women’s division of the ECAC is a college athletic conference which operates in the Eastern United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I. The conference used to be affiliated with the Eastern College Athletic Conference, a consortium of over 300 colleges in the eastern United States...

season marked the continuation of the annual tradition of competitive ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

among Eastern College Athletic Conference

Eastern College Athletic Conference

The Eastern College Athletic Conference is a college athletic conference comprising schools that compete in 21 sports . It has 317 member institutions in NCAA Divisions I, II, and III, ranging in location from Maine to North Carolina and west to Illinois...

members.

Pre-season

September 22: St. Lawrence, which has finished among the top three teams in the regular-season standings each year since 2000-01, has been selected to finish in first place in the ECAC in the preseason poll. The voting was done by the league coaches as part of the pre-season polls and all-league team.

The Saints, garnered a total of 107 points, including three of 12 first-place votes. St. Lawrence, boasts returning all-league selection senior defender Britni Smith. Last season, the team finished second in the regular-season standings with a mark of 16-5-1.

Harvard claimed three first-place votes to finish second in the poll. The Crimson earned 103 total points. Harvard is the two-time defending regular-season champion. Dartmouth gained five first place votes, and is slotted to finish third in regular-season play according to the voting. The Big Green compiled 93 points in the poll. Princeton ranks fourth in the preseason poll with 89 points. Clarkson occupies the fifth slot with 85 points, earning one first-place vote. ECAC Hockey Championship runner-up Rensselaer was selected to finish in sixth place, with 74 points.

ECAC pre-season coaches poll

Place	School	First place votes	Total points
1	St. Lawrence	(3)	107
2	Harvard	(3)	103
3	Dartmouth	(5)	93
4	Princeton	(0)	89
5	Clarkson	(1)	85
6	Rensselaer	(0)	74
7	Cornell	(0)	68
8	Colgate	(0)	52
9	Quinnipiac	(0)	37
10	Yale	(0)	34
11	Brown	(0)	24
12	Union	(0)	11

Pre-season All-ECAC team

Position	Name	School	Class
F	Dominique Thibault	Clarkson
F	Jenna Cunningham	Dartmouth	Sr.
F	Catherine White	Cornell	So
D	Sasha Sherry	Princeton	Jr
D	Britni Smith	St. Lawrence	Sr
G	Christina Kessler	Harvard	Sr

CIS exhibition

Date	Location	NCAA school	CIS team	Score
Sun. Sept 27	Matthers Arena	Northeastern	McGill	McGill, 3-1
Sat. Oct 3	Appleton Arena	St. Lawrence	McGill	St. Lawrence, 2-1
Fri. Oct 23	Hanover, N.H.	Dartmouth	McGill
Sun. Oct 25	New Haven, CT	Yale	McGill

Canadian semipro exhibition

Date	Location	NCAA school	Canadian team	Score
9/26/2009	Cheel Arena	Clarkson	Ottawa Senators (PWHL)	Clarkson, 7-3
10/18/2009	Lynah Rink Lynah Rink Lynah Rink is a 4,267-seat hockey arena at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, that opened in 1957. Named after James Lynah, Class of 1905, who was the director of Cornell athletics from 1935-1943, it is home to the Big Red men's and women's ice hockey teams.Lynah has been home to hockey greats...	Cornell Big Red	Toronto Aeros

US Olympic exhibition games

On January 3, the ECAC fielded an all-star team to take on the US Olympic Team. Caitlin Cahow (Branford, Conn.), Natalie Darwitz (Eagan, Minn.) and Jocelyne Lamoureux (Grand Forks, N.D.) each tallied two goals in pacing Team USA to victory.

Date	Location	NCAA school	Score
January 3	TD Bank Sports Center	ECAC All-Stars	6-2, US

Box scores

Period	Goal	Assists	Time of goal
1	Angela Ruggiero Angela Ruggiero Angela Marie Ruggiero is an American ice hockey defenseman. She is a member of the United States women's national ice hockey team. She is also the author of a memoir about her hockey experiences and a former contestant on the NBC reality show The Apprentice... (USA)	Julie Chu	0:21
1	Hilary Knight Hilary Knight (ice hockey) Hilary Knight is an American ice hockey forward. She is a member of the United States women's national ice hockey team.... (USA)		4:56
1	Caitlin Cahow Caitlin Cahow Caitlin Cahow is an American ice hockey player. She attended the Foote School, where she graduated in 2000 and then attended the Hotchkiss School where she graduated in 2003 after playing soccer, field hockey, ice hockey and lacrosse... (USA)	Monique Lamoureux Monique Lamoureux Monique Lamoureux is an American ice hockey forward. She was named to the United States women's national ice hockey team for the 2010 Winter Olympics as was her twin sister Jocelyne, where they captured a silver medal with team USA...	12:32
2	Jocelyne Lamoureux Jocelyne Lamoureux Jocelyne Lamoureux is an American ice hockey forward. She was named to the United States women's national ice hockey team for the 2010 Winter Olympics along with her twin sister Monique, winning a silver medal. Both sisters have dual American and Canadian citizenship... (USA)	Erika Lawler Erika Lawler Erika Lawler is a member of the 2009–10 United States national women's ice hockey team which participated in the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Lawler played prep hockey at Cushing Academy where she won the Betty Davis Award as the top athlete in her class three times...	2:38
2	Caitlin Cahow (2) (USA)		9:13
2	Akstull (ECAC)	Bassett	9:13
2	McDonald (ECAC)	Buesser	16:51
2	Natalie Darwitz Natalie Darwitz Natalie Darwitz is an American ice hockey player. Natalie has been the Captain of the US Women's National Team since the start of the 2007-08 season... (USA)	Knight, Stack	19:50
3	Natalie Darwitz (USA)	Chesson	12:40
3	Jocelyne Lamoureux (USA)	Knight	13:00

October

Oct. 21: Former Harvard player Angela Ruggiero
Angela Ruggiero
Angela Marie Ruggiero is an American ice hockey defenseman. She is a member of the United States women's national ice hockey team. She is also the author of a memoir about her hockey experiences and a former contestant on the NBC reality show The Apprentice...

was nominated for the Jefferson Award for Public Service.

November

Nov. 17: For the second consecutive week, Clarkson, Cornell, and Princeton earned spots in the top 10 in the USCHO.com national poll released Monday, November 16 and the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Poll released Tuesday, November 17.

In season honors

Players of the week
Throughout the conference regular season, Eastern College Athletic Conference

Eastern College Athletic Conference

offices names a player of the week each Monday.

Offensive players of the week

Week	Off. player of the week
10/12/09	Juana Babineau, Clarkson
10/19/09	Melissa Waldie, Clarkson
10/26/09	Britney Selina, Clarkson
11/02/09	Kali Gillanders, Clarkson
11/09/09	Carlee Eusepi, Clarkson
11/16/09	Kate Buesser, Harvard
11/23/09
11/30/09

12/7/09
12/14/09
12/21/09
12/28/08
1/4/10
1/11/10
1/18/10
1/25/10
2/1/10
2/8/10
2/15/10
2/22/10	Randi Griffin, Harvard
3/1/10
3/8/10

Defensive players of the week

Week	Def. player of the week
10/12/09	Lauren Dahm, Clarkson
10/19/09	Victoria Vigilanti, Quinnipac
10/26/09	Lauren Dahm, Clarkson
11/02/09	Amanda Mazzotta, Cornell
11/09/09	Cassie Seguin, Princeton
11/16/09	Katie Jamieson, Brown
11/23/09
11/30/09

12/7/09
12/14/09
12/21/09
12/28/08
1/4/10
1/11/10
1/18/10
1/25/10
2/1/10
2/8/10
2/15/10
2/22/10	Victoria Vigilanti, Quinnipiac
3/1/10	Sonja van der Bliek, RPI
3/8/10

Rookie of the week

Week	Rookie of the week
10/12/09	Jamie Goldsmith, St. Lawrence
10/19/09	Kelly Sabatine, St. Lawrence
10/26/09	Kayla Sullivan, St. Lawrence
11/02/09	Heather Hughes, Quinnipac
11/09/09	Cassie Seguin, Princeton
11/16/09	Jillian Dempsey, Harvard
11/23/09
11/30/09

12/7/09
12/14/09
12/21/09
12/28/08
1/4/10
1/11/10
1/18/10
1/25/10
2/1/10
2/8/10
2/15/10
2/22/10	Laurie Jolin, Brown
3/1/10
3/8/10

Active players

The following active ECAC players represented their respective countries in Ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics

Ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics

Ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics was held at Canada Hockey Place, home of the National Hockey League's Vancouver Canucks, and at UBC Winter Sports Centre, home of the Canadian Interuniversity Sport's UBC Thunderbirds. Twelve teams competed in the men's event and eight teams competed in the...

Player	NCAA school	Nationality	Position	Goals	Assists	Points	Finish
Rebecca Johnston Rebecca Johnston Rebecca Johnston is a member of the Canada women's national ice hockey team. Also she plays for Cornell University.-Canada Winter Games:...	Cornell Cornell Big Red women's ice hockey The Cornell Big Red women's ice hockey program represents Cornell University and participates in ECAC Hockey.-History:The Cornell women's hockey program was started in 1971. It would only be in 1972 that the team would play its first game. It was a 4-3 victory over Scarborough. In 1972, they played...		Forward	1	5	6	Gold
Sarah Vaillancourt Sarah Vaillancourt Sarah Marie Vaillancourt is a Canadian women's ice hockey player. She is a member of the Canadian national women's hockey team and a member of Montreal Stars .-Playing career:...	Harvard		Forward	3	5	8	Gold

Former players

Player	NCAA school	Nationality	Position	Goals	Assists	Points	Medal
Gillian Apps Gillian Apps Gillian Mary Apps is a women's ice hockey player. She is the granddaughter of Hockey Hall of Fame member Syl Apps and the daughter of former National Hockey League player Syl Apps, Jr...	Dartmouth Dartmouth Big Green women's ice hockey The Dartmouth Big Green women's ice hockey program represents Dartmouth College. In 2001, Dartmouth participated in the inaugural NCAA Championship tournament. Since then, they have appeared in the “Frozen Four”, the semifinals of the NCAA hockey tournament, three times.-History:Dartmouth College...		Forward	3	4	7	Gold
Jennifer Botterill Jennifer Botterill Jennifer Botterill, OM is a retired women's hockey player who played for the Canadian national women's hockey team, Mississauga Chiefs and the Toronto Aeros. Her final game was the 2011 Clarkson Cup final, a 5-0 loss to the Montreal Stars...	Harvard Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey The Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey team represents Harvard University in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I women's hockey. Harvard competes as a member of the ECAC Conference and plays its home games at the Bright Hockey Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.-History:In the...		Forward	0	2	2	Gold
Julie Chu Julie Chu Julie Chu is an American Olympic ice hockey player who plays the position of forward on the United States women's ice hockey team and the Montreal Stars. Chu's hometown is Fairfield, Connecticut, although she resided in Cambridge, Massachusetts during her college years while playing hockey for...	Harvard		Forward				Silver
Becky Kellar Becky Kellar Becky Kellar is a women's ice hockey player. She currently plays for Burlington in the Canadian Women's Hockey League....	Brown Brown Bears women's ice hockey The Brown Bears women’s ice hockey program is a NCAA Division I ice hockey team that represents Brown University. The Bears play at the Meehan Auditorium in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown women's hockey is the oldest women's hockey program in the United States. It was the first collegiate women's...		Forward	0	4	4	Gold
Gina Kingsbury Gina Kingsbury Gina Kingsbury is a retired women's ice hockey player. She graduated from St. Lawrence University with a degree in psychology. She ranks second all-time in scoring among St...	St. Lawrence		Forward	2	1	3	Gold
Cherie Piper Cherie Piper Cherie Piper is a Canadian ice hockey player residing in Markham, Ontario. She is a member of the Canadian national women's hockey team and plays for the Brampton Thunder of the Canadian Women's Hockey League...	Dartmouth Dartmouth Big Green women's ice hockey The Dartmouth Big Green women's ice hockey program represents Dartmouth College. In 2001, Dartmouth participated in the inaugural NCAA Championship tournament. Since then, they have appeared in the “Frozen Four”, the semifinals of the NCAA hockey tournament, three times.-History:Dartmouth College...		Forward	5	5	10	Gold
Angela Ruggiero Angela Ruggiero Angela Marie Ruggiero is an American ice hockey defenseman. She is a member of the United States women's national ice hockey team. She is also the author of a memoir about her hockey experiences and a former contestant on the NBC reality show The Apprentice...	Harvard Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey The Harvard Crimson women's ice hockey team represents Harvard University in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I women's hockey. Harvard competes as a member of the ECAC Conference and plays its home games at the Bright Hockey Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.-History:In the...		Defence				Silver

Statistical leaders

Name	School	Goals
Goals
K. Stewart	Colgate	22
D. Thibault	Clarkson	21
S. Parsons	Dartmouth	20
J. Cunningham	Dartmouth	18
A. Trunzo	Dartmouth	18

Name	School	Assists
Assists
C. White	Cornell	24
K. Buesser	Harvard	22
B. Selina	Clarkson	22
S. Parsons	Dartmouth	20
D. Thibault	Clarkson	18

Name	School	Points
Points
S. Parsons	Dartmouth	40
D. Thibault	Clarkson	39
K. Buesser	Harvard	37
K. Stewart	Colagte	37
C. White	Cornell	34

Name	School	+/-
Plus/minus
K. Buesser	Harvard	+26
C. Eusepi	Clarkson	+24
J. Dempsey	Harvard	+21
T. Schroeder	Clarkson	+20
J. Duffy	Quinnipiac	+20

Name	School	Goals against
Goals Against
V. Vigilanti	Quinnipiac	1.23
L. Bellamy	Harvard	1.32
A. Mazzotta	Cornell	1.38
C. Kessler	Harvard	1.39
L. Dahm	Clarkson	1.48

Name	School	Win %
Win Percentage
L. Bellamy	Harvard	.733
C. Kessler	Harvard	.700
L. Dahm	Clarkson	.681
A. Mazzotta	Cornell	.667
V. Vigilanti	Quinnipiac	.629

Name	School	Saves
Saves
V. Vigilanti	Quinnipiac	891
K. Jamieson	Brown	855
L. Dahm	Clarkson	799
A. Marcinko	Union	757
S. van der Bliek	RPI	754

Name	School	Save %
Save percentage
V. Vigilanti	Quinnipiac	.951
C. Kessler	Harvard	.944
L. Bellamy	Harvard	.938
L. Dahm	Clarkson	.937
A. Mazzotta	Cornell	.928

ECAC tournament

ECAC All-Tournament team

Position	Player	School
G	Amanda Mazzotta	Cornell
D	Danielle Boudreau	Clarkson
D	Lauriane Rougeau	Cornell
F	Chelsea Karpenko	Cornell
F	Gabrielle Kosziwka	Clarkson
F	Liza Ryabkina	Cornell

NCAA tournament

Record	Win %	R32	S16	E8	F4	CG
0–0

ECAC awards and honors

March 3: The leagues head coaches have voted for the Best Defensive Forward award. The finalists were named and include the following players: Sarah Parsons (Dartmouth), Britney Selina (Clarkson), Allison Wright (Rensselaer) and Liz Zorn (Cornell).
March 4: Kate Buesser (Harvard), Sarah Parsons
Sarah Parsons
Sarah Parsons is an American ice hockey player. She won a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics. She is now a member of Dartmouth College's class of 2010.-High school:...

(Dartmouth), Catherine White (Cornell) have been named a finalist for the ECAC Player of the Year Award.
March 4: Lauren Dahm (Clarkson), Amanda Mazzotta (Cornell) and Victoria Vigilanti (Quinnipiac) have been named as finalists for the ECAC Goalie of the Year.

March 5: Laura Gersten (Rensselaer), Sarah Parsons, (Dartmouth) and Randi Griffin (Harvard) are the finalists for the ECAC Student Athlete of the Year.

Honor	Selection
Player of the Year	Catherine White, Cornell
Coach of the Year
Freshman of the Year	Victoria Vigilanti, Quinnipiac
Goalie of the Year	Victoria Vigilanti, Quinnipiac
Student Athlete of the Year
ECAC First Team	Catherine White, Cornell
	Kate Buesser, Harvard
	Katie Stewart, Colgate
	Laura Fortino, Cornell
	Lauriane Rougeau, Cornell
Victoria Vigilanti, Quinnipiac
ECAC Second Team	Sarah Parsons Sarah Parsons Sarah Parsons is an American ice hockey player. She won a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics. She is now a member of Dartmouth College's class of 2010.-High school:... , Dartmouth
	Jenna Cunningham, Dartmouth
	Britney Selina, Clarkson
	Britni Smith, St. Lawrence
	Carlee Eusepi, Clarkson
Lauren Dahm, Clarkson
ECAC Third Team	Whitney Naslund, Rensselaer
	Paula Romanchuk, Princeton
	Dominique Thibault, Clarkson
	Laura Gersten, Rensselaer
	Leanna Coskren, Harvard
	Sasha Sherry, Princeton
Amanda Mazzotta, Cornell
All-Freshman Team	Jillian Dempsey, Harvard
	Heather Hughes, Quinnipiac
	Camille Dumais, Dartmouth
	Laura Fortino, Cornell
	Lauriane Rougeau, Cornell
	Victoria Vigilanti, Quinnipiac

All-Decade team

The All-Decade team involves players who played in the ECAC between 1999-00 and 2008-09.

First team

Player	Position	School
Jennifer Botterill	Forward	Harvard
Julie Chu	Forward	Harvard
Sarah Vaillancourt	Forward	Harvard
Tara Mounsey	Defense	Brown
Angela Ruggiero	Defense	Harvard
Ali Brewer	Goaltender	Brown

Second team

Player	Position	School
Gillian Apps	Forward	Dartmouth
Nicole Corriero	Forward	Harvard
Sabrina Harbec	Forward	St. Lawrence
Annie Guay	Defense	St. Lawrence
Caitlin Cahow	Defense	Harvard
Rachel Barrie	Goaltender	St. Lawrence

National awards and honors

Dartmouth forward Sarah Parsons, Top 10 Finalist, Patty Kazmaier Award
St. Lawrence defenseman Britni Smith, Top 10 Finalist, Patty Kazmaier Award