2009–10 ECAC Hockey women's season explained

2009–10 ECAC Hockey women's ice hockey season
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League:	NCAA Division I
Sport:	Ice hockey
Pixels:	125px
Duration:	September 2009 through March, 2010
Season:	Regular Season
Season Champs:	Cornell Big Red
Season Champ Name:	Champion
League Champs:	Clarkson Golden Knights
League Champ Name:	Runners-Up
Mvp:	Catherine White
Mvp Link:	ECAC Women's Ice Hockey Player of the Year
Finals:	Tournament
Finals Link:	2010 CHA Women's Ice Hockey Tournament
Finals Champ:	Cornell Big Red
Finals Runner-Up:	Clarkson Golden Knights
Finals Mvp:	Kendice Ogilvie
Finals Mvp Link:	Most Valuable Player
Seasonslistnames:	Ice hockey
Prevseason Year:	08–09
Nextseason Year:	10–11

The 2009–10 ECAC Hockey women's ice hockey season marked the continuation of the annual tradition of competitive ice hockey among ECAC Hockey 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.^[1] 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

^[1]

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

^[2]

CIS exhibition

Date	Location	NCAA school	CIS team	Score
Sun. Sept 27	Matthers Arena	Northeastern	McGill	McGill, 3-1^[3]
Sat. Oct 3	Appleton Arena	St. Lawrence	McGill^[4]	St. Lawrence, 2-1^[5]
Fri. Oct 23	Hanover, N.H.	Dartmouth	McGill^[6]
Sun. Oct 25	New Haven, CT	Yale	McGill^[7]

Canadian semipro exhibition

Date	Location	NCAA school	Canadian team	Score
9/26/2009	Cheel Arena	Clarkson	Ottawa Senators (PWHL)^[8]	Clarkson, 7-3^[9]
10/18/2009		Cornell Big Red	Toronto Aeros^[10]

Regular season

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.^[11]

Date	Location	NCAA school	Score
January 3	TD Bank Sports Center	ECAC All-Stars	6-2, US^[12]

Box scores

Period	Goal	Assists	Time of goal
1	Angela Ruggiero (USA)	Julie Chu	0:21
1	Hilary Knight (USA)		4:56
1	Caitlin Cahow (USA)	Monique Lamoureux	12:32
2	Jocelyne Lamoureux (USA)		2:38
2	Caitlin Cahow (2) (USA)		9:13
2	Akstull (ECAC)	Bassett	9:13
2	McDonald (ECAC)	Buesser	16:51
2	Natalie Darwitz (USA)	Knight, Stack	19:50
3	Natalie Darwitz (USA)	Chesson	12:40
3	Jocelyne Lamoureux (USA)	Knight	13:00

^[13]

October

Oct. 21: Former Harvard player Angela Ruggiero was nominated for the Jefferson Award for Public Service.^[14]

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.^[15]

March

In season honors

Players of the weekThroughout the conference regular season, 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^[16]
10/19/09	Melissa Waldie, Clarkson^[17]
10/26/09	Britney Selina, Clarkson^[18]
11/02/09	Kali Gillanders, Clarkson^[19]
11/09/09	Carlee Eusepi, Clarkson^[20]
11/16/09	Kate Buesser, Harvard^[21]
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^[22]
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, Quinnipiac
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^[23]
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, Quinnipiac
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

2010 Olympics

Active players

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

Player	NCAA school	Nationality	Position	Goals	Assists	Points	Finish
			Forward	1	5	6	Gold
	Harvard		Forward	3	5	8	Gold

Former players

Player	NCAA school	Nationality	Position	Goals	Assists	Points	Medal
Gillian Apps			Forward	3	4	7	Gold
			Forward	0	2	2	Gold
Julie Chu	Harvard		Forward				Silver
Becky Kellar	Brown		Forward	0	4	4	Gold
	St. Lawrence		Forward	2	1	3	Gold
Cherie Piper			Forward	5	5	10	Gold
Angela Ruggiero	Harvard		Defence				Silver

Statistical leaders

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

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

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

Name	School	+/-
Plus/minus
K. Buesser	Harvard	+26
	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
	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

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Post-season

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

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NCAA tournament

See main article: 2010 NCAA Women's Division I Ice hockey Tournament.

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).^[26]
March 4: Kate Buesser (Harvard), Sarah Parsons (Dartmouth), Catherine White (Cornell) have been named a finalist for the ECAC Player of the Year Award.^[27]
March 4: Lauren Dahm (Clarkson), Amanda Mazzotta (Cornell) and Victoria Vigilanti (Quinnipiac) have been named as finalists for the ECAC Goalie of the Year.^[28]
March 5: Laura Gersten (Rensselaer), Sarah Parsons, (Dartmouth) and Randi Griffin (Harvard) are the finalists for the ECAC Student Athlete of the Year.^[29]

Honor	Selection
Player of the Year	Catherine White, Cornell
Coach of the Year
Freshman of the Year	Victoria Vigilanti,^[30] 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, 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

^[31]

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

^[32]

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^[33]

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