Tina Cardinale-Beauchemin ( Beauchemin, previously Cardinale; born October 20, 1966, in

Hudson, Massachusetts Hudson is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, with a total population of 20,092 as of the 2020 census. Before its incorporation as a town in 1866, Hudson was a neighborhood and unincorporated village of Marlborough, Massa ...

) is a member of the

Northeastern University Northeastern University (NU) is a private university, private research university with its main campus in Boston. Established in 1898, the university offers undergraduate and graduate programs on its main campus as well as satellite campuses in ...

athletics Hall of Fame. She was elected in 2002 for her excellence in women's ice hockey and was also the captain of the first ever United States women's national hockey team during the

1990 IIHF Women's World Championship The 1990 IIHF Women's World Championships was an international women's ice hockey competition held at the Civic Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (now renamed the TD Place Arena) from March 19 to 25, in 1990. This was the first IIHF-sanctioned int ...

. Cardinale was also on the American national team for the

1992 IIHF Women's World Championship The 1992 IIHF Women's World Championships was held April 20–26, 1992, in Tampere in Finland. The Team Canada won their second gold medal at the World Championships, defeating the United States. Qualification The tournament was held between eigh ...

. During her first season as a women's Northeastern University ice hockey player (called the Huskies), Cardinale scored 19 goals with 13 assists for 32 points. In her sophomore season she scored 15 goals and 20 assists for 35 points. Her junior season she was named an ECAC All-Star she scored 18 goals and 30 assists for 48 points. Cardinale saved her best effort for her senior season where Northeastern went 26-0-1 and she scored 18 goals and 41 assists for 59 points. Cardinale was named an

Eastern College Athletic Conference The Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) is a college athletic conference comprising schools that compete in 15 sports (13 men's and 13 women's). It has 220 member institutions in NCAA Divisions I, II, and III, ranging in location fro ...

(ECAC) All-Star for the second time.

References

External links

GoNU.com Hall of Fame Profile
1966 births Living people American women's ice hockey forwards Ice hockey players from Massachusetts Northeastern Huskies women's ice hockey players People from Hudson, Massachusetts Sportspeople from Middlesex County, Massachusetts {{US-icehockey-player-stub