2024 WCHA Women's Ice Hockey Tournament
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2024 WCHA Women's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2024 WCHA Ice Hockey Tournament was the 25th edition of the WCHA Tournament. It was played between March 1 and 9, 2024. It was hosted by the University of Minnesota at Ridder Arena. As the tournament winner, Wisconsin earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2024 NCAA Division I women's ice hockey tournament. Format The tournament includes all eight teams in the conference. Teams are ranked according to their finish in the conference standings. All quarterfinal games are best two of three and are played at the highest seed's home sites, and starting with the semifinals, single-elimination played at Ridder Arena. The tournament champion will receive an automatic bid into the 2024 NCAA Division I women's ice hockey tournament. Standings Bracket Note: * denotes overtime period(s) Results Quarterfinals (8) Bemidji State at (1) Ohio State (7) St. Thomas at (2) Wisconsin (6) Minnesota State at (3) Minnesota (5) St. Cloud State at (4) Minnesota- ...
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2023–24 NCAA Division I Women's Ice Hockey Season
The 2023–24 NCAA Division I women's ice hockey season began in September 2023 and ended with the 2024 NCAA National Collegiate women's ice hockey tournament's championship game at Whittemore Center in Durham, New Hampshire on March 24, 2024. Season headlines * October 4, 2023 – The Division I Council approved changes to the transfer window for all sports. In winter sports other than basketball, including men's and women's ice hockey, the transfer portal now opens for a total of 45 days, starting 7 days after the NCAA tournament field is set. Polls Regular season Realignment On December 17, 2021, it was announced Robert Morris would be reinstated for the 2023–24 season. On March 3, 2022, it was announced that College Hockey America (CHA) voted unanimously to reinstate the program back into the CHA. On June 6, 2023, it was announced that CHA would merge with the Atlantic Hockey Association, with the two conferences operating under one banner by July 1, 2024. The two co ...
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Caroline Harvey (ice Hockey)
Caroline "K.K." Harvey (born October 14, 2002) is an American college ice hockey defenceman for Wisconsin and member of the United States women's national ice hockey team. She represented the United States at the 2022 Winter Olympics. Playing career Harvey was originally committed to play college ice hockey for the Wisconsin during the 2021–22 NCAA season but deferred to the 2022–23 NCAA season after being selected to represent team USA at the 2022 Winter Olympics. During the 2022–23 season, in her rookie year, she recorded 12 goals and 26 assists in 39 games. She led all WCHA rookies with 38 points. Her 38 points were the fifth most in program history by a defender and only trailed Sis Paulsen for most points as a rookie defender. Following an outstanding season, she was named to the WCHA All-Rookie team and Second Team All-WCHA and was named the WCHA Rookie of the Year. She was also named CCM/AHCA Second-Team All-American. She became first Badger player to earn All-Amer ...
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Sanni Ahola
Sanni Ahola (born 3 June 2000) is a Finnish ice hockey goaltender and member of the Finnish national team, currently playing in the NCAA Division I with the St. Cloud State Huskies women's ice hockey program. She was drafted by the Ottawa Charge in the 5th round (37th overall) of the 2025 PWHL Draft. Playing career Ahola developed on the minor ice hockey teams of , a youth ice hockey club in the Malmi neighborhood of Helsinki. She played as a defenseman and in goal throughout her childhood but committed to the pursuit of goaltending by age thirteen. During her early teens, she served as goaltender with several boys' teams of (IHK) and was the starting net minder for the IHK boys' under-16 (U16) team during the 2014–15 season. In the following season, she split starts for IHK U17 in the U17 Mestis. In addition to backstopping IHK teams, she continued to play as both a skater and goaltender with Red Wing girls' teams. When Saara Niemi established the new HIFK Naiset team ...
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Nelli Laitinen
Nelli Laitinen (born 29 April 2002) is a Finnish ice hockey player and member of the Finnish national team. She as a captain of the Minnesota Golden Gophers women's ice hockey program during the 2024–25 season. Playing career Laitinen began her college ice hockey career with the Minnesota Golden Gophers women's ice hockey program in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) conference of the NCAA Division I as an incoming freshman for the 2022–23 season. Despite missing eight games due to an upper-body injury that kept her sidelined for two months, she tallied 18 points and ranked third for points of all team defenseman. Her impressive first season was recognized with her selection to the Watch List for the Hockey Commissioners Association National Rookie of the Year and naming to the USCHO All-Rookie and the WCHA All-Rookie teams. International play As a junior player with the Finnish national under-18 team, she participated in the IIHF U18 Women's World Ch ...
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Peyton Hemp
Peyton Hemp (born May 15, 2003) is an American college ice hockey player for Minnesota. She was named the Women's Hockey Commissioners Association National Rookie of the Year in 2022. Early life Hemp attended Andover High School in Andover, Minnesota. During her junior year she recorded 20 goals and 22 assists, and helped lead the Huskies to their first ever Class AA state championship in 2020. During her senior season, she recorded 34 goals and 46 assists, as she helped lead the Huskies back to the Minnesota State High School League Class AA state championship for the second straight season. Her 46 assists and 80 points are a single-season program record at Andover. She finished her career as Andover's all-time leading scorer with 253 career points. Following the season she was won the Minnesota Ms. Hockey Award in 2021. Playing career College Hemp began her collegiate career for Minnesota during the 2021–22 season. She made her collegiate debut on October 1, 2021, in a ga ...
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Abbey Murphy
Abigail Murphy (born April 14, 2002) is an American college ice hockey forward and captain of the University of Minnesota of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). As a member of the United States women's national ice hockey team, she has competed in three World Championships as well as the 2022 Winter Olympics, earning at least a silver medal in each. Playing career Murphy began playing hockey at the age of seven, being taught how to skate by her neighbor, Tom Pratl, after watching him play the sport in his backyard. She first joined the St. Jude Knights Hockey Club, one of just a handful of girls on the team, before joining the Chicago Mission at the age of 10. With the Mission, she won a state championship at the U16 level. She began attending the University of Minnesota in 2020, playing for the university's women's ice hockey program. In the 2023–24 season, Murphy recorded 62 points in 39 games, the third best total in the NCAA, and tied for first in go ...
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Josefin Bouveng
Josefin Bouveng (born 15 May 2001) is a Swedish ice hockey forward at Minnesota and member of the Swedish national team. Playing career As a youth player, Bouveng played on the boy's junior side of Wings HC Arlanda. She signed with Djurgårdens IF Hockey to begin her Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL) career in 2017. She put up 12 points in 33 games in her rookie SDHL season before improving to 26 points in 27 games in 2018–19, the most by an SDHL player under the age of 18. In the 2019–20 season, her point production dropped back down to 12, but she led the entire league in faceoff percentage. She was due to move to North America to study at Princeton University and play with the Princeton Tigers women's ice hockey program beginning with the 2020–21 season, but the COVID-19 pandemic prompted her to postpone those plans. She opted to remain in Sweden and sign with Brynäs IF for the 2020–21 SDHL season instead. She began her college ice hockey career at Minn ...
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Ella Huber
Ella Huber (born December 18, 2002) is an American college ice hockey player for Minnesota. Early life Huber attended New Trier High School in Northfield, Illinois. She also played ice hockey for the Chicago Mission, where she won five state championships, four regional championships, and one national championship. Playing career College Huber began her collegiate career for Minnesota during the 2021–22 season. She made her collegiate debut on October 1, 2021, in a game against Ohio State and scored her first career goal a week later in a game against Minnesota Duluth. During her freshman year, she recorded nine goals and 12 assists in 39 games. Following the season she was named to the WCHA All-Rookie team. During the 2022–23 season, in her sophomore year, she recorded ten goals and 19 assists in 37 games. She ranked sixth on the team in scoring with 29 points. On September 22, 2023, Huber was named captain for the 2023–24 season. During her junior year, she recorded ...
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Madeline Wethington
''Madeline'' is a media franchise that originated as a series of children's books written and illustrated by Ludwig Bemelmans. The books have been adapted into numerous formats, spawning telefilms, television series and a live action feature film. The stories take place in a Catholic boarding school in Paris. The teacher, named Miss Clavel, is strict but loves the children, cares for them, and is open to their ideas. Most of the media starts with the line "In an old house in Paris that was covered in vines, lived twelve little girls in two straight lines ..." and end with an invocation of a famous phrase used by Ethel Barrymore to rebuff curtain calls: "That's all there is, there isn't any more". The stories often are written entirely in rhyme, include simple themes of daily life, and the playful but harmless mischief of Madeline, which appeal to children and parents alike. Most of the books have several recurring themes, such as Miss Clavel turning on the light and saying: "Som ...
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Laila Edwards
Laila Edwards (born January 25, 2004) is an American college ice hockey player for the University of Wisconsin and a member of the United States women's national ice hockey team. Early life Edwards left her hometown of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, to attend Bishop Kearney High School in Rochester, New York, at the age of 13. During the 2021–22 season, she recorded 38 goals and 59 assists for the under-19 team at Bishop Kearney. She finished her career at Bishop Kearney with 147 goals and 266 assists in 287 games from 2018 to 2022. She skipped her high school graduation ceremony to compete at the 2022 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship. Playing career Edwards began her collegiate career for Wisconsin during the 2022–23 season. During her freshman year, she recorded 13 goals and 14 assists in 41 games. Following the season she was named to the WCHA All-Rookie Team. During the 2023 NCAA Division I women's ice hockey tournament, she recorded four goals and one assist to help Wis ...
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Ava McNaughton
Ava McNaughton (born October 27, 2004) is an American college ice hockey goaltender for Wisconsin and member of the United States women's national ice hockey team. Playing career McNaughton began her collegiate career for Wisconsin during the 2023–24 season. During her freshman year she appeared in 23 games, and posted a 20–3–0 record with five shutouts, a 1.45 goals against average (GAA) and .936 save percentage. She was named the WCHA Rookie of the Month in October 2023, after she posted a perfect 4–0–0 record, with a .953 save percentage and two shutouts. She was one of only three WCHA netminders to post a GAA below 1.00 during the month. Her .953 save percentage ranked third in the league and was the best among all freshmen. She was again named the WCHA Rookie of the Month in February 2024, after she posted a perfect 4–0–0, with a 1.00 GAA and .955 save percentage. She had wins against ranked opponents, including No. 10 St. Cloud State, No. 5 Minnesota and No. 1 ...
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Madison, Wisconsin
Madison is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It is the List of municipalities in Wisconsin by population, second-most populous city in the state, with a population of 269,840 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The Madison metropolitan area had 680,796 residents. Centrally located on an isthmus between Lakes Lake Mendota, Mendota and Lake Monona, Monona, the vicinity also encompass Lakes Lake Wingra, Wingra, Lake Kegonsa, Kegonsa and Lake Waubesa, Waubesa. Madison was founded in 1836 and is named after American Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father and President James Madison. It is the county seat of Dane County. As the state capital, Madison is home to government chambers including the Wisconsin State Capitol building. It is also home to the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. Major companies in the area include American Family Insurance, ...
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