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Koelzer, Lund and Kampersal Sweep Major Ivy League Awards
February 25, 2016 | Women's Ice Hockey
PRINCETON, N.J. (2/25/16) - Capturing its first Ivy League women's ice hockey title since 2006, Princeton swept the 2015-16 Player, Rookie of Coach of the Year honors and earned three first-team All-Ivy selections.
In vote of the league's six head coaches, junior defender Kelsey Koelzer was named Player of the Year, freshman forward Karlie Lund was named Rookie of the Year honors and Jeff Kampersal was named Coach of the Year for the second year in a row. Koelzer and Lund were unanimous first-team All-Ivy League honorees and were joined on the first team by senior goaltender Kimberly Newell. Junior forward Hilary Lloyd was named second-team All-Ivy and freshman defender Stephanie Sucharda captured honorable mention accolades.
Koelzer, who was recently announced as a Patty Kazmaier Top-10 Candidate, is second on the team in scoring with 30 points on 16 goals and 14 assists. She ranks second in the nation in points per game by a defender, averaing 1.03 ppg and 29th amongst all players. Koelzer net four game-winning goals for the Tigers this season and has a +24 on-ice rating as the squad heads into the post season. She finished the Ivy League second in total points with 12 in 10 games, the league's top defender, and first in game-winning goals and power-play goals.
Lund burst on the collegiate scene in a big way making a presence nationally. She was the unanimous selection for Rookie of the Year. She currently ranks second in the country in points per game for a rookie, averaging 1.28 ppg. Lund leads the Tigers in scoring with 37 points on 16 goals and 21 assists. She has tallied four game-winning goals, two game-tying goals and four power-play goals. She has a +18 on-ice rating and has won 62.8 percent of her faceoffs. She led the Ivy League in scoring with 13 points in 10 games.Kampersal earned Coach of the Year honors, by unanimous decision, after guiding Princeton to 20 wins overall. This year marks the fourth time he has reached 20 wins, as the team is one win away from the program record for all-time wins. Last month, he recorded his 300th career victory and has Princeton at its highest ranking, No. 8, in the last decade.
A second-team All-Ivy League selection last year, Newell has been tantamount to the Tigers' success this season. With a 17-5-2 record, Newell has four shutouts this season. She is the all-time winningest goalie in program history with 51 victories and has 2,949 career saves. Newell has the fifth-best save percentage in the country at .943, and is ninth in goals against average with a 1.60 GAA.
Making her first All-Ivy League appearance is junior Hilary Lloyd. Lloyd has 19 points on seven goals and 12 assists and is a +16. She has scored two game-winning goals and two short-handed goals. Lloyd had nine points in 10 Ivy League games and was first in the league in short-handed goals and points.
Sucharda is Princeton's second highest scoring freshman and defender. She has two goals and 12 assists for 14 points. In 10 Ivy League games, she collected six points to finish fourth in the league in defenseman scoring.
As the No. 3 seed in the ECAC Hockey Tournament, the Tigers host No. 6 seed St. Lawrence in a best-of-three ECAC Hockey Quarterfinal series this weekend at Hobey Baker Rink.
PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Kelsey Koelzer, Princeton
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
*Karlie Lund, Princeton
COACH OF THE YEAR
*Jeff Kampersal, Princeton
FIRST TEAM ALL-IVY^
*Laura Stacey, Dartmouth
Sydney Daniels, Harvard
*Karlie Lund, Princeton
Michelle Picard, Harvard
*Kelsey Koelzer, Princeton
Emerance Maschmeyer, Harvard
Kimberly Newell, Princeton
SECOND TEAM ALL-IVY^
Hanna Bunton, Cornell
Taylor Woods, Cornell
Miye D'Oench, Harvard
Hilary Lloyd, Princeton
Cassandra Poudrier, Cornell
Mallory Souliotis, Yale
Paula Voorheis, Cornell
HONORABLE MENTION ALL-IVY
Karly Hefferman, Harvard
Eden Murray, Yale
Janelle Ferrara, Yale
Micah Hart, Cornell
Stephanie Sucharda, Princeton
*Unanimous Selection
^Teams expanded due to ties in voting