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Women's Hockey Picked Seventh in National Preseason Poll
September 19, 2016 | Women's Ice Hockey
Preseason Poll
The Princeton women's hockey team has been selected seventh in the USCHO preseason poll it was announced this afternoon.
The Tigers finished ranked No. 7 in the final poll of the 2015-16 season. Princeton won the Ivy League championship last year and reached the NCAA quarterfinals to the eventual national champion Minnesota. The team set a program reocrd fo 22 wins in a season and set the longest win streak in program history with 16 straight victories.
Princeton returns first-team All-America and Patty Kazmaier top-10 finalist Kelsey Koelzer. The senior was a member of the USA Under-22 team this summer. The Ivy League Player of the Year and ECAC Best Defender of the Year was the fourth-highest scoring defender in the nation, averaging 1.00 points per game. She recorded 60 blocks and had a +25 on-ice rating.
Koelzer wasn't the only member of the squad to represent her nation, as sophomore Stephanie Sucharda and freshman Steph Neatby were both on the Canadian U-22 team. Also returning to the bench is the team's leading scorer from a year ago, the Ivy League and ECAC Rookie of the Year Karlie Lund. Lund led the ECAC in scoring and was named the Rookie of the Month three times and Rookie of the Week five times. She finished with 39 points to rank second nationally among rookies with 1.32 points per game. She finished with a +18 on-ice rating and won 63.5 percent of her face offs.
The defending Ivy League champions open the 2016-17 season on Oct. 22 at Providence.
The Princeton women's hockey team has been selected seventh in the USCHO preseason poll it was announced this afternoon.
The Tigers finished ranked No. 7 in the final poll of the 2015-16 season. Princeton won the Ivy League championship last year and reached the NCAA quarterfinals to the eventual national champion Minnesota. The team set a program reocrd fo 22 wins in a season and set the longest win streak in program history with 16 straight victories.
Princeton returns first-team All-America and Patty Kazmaier top-10 finalist Kelsey Koelzer. The senior was a member of the USA Under-22 team this summer. The Ivy League Player of the Year and ECAC Best Defender of the Year was the fourth-highest scoring defender in the nation, averaging 1.00 points per game. She recorded 60 blocks and had a +25 on-ice rating.
Koelzer wasn't the only member of the squad to represent her nation, as sophomore Stephanie Sucharda and freshman Steph Neatby were both on the Canadian U-22 team. Also returning to the bench is the team's leading scorer from a year ago, the Ivy League and ECAC Rookie of the Year Karlie Lund. Lund led the ECAC in scoring and was named the Rookie of the Month three times and Rookie of the Week five times. She finished with 39 points to rank second nationally among rookies with 1.32 points per game. She finished with a +18 on-ice rating and won 63.5 percent of her face offs.
The defending Ivy League champions open the 2016-17 season on Oct. 22 at Providence.
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