Sarah Fillier Named National Rookie of the Year; Earns All-America Honors

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Sarah Fillier has been named the National Rookie of the Year in women's ice hockey it was announced by the American Hockey Coaches Association. She has also earned second-team All-America honors.

She is the the first player from the ECAC Hockey league to win the Rookie of the Year Award, established in 2014 by the Women's Hockey Commissioners Association. Past recipients include: Dani Cameranesi of Minnesota (2014), Annie Pankowski of Wisconsin (2015), Sarah Potomak of Minnesota (2016), Jaycee Gebhard of Robert Morris (2017) and Darryl Watts of Boston College (2018).

The ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Year and Ivy League Player and Rookie of the Year, Fillier leads the nation in scoring. She averages 1.97 points per game with 57 points in 29 games played. She has scored 22 goals and 35 assists, ranking fourth and first in both categories nationally. In the post season, alone Fillier had nine points scoring six goals and three assists. She collected at least one point in 24 games, had 19 multiple-point games and had a six-game goal scoring streak and a nine game point-scoring streak.

Fillier was a finalist for three ECAC Hockey awards including Player of the Year, Forward of the Year and Rookie of the Year. A first-team All-ECAC Hockey selection she is also a first-team All-Ivy League selection. She is first player to in Ivy League history to earn Player and Rookie of the Year honors in the same season and did so by unanimous decision. A top-10 finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Award, Fillier was a two-time NCAA First Star of the Week, two-time national rookie of the month, two-time ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Month, and four ECAC weekly honors as Player and Rookie of the Week.

Fillier is the first Princeton forward to earn All-America honors, following defenders Sasha Sherry '11 and Kelsey Koelzer '16. She is also the first freshman from Princeton to earn the national honor.

Sarah Fillier is your @ecachockey Rookie of the Year!

After you watch this ?? you don't have any doubt pic.twitter.com/qB1qIPmcdr
— Princeton Hockey (@PWIH) March 9, 2019

2018-19 CCM HOCKEY WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY DIVISION ALL-AMERICANS
First Team
Lovisa Selander, SR, Rensselaer, Goalie
Jincy Dunne, JR, The Ohio State University, Defense
Megan Keller, SR, Boston College, Defense
Loren Gabel, SR, Clarkson University, Forward
Elizabeth Giguere, SO, Clarkson University, Forward
Annie Pankowski, SR, University of Wisconsin, Forward

Second Team
Kristen Campbell, JR, University of Wisconsin, Goalie
Jaime Bourbonnais, JR, Cornell University, Defense
Skylar Fontaine, SO, Northeastern University, Defense
Jesse Compher, SO, Boston University, Forward
Sarah Fillier, FR, Princeton University, Forward
Alina Mueller, FR, Northeastern University, Forward

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