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#8/7 Quinnipiac (ECAC Semifinals)
Women's Hockey Team to Face Quinnipiac in Friday's ECAC Semis in Lake Placid
March 03, 2026 | Women's Ice Hockey
vs. #8/7 Quinnipiac, Friday, 7 p.m. | ESPN+ | Int'l Video | Live Stats | Tickets
In the rankings: Princeton stands No. 9 in both the latest USCHO poll and the latest USA Hockey/The Rink Live national rankings. ECAC Hockey has six teams ranked in each of the two 15-team polls, in No. 7/8 Yale, No. 8/7 Quinnipiac, No. 9/9 Princeton, No. 11/10 Cornell, No. 14/14 Colgate, and No. 15/14 Clarkson.
Princeton in the polls: Princeton has been in the top 10 each week since Dec. 8-9, peaking at No. 7 in the USCHO poll on Jan. 19 and Feb. 2, the team's highest ranking in that poll since No. 6 at the end of the 2019-20 season, and peaking at No. 6 in the USA Hockey poll on Feb. 3, also the highest ranking since being No. 6 at the end of the 2019-20 season.
ECAC Champions!: Overtime goals in the regular-season finale for Princeton, on the winning end, and Yale, on the losing end, solidified a tie atop the ECAC Hockey standings at 46 points apiece, delivering Princeton its first ECAC Hockey championship, surpassing its previous best program finish, second, in 2006, 2019 and 2020.
In the ECAC Semis: In the best-of-three quarterfinals era, Princeton made the semis in 2003, 2006, 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2022, with 2020 as the only time in program history that the team made the final. Princeton went on to win the tournament in 2020. Against Quinnipiac, Princeton has faced the Bobcats only in the quarterfinal round, doing so four times, most recently in 2020, when it defeated Quinnipiac over three games in Baker Rink to advance to the semis. Against Yale, Princeton faced the Bulldogs twice in the quarterfinal round in the 2000s before not seeing Yale again in the playoffs until the 2022 semis, which the Bulldogs won in New Haven. Princeton saw Cornell twice in the quarterfinals in the 2010s, with both meetings since coming in the semifinals, with Cornell winning in the 2019 semis and Princeton winning in the 2020 semis, both at Cornell.
This season against the ECAC semifinal field: Princeton won both games against the Bobcats this season, 4-3 in overtime at Baker Rink on Nov. 20 and 2-0 in Hamden on Nov. 22. In the home game, Princeton got goals from Ani Kozak, Mackenzie Alexander and Hannah Fetterolf to turn a 2-0 deficit to a 3-2 lead, and after Quinnipiac's Ella Johnson tied it with six-plus minutes left in regulation, Alexander won it three minutes into the OT. Uma Corniea stopped 28 shots for Princeton and Felicia Frank stopped 26 for Quinnipiac. Two days later, Issy Wunder and Riley Sorokan had the goals over the first two periods, and Corniea stopped 40 shots in the shutout while Frank stopped 22. The 40 saves were Corniea's personal best until she stopped 43 on Jan. 31 against Clarkson.
Against Yale, the Bulldogs won a 4-3 overtime game in New Haven on Oct. 25 before Yale won 2-0 at Baker on Feb. 13. Princeton won a non-conference game against Yale on Nov. 25 at Baker, 4-3 in OT. Between the three games, Issy Wunder and Hannah Fetterolf had two goals each while Mackenzie Alexander, Katherine Khramtsov and Jane Kuehl had one each. Uma Corniea played all three games, totaling 83 saves with a 3.05 GAA. Carina DiAntonio had four goals against Princeton this year for Yale, with Jordan Ray getting two among the multi-time Yale goal scorers. Naome Baechler played two of the three games in goal, holding a 3.48 GAA, while Samson Frey had the shutout at Baker, making 23 saves.
Against Cornell, Princeton won 3-2 on Dec. 6 in Ithaca before the Big Red won 6-1 on Jan. 23 at Baker. Issy Wunder had three goals against Cornell this season with Riley Sorokan getting one. Uma Corniea had a 3.54 GAA against the Big Red this season, making 48 saves between the two games. Seven players split Cornell's goals, with Piper Grober scoring two. Annelies Bergmann made 34 stops between the two games in goal for the Big Red.
Stat Rankings: Entering the week, Princeton ranked third in the nation in scoring defense (1.59 goals allowed per game), third in team GAA (1.584), third in shutouts (nine), sixth in scoring margin (+1.66), eighth in scoring offense (3.25 goals/game), and with the eighth-best winning percentage (.719). Individually, Issy Wunder's eight game-winning goals led the nation, her 0.84 goals per game were third in the nation, and her 0.938 points per game were 11th in the nation. Mackenzie Alexander had the eighth-best goals per game in the nation (0.69) and was 13th in points per game (1.31).Â
Between the pipes: Entering the week, Uma Corniea ranked sixth in the nation in shutouts (six), 10th in GAA (1.732), 11th in save percentage (.938), and 14th in goalie winning percentage (.640). Corniea, who is on the Women's Hockey Commissioner's Association's Goalie of the Year semifinalist list, has played 1,490 of the team's 1,931 minutes, with Taylor Hyland playing 302 and Lia Nevo 120.Â
On offense: Issy Wunder and Mackenzie Alexander account for 31.6 percent of the team's points on the season overall, but teammates have seen spikes in contributions lately. During the ECAC quarterfinal series against Harvard, 11 Tigers had at least one point in scoring the team's seven goals, and neither Wunder nor Alexander led the team in points on the weekend. Riley Sorokan, who had a goal and two helpers in the series-clinching finale, led the team in scoring last weekend.
100-point scorer: Princeton has two career 100-point scorers on the active roster, with senior Issy Wunder at 146 and senior Emerson O'Leary at 103. The next-closest Tiger is Mackenzie Alexander, who's got 88 career points and is only in her sophomore season. Beyond Wunder and O'Leary, only four other Tigers have joined the career 100-point club in the last decade: Sarah Fillier '24 (194), Carly Bullock '20 (159), Maggie Connors '23 (145) and Karlie Lund '19 (131).
Team records: At 23 wins, this is the second-winningest season in program history, behind only the 26-win season in 2019-20. The team has allowed 51 goals this season, and while the program record is 39, set in 1979-80, the team's low goals allowed going back to 2000 has been 57 in 2019-20 and 2005-06. The team set the program record with nine shutouts this season, surpassing a program record of eight set in 2002-03.Â
Wunder climbs the list: With 70 career goals, Issy Wunder is 14th on Princeton's career list. Immediately ahead of her is Laura Halldorson '85 at 75. Among those to play for the Tigers since 2000, Wunder has the fifth-highest total, behind Carly Bullock '20 (95), Sarah Fillier '24 (93), Gretchen Anderson '04 (87) and Maggie Connors '23 (78). With 27 goals this season and 26 last season, Wunder is just the fourth player in program history to have two 25-goal seasons, with none of the other three players having played since 2000. Kelly O'Dell '84, Karen Chernisky '95, and Mollie Marcoux '91 are the three players with at least two 25-goal seasons. Wunder's 76 career assists have her tied for 10th on Princeton's career list with just five of those in front of her having played since 2000 in Fillier (101), Andrea Kilbourne '03 (94), teammate Emerson O'Leary (80), Kim Pearce '07 (77), and Karlie Lund '19 (76). Immediately in front of Wunder are Pearce (77), O'Leary (80) and Halldorson (83). O'Leary is eighth on the list, with Halldorson (83) and O'Dell (86) right in front of her.
Tigers at the Games: Sarah Filler '24 and Claire Thompson '20, both of whom helped Canada to gold in Beijing in 2022, added to their medal collection on Feb. 19 at the 2026 Olympics in Milan, helping Canada to the silver medal as the Canadians battled their top rivals from Team USA to overtime in the pursuit of gold.Â
Picard at U-18 Worlds: Princeton assistant coach Shelly Picard was on the Team USA staff at the U-18 World Championships in Nova Scotia that wrapped up Jan. 18 with Team USA winning gold. The team went 3-0 in group play, defeating Slovakia, Czechia and Finland by a combined 36-1. The quarterfinals saw Team USA rout Hungary 9-0, followed by a 9-1 win over Sweden in the semis. setting up the gold-medal game against Canada, which Team USA won 2-0. Picard was an assistant coach with Team USA at the event in 2024 and 2025, helping the U.S. to gold in '24 and silver in '25. As a player, Picard helped Team USA to gold in 2011 as team captain and silver in 2010. While the U.S. and Canada have combined to win 33 of the 36 gold and silver medals since the event began in 2008, the three other occasions have been in recent years, when Sweden won silver in 2018 and 2023, and Czechia won silver in 2024.
What's next: Princeton entered the week at No. 9 in the NPI rankings for the 11-team NCAA tournament. The NCAA selection announcement is set for Sunday at 11:30 a.m. on ESPNU.
