Kate Monihan

Photo by: Shelley M. Szwast

Photo by: Sideline Photos, LLC

Position:
Defender
Height:
5-5
Class:
Sophomore
High School:
Lawrenceville School
Hometown:
Moorestown, N.J.

Awards
2024 Academic All-Ivy
2023 Academic All-Ivy
2023 ECAC All-Academic Team
2022 ECAC All-Academic Team
2020 ECAC All-Academic Team

At Princeton
2023-24
Served as a team captain ... Academic All-Ivy League honoree ... nominee for the Hockey Humanitarian Award ... played in 28 games ... scored a goal against Clarkson in the ECAC Hockey quarterfinal opener ... had seven assists on the season, including a four-game stretch with one in each game against Mercyhurst, Rensselaer, Union and LIU (Nov. 11-Dec. 5) ... took 33 shots on the season and blocked 33 ... finished plus-5 on the season ... served eight penalties for 16 minutes.

2022-23
Selected to the 2023 Team USA Women's National Festival ... scored the game-tying goal in the final seconds of regulation at Mercyhurst in a 6-5 win on Dec. 9 for her lone goal of the season ... had nine assists on the season, including two-assist games at Mercyhurst in the 6-5 win and against No. 4 Quinnipiac in an 11-3 win on Jan. 29 ... took 56 shots on the season and blocked 35 ... served eight penalties for 16 minutes ... finished at +14 in plus-minus.

2021-22
ECAC All-Academic Team ... played in all 33 games ... scored the eventual game-winning goal against Syracuse in a 2-1 win (Dec. 11), and scored in a 5-0 win over Union (Jan. 16), also getting a game-winning goal as the first goal ... had assists against Quinnipiac (Nov. 12), Clarkson (Jan. 7) and Dartmouth (Feb. 13) ... had 59 shots on goal ... blocked 29 shots ... led team in plus-minus at +7.

2020-21
Season canceled due to COVID-19.

2019-20
ECAC All-Academic ... scored her first career goal March 7 in the ECAC semifinal against Clarkson ... had five assists on the season, at Union on Nov. 15, against St. Lawrence on Nov. 23, against Ohio State on Dec. 15, against Rensselaer on Feb. 7, and against Yale on Feb. 22 ... played in 32 games ... blocked 17 shots, finished at +11 on the season ... took 41 shots on goal ... team qualified for the NCAA Championships, but the event was canceled by the NCAA due to the COVID-19 virus.

Before Princeton: A member of the USA U18 national team that won a silver medal at the 2019 IIHF Women's World Championship in Japan, Monihan has been a part of the organization dating back to 2016. She attended multiple USA Hockey Player Development Camps including the USA Hockey Elite 70 Camp in 2018. Monihan played four years of club hockey with the New Jersey Colonials, a squad that qualified for USA Hockey Nationals all four years. New Jersey also won three Mid Atlantic Women's Hockey Association (MAWHA) championships in 2016, 2017 and 2019. With the Colonials, Monihan earned both the George Charette Award in 2019 and the Donna Guariglia Award in 2018 while also being named to Team Comcast in 2015. Monihan was captain of the Lawrenceville School hockey team, while capturing USA Today All-Girls third-team honors and the team's Mollie Marcoux Award.

Personal: Parents are Brian and Maureen Monihan ... father is the President and GM of NBC Sports Philadelphia ... has a sister, Tara, and two brothers, Andrew and Aaron.