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25 with ECAC Hockey ties named to 2023 Women’s World Championship rosters

Nine member institutions represented by active players and alumni on international stage

CLIFTON PARK, N.Y. — 25 athletes with ties to ECAC Hockey will represent their countries at the 2023 IIHF Women's World Championship this coming week in Brampton, Ontario, including six players who competed in the league during the 2022-23 season. 

Sarah Fillier (Jr., Princeton) and Danielle Serdachny (Sr., Colgate) will both represent Canada again in Brampton; both players have donned the maple leaf already this season, making appearances during the December games of the 2022-23 Rivalry Series. Fillier, who has been a mainstay on the Canadian offense since she captained the 2018 U-18 squad to a bronze medal finish, looks to eclipse 50 games played for Team Canada at the tournament, while Serdachny looks to continue making a splash on the international stage after her overtime game-winner against the United States (December 19, 2022).

Fillier and Serdachny are joined by 12 ECAC alumni on Team Canada, including goaltender Emerance Maschmeyer (Harvard '16), defenders Erin Ambrose (Clarkson '16), Jaime Boubonnais (Cornell '20), Renata Fast (Clarkson '16), Ella Shelton (Clarkson '20), Claire Thompson (Princeton '20), and Micah Zandee-Hart (Cornell '20), and forwards Brianne Jenner (Cornell '15), Rebecca Johnston (Cornell '12), Jamie Lee Rattray (Clarkson '14) Kristin O'Neill (Cornell '20), and Laura Stacey (Dartmouth '16).

On the other side of the border, Rory Guilday (So., Cornell) and Haley Winn (So., Clarkson) will represent the United States on the blue line as the Americans transition to a younger roster of collegians and recent graduates. Guilday and Winn most recently represented Team USA during the November games of the 2022-23 Rivalry Series, where the Americans swept all three games for their only wins of the series. This will be Winn's first appearance at the senior Women's World Championships after claiming silver and gold at the U-18 level in 2019 and 2020, respectively. Guilday won gold at the U-18 level alongside Winn in 2020, and will make her second appearance at the senior Women's World Championships this season after claiming silver in 2022. 

Joining Guilday and Winn on the American roster is forward Becca Gilmore (Harvard '22) and defender Savannah Harmon (Clarkson '18). Gilmore makes her senior Women's World Championship debut after claiming one silver and two gold medals at the U-18 level in 2014, 2015, and 2016, respectively. Harmon has played an integral role on Team USA's blue line since the 2021 IIHF Women's World Championship.

Representing Germany are Tabea Botthof (Sr., Yale) and Nina Christof (Fr., Rensselaer). Botthof spent the first half of the 2022-23 season with the Bulldogs before departing to finish out the year with the SDHL's SDE HF in Sweden; she will compete in her fifth senior Women's World Championship when she takes the ice in Brampton. Both Botthof and Christof have two medals in their trophy case from the IIHF Division I Group A U-18 Women's World Championships, with Botthof claiming silver in 2016 and gold in 2017 and Christof earning silver in 2018 and gold in 2020. Both players helped Germany earn promotion to the tournament's top level in their final season of U-18 eligibility after bringing home their tournament titles. 

Also competing at the 2023 IIHF Women's World Championship are alumni Sarah Knee (Cornell '18) and Lotti Odnoga (Dartmouth '22), both of whom will suit up for Team Hungary. Knee has played an integral role on the Hungarian blue line since her senior team debut in 2020, while Odnoga has claimed gold medals at the Division I Group B (2016) and Division I Group A (2019) levels in an international career dating back to 2014. 

ECAC Hockey alumni Alena Mills (Brown '13), Michaela Pejzlová (Clarkson '20), and Noemi Neubauerová (Colgate '22) will take the ice for Czechia in Brampton after claiming bronze at the 2022 IIHF Women's World Championship in the country's highest-ever finish in the tournament's top division. Mills, who has captained the Czech senior team since 2011, remains one of Czechia's most prolific and decorated women's hockey players with 160 games played (first), 108 points (tied for first), and 51 goals (tied for first) to her name. Pejzlová makes her sixth senior Women's World Championship appearance on the heels of an exceptional professional season with Naisten Liiga's HIFK in Finland. Neubauerová will make her fifth appearance at the senior Women's World Championship in an international career that dates back to her debut at the 2015 IIHF U-18 Women's World Championship in Buffalo, New York. 

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