COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. – USA Hockey announced the athletes invited to the USA Hockey Women’s National Festival taking place August 2-9 in Lake Placid, N.Y.
The invitees include 46 college players, 12 of those representing ECAC Hockey. Princeton had the most of all league institutions, with 4 players heading to Lake Placid, while 7 of 12 ECAC institutions sent at least one player to a camp. At the conclusion of the camp, USA Hockey will name the 25-player roster for the U.S. Collegiate Women's Select Team. They will face Canada in a three-game series August 12-15 in Richmond, B.C.
Eight individuals with ECAC Hockey ties will represent the league behind the bench. Two ECAC Hockey assistant coaches will be working primarily for the U.S. U18 Women’s Select Team. Grant Kimball (Yale Assistant Coach) is a U18 evaluator, and Tara Connolly (Dartmouth Assistant Coach) is a U18 goalie evaluator.
Shelly Picard (Princeton Assistant Coach and Harvard Alum) is an assistant coach of the U.S. Collegiate Women’s Select Team. Chris Wells (St. Lawrence Women’s Head Coach and Men's Alum) will serve as a bench coach. Brent Hill (Former Quinnipiac Assistant Coach) is the U.S. Women's National Team Head Scout. Riley Dwyer (Dartmouth Director of Hockey Operations) is the video coach, and Morgan Bronstein (Princeton Director of Hockey Operations) will serve as Team Leader. Cornell alum Sanya Sandahl (2003) is a collegiate goalie evaluator.
Below is the list of players invited to the USA Hockey Women’s National Festival Camp:
(* = players who were invited but unable to attend)
Brown (1)
Monique Lyons
Cornell (3)
Rose Dwyer
*Annelies Bergmann
*Lindzi Avar
Clarkson (1)
Sydney Lamb
Harvard (2)
Ainsley Tuffy
Emi Biotti
Princeton (4)
Gabby Kim
Megan Healy
Rosie Klein
Uma Corniea
Quinnipiac (2)
Ella Sennick
Ella Johnson
Yale (1)
Molly Boyle
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